The conversion of CO2 and waste into valuable products, in the form of energy, biofuels or other is among the most demanded technologies by the industrial sector, according to the Reference Network in R+D+i Energy for Society (XRE4S). This network, which includes 39 research groups from the main universities and research and technological centers in […]

Àlex Cristòfol, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Arjan Kleij, has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Stereoselective Transformations of Vinyl Cyclic Carbonates and Applications in Natural Product Synthesis” (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 8th. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. […]

Ulysse Caniparoli, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Ferrocene-Based Chiral Catalyst Design for Enantioselective Cycloadditions Reactions” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 8th. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Angela Marinetti (Université […]

The members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences have awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to researchers Benjamin List of the Max-Planck Institute for Coal Research (Germany) and David MacMillan of Princeton University (USA) for the “development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. David MacMillan is a member of ICIQ’s Scientific Advisory Board, a body responsible […]

With the start of the new academic year, ICIQ welcomes two researchers as ”la Caixa” Junior Leaders to the institute: Dr. Katherine Villa and Dr. Fabio Juliá. Dr. Villa worked as a senior scientist at the Advanced Functional Nanorobots group led by Prof. Martin Pumera at University of Chemistry and Technology (Czech Republic) before joining ICIQ as a […]

Ece Aktas, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Palomares, has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Low-Molecular Weight Molecules as Selective Contacts for Perovskite Solar Cells” (assigned to the Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on October 4th.  The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Jenny Nelson (Imperial College London), Prof. Josep Pallares (URV) and Annamaria Petrozza (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia).   Ece […]

Sustainability is at the core of ICIQ’s values. As scientists, we believe chemistry holds the key for a brighter future for all and so, the institute is fully committed to doing research in sustainability: be this through new catalytic strategies or by developing new renewable energy resources. But we can’t only do research in sustainability, we […]