July 21, 2022
The creation of the new ICIQ spin-off, Jolt, has recently been made official. The signing took place in Barcelona and was attended by the founding members of Jolt: Leon Rizzi, executive director; Professor Julio Lloret-Fillol, scientific director, ICIQ group leader and ICREA Professor; Dr. Alberto Bucci, technological director; and Arturo Vilavella, director of operations. Also […]
July 13, 2022
Sergi Fernández, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol (ICIQ) and Prof. Josep M. Luis (UdG), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Development and mechanistic study of well-defined catalysts for the CO2 and H2O reduction reactions” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July […]
July 12, 2022
The analysis developed at ICIQ will make it possible to evaluate gases in the environment and design sustainable alternative solutions. The company Applus+ IDIADA and the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) have collaborated to determine the gases released by car batteries during combustion in the event of an accident. These analyses will make […]
July 11, 2022
Sergio García Carrillo, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Núria López (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “More is Different: Modern Computational Modeling for Heterogeneous Catalysis” (assigned to the Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 11th. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik […]
July 5, 2022
Two ICIQers have seen their work recognized during the Bienal meeting organized by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) in Granada, from 27-30 June 2022. Carlota Odena, PhD student in the Martin group, won one of the four awards for best flash presentation at the symposium “New Frontiers in Organometallic Chemistry” for her work […]
July 4, 2022
We are pleased to welcome back at ICIQ the 2022 Summer Fellows. After two years, 13 undergraduate students who currently are developing their studies on chemistry and other related specialties, will enjoy the opportunity to carry out a research project supervised by ICIQ researchers. Moreover, these grants offer the students the opportunity of receiving complementary […]
July 1, 2022
Craig Day, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Ruben Martin (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Understanding Nickel Catalysis at the Molecular Level: Insights into C-O Functionalization and Electron Transfer Events” (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 1st. The members of the […]