After a demanding evaluation by several members of the Scientific Committee of the Institute, Ruben Martin has gone from Tenure Track to be one of the Principal Investigators at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia. Ruben has developed a successful line of research, focused on the activation of relatively inert molecules and chemical bonds, […]

The Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia has held the 8th edition of its already established Summer School. This year, the School has been organized in collaboration with UniCat, the German Cluster of Excellence in Catalysis. A total of 16 top level speakers and more than one hundred graduates and post-doctoral researchers have enjoyed a […]

Fernando P. Cossío is the president of the Executive Committee of Ikerbasque, the Basque foundation for science, professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of the Basque Country and a co-founder of the company Ikerchem.  In his research, he combines theoretical and experimental organic chemistry to investigate the origins of selectivity in chemical reactions. He came to […]

R. Martin and V.V. Grushin publish high impact articles

Iván Castelló, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Emilio Palomares, defended his PhD Thesis entitled Design and Applications for Quantum-Onion-Multicode Nanospheres and Other Luminescent Semiconductor-Derived NanoComposites (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on June 26th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of her evaluation committee […]

Energy & Environmental Science highlights Palomares et al. article

José Luis Núñez, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Anton Vidal, defended his PhD Thesis entitled Highly Modular P-OP Ligands for Rhodium-and Iridium-Mediated Asymmetric Hydrogenations (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on June 13th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of her evaluation committee were: […]