July 29, 2014
Yahui Wang, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Gold Carbenes from Cycloheptatrienes: Generation and Fate” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 25th at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. […]
July 25, 2014
ICIQ always gets younger on July even as we know deep inside we’re getting older when we come across any of the high school students doing a summer placement at ICIQ. They come in different ways and with different purposes: Andrea Ruiz and Sergi Rafel are in the Galán-Mascarós lab doing research as part of […]
July 23, 2014
On July 18th, Andreu Mas-Colell, conseller d’Economia i Coneixement, inaugurated the CELLEX-ICIQ High Throughput Experimentation (HTE) laboratory. This is the only HTE laboratory of this type in Europe. Two other similar laboratories are in the University of Princeton and University of Pennsylvania. The HTE laboratory provides ICIQ researchers with the instrumentation and know-how to speed up […]
July 23, 2014
Antonio Bazzo, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Atsushi Urakawa has defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Continuous photocatalytic fuel production over wide-bandgap metal oxides” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 23rd at the ICIQ auditorium. The members of his evaluation committee were: […]
July 23, 2014
On July 15th, Dr. Lluís Solà, ICIQ’s manager, received the Severo Ochoa accreditation during an institutional event at the Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation, in Madrid. Dr. Solà explained that “the Severo Ochoa accreditation is extremely important for ICIQ. It is a recognition of our work and it gives us strength to […]
July 22, 2014
They are already here! ICIQ Summer Fellowships are aimed at chemistry or related disciplines undergraduate students. The Summer Fellowships consist of a three-month paid internship in one of ICIQ’s research groups during the months of July, August and September. The recipients of these scholarships come from different parts of the world and they have started […]
July 21, 2014
Two ICIQ’s PhD students have been awarded for the excellent work done during their master studies with the Premi Extraordinari de final d’Estudis del màster universitari. Ruth Dorel, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. A. M. Echavarren, has been awarded with the “Premi Extraordinari de Final d’Estudis del màster universitari en Síntesis i Catàlisi”. […]