June 16, 2020
Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol and Dr. Marcos G. Suero have been promoted to Senior Group Leaders after being evaluated by ICIQ’s Scientific Advisory Board and endorsed by the Board of Trustees. Both group leaders joined ICIQ in 2014 through the institute’s Starting Career Programme, which supports highly talented young researchers willing to start an independent scientific […]
June 15, 2020
The measures that we as a society have adopted to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have represented, to a greater or lesser extent, enormous efforts from all of us. Abdicating freedom of movement, the loss of many lives and the terrible circumstances in which they have occurred, the destruction of countless jobs and the certainty that […]
June 12, 2020
Imma Escofet, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (ICIQ), has virtually defended her PhD thesis entitled “Computational Mechanistic Studies in Gold(I) Catalysis and Design of New Chiral Ligands” (assigned to the Department of Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on June 12th. The members of the examining committee […]
June 10, 2020
Miguel Claros, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Alicia Casitas (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) and Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol (ICIQ), has virtually defended his PhD thesis entitled “Development of Visible-Light Photoredox Methodologies towards the Activation of Carbon-Halogen Bonds” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on June […]
June 8, 2020
Bruna Sánchez, PhD Student in the Maseras group, has won the URV offshoot of the FCRI scientific outreach contest “Presenta la teva tesis en 4 minuts.” Sánchez’s monologue on computational chemistry and the differences and similarities between mechanochemical reactions and classical chemistry has secured her a place in the final round of the contest, which will be held on June 25th. […]
June 4, 2020
Prof. Ruben Martin, ICIQ group leader, has been awarded the prestigious Arthur C. Cope Mid-Career Scholars Award 2020, granted by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Established in 1984, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards recognise excellence in organic chemistry over the trajectory of the recipient’s career. Prof. Martin’s research focuses on the development of novel […]
June 4, 2020
ICIQ group leader Pau Ballester has been selected as Outstanding Reviewer by the editorial boards of Organic Chemistry Frontiers (together with other nine researchers) and Angewandte Chemie. The reviewers have been chosen for their significant contribution to the journal based on the number, timeliness and quality of the reports completed during the last year. Each Outstanding Reviewer will receive a […]