Within the framework of ICIQ’s Severo Ochoa project, the institute launched the ICIQ Strategic Funds Call 2021 (ISFC’21) last May. “This is a seed funding to develop risky research, an opportunity to try new things, to explore new research lines that you would not necessarily test otherwise,” says Dr. Lorena Tomás, manager of the institute’s Research […]

One of ICIQ’s main objectives is to further the science of chemistry towards a more sustainable future. However, training future generations in this idea is just as important. To this end, ICIQ director Emilio Palomares has signed an agreement with Roc Muñoz, mayor of La Canonja, to develop the Green, Educational and Scientific Project. “Finding […]

For the fourth consecutive year, Tarragona is one of the host cities of the European Researchers’ Night. Under the motto “Research for change”, the event wants to convey the importance of the research carried out in Catalan institutions and its impact on our daily lives. ICIQ will join the event through the talks and workshops […]

Eugenio Gandolfo, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Light-driven Metal-catalyzed Asymmetric Transformations” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly, on September 9th. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. José Manuel González (Universidad de Oviedo), Prof. Arjan […]

The Organic Division of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) has awarded Dr. Allegra Franchino with the 2021 SCI Young Researcher Lecture prize for her contribution to the upcoming SCI plenary congress. “This prize is a big encouragement to keep going on with my research, it means that the work that my coworkers and I have […]

Following up on a 2017 JACS paper, researchers from the Muñiz group together with CSOL, ICIQ’s technology development Unit, set out to scale up the synthesis of enantiopure aryl-iodine pre-catalysts. After some surprising discoveries, the scientists have published an improved and upscaled reaction in Organic Letters, where they describe how to produce up to 20 […]

Finding the right partner for a job can make all the difference – in science as much as in life. For the URV project INSPECTION (IN Situ device for Pollutants dEteCTion In cOntiNuos, financed by AGAUR and FEDER), the right team included ICIQ’s Mechanical Workshop. This summer, Jose Luís León and Aleix Terrado have undertaken […]