Andrea Ruiz Ferrando, a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Núria López, has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “From Computational to Data-Driven Strategies for Single-Atom Catalysis” publicly on Friday, July 26th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. Dr. Gianvito Vilé (Politecnico di Milano, Italia), Dr. Hind Benzidi (ICIQ) and Dr. Edvin […]

This award highlights outstanding articles in ​​Chemistry and Computation and is addressed to PhD students The Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ-CERCA) announces that Santiago Morandi has been awarded the Premio Juan Bertrán i Rusca by the Group of Experts in Chemistry and Computation (GEQC) of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ). Santiago […]

The Royal Society of Chemistry selects  the article in its sustainable development themed collection The 3D-prototyping industry demands more resins free from petroleum-based sources to get sustainable additive manufacturing technologies. To achieve this, the Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ-CERCA) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) have developed a new sustainable printing ink from corn. […]

ICIQ have received this month students from all over the world passionate about chemistry Eleven young researchers have come to ICIQ for two weeks to solve a Science Challenge. These youngsters from all over the world are members of the BIYSC (Barcelona International Youth Science Challenge) and they have been selected to solve the challenge […]

ICIQ is a consortium partner of the SUNER-C project which aims to create an European ecosystem to strengthen and accelerate innovation in the solar fuels and chemicals sector The SUNER-C workshop, “Towards an Innovation Ecosystem for Solar Fuels and Chemicals in Europe,” gathered over 75 industry experts, EU policymakers and academic researchers at the Science […]

Laura Kqiku, a PhD student in Prof. Paolo Melchiorre group, succesfully defended her PhD thesis entitled ‘New-to-Nature Processes in Biocatalysis’ publicly on Friday, 12th July 2024. The evaluation committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Vicente Gotor Fernández (Universidad de Oviedo), Prof. Marcos García Suero (ICIQ) and Prof. Dr. Martina Letizia Contente (Università degli Studi di Milano). Congratulations […]

This prestigious grant offers a lump sum of 150,000 € for a period of 18 months to advancing drug discovery Prof. Marcos García Suero, ICREA Professor and ICIQ group leader has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) with Proof of Concept grant for the development of the project “New chemical warheads for covalent drug […]