Craig Day, PhD student in the Martin group has remotely attended the 2021 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Day is currently doing a six-month placement in John Hartwig’s lab at UC Berkley, where he’s studying the mechanism of an iron-catalyzed C(sp3)-H azidation reaction the Hartwig lab published in Nature in 2015. From the 27th of June […]

Qingqing Sun, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pau Ballester, has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Aryl and Super Aryl-Extended Calix[4]pyrroles: Synthesis and Applications” (assigned to Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 23rd. The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Laura Rodríguez (Universitat de Barcelona), […]

Mauro Mato, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Echavarren, has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Streamlining the Access to Metal Carbenes through Aromative Decarbenations” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 22nd.   The members of the evaluation committee were: Prof. Pedro J. Pérez […]

Justine Raymond, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pericàs and Dr. Helmut Buschmann (AiCuris), has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Applications of Flow Chemistry Methods and Computer-Aided Approaches to Expedite the Development of HBV Inhibitors” (assigned to Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 15th.   The members […]

On its first edition, the ICIQ-Severo Ochoa International Mobility Programme has awarded seven grants to support excellent early-stage researchers to develop an investigation project of their own in an international institution abroad. The first call of the programme was addressed to ICIQ pre-doctoral students in the second half of their doctoral studies. The fellowships will […]

ICIQ alumni Alexandra Bosnidou, Luis Escobar and Eric Tan have been awarded for their outstanding thesis by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. 25 PhD students who defended their thesis during the 2019-20 academic year have won the Extraordinary Thesis Award in different fields of sciences and humanities. From the 34 theses defended in the Chemical […]

Elena Detta, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pericàs and Dr. Helmut Buschmann (AiCuris), has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Target-based Design, Structural Optimization and Characterization of Novel Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Assembly Modulators” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly in July 9th.   The […]