Alfons Nonell-Canalls, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Maseras, defended his PhD Thesis entitled QM and QM/MM studies on organic and bioinorganic systems (assigned to the Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. Agustí Lledós (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Prof. Carles Bo (ICIQ), Prof. Fahmi Himo (KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Prof. Mar Reguero (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and Prof. Maria Joao Ramos (Universidad de Porto, Portugal).