Carolina Mendoza, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs, and Prof. Ramon Vilar (Imperial College London) defended her PhD Thesis entitled Assymetric Catalysis and Molecular Recognition Using Different Platforms: Homogeneous Systems , Functinalized Polymers and Magnetic Nanoparticles (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on June 10th, at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. Carmen Claver (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Prof. Montserrat Gómez (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse), Prof. Carlos Kremer (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) Prof. Pau Ballester (ICIQ) and Dr. Ciril Jimeno (IQAC-CSIC).