Dana Madeleine Popa, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Vidal and Prof. Pericàs, defended her PhD Thesis entitled Modular phosphinooxazolines: Synthesis and evaluation in allylic substitutions (assigned to the Departament de Química Analítica i Química Orgànica of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of her evaluation committee were: Prof. Sergio Castillón (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Prof. F. Xavier Verdaguer (Universitat de Barcelona), Prof. Pere M. Deyà (Universitat de les Illes Balears), Prof. Pau Ballester (ICIQ) and Prof. Ana C. Cuñat (Universitat de València).