Helmut Degenbeck, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Anton Vidal, defended his PhD Thesis entitled Transfer of Chirality in New Supramolecular Complexes as Design Principle for Future Asymmetric Catalysts (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 25th at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. Pau Ballester (ICIQ), Prof. Concepción González-Bello (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Prof. Christopher Hunter (University of Sheffield), Prof. Ramon Vilar (Imperial College London) and Prof. Nick Bampos (University of Cambridge).