Stephan Röser, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antoni Llobet, defended his PhD Thesis entitled Mono- and Dinuclear Ruthenium Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization and their Impact in Oxidation Reactions (assigned to the Analytical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on May 2nd, at the ICIQ auditorium.The members of his evaluation committee were: Prof. Franc Meyer (University of Göttingen), Prof. Xavier Sala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Prof. M. Isabel Romero (Universitat de Girona), Prof. Guillem Aromí (Universitat de Barcelona) and Dr. Pau Farràs (ICIQ).