Month: March 2016

Marcel Swart new Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

ICREA Research Professor Marcel Swart has recently been selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). This scientific society, founded in 1980, aims to promote the understanding and advancement of the chemical sciences. Although the vast majority of more than 50,000 members of the association are British, this is also open to

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Seminar by Prof. Ken Sakai on Molecular photocatalysis

Today we had the pleasure of having Prof. Ken Sakai visiting the IQCC, and giving a seminar on “Molecular Photocatalysis and Electrocatalysis Towards Solar-driven Water Splitting” Dr. Sakai is from the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Japan and visited the IQCC during the whole day and had discussions with many people.

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Anna Company wins Lilly prize for young investigator

Today the Real Sociedad Española de Química announced that Dr. Anna Company received the Premio Lilly al Joven Investigador 2016, for her outstanding scientific career. This prize is rewarded annually to young Spanish researchers (under the age of 40) that have shown excellent scientific quality and stand out for their professional career. She will deliver the Conferencia

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Seminar by Dr. Javier Iglesias-Fernández on biocatalysis

Today the IQCC was visited by Dr. Javier Iglesias-Fernández (Dept. Chemistry, King’s College London, UK) who gave a seminar on Elucidating catalytic mechanisms in carbohydrate active enzymes by means of computational techniques Carbohydrates are ubiquitous molecules found in all kingdoms of life. They play a vast number of roles in biological processes, not behaving simply as a

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