Dr. Leila Pujal received her PhD from Queen’s University in Canada under the supervision of Dr. Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh in 2025. During her PhD, she developed and applied chemical descriptors based on constrained Atoms-in-Molecules schemes from the Hirshfeld family for the decomposition of molecular multipole moments, energy and polarizabilities. She joined the Institute of Computational Chemistry
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Josep received his PhD from Universitat Rovira i Virgili in 2025. He worked in Marcos G. Suero’s group in ICIQ, Tarragona, developing enantioselective carbyne transfer methodologies. He was recognized with the Josep Castells award for the best thesis in chemistry, from RSEQ-STCAT. He joined IQCC as postdoctoral fellow under the BBVA founded project RETICAT under
In June 2026, Dr. Kapse Samadhan has joined the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) as a postdoctoral researcher. He received his PhD in 2023 from SRM University AP India, where he studied the catalytic descriptors of low dimensional materials under the supervision of Prof. Ranjit Thapa. Later, he pursued postdoctoral research at the
The Adv. Synth. Catal. journal features on its front cover of the April 2026 issue the research article “Engineering Cumene Dioxygenase for Regioselective Hydroxylation of Monoterpenes and Monoterpenoids” by Prof. Marc Garcia-Borràs in collaboration with Prof. Bernhard Hauer (University of Stuttgart). The painted design by Fátima Navarro-Cetina and WesWizzArt depicts the cumene dioxygenase-catalyzed hydroxylation of monoterpenes. Engineering of this
Dr. Ouissam El Bakouri received his PhD in 2017 from the University of Girona, where he studied electronic structure, chemical bonding, and electron delocalization in organic and inorganic systems under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Solà, Prof. Jordi Poater, and Dr. Ferran Feixas. After his PhD, he moved to Uppsala University (Sweden) to work on
On July 1st, Dr. Hannes Meinert started his MSCA post-doctoral project entitled Relieving Fe/?KG-dependent Halogenases from their Carrier-dependence (UNSHACKLED) under the supervision of Prof. Sílvia Osuna at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) at the University of Girona (UdG). During this 2-year fellowship Hannes will dive into the field of rational enzyme design, pushing
On 15th of June will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Daniel Villá Roldán, titled “Estudio de la reacción de sililación deshidrogenativa para la síntesis de nuevos copolímeros poliéter-polisiloxano”, supervised by Prof. Miquel Costas from IQCC and Dr. Josep Nadal from Concentrol. The jury members will be Dr. Gerard Lligadas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Dr. Julio Lloret (ICIQ) and Dra.
María Martínez, a PhD researcher of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) working in the DIMOCAT group won the 3rd prize of the contest “Your thesis in 4 minutes” held at the University of Girona. The PhD thesis of María, supervised by Dr. Jordi Mestres, deals with “From patents to patients: chemical intellectual property as