Jordi Soler won the II edition of the best PhD in Chemistry award from the Real Sociedad Española de Química, Jóvenes Investigadores Químicos (RSEQ-JIQ) for the best PhD in Chemistry in 2023. He did his PhD in the TCBioSys group of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) under the supervision of Prof. Sílvia Osuna and
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Yesterday ICREA announced the list of winners of the ICREA Acadèmia awards 2024, among which are four (!!!) names from the University of Girona: Sebastià Puig (Engineering), Anna Maria Romani (Ecology), Miquel Costas and Miquel Solà (both IQCC and Chemistry). Congratulations to all four! Girona, December 13th, 2024 For more info: ges.iqcc@udg.edu
Last week the Jóvenes Investigadores Químicos (JIQ-RSEQ) announced that Prof. Sílvia Osuna, ICREA researcher at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the Chemitry Europe Lecture Award 2024, for her scientific career of quality and excellence. Trajectory: Osuna received her doctorate in 2010 from the University of Girona (UdG) at the Computational Chemistry Institute (IQC) under supervision of
Last week the Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society announced that Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs, Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the the Cadence/OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty award managed by the Computers in Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, for his scientific career of quality and excellence. The ACS
The standardized citation metric analysis published by Ioaniddis (popularized as Stanford University global list of 2% top scientists) has become a world-recognized rank of scientific output performance based on scientific publications. The newest version 2024 includes 9 IQCC researchers (Miquel Solà, Miquel Costas, Marcel Swart, Albert Poater, Sílvia Osuna , Lluís Blancafort, Xavier Ribas, Jordi Mestres (visiting professor) and Alexander Voityuk (emeritus)). In addition, the career analysis report includes 10 IQCC
This month (Sep 5-6, 2024) took place the IV Jornadas Españolas de Biocatálisis in Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain), which included a poster session. MSc. Mario Bonachea, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Sílvia Osuna, presented a poster titled “Analyzing tryptophan synthase’s conformational changes” and won one poster prizes. Congratulations Mario! Girona, 16 September 2024 For more info: ges.iqcc@udg.edu
Last week, our former member of IQCC Martí Gimferrer was awarded the annual recognition of the best PhD thesis in 2023 (Premi Extraordinari) from the University of Girona. Last year, he defended with success his PhD thesis on “Development and application of new methodologies for chemical bonding analysis”, supervised by Pedro Salvador. Now, Martí is continuing his research
Last week, the SusChem announced that Dr. Jordi Soler received the XVI Premios SusChem Jóvenes Investigadores Químicos categoria Investiga for his best scientific publication on Engineered cytochrome P450 for direct arylalkene-to-ketone oxidation via highly reactive carbocatión intermediates. This prize is rewarded annually to young Spanish researchers. The SusChem Young Chemical Researchers Awards aim to recognize, encourage and promote scientific
Last week, the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) and Lilly announced that Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs received the Premio Lilly Joven de Investigación 2024 for his outstanding scientific career on computational modeling of biochemical and biocatalytic processes, with the aim of understanding, designing and implementing new enzymatic activities. This prize is rewarded annually to young Spanish researchers (under the
This month (June 9-13, 2024) took place the 4th International Conference on Hydrogen Atom Transfer in Castelli romani (Italy), which included a poster session. Dr. Laia Vicens and Dr. Margarida Borrell, postdoc researchers under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Costas, presented a poster titled “Remote Amino Acid Recognition Enables Effective Hydrogen Peroxide at a Manganese Oxidation Catalyst” and “Atropoenantioselective