Category: Awards

Martí Gimferrer awarded best PhD thesis 2023

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

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Jordi Soler receives SusChem Young Chemical Researchers Awards

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

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Marc Garcia-Borràs receives Lilly Prize for Young Investigators and Andrea Palone wins RSEQ-Lilly Award for PhD studies

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

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Laia Vicens and Margarida Borrell win poster prize at the 4th International Conference on Hydrogen Atom Transfer

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

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Sílvia Escayola-Gordils selected as one of the six finalists of the European Young Chemists Award 2024

The aim of the European Young Chemists’ Award (EYCA) is to showcase and recognize the excellent research being carried out by young scientists working in the chemical sciences. In particular the award is intended to honor and encourage younger chemists whose current research displays a high level of excellence and distinction. It seeks to recognize and reward younger

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Sílvia Simon and Miquel Costas receive Communication Award and Scientific Excellence Award 2024 of SCQ

This month the Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) announced that Dr. Sílvia Simon and Prof. Miquel Costas, researchers at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the Communication Award 2024 (S. Simon) for her communication tasks carried out in any field with the aim of improving the formation of the citizens’ chemical culture and Scientific Excellence Award 2024 (M. Costas) for

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Marc Garcia-Borràs and Laia Vicens receive Marcial Moreno-Mañas Award and Josep Castells award of RSEQ-Cat

Marc Garcia-Borràs receives Marcial Moreno-Mañas Award 2023 for young researchers of RSEQ-Cat This week the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) announced that Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs, Ramón y Cajal fellow at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the Marcial Moreno-Mañas Award 2023, for his scientific career of quality and excellence. The Marcial Moreno-Mañas Prize for Young Investigators

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Filippo Scarchilli wins poster prize at the XIV Spanish-Italian Symposium on Organic Synthesis

Last month (February 25-27, 2024) took place the XIV Spanish-Italian Symposium on Organic Synthesis in Torino (Italy), which included a poster session. Filippo Scarchilli, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Costas, presented a poster titled “Highly selective C(sp3)–H bond oxygenation at remote methylenic sites enabled by polarity enhancement”, and won one of the poster prizes.

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Sílvia Osuna granted a new ERC Proof of Concept grant

Prof. Sílvia Osuna, ICREA Professor at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona (UdG), has been awarded a new European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept grant (ERC-2023-POC-101158166). This new ERC-POC is directly related to her previous ERC Starting Grant project NetMoDEzyme and adds to the running ERC-POC GREENZYME

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Miquel Costas receives Ciamician-González Lectureship award 2023

Yesterday the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) announced that Miquel Costas, full professor at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the Ciamician-González Lectureship 2023 award. This award recognizes his outstanding scientific contributions between Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Applied Catalysis. His studies improve the role and the potential of first-row transition metals in the

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