Last week (June 30 July 3, 2025) took place the XL Bienal RSEQ in Bilbao (Spain). MSc. Filippo Scarchilli, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Costas, presented a poster titled “Chemoselective Oxygenation at C(sp3)-H over C=C Bonds Guided by Polarity Enhancement”, and won a poster prizes. Congratulations Filippo! Girona, 11th July 2025 For more info: ges.iqcc@udg.edu
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Last month (June 15-19, 2025) took place the XLIX edition of the “Attilio Corbella” International Summer School on Organic Synthesis (ISOS 2025) in Gargnano (Italy). MSc. Filippo Scarchilli, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Costas, presented a poster titled “Chemoselective Oxygenation at C(sp3)-H over C=C Bonds Guided by Polarity Enhancement”, and won a poster prizes. Congratulations Filippo!
Today, the Banc Sabadell Fundation announced that Prof. Sílvia Osuna, ICREA researcher at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the IX Banc Sabadell Fundation award on Sciences and Engineering 2025, for her scientific career of quality and excellence achievements in enzyme design. Trajectory: Osuna received her doctorate in 2010 from the University of Girona (UdG)
Last week (June 22-27, 2025) took place the WATOC 2025 in Oslo (Norway). MSc. Hande Abes, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Ferran Feixas and Dr. Marc Garica-Borràs, presented a poster titled “Beyond the Active Site: A Multiscale View of Enzyme Catalysis”, and won a poster prizes. Congratulations Hande! Girona, 1st July 2025 For more info: ges.iqcc@udg.edu
Girona, June 26, 2025. A collaboration between research teams from ICREA, University of Girona, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Minnesota has been awarded a 2025 Horizon Prize for the discovery and characterization of ligands for reactive high-valent iron-oxo oxidants by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Members of the research teams of Profs. Guo, Que
Last week the University of Girona (UdG) announced that Dr. Eduard Matito, former member at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC), received the Alumin UdG award 2025, for his scientific career of research and knowledge. He did his PhD in the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Solà and Prof. Miquel Duran about “Development,
This week the Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) announced that Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs, Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the Emerging Scientific Talent 2025 award of Societat Catalana de Química, for his outstanding scientific career. The Emerging Scientific Talent Award for Young Investigators distinguishes annually one excellent young talented Catalan researcher (<40 years) for their scientific
Sílvia Escayola won an accesit PhD Thesis Awards 2024 for the best PhD in Chemistry in 2024 from the Grupo Especializado de Nanociencia y Materiales Moleculares (GENAM) of the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) and RSEF. She did her PhD in the DIMOCAT group of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) under the supervision of Prof. Miquel
Last month the Catalan Chemical Society (SCQ) announced that BSc. Carles Alcaide received the TFG award – Premis Sant Jordi 2025. He completed the BSc degree in Chemistry at the University of Girona (UdG) last academic course. Carles did his final degree project with a summer IQCC fellowship under the supervision of Dr. Albert Poater from the DIMOCAT group at our Institute. In the
This week the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) announced that Prof. Miquel Solà, full professor at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the 2025 RSEQ Medal, the highest institutional distinction given by the RSEQ in recognition of his outstanding scientific career, his pivotal contribution to the growth and consolidation of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry in Spain,