Miquel Solà 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 researchers from around the world.
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Category: Awards
Last month (August 27-31, 2023) took place the European Conference on Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 2023 (EuChemS CompChem) in Thessaloniki (Greece). Dr. Anton Stasyuk, postdoc researcher in the Prof. Miquel Solà group, presented a talk titled “Aromaticity controls the photoinduced electron transfer in host-guest complexes of nanohoops”, and won the best oral presentation in the Materials Design session. Congratulations
Last Friday, the Ministry of Science and Innovation annunced that Sílvia Osuna, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona (UdG), received the National Research Award for Young Investigators ‘María Teresa Toral’ 2023, in the area of Science and Chemical Technologies, for her outstanding scientific career on the design
Last week (June 25-29, 2023) took place the XXXIX Reunión Bienal 2023 Conference from Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) in Zaragoza, which included a poster session. Artur Brotons-Rufes, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Albert Poater, presented a poster titled “A DFT STUDY ON A MACROCYCLIC RUTHENIUM CATALYST FORSELECTIVE CROSS-COUPLING OLEFIN METATHESIS”, and won one of the
Carla Calvó-Tusell has been awarded the 1st prize for best computational chemistry paper in 2022 given by the Computational Chemistry Group (GEQC) of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (Real Sociedad Española de Química, RSEQ). She has received the award for her paper “Time Evolution of the Millisecond Allosteric Activation of Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase”.
Last week the Grupo Especializado de Química Organometálica (GEQO – RSEQ) announced that Miquel Costas, full professor at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the Medalla Rafael Usón award of GEQO – RSEQ 2023, for his outstanding scientific trajectory and contributions to the field of organometallic chemistry, in particular
This week the Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) announced that Sílvia Osuna, ICREA professor at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the Emerging Scientific Talent 2023 award of Societat Catalana de Química, for her outstanding scientific career on the design of new enzymes of industrial interest using computational chemistry tools. The Emerging Scientific Talent Award for Young Investigators
Last week, our member of IQCC Lorena Capdevila was awarded the annual recognition of the best PhD thesis in 2022 (Premi Extraordinari) from the University of Girona. Last year, she defended with success her PhD thesis on “Chelation-assisted metal-catalyzed functionalization of strong Csp2-H / Heteroatom bonds: Trapping intermediate species and unveiling mechanistic details”, supervised by Xavi Ribas. Now,
Last month at the 2023 #RSCPoster Twitter Conference, Chiraf Souilah, a former master student of IQCC and now a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Alicia Casitas at Philipps-Universität Marburg, presented a poster titled “Synthesis of Fe(III) and Fe(IV) cyanide complexes using hypervalent iodine reagents as cyano trasfer one-electron oxidants”, a collaboration project with
Sergio Fernández won the Josep Castells awards from the Real Sociedad Española de Química, Catalan section (RSEQ-Cat) for the best PhD in Chemistry in 2022. He did his PhD in the DIMOCAT group of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) under the supervision of Dr. Josep Maria Luis and at ICIQ-Universitat Rovira i