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
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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
This month (Feb 5-10th 2023) at the European-Winter School on Physical Organic Chemistry (E-WISPOC23) in Bressanone (Italy), Najoua Choukairi, PhD student under the supervion of Prof. Miquel Costas, presented her work on syn-dihydroxylation and won one of the best flash award awards. Congratulations Najoua!
Last month (Jan. 30-31, 2023) took place the 1st Reunió de Química Teòrica i Computacional (RQTC) 2023 Conference from Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) in Barcelona, which included a poster session. Janet Sánchez, master student under the supervision of Prof. Sílvia Osuna, presented a poster titled “Computational design of new kinases for suicide cancer gene
Valentina Iannace wins poster prize at First Inorg/OrgMet Conference of Societat Catalana de Química
This month (Feb 2-3th 2023) took place the 1st Reunió de Química Inorgànica i Organometàl·lica (RQIO) 2023 Conference from Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) in Barcelona, which included a poster session. Valentina Iannace, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Xavi Ribas, presented a poster titled “Regioselective bis-functionalization of fullerene C70 via supramolecular mask strategy”,
A research project led by Sílvia Osuna, ICREA Professor at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona (UdG), has been funded with 2 million euros within the Consolidator Grant call of European Research Council (ERC). Research projects funded by the ERC have as main objective to provide the best
Last week (Aug 28th to Sept 2nd 2022) took place the 19th International Conference on Density Functional Theory and its Applications in Burssels, which included a poster session. Gerard Comas, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Pedro Salvador, presented a poster titled “Accurate 57Fe Mössbauer Parameters from General Gaussian Basis sets”, and won one
This week, our member of IQCC Margarida Borrell was awarded the annual recognition of the best PhD thesis in 2021 (Premi Extraordinari) from the University of Girona. Last year, he defended with success her PhD thesis on “Small-molecule mimics of Rieske oxygenases. Application to selective aliphatic C-H hydroxylation and olefin syn-dihydroxylation”, supervised by Miquel Costas.
This week at the XXXVIII Bienal RSEQ conference in Granada, three IQCC PhD students won awards for the best poster in different symposia. • Ernest Ubasart, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Xavi Ribas, presented his work on Large Tetragonal Prismatic Supramolecular Nanocapsules as Multi-Functional Platforms, and won one of the best poster awards in