Category: Awards

Carla Calvó-Tusell wins RSEQ-GEQC Prize for best computational chemistry paper in 2022

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”.

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Miquel costas receives medalla Rafael Uson award GEQO-RSEQ 2023

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

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Silvia Osuna receives Emerging Scientific Talent 2023 award of Societat Catalana de Química

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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Martí Gimferrer awarded best PhD thesis 2022

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,

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Chiraf Souilah wins runner up poster prize at 2023 #RSCPoster Twitter Conference

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

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Sergio Fernández wins Josep Castells award of RSEQ-Cat

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

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Najoua Choukairi wins best flash talk award at European-Winter School on Physical Organic Chemistry

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!

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Janet Sánchez wins poster prize at First CompChem Conference of Societat Catalana de Química

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

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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”,

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Sílvia Osuna granted an ERC Consolidator and an ERC Proof of Concept grant

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

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