Yesterday, the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) and Lilly announced that Laia Vicens i Serra, PhD Student in the QBIS-CAT research group at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) received one of the three 2022 RSEQ-Lilly awards for best PhD studies in orgànic, pharmaceutical and analytiscal chemistry (XX Premios de Investigación para
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Today the European Chemical Society announced that Prof. Sílvia Osuna has been granted the EuChemS Lecture Award 2021. This honour is awarded annually to a junior scientist working in chemistry in one of the countries with a EuChemS member organization (in Spain: the Royal Spanish Chemical Society and the Catalan Chemical Society). Candidates are scientists
Between March 25 and April 1 took place the BioExcel School on Biomolecular Simulations, which included a poster session. Helena Girame, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs and Dr. Ferran Feixas, presented a poster titled “How the Assignment of Protonation States in Distal Residues May Alter Protein-Ligand Binding in Molecular Dynamics Simulations”. Helena’s poster
Laia Vicens participated at “Divulgando con el JIQ en 3 minutos” competition organised by Jóvenes Investigadores Químicos – RSEQ for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11th of February) with a 3 min video on Youtube. Laia Vicens, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Miquel Costas, presented her research in 3 min
On February 1st, 2022, Dr. Marc Garcia Borràs has started his new position at the Department of Chemistry, University of Girona, as a Ramón y Cajal (RyC) Fellow. The Ramón y Cajal Fellowship program is co-financed by the European Commission’s European Social Fund through the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. These grants are aimed
This week the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) announced that Sílvia Osuna, ICREA professor at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG, received the Marcial Moreno-Mañas Award 2021, for her outstanding scientific career on the design of new enzymes of industrial interest using computational chemistry tools. The Marcial Moreno-Mañas Prize for Young
This week at the 12a Trobada de Joves Investigadors dels Països Catalans conference in Girona, three IQCC PhD students won awards for the best talk in different symposia. • Valentina Iannace, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Xavi Ribas, presented her work on Regioselective bis?functionalization of fullerene C70 via supramolecular mask strategy, and won one
This week, our former member of IQCC Carles Fuertes was awarded the annual recognition of the best PhD thesis in 2020 (Premi Extraordinari) from the University of Girona. Last year, he defended with success his PhD thesis on “Supramolecular nanocapsules as platforms for molecular recognition and reactivity in confined spaces”, supervised by Xavi Ribas. Now,
This week at the Supr@Stras conference organized by European Journal of Organic Chemistry, Chemistry Europe and Supramolecular Chemistry Group from SCF included a virtual poster session on Twitter (27th July). Ernest Ubasart, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Xavi Ribas, presented a poster titled “A new supramolecular nanocapsule that enables the bis-regiofunctionalization of C60 and
Last week, former member of the IQCC was awarded the prestigious FRIPRO Young Research Talent grant (8 million NOK) for Accurate Prediction and Interpretation of NMR Spectra in Transition-Metal Complexes (SpecTraM) by the Research Council of Norway. With this grant she can start her own research group at the Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences of the University of Oslo,