Today, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced the 2021 RSC prize winners that recognise individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences. This year’s 2021 RSC Organic Division Horizon Prize: Bioorganic Chemistry Award recognizes an international Team for the discovery of a new class of enzymes, the pericyclases,
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Today the Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) and Lilly announced that Margarida Borrell Recasens, PhD student at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) received one of the three 2021 RSEQ-Lilly awards for best PhD studies in organic, pharmaceutical and analytical chemistry (XIX Premios de Investigación para Alumnos de Doctorado en las áreas de
Last week at the Next Generation of Biocatalysis conference in Bern, Carla Calvó-Tusell, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs and Dr. Sílvia Osuna, presented her work on switching the cofactor specificity of FDH enzyme, and won one of the best oral presentation awards. Congratulations Carla! Girona, June 1, 2021 For more
Former member Jesús Antonio Luque-Urrutia has been awarded the 2nd prize for best computational chemistry paper in 2020 given by the Computational Chemistry Group (GEQC) of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (Real Sociedad Española de Química, RSEQ). He has received the award for his paper “Do carbon nano?onions behave as nanoscopic Faraday cages? A comparison
Carles Fuertes won the Antoni de Martí i Franquès de Ciències Químiques award from the Institut d’Estudis Catalans – Societat Catalana de Química for the best PhD thesis in Chemistry in 2020. He did his PhD in the QBIS-CAT group of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) under the supervision of Dr. Xavi Ribas
Last week at the 2021 #RSCPoster Twitter Conference, Sílvia Escayola, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Miquel Solà, Dr. Albert Poater and Dr. Eduard Matito, presented a poster titled “Guidelines for Tuning the Excited State Hückel-Baird Hybrid Aromatic Character of Pro-Aromatic Quinoidal Compounds”, and won the runner up prize for #RSCPhys (11th March). Congratulations
This week the 1st Supramat network Conference took place online, which included a poster session. Ernest Ubasart, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Xavi Ribas, presented a poster titled “A three-shell supramolecular complex enables the symmetry-mismatched chemo- and regioselective bis-functionalization of C60”, and won the 3rd prize (11-12th February). Congratulations Ernest!! Girona, Feb. 15, 2021 For
ICREA is a foundation promoted by the Catalan Government whose aim is to stimulate excellent research in Catalonia. Xavi Ribas, a principal investigator of IQCC, and ERC-Starting Grant holder, won the ICREA Acadèmia awards 2020 for his research carrier. It is the third time that he receives this award (after 2010 and 2015) to recognize the research
At this moment is taking place at the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona the award ceremony for the 2019 Catalonian National Research Awards. Among the awardees is Sílvia Osuna in the category for Young Talent. Below we reproduce (with permission) the translation of an interview that Xavi Aguilar held with Sílvia, and which was published last week
Miquel Costas 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 54,000 members of the association are British, this is also open to researchers from around