Category: Awards

Jesús Luque-Urrutia wins RSEQ-GEQC Prize for best computational chemistry paper in 2020

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

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Carles Fuertes wins Antoni de Martí i Franquès award from Catalan Chemical Society SCQ

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

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Sílvia Escayola wins runner up poster prize at 2021 #RSCPoster Twitter Conference

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

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Ernest Ubasart wins poster prize at 1st Supramat network conference

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

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Xavi Ribas repeats the ICREA Acadèmia award

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

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Sílvia Osuna receives Catalonian National Research Award for Young Talent

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

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Miquel Costas elected as new Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

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

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Marc Garcia-Borràs selected as one of the six finalists of the European Young Chemists Award

The aim of the European Young Chemists’ Award (EYCA) is to showcase and recognize the excellent research being carried out by young scientists working in the chemical sciences. In particular the award is intended to honor and encourage younger chemists whose current research displays a high level of excellence and distinction. It seeks to recognize and reward younger

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Sílvia Osuna wins Catalonian National Research Award for Young Talent

Every year the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI), with the support of the Catalan Government, organises the Catalonian National Research Awards. These prestigious awards recognise and reflect different aspects of research, science communication and outreach. One of these awards is for Young Talent, in recognition of the outstanding effort of a junior researcher

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Carla Calvó wins poster prize at BioExcel Summer School

This week took place the Remote BioExcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations, in virtual manner, which included a poster session. Carla Calvó, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs and Prof. Sílvia Osuna, presented a poster titled “Unraveling The Millisecond Allosteric Activation of Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase (IGPS)”, and won the first prize, which consists of

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