Dr. Hannes Meinert has recently become a new member of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC). Dr. Meinert did his PhD at the University of Greifswald (Germany) on Biocatalytic Synthesis of Carbamates Using Promiscuous Esterases/Acyltransferases under the supervision of Prof. Uwe T. Bornscheuer in collaboration with Hans Iding from F.Hoffmann-La Roche in 2025. At this moment,
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On July 11, the graduation ceremony for the Master in Advanced Catalysis and Molecular Modelling (MACMoM) students of the IQCC, University of Girona, took place at the Auditorium of Girona. During the 2024–2025 academic year, there were 14 students enrolled. The master’s program is taught entirely in English and equips students with the skills needed
Dr. Jordi Soler i Parpal has been awarded the 1st prize for the best computational chemistry paper of 2024 in the postdoctoral category 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 “Engineering non-haem iron enzymes for enantioselective C(sp3)–F bond formation
On 3rd of September will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Adrià Juvanteny i Palomeras, titled “Getting insight into C-H functionalization and cross-coupling reactions mediated by nickel and other first-row transition metals”, supervised by Dr. Anna Company from IQCC. The jury members will be Prof. Marine Desage-El Murr, Université de Strasbourg (France), Prof. Connie C. Lu, Universität
Last week, our former member of IQCC Sílvia Escayola was awarded the annual recognition of the best PhD thesis in 2024 (Premi Extraordinari) from the University of Girona. Last year, she defended with success her PhD thesis on “Exploring the Boundaries of Aromaticity through Computational Analysis of Excited States and Complex Molecular Topologies”, supervised by Prof. Miquel
On 31st of July will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Ricard López Coll, titled “Functional Cavitands as Artificial Enzymes: Bridging Computational and Synthetic Strategies for Supramolecular Catalysis and Beyond”, supervised by Dr. Agustí Lledó from IQCC. The jury members will be Dr. Gemma Aragay (Institut Català d’Investigació Química), Prof. Xavi Ribas (Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi, Universitat de
On 28th of July will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Daniel Bosch i Coch, titled “Generation of theoretical DHICA melanin models for the simulation of optical spectra”, supervised by Prof. Lluís Blancafort from IQCC. The jury members will be Dr. Bo Durbeej (Linköpping University), Dr. Marco D’Abramo (Sapienza Università di Roma) and Dr. Mercè Deumal (Universitat de Barcelona). Place: Aula Magna
On 17 June, Aqza Elza John, PhD student at the IQCC under the supervision of Dr. Ferran Feixas and Dr. Marc Garcia-Borràs, received the Best Presentation Award at the VIII Jornades Predoctorals UdG (JODOC) 2025, held at the University of Girona. Her presentation, entitled “Unraveling electrostatic contributions on the catalytic efficiency of laboratory evolved retroaldolases”,
This month the Pla Serra Húnter from Government of Catalonia announced that Prof. Xavi Ribas, researcher at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) of the UdG has been selected to receive the Research Excellence Award, awarded through the Reconeixement al Talent Serra Húnter initiative. These individual awards recognize outstanding contributions by Serra Húnter professors in key areas such
The Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) has selected Marc Garcia-Borràs as a new ICREA Research Professor. He will take up the position on 1 March 2026. This prestigious appointment provides a permanent research position and will allow him to devote his time fully to research activities. ICREA Research Professor appointments are granted to researchers with outstanding