Last week, our former member of IQCC Gibu George was awarded the annual recognition of the best PhD thesis in 2025 (Premi Extraordinari) from the University of Girona. Last year, he defended with success his PhD thesis on “Computational study and design of materials for photovoltaic applications”, supervised by Prof. Miquel Solà, Dr. Anton Stasyuk. Now, Gibu is continuing
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On 30th of July will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Andrea Álvarez-Núñez, titled “Trapping elusive intermediates in C–H functionalization reactions: iron-oxo’s and silver carbenes”, supervised by Dr. Anna Company and Prof. Miquel Costas from IQCC. The jury members will be Prof. Christian Limberg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Dr. Anat Milo (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and Dr. Agustí Lledó
Last 9th July took place the Summer edition of the IQCC Forum, a quarterly meeting-place where high-quality science will be discussed. This is a special edition to celebrate the 60th birthday of Prof. Lluís Blancafort. On this occasion, collaborators and former group members will present their research. This event marks the launch of a new initiative
On 28th of July will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Anju Manickoth, titled “Growth of Eumelanin Precursors: Redox Chemistry, Kinetic Modelling and Photophysical Properties”, supervised by Prof. Lluís Blancafort from IQCC. The jury members will be Dr. Feliu Maseras (ICIQ), Dr. Martí Gimferrer (University of Göttingen) and Dr. Clàudia Climent (Universitat de Barcelona). Place: Aula Magna of the Faculty of Science Date: July
On 20th of July will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Valentina Iannace, titled “Supramolecular Masks for Selective Encapsulation and Regioselective Functionalization of Fullerenes and EMFs”, supervised by Prof. Xavi Ribas from IQCC. The jury members will be Dr. Luis Echegoyen (ICIQ), Dr. Hannah Kurz (Universität Bayreuth) and Dr. Cédric Colomban (iSm2). Place: Aula Magna of the Faculty of Science
Last month the University of Girona (UdG) announced that Dr. Irene Casademont, former member at the Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC), received the Alumin UdG award 2026, for her scientific career of research and knowledge. Irene, who graduated in Chemistry from the University of Girona and did her Master in Advanced Catalysis and Molecular Modelling in the Institute of Computational
Two former members of the IQCC have been awarded the Juan de la Cierva fellowship, allowing them to continue their research careers in Spain. Both researchers, Gibu George and Michele Tomasini, obtained their PhDs at DIMOCAT (IQCC) in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Solà and Dr. Anton J. Stasyuk, and Dr. Albert Poater and
Dr. Leila Pujal received her PhD from Queen’s University in Canada under the supervision of Dr. Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh in 2025. During her PhD, she developed and applied chemical descriptors based on constrained Atoms-in-Molecules schemes from the Hirshfeld family for the decomposition of molecular multipole moments, energy and polarizabilities. She joined the Institute of Computational Chemistry
Josep received his PhD from Universitat Rovira i Virgili in 2025. He worked in Marcos G. Suero’s group in ICIQ, Tarragona, developing enantioselective carbyne transfer methodologies. He was recognized with the Josep Castells award for the best thesis in chemistry, from RSEQ-STCAT. He joined IQCC as postdoctoral fellow under the BBVA founded project RETICAT under
In June 2026, Dr. Kapse Samadhan has joined the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) as a postdoctoral researcher. He received his PhD in 2023 from SRM University AP India, where he studied the catalytic descriptors of low dimensional materials under the supervision of Prof. Ranjit Thapa. Later, he pursued postdoctoral research at the