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IQCC opened its doors to 35 high-school students from Montessori Palau school

A few times a year, the IQCC opens its doors and gives the opportunity to high-school students to know our work through exciting lectures and computational and experimental workshops. This provides the secondary school pupils the possibility to get a feel for the research and have real-time chemistry in their hands. Last week, it was

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New collaboration agreement between the Osuna lab and the French company SEQENS

One of the priorities of the IQCC is to strengthen the connections with industry, both nationally and internationally. Continuation of ongoing collaborative research efforts and initiating new joint projects are a high priority for the institute. Actually, there are several collaborations with the private sector. Furthermore, this month, Dr. Sílvia Osuna has started a new

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Talking with Sílvia Osuna at the exhibition “Científiques Catalanes 2.0” about female role models in Catalan research

The Catalan Association for Scientific Communication (ACCC), within the Gender Perspective group, wants to make female leading researchers in Catalonia visible. For this reason, the exhibition “Científiques Catalanes 2.0”  was designed . The exhibition started two years ago, in which many of the included scientists have been recognized in different fields of research. Among them, we

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Laia Vicens wins Outreach contest with most-liked 3-minute video for Young Researchers RSEQ

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

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International Women’s Day at IQCC – Virtual Women’s IQCC Forum 2022

Tomorrow (8th of March) is International Women’s Day. The IQCC has currently a rather favourable balance in gender ratio of staff members, both at the Master level (47%), PhD level (37%), postdocs (13%) and permanent researchers staff (29%). Notably, out of the 4 most recent permanent members, 2 are men and 2 are women, reinforcing

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Aromaticity and Extrusion of Benzenoids Linked to [o-COSAN](-). Clar has the Answer

Benzene and pyrene can be synthetically linked to [ o -COSAN] – keeping their aromaticity. At difference, naphthalene and anthracene are extruded in the same reaction. We have proven that extrusion is only favorable if the number of Clar’s ?-sextets remains constant. Thus, Clar has the answer to whether an attached polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon to

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IQCC opened its doors to 29 high-school students from INS Salvador Espriu

A few times a year, the IQCC opens its doors and gives the opportunity to high-school students to know our work through exciting lectures and computational and experimental workshops. This provides the secondary school pupils the possibility to get a feel for the research and have real-time chemistry in their hands. Yesterday it was the

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MSCA European Researchers’ Night (#NitRecerCat 2022, 2023)

The project #NitRecerCat: La Nit Europea de la Recerca, within the HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS call, aims to celebrate the European Researchers’ Night in Catalonia as well as take Researchers at Schools . The consortium, coordinated by Dr. Sílvia Simon, includes partners from different Catalan cities. Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Universitat de Lleida, Universitat de

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JPO 2022 – Open Day at IQCC and Science Faculty UdG

Every year, there is an Open Days at the University of Girona: a unique opportunity for high-school students to get to know first hand the campuses, centres, sports facilities, training on offer and a wide range of cultural activities. This time, the IQCC together with the Scientific Culture and Digital Communication (C4D) unit of the

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Collaboration with national industries for four MACMoM students

Today, four of the Master in Advanced Catalysis and Molecular Modelling (MACMoM) students have started a internship in different national companies (Givaudan, Concentrol, Medichem and Moehs) to perform their Master research project (TFM). Internship in a company is an optional module of the MACMoM Master, in which the students can perform a full-time internship in

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