Yesterday we had the pleasure of being visited by the groups of Prof. Wesley Browne and Dr. Edwin Otten of the Stratingh Institute at the University of Groningen, who came to Girona on their annual Work Week. For this nice occasion, young researchers from both Girona and Groningen organized a one-day Young Researchers Symposium. At
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ICREA Research Professor Marcel Swart 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 50,000 members of the association are British, this is also open to
Today we had the pleasure of having Prof. Ken Sakai visiting the IQCC, and giving a seminar on “Molecular Photocatalysis and Electrocatalysis Towards Solar-driven Water Splitting” Dr. Sakai is from the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Japan and visited the IQCC during the whole day and had discussions with many people.
Today the Real Sociedad Española de Química announced that Dr. Anna Company received the Premio Lilly al Joven Investigador 2016, for her outstanding scientific career. This prize is rewarded annually to young Spanish researchers (under the age of 40) that have shown excellent scientific quality and stand out for their professional career. She will deliver the Conferencia
Today the IQCC was visited by Dr. Javier Iglesias-Fernández (Dept. Chemistry, King’s College London, UK) who gave a seminar on Elucidating catalytic mechanisms in carbohydrate active enzymes by means of computational techniques Carbohydrates are ubiquitous molecules found in all kingdoms of life. They play a vast number of roles in biological processes, not behaving simply as a
Professor Miquel Duran Portas has received the Medalla Narcís Monturiol for Scientific and Technological Merits which is awarded annually by the Generalitat de Catalunya, and has become the sixth distinguished researcher from Girona to receive this prestigious recognition. The Government has awarded the Medalla Narcís Monturiol to sixteen researchers and three research institutes. These awards,
Today ICREA announced the list of winners of the ICREA Acadèmia awards 2015, among which are two names from the University of Girona: Ramon Brugada (Medicine) and Xavi Ribas (IQCC and Chemistry). Congratulations to both! For Xavi Ribas, member of IQCC and ERC-Starting Grant holder, it is the second consecutive time that he receives the
In this work, the Bingel–Hirsch addition of diethylbromomalonate to all non-equivalent bonds of Sc3N@D3h-C78 was studied using density functional theory calculations. The regioselectivities observed computationally allowed the proposal of a set of rules, the predictive aromaticity criteria (PAC), to identify the most reactive bonds of a given endohedral metallofullerene based on a simple evaluation of
Recently researchers of the IQCC and research group QBIS-Cat of the University of Girona have been successful with the ERC Proof of Concept program. This program is directly related to their ERC Starting Grant projects and tries to prepare the results obtained in these to bring them to market. In the case of the “Copper
The Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis of the University of Girona organizes the 1st Science Slam to show the most representative research projects of the Institute to a wide audience. A Science Slam is a form of science communication where scientists present their own scientific research work in a short time – 3 minutes each – in front of a non-expert