Last 7th of March, the IQCC organized a meeting to show the documentary Picture a Scientist to highlight gender inequality in science during the Week of International Woman’s Day. The film tells the stories of several prominent female researchers and brings to light the barriers that they encountered, including cases of discrimination and harassment.
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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 (50%), PhD level (38%), postdocs (24%) and permanent researchers staff (29%). Notably, out of the 4 most recent permanent members, 2 are men and 2 are women, reinforcing one
Sergio Fernández won the Josep Castells awards from the Real Sociedad Española de Química, Catalan section (RSEQ-Cat) for the best PhD in Chemistry in 2022. He did his PhD in the DIMOCAT group of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) under the supervision of Dr. Josep Maria Luis and at ICIQ-Universitat Rovira i
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 month, it was
Next Monday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Martí Gimferrer Andrés, titled “Development and application of new methodologies for chemical bonding analysis”, supervised by Dr. Pedro Salvador from IQCC. Place: Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències Date: March 27, 2023 Time: 11.30h We wish him good luck and all the best!
Dr. Nikita Chaudhary has recently become a new member of the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) as a Marie Curie Postdocotral Fellow. Dr. Chaudhary obtained her PhD in Chemistry from IIT Roorkee (India) in 2015. During her PhD, she worked with Prof. M. R. Maurya on catalytic role of immobilized vanadium complexes in
Next Monday will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Christian Curado Carballada, titled “Elucidating the role of conformational dynamics of Aspergillus niger monoamine oxidase towards enzymatic chiral amines synthesis”, supervised by Prof. Sílvia Osuna and Dr. Ferran Feixas from IQCC. Place: Aula Magna – Facultat de Ciències Date: March 13, 2023 Time: 10.30h We
This month (Feb 5-10th 2023) at the European-Winter School on Physical Organic Chemistry (E-WISPOC23) in Bressanone (Italy), Najoua Choukairi, PhD student under the supervion of Prof. Miquel Costas, presented her work on syn-dihydroxylation and won one of the best flash award awards. Congratulations Najoua!
Last month (Jan. 30-31, 2023) took place the 1st Reunió de Química Teòrica i Computacional (RQTC) 2023 Conference from Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) in Barcelona, which included a poster session. Janet Sánchez, master student under the supervision of Prof. Sílvia Osuna, presented a poster titled “Computational design of new kinases for suicide cancer gene
Valentina Iannace wins poster prize at First Inorg/OrgMet Conference of Societat Catalana de Química
This month (Feb 2-3th 2023) took place the 1st Reunió de Química Inorgànica i Organometàl·lica (RQIO) 2023 Conference from Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) in Barcelona, which included a poster session. Valentina Iannace, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Xavi Ribas, presented a poster titled “Regioselective bis-functionalization of fullerene C70 via supramolecular mask strategy”,