The IQCC group, led by Prof. Xavi Ribas, in collaboration with Nobel laureate Prof. Ben Feringa (Univ. Groningen), has reported a breakthrough study on the encapsulation of a unidirectional molecular motor within a supramolecular nanocage. The work, published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c16349) in January 2026, demonstrates that the motor can undergo rotation while
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Dr. Alèria Garcia Roca was born on November 11, 1994, in Barcelona, Spain. She earned her BSc degree in Chemistry in September 2016 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. During her undergraduate studies, she conducted research abroad with the support of a European Erasmus Grant and defended her Bachelor Thesis at Uppsala University in Sweden
On 14th of January will be the defense of the doctoral thesis of Roger Monreal Corona, titled “Predictive Catalysis to Induce Experimental Catalytic Efficiency”, supervised by Prof. Miquel Solà, Dr. Albert Poater and Dr. Anna Pla-Quintana from IQCC. The jury members will be Prof. Gregori Ujaque (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Prof. Carole Duboc (Université Grenoble Alpes) and Dr. Marc Garcia
Two former members of the IQCC were obtained the Ramón y Cajal contract with which they can continue their research careers in Spain. Both researchers, Anton Stasyuk and Olga Stasyuk did a Postdoc at DIMOCAT (IQCC) in the group of Prof. Miquel Solà (2018-2023). Now Olga will continue her work in Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA) and Anton in Instituto
Last 12th December took place the Xmas edition of the IQCC Forum, a quarterly meeting-place where high-quality science will be discussed. The IQCC Forum gives the opportunity for PhD and postdoc members of the IQCC to present their work to a wide audience. This will lead to better knowledge of the work that is being performed
A research project led by Marc Garcia-Borràs, Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona (UdG), has been funded with 2 million euros within the Consolidator Grant call of European Research Council (ERC). Research projects funded by the ERC have as their main objective to
Last month (November 20-21, 2025) took place the 4th Trans Pyrenean Meeting on Catalysis in Barcelona. MSc. Roger Monreal, PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Albert Poater and Dr. Anna Pla-Quintana, presented a talk about “DFT study on C(sp³)–H insertion by Rh, Ag, and Cu vinylcarbenes”, and won a best oral presentation prizes. Congratulations to Roger on this well-deserved recognition!
ICREA is a foundation promoted by the Catalan Government whose aim is to stimulate excellent research in Catalonia. Albert Poater, a principal investigator of IQCC, won the Academy of Excellence Program (ICREA Acadèmia) awards 2025 for his research carrier. It is the second time that he receives this award (after 2019) to recognize the research work that he is doing in
In the last weeks, a visiting professor of the Institut de Químicia Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) was promoted to part-time Full professor at the University of Girona: Prof. Jordi Mestres. Jordi Mestres Jordi Mestres holds a PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Girona. After a post-doctoral stay at Pharmacia&Upjohn (Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA), in
On October 1st, Dr. Francesco Zaccaria started his MSCA post-doctoral project entitled Recyclable polymers based on hybrid bicyclic lactones prepared by selective sp3 C-H activation (REPOLHYCA) under the supervision of Prof. Miquel Costas at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) of the University of Girona (UdG). This 2-year fellowship will allow Dr. Francesco Zaccaria