This coming Wednesday (11th of February) is the International day of Women and Girls in Science. The IQCC has currently a rather favourable balance in gender ratio of staff members, both at the Master level (43%), PhD level (55%), postdocs (24%) and permanent researchers staff (28%). In order to celebrate this day of the 11th
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The Protein Sci. journal features on its front cover of the December 2025 issue the research article “A naturally occurring standalone TrpB enzyme provides insights into allosteric communication within tryptophan synthase” by Prof. Sílvia Osuna in collaboration with Prof. Reinhard Sterner (University of Regensburg). The study of enzymes continues to reveal new layers of complexity in how these sophisticated molecular
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 27th and 29th
The project ELEGANCE: Machine learning for integrated multi-parametric enzyme and bioprocess design, within the HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN- 101226960 call, aims to establish an academic training programme based on experimental and computational methodologies, such as data science and AI, to engineer integrated multi-parametric enzymes and bioprocesses. Its key objective is to prepare the next-generation specialists with the necessary hard
The project HaloVerse: Advancing Europe’s Next Generations on the Path to Sustainability – Expanding the Universe of Enzymatic Halogenation Chemistry, within the HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-JD-101226357 call, aims to train 13 Doctoral Candidates in a synergistic inter- and multidisciplinary environment to lead Europe’s next generations towards sustainability in the highly polluting chemical process of halogenation. HaloVerse will develop
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
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