Complementary training
Courses
Hands-on training activities
Vacuum systems (VacuuBus, Vacuubrand)- April 15th
Pressure facilities Oscar Royuela (Iberfluid) – June 5th
HTE Seminar. Xisco Caldentey (ICIQ) –June 18th
Glove box maintenance. JM Troya – October 4h-6th
MS basic concepts and how to use MS equipment properly. Noemí Cabello (ICIQ) – November 11th
Crystallization techniques to obtain single crystals. Jordi Benet (ICIQ)– December 1st
Language courses
Free of charge language courses (Catalan, Spanish and English) for ICIQ’s staff members.
ICIQ Seminar Programme
| Date | Professor | Lecture | University |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/01/2015 | Prof. Jorge A. Rodríguez Navarro | Universidad de Granada (Spain) | Metal-Organic Frameworks from Environmental Remediation to Biomedical Applications |
| 23/01/2015 | Prof. Pablo Espinet | Universidad de Valladolid (Spain) | Tales of the Student Who Never Heard of Nucleophilicity |
| 30/01/2015 | Dr. Andrey P. Antonchick | Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology and Technical University of Dortmund (Germany) | Hypervalent Iodine Reagents in the Direct Oxidative Coupling |
| 06/02/2015 | Prof. Dr. Marc Koper | Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands) | Multiple Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions in Electrocatalysis: Theory vs Experiment |
| 13/02/2015 | Prof. Robert Paton | University of Oxford (United Kingdom) | Computations of Catalytic Regio- and Stereocontrolled Cyclizations |
| 18/02/2015 | Prof. Dr. Albrecht Berkessel | University of Cologne (Germany) | Carbene Catalysis and the Breslow Intermediate |
| 27/02/2015 | Prof. Kevin Sivula | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) | Solution Processed Photoelectrodes for Solar Water Splitting |
| 05/03/2015 | Prof. Masanari Kimura | Nagasaki University (Japan) | Regio- and Stereoselective C-C Bond Formation via Oxanickelacycles |
| 06/03/2015 | Prof. Anna Proust | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France) | Polyoxometalates Based Hybrids Towards Functional Architectures |
| 13/03/2015 | Prof. Dr. F. Matthias Bickelhaupt | Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands) | Rational Design of Catalysts: New Concepts from the Activation Strain Model |
| 27/03/2015 | Dr. Chris Braddock | Imperial College London (United Kingdom) | Studies on Halogenated Marine Natural Products Inspired by their Probable Biogenesis |
| 17/04/2015 | Prof. Dr. Lutz H. Gade | Universität Heidelberg (Germany) | Enantioselective Catalysis with 3d Transition Metal Complexes: Chiral Pincers as Stereodirecting Ligands |
| 24/04/2015 | Prof. Odile Eisenstein | Institut Charles-Gerhard, Université Montpelllier 2 (France) | Computational Studies of Hetero-organometallic Chemistry: Heavy Atom Makes a Difference |
| 29/04/2015 | Prof. Patrick J. Guiry | University College Dublin (Ireland) | Recent Advances in Asymmetric Catalysis and Natural Product Synthesis |
| 08/05/2015 | Prof. Maurizio Prato | Università degli Studi di Trieste (Italy) | Synergies Between Chemistry and Nanotechnology: Applications to Neurosciences |
| 15/05/2015 | Dr. Vincent Artero | Université Grenoble Alpes (France) | From Bio-inspired Catalysts for H2 Evolution to Photoelectrode Materials |
| 22/05/2015 | Prof. Matthew Gaunt | University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) | New Activation Modes for Palladium-Catalyzed (sp3)-H Activation in Amines |
| 05/06/2015 | Dr. Víctor Rubio | FAES Farma S.A, Bilbao (Spain) | Scale-Up: Pharmaceuticals, from mg to kg |
| 19/06/2015 | Prof. Dr. Matthias Beller | Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse and Universität Rostock (Germany) | Sustainable Chemistry with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysts: Which Ones are Better? |
| 03/07/2015 | Prof. Walter Leitner | RWTH Aachen University (Germany) | Carbon Dioxide as Raw Material for the Energetic and Chemical Value Chain: Challenges and Opportunities for Catalysis |
| 10/07/2015 | Prof. Maria Laura Mercuri | Università Degli Studi di Cagliari (Italy) | Anilates as Challenging Building Blocks for Magetic and/or Conducting and Luminescent Molecule-based Materials |
| 13/07/2015 | Prof. Dr. René Janssen | Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (The Netherlands) | Converting Solar Energy with Organic Materials |
| 24/07/2015 | Prof. Javier Ruiz-Martínez | Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands) | Understanding Zeolite Catalysts with Advanced Time- and Spatially-Resolved Spectroscopy |
| 04/09/2015 | Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius | Westfälische Wilhems-Universität Münster (Germany) | C-H Activation and Asymmetric Arene Hydrogenation: Mild, Selective and Strategic |
| 09/09/2015 | Prof. Dr. Burkhard König | University of Regensburg (Germany) | Photoredox Catalysis: Organic Synthesis with Visible Light |
| 18/09/2015 | Prof. Julia Pérez-Prieto | Universitat de València (Spain) | Strategies to Prepare Highly Luminescent Ogranolead Bromide Nanoparticle Colloids |
| 25/09/2015 | Dr. Dorota Koziej | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) | From Nanoparticle to Complex Functional Materials – A View From The Bridge |
| 09/10/2015 | Prof. Franziska Schoenebeck (Marcial Moreno Lectureship) | RWTH Aachen University (Germany) | New Insights and Developments in Catalysis – An Interplay of Experimental and Computational Tools |
| 15/10/2015 | Prof. Angel Rubio | Universidad del País Vasco (Spain) | First Principle Simulations of Energy Materials for Optoelectronic and Hybrid-Photovoltaic Applications |
| 20/10/2015 | Prof. SonBinh T. Nguyen | Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (USA) | From Single-site Catalysts and Supramolecular Assemblies to Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Porous Organic Polymer(POPs): Bridging Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis |
| 03/11/2015 | Prof. Núria López | Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ) | Single Site Chemistry |
| 19/11/2015 | Prof. Varinder K. Aggarwal | University of Bristol (United Kingdom) | Assembly Line Synthesis |
| 04/12/2015 | Dr. Jason E. Hein | The University of Columbia (Canada) | Seeing is Believing: Direct Observation of Reaction Progress in Challenging Systems |
| 11/12/2015 | Dr. Concha Bosch Navarro | The University of Warwick (United Kingdom) | Graphene and its Role as Support in Transmission Electron Microscopy |