Bin Wang, visitor of the DiMoCat group

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During April 2022, we have had the visit of Bin Wang, a PhD student from the group of Prof. Frank de Proft in the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He has visited us financed by HPC-Europa3 to work with Prof. Miquel Solà and Dr. Anton Stasyuk. His research has consisted in trying to locate the regions where the major electronic changes occur along a reaction coordinate in an organometallic reaction. It has been a pleasure to have Bin in our group for the last month. Before leaving he promised to come back to play football with the IQCC membres (he missed one of our matches!).

DiMoCat visits the HIPRA pharmaceutical company in Amer

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Researchers of the DIMOCAT research group and undergraduate students doing their TFGs in the group has visited today the HIPRA pharmaceutical company in Amer, Girona.

The group was received by the group’s ex-doctoral student, Dr. Oscar Torres, who now works for the company.

It was a really interesting experience.

Dandan Chen, new doctor of the DiMoCat group

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On 11th May 2021, Dandan Chen defended with success her PhD thesis entitled “Theoretical Study on the Aromaticity of Metallacycles and All-Metal Clusters in the Lowest Triplet State” supervised by Prof. Jun Zhu (Xiamen University) and Prof. Miquel Solà (UdG). She was awarded with the title of doctor for the University of Xiamen and the University of Girona. Congratulations, Dandan!

Dr. Chen had a predoctoral grant (State Scholarship Fund, No. 201906310040), awarded by the Chinese government, to carry out her PhD Thesis. She performed a research stay of about 1 year in the University of Girona during her PhD. She has published about twenty papers, including three J. Am. Chem. Soc., three Angew. Chem., two Chem. Commun. and one Acc. Chem. Res. We wish her good luck and great successes!!!

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Dr. Jesús Antonio Luque Urrutia, new doctor of the DiMoCat group

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On 26th March 2021, Jesús Antonio Luque Urrutia, “Xus”, defended with success his PhD thesis entitled “Computational Studies Oriented Towards the Development of a Greener Chemistry”. The PhD thesis was supervised by Dr. Albert Poater and Prof. Miquel Solà (see photo). The evaluation committee was composed by Dr. Josep M. Luis (University of Girona) as president, Dr. Laura Falivene (Università degli Studi di Salerno), and Dr. Diego Andrada (Saarland University) as secretary. The defense was done by videoconference due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the PhD thesis was qualified with the highest mark of Excellent.

During his PhD, Dr. Luque had an IFUdG grant awarded by the University of Girona and he has published seven papers, including a JACS and an ACS Catalysis. In the coming weeks, he will start a postdoc in the group of Prof. Albert Rimola at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. We wish him good luck and great successes!