The ICREA Acadèmia award 2021 has recognized Prof. Eliseo Ruiz for excellence in research of magnetic and transport properties of inorganic molecular materials.
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The Société Chimique de France has delivered the 2012 National and Binational Awards in a ceremony that took place at the Université de Haute Alsace, in Mulhouse, on May 27, 2013. The event coincided with the centennial of the recognition of Mulhouse’s native Alfred Werner with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The awardees were Lahcène Ouahab and Philippe Sautet (Pierre Süe prize) Samir Zard (Achille-Joseph Le Bel prize) Klaus Müllen (French-German Georg Wittig prize) Santiago Alvarez (French-Spanish Catalan-Sabatier prize)
An Essay on the symbolism of arrows in chemistry has appeared in Angewadnte Chemie International Edition.In that paper Santiago Alvarez surveys the chronological milestones of the adoption of chemical equations in books and journals, and of the introduction of arrows to replace the equals sign. It also presents an analysis of a variety of other applications in the chemistry visual language and of possible parallelisms with arrows used in abstract art, notably by Paul Klee, whose painting «Abstract Trio» is shown to be inspired by Jean Perrin’s drawings reporting the observation of the Brownina motion.
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Dr. David Casanovadavid.casanova@ehu.eus David Casanova Casas is presently Ikerbasque researcher at the University of the Basque Country and at the Donostia International Physics Center. Currently, his research interests mainly focus on the development and implementation of electronic structure methods for the study of molecular excited states, the computational study of organic cromophores to be employed as molecular sensitizers in Grätzel solar cells, as well as in the development and application of computational tools for the study of the symmetry properties of the molecular electronic structure. Benjamin Peignébenjamin.peigne@qi.ub.es I was born in 1982 in Chartres, France. I studied physics and chemistry at the university of Nantes in France and had a Master degree in molecular chemistry with theoretical chemistry as speciality at the university of Rennes, France. I joined the Electronic Structure Group in september 2006 in order to carry out my PhD thesis on the diatomic molecules complexation and activation by biomimetic systemes under the supervision of Dr. Gabriel AULLÓN. In addition to my interest in computational chemistry, I love cooking and rollerskating. Eduard Cremadeseduard.cremades@gmail.com I am about to finish my PhD thesis in the Electronic Structure Group with Prof. Eliseo Ruiz which I started on 2006. I am interested in single molecule magnets, from polynuclear 3d complexes to mononuclear 3d and lanthanide single ion magnets. Primilary, I work with SIESTA, GAUSSIAN and MOLCAS to compute the exchange coupling constants and anisotropy constants or g tensors. I have been working also with transport calculation through single molecules with SMEAGOL software. Lindley Maxwell Villacorta lindley.maxwell@qi.ub.es I was born in 1984 in Tocopilla Chile and graduated in Chemistry at the University Catholic of north. I’m a member of the Electronic Structure group since 2012. My working of PhD is the synthesis the mononuleares complexes of transition metals with very high magnetic anisotropy. Another line are solid heptazine complex as a ligand with transition metals, in this line ligands derived from the use heptazine to synthesize molecules and type systems MOF with solvothermal synthesis and microwave, under the supervision of Dr. Eliseo Ruiz. In my free time I practice mountaineer, bodyboard and runnig. Andrés Falcetoandres.falceto@qi.ub.es I was born in 1989 in Barbastro, a small city in Aragón (Spain), and got my degree in Chemistry at the University of Barcelona. I became a member of the Electronic Structure group in 2011 where I will start my PhD studies.I have been working on symmetry content of the molecular orbitals for diferent inorganic complexes, under the supervision of Dr. David Casanova and Prof. Santiago Álvarez. I love climbing, and I have traveled all over Catalunya and found lots of lovely places to practice my passion. Dr. Jorge Echeverría jorge.echeverria@qi.ub.es After getting my degree in chemistry from the University of Zaragoza I moved to the University of Barcelona, where I obtained my PhD in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Santiago Alvarez and thanks to a FPU scholarship. Then, I spent four years as a postdoc in the CEMES-CNRS (Toulouse, France) working with Prof. Christian Joachim in the design and theoretical development of molecular machinery. During my stay in Toulouse I was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship under the Beatriu de Pinós program. In 2015 I moved to the Electronic Structure group of the University of Barcelona, where I am currently a Ramón y Cajal researcher. My research interests are twofold: the study of noncovalent interactions and their implications in materials and crystal design, and on the other hand, the design and conception of single-molecule devices such as switches and rotors with potential applications in nanotechnology. Juan Diego Velasquezjuan.velasquez@qi.ub.edu Alejandro Martín Rodríguezjamrtn92@gmail.com Martín Amozamartin_amoza@hotmail.com
Dra. Silvia Gómez-Coca
Dr. Silvia Gómez-Coca silvia.gomez@qi.ub.esInorganic Chemistry DepartmentFacultat de Química Universitat de BarcelonaDiagonal, 645 08028 Barcelona, Spain 0000-0002-2299-4697 SilviaGomezCoca Silvia Gómez Coca obtained her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (2007) from University of Alicante, and the Master’s degree (2010) and the PhD (2013) in Chemistry at the Inorganic Chemistry Department of the Universitat de Barcelona, under the supervision of Prof. Eliseo Ruiz. Since the PhD she has always combined computational and experimental chemistry. After her PhD, she spent more than three years abroad (2015-2018) as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Kim Dunbar at Texas A&M University (USA), and in the group of Dr. Edina Rosta at King’s College London (UK). She performed a couple of months postdoctoral research stay at King’s College London (UK) in the group of Dr. Ismael Diez-Perez. At the end of 2018 she returned to the University of Barcelona with a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral fellowship (2018-2021) and she is now Lecturer at the Inorganic and Organic Department. Her main research interests include the fields of molecular magnetism, supramolecular chemistry, molecular electronics and biocatalysis, and she uses inorganic, coordination and computational chemistry as tools to unanswered questions in these fields. Biography & Scientific Curriculum Education Positions Awards, Scholarships Scientific Stays
Dr. Jordi Cirera
Dr. Jordi Cirera jordi.cirera@qi.ub.esInorganic Chemistry DepartmentFacultat de Química Universitat de BarcelonaDiagonal, 645 08028 Barcelona, Spain 0000-0002-9564-9819 j_cirera I was born in Barcelona (1979) and got my degree in chemistry in 2002. In 2006 I obtained my PhD in chemistry working on the interplay between electronic structure and stereochemistry in transition metal complexes under the supervision of Profs. Santiago Alvarez and Eliseo Ruiz. I spent several years in California working on the theoretical modeling of spectroscopic properties of copper metalloproteins and spin-crossover processes in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). My research interests focus on the study of the electronic structure in spin-crossover systems of varying complexity, from molecules to clusters to condensed phases using different computational tools. I am currently a «Ramon y Cajal» research associate at Universitat de Barcelona.