David Casanova has left our group as of July 1st 2013 and moved to Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science. After obtaining his Ph.D. in our group in 2006 and a postodoctoral stay at UC Berkely with Martin Head-Gordon, he
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The analysis of more than five million interatomic «non bonded» distances has led to the proposal of a consistent set of van der Waals radii for most naturally occuring elements. Its applicability to other element pairs has also been tested
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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
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Researcher Jorge Echeverría, who obtained his Ph.D. in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Santiago Alvarez, has been awarded the Ramon Margalef prize, given by the Social Council of the Universitat de Barcelona. The prize is given every year to
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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
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Dr. Jesús Jover jesus.jover@qi.ub.esFacultat de Química Universitat de BarcelonaDiagonal, 645 08028 Barcelona Spain 0000-0003-3383-4573 yisuscience I was born in Barcelona in 1978 and got the degree in chemistry at the University of Barcelona in 2002. Then I joined the group of Prof. Joaquim
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