Next Thursday, July 16, at 11:00, in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Earth Sciences (UB), our colleague Josep Vilardell Bellés will defend his PhD Thesis entitled "Noves dianes per al tractament de càncer. Disseny i síntesi de nous compostos inhibidors i/o activadors de certes proteïnes". The thesis has been supervised by Dr. M. Dolors Pujol.

Lecture by Dr. Chidambar Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Date: Friday, July 10, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM

Location: Enric Casassas Aula Magna, Faculty of Chemistry (UB)

Next Tuesday, July 7 at 11:00, in the Eduard Fonserè Room of the Faculty of Physics, our colleague Yisong Wen will defend his PhD Thesis entitled "Development of Cyclometallated Iridium Systems for the Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Imines and N-Heterocyclic Substrates". The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Xavier Verdaguer.

Next Monday, June 8 at 10:00, in the Aula Magna Enric Casassas of the Faculty of Chemistry, our colleague José Pablo Rivas will defend his PhD Thesis entitled "Elucidating the mechanisms of alginate modifying enzymes by means of quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics methods". The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Carme Rovira

Next Wednesday, June 3 at 11:00, in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, our colleague Gisela Trenchs Mir will defend her PhD Thesis entitled "Photoinduced reactions for a green synthesis of lactams from N-alkenyl α-haloacetamides". The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Faiza Diaba.

Lecture by Dr. José M. Lassaletta, Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas (CSIC-US)

 Date: Thursday, May 21, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM

Location: Eduard Fontserè Room, Faculty of Physics (UB)

Next Wednesday, May 20 at 11:30, in the Enric Casassas Aula Magna of the Faculty of Chemistry, our colleague Miguel Mellado Hidalgo will defend his PhD Thesis entitled "Governant l’estereoquímica: Reaccions asimètriques catalitzades per complexos quirals de níquel(II) per a la síntesi de molècules bioactives". The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Fèlix Urpí and Dr. Pere Romea.

Lecture by Dr. Montserrat Diéguez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Date: Friday, May 15, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM

Location: Eduard Fontserè Room, Faculty of Physics (UB)

Lecture by Dr. Laura Castañar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Date: Thurday, April 30, 2026

Time: 12:00 PM

Location: Enric Casassas Aula Magna, Faculty of Chemistry (UB)

Next Thursday, April 16 at 15:30, in the Enric Casassas Aula Magna of the Faculty of Chemistry, our colleague Arnau Domínguez Zoroa will defend his PhD Thesis entitled "Design and Preparation of Triplex Forming Oligonucleotides for the Detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 Virus". The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Ramon Eritja and Dr. Anna Avinyó.