Next Wednesday, September 9 at 12:00, in the Enric Casassas Aula Magna of the Faculty of Chemistry, our colleague Daniel Fillot Alonso will defend his PhD Thesis entitled "Efforts towards the total synthesis of iriomoteolide-2a". The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Anna M Costa and Dr. Jaume Vilarrasa.

Next Friday, September 4 at 15:00, in the Fèlix Serratosa Room of the Barcelona Scientific Park, our colleague Inés María García Pérez will defend her PhD Thesis entitled "Multidimensional exploration of targeted protein degradation strategies in cancer research". The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Cristina Mayor-Ruiz and Dr. Antoni Riera.

Next Friday, July 24 at 10:00, in the Aula Magna Enric Casassas of the Faculty of Chemistry, our colleague Lei Hu will defend his PhD Thesis entitled "Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes as Modular Platforms for Functional Imaging". The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Giuseppe Battaglia.

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.