On Wednesday, December 17th at 9:30 a.m., in the Eduard Fontserè Graduate Hall of the Faculty of Physics, our colleague Ramona Santini will defend her doctoral thesis entitled “Advanced synthetic strategies to control pharmacological action using ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light”. The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Pau Gorostiza.

Lecture by Dr. Javier Read de Alaniz, from the University of California Santa Barbara

Date: Monday, December 15th, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM

Location: Room 105, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB)

By Dr. José A. Berrocal, from Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ)

Date: Friday, December 12, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM

Place: Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

On Wednesday, December 10 at 11:00 a.m., in the Enric Casassas Aula Magna of the Faculty of Chemistry , our colleague Clara Fabregat will defend her PhD thesis entitled «Development of Novel Carbazole and Dibenzothiophene-based Organic Semiconductors and its application in Organic Field-Effect Transistors». The thesis has been supervised by Drs. Dolors Velasco and .Jaume García.

On Friday, November 21st at 10:30 a.m., in the Victoria Girona Room of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, our colleague Aldrick V. Buenavidez will defend his PhD thesis entitled: Development of Novel Drug Candidates with Innovative Mechanisms for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases. The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Diego Muñoz-Torrero.
Please note that the defense will be held online.

On Friday October 31st, at 10:30 a.m., in the Enric Casassas Aula Magna, our colleague Javier Eusamio will defend his PhD thesis entitled Single-atom bridged diphosphanes for complexation and catalysis, supervised by Dr. Arnald Grabulosa.

By Dr. Christian Müller, Freie Universität Berlin

🗓  Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM
📍Venue: Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB)

Solar Energy Conversion and Energy Storage Materials

By Dr. Kasper Moth–Poulsen, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

🗓  Date: Friday, October 17, 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM
📍Venue: Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB)

Next Friday, October 10th, at 11:30 a.m., in the Enric Casassas Aula Magna, our colleague Marta López will defend her PhD thesis entitled New visible-light activated caging groups based on COUPY dyes for anticancer phototherapeutic applications, supervised by Dr. Vicente Marchán.