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July 23, 2025 Prof. Wilfred Tysoe (http://surface.chem.uwm.edu) from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA visited our group at DIPC July 21-22 and gave a seminar titled The Molecular Origins of Mechanical Processes: From Reactions to Glass Formation.

June 30, 2025 Ruobing Lang, currently a Master student at University of Paris-Saclay (Erasmus Mundus SERP+ Joint Master Degree) joins the group for 2-month summer research. Welcome!

June 26, 2025 The project “Helium Compression Chamber: an in silico tool to investigate benzene nanothread formation mechanisms under pressure” has been awarded 2.3M CPU hours on the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The project “Unraveling 1D furan nanothread superconductivity” has been awarded 0.43M CPU hours at Nasertic. Jorge Laranjeira led the preparation of both proposals. Congratulations!

May 29, 2025 Bo Chen gave an contributed talk titled “Modelling high-pressure organic reactions with extreme pressure-polarizable continuum model (XP-PCM)” at the Donostia is Science conference on March 19, 2025.

May 15, 2025 Prof. Maarten Goesten (https://www.au.dk/en/maarten.goesten@chem.au.dk) from Aarhus University, Denmark visited our group at DIPC May 12-14 and gave a seminar Quantum Molecular Tectonics (https://www.youtube.com/live/Nvr5mIxszi0).

March 19, 2025 Bo Chen gave an invited online talk titled “Modeling High-Pressure Organic Reactions” for the CDAC Webinar Series March 19, 2025.

February 18, 2025 Bo Chen has been promoted to Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor at DIPC after 5 years’ work as an Ikerbasque Research Fellow. Congratulations and more exciting research is coming!

January 9, 2025 Jochen Eeckhoudt, currently a PhD student from the General Chemistry Research Group (ALGC) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) joins the group for a 3-month research stay. Welcome!

October 30, 2024 The application “Helium Compression Chamber: an in silico tool to investigate benzene nanothread formation mechanisms under pressure” to the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) has been awarded 1M CPU hours on the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Jorge Laranjeira led the proposal preparation. Congratulations!

September 9, 2024 Bo Chen gave a contributed talk, titled “A new computational method to apply pressure to molecular systems and its applications to high-pressure organic reactions” at the 61st European High Pressure Research Group Meeting (EHPRG2024) in Thessaloniki, Greece September 1-6, 2024