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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

July 29, 2024 Two members of the group attended the Research at High Pressure Gordon Research Seminar July 13 – July 14, 2024 and the Research at High Pressure Gordon Research Conference July 14 – July 19, 2024 in Holderness, New Hampshire, United States. Mohammed Loukili presented a poster titled “Switch of periselectiviy of Butadiene and Tetrafluoroehtylene Cycloaddition under high pressure”. Jorge Laranjeira presented a poster titled “Helium Compression Chamber: a viable alternative to in silico study of reaction mechanisms under pressure”. ... Read more …

July 1, 2024 Cristina Domínguez Escobar, currently a Bachelor student at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) joins the group for 2-month summer research. Welcome!

June 26, 2024 Prof. Sebastian Kozuch (https://tzin.bgu.ac.il/~kozuch/) from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel visited our group at DIPC June 24-26 and gave a seminar on heavy atom tunneling (https://youtube.com/live/tN66TZimQRE).