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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).

June 17, 2024 Bo Chen gave an invited talk titled “Tunneling in hydrogen transfer reactions under pressure” at the XXIst International Workshop on Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling Systems (QAMTS2024), held in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, June 16-21, 2024. The same talk is recorded afterwards in a group meeting: Your browser does not support the video tag.

May 2, 2024 Jorge Laranjeira, PhD from University of Aveiro, Portugal joins the group as a postdoc. Welcome!

March 14, 2024 Prof. Roberto Cammi (https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=miYfjYsAAAAJ&hl=it) from University of Parma, Italy visited our group at DIPC March 12-14. He is an expert on the PCM method and the orginator of the XP-PCM method. We are excited to have him here and happy about our continuous collaboration on exploring high-pressure reactions with the XP-PCM method.

August 1, 2023 Dr. Kuo Li (http://www.hpstar.ac.cn/channels/463.html) from Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing, China visited our group at DIPC July 31 - August 1. He gave a talk titled “Synthesis of the multi-dimensional nano-carbon materials and the reaction mechanisms” at DIPC on August 1. https://youtu.be/y98fUnXJBv4

July 3, 2023 BRYAN ALEXIS MELO FLORES, currently a Master student at University of Bacelona joins the group for 2-month summer research. Welcome!

July 1, 2023 The group attended the 17th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC 2023) June 26 – July 1, 2023 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Bo Chen gave an invited contribution titled “The eXtreme Pressure-Polarizable Continuum Model (XP-PCM) and its applications to organic reactions under pressure”. Mohammed Loukili presented a poster titled “The effect of pressure on ethylene [2+2] cycloaddition”.

June 07, 2023 Bo Chen gave an invited keynote presentation titled “A new computational method to apply pressure to molecular systems and its applications to high-pressure organic reactions” at the 6th International Conference on Matter and Radiation at Extremes (ICMRE 2023), held in Zhuhai, China.

May 30, 2023 Bo Chen gave a colloquium talk titled “A new computational method to apply pressure to molecular systems and its applications to high-pressure organic reactions” at Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR). See a recording here: https://meeting.tencent.com/v2/cloud-record/share?id=bc08d7bb-1200-42cd-a06b-5c2b966ca49f&from=3