A few times a year, the IQCC opens its doors and gives the opportunity to high-school students to know our work through exciting lectures and computational and experimental workshops. This provides the secondary school pupils the possibility to get a feel for the research and have real-time chemistry in their hands. Last 30th January, it was the turn for the visit of 22 high-school students from INS Pla de l’estany, 27 from INS Llagostera, 22 from INS La Bisbal, 20 from school Immaculada Concepció, 37 from school Les Alzines, 9 from Montjuïc Girona International School, 35 from INS Salvador Espriu and 38 from INS Celrà.
In the first part, the director of Science Culture and Digital Communication (C4D) and IQCC researcher (Sílvia Simon) gave a brief summary of the IQCC institute and two researchers of IQCC (Arnau Call and Josep Maria Luis) explained their research at the IQCC. Afterwards, the pupils attended two workshops (Analysis of Fullerenes by Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) and Computational simulations to experience in real life the research in chemistry with the help of some PhD students and postdocs from IQCC (Dr. Hugo Marchi, Enrico Chianese, David Capellán, Andrea Álvarez, Anju Manickoth, Rosa Mollfulleda and Denis Diatlov).

Below you can find some photos of the visit:

Experimental labs

Computational labs

Girona, February 13, 2025
For more info: ges.iqcc@udg.edu