• Ten members of GICIC participated at the XXIII Argentine Congress on Catalysis (CAC 2023) and XI Mercosur Congress on Catalysis (XI Mercocat) Salta, Argentina, November 15-17, 2023. The GICIC´s members presented Oral Lectures and posters.

  

  

  The GICIC's Group during the CAC 2023, Salta, Argentina.

• Sandra Z. Romero joined GICIC on Setember 2023, as Posdoctoral Fellow of ANPCyP.

  

  Sandra at the laboratories of GICIC.

• Francisco Martinez joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on Abril 2023.

  

  Francisco at the laboratories of GICIC.

• Andrea Rodriguez obtained his PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on November 25, 2022. The Andrea's thesis dissertation was “Obtaining 1,3-butadiene from C4 polyalcohols from biomass”

  

  Andrea with her directors Dra. Cristina Padró and Dra. Eugenia Sad; and a member of the jury: Eduardo Miró

• Karla Geraldine MARTINEZ FIGUEREDO obtained his PhD title in Chemical at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on February 25, 2022. The Karla's thesis dissertation was “Conversion of biomass derivatives through bifunctional catalytic systems for the production of biofuels”

  

  Karla with her directors Dr. Nicolas Bertero and Dr. Dario Segobia

• Alejandro Vallejos Orrego obtained his PhD title in Chemical Technology at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on October 22, 2021. The Alejandro's thesis dissertation was “Obtention of natural fatty alcohol via reduction reactions without hydrogen supply”

  

  Alejandro with his directors Dra. Verónica Diez and Dr. Cristian Ferretti

• Prize of the National Academy of Engineering for Milton Agüero

  Milton Agüero was awarded in October 2021 with the "Eng. Isidoro Marín" award granted annually by the National Academy of Engineering of the Argentine Republic to outstanding graduates of engineering careers in Argentine universities. Milton is currently a PhD student in GICIC under the direction of Dr. Andrés Trasarti. For more information, click here

  

  Milton Agüero, awarded by the National Academy of Engineering of Argentina

• Diego Gordillo joined GICIC on August 2021, as Posdoctoral Fellow of CONICET. Diego obtained a PhD degree in Biochemistry from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA)

  

  Diego at the laboratories of GICIC

• Milagros Palud joined GICIC on August 2021 as Fellowship of the School of Chemical Engineering, UNL

  

  Milagros at the laboratories of GICIC

• Milton Agüero joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on April 2021

  

  Milton at the laboratories of GICIC

• Camila Picco joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on April 2020

  

  Camila, Doctoral Fellow of CONICET

• Federico Ortiz de Zárate joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on April 2020

  

  Federico at the laboratories of GICIC

• Kateryne Montañez Valencia obtained his PhD title in Chemistry at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on March 4th, 2020. The Kateryne's thesis dissertation as “Synthesis of fine chemicals from guaiacol by alkylation and acylation reactions”.

  

  Kateryne with the Jury members of his PhD Thesis: Dr. Javier Grau, Dra. Maria A. Volpe, Dra. Cristina Padró, Dra. Eugenia Sad, Dr. Luis Pizzio

• The Board of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) awarded Dr. Carlos Apesteguía the honorary distinction of Superior Emeritus Researcher. It is the highest distinction of CONICET in recognition of academic background and contribution to the development of science in Argentina through the formation of new generations of scientists. The formal diploma delivery ceremony was held on November 19, 2020 at the Centro Cultural de la Ciencia, in Buenos Aires.

  

  

  Carlos, Emeritus Researcher, with Dr. Carlos Rapela (La Plata) and Dr. Pedro Depetris (Córdoba)

• Nineteen members of GICIC participated at the XXI Argentine Congress on Catalysis (CAC 2019) and X Mercosur Congress on Catalysis (X Mercocat) Santa Fe, Argentina, September 18-20, 2019. The GICIC´s members presented 11 Oral Lectures and 7 posters.

   

  The GICIC's Group during the CAC 2019, Santa Fe, Argentina. Click here to see more photos
  
  
  

• Thirteen members of GICIC participated at the X Argentine Congress on Chemical Engineering (CAIQ 2019), Santa Fe, Argentina, August 4-7, 2019. This Congress was organized in celebration of 100 years of Chemical Engineering in Argentina and Latin America. The GICIC´s members presented 6 Oral Lectures. Besides, GICIC was deeply involved in the Congress organization (Presidency of the Scientific Committee).

  

  The GICIC's Group together with Prof. Armando Borgna (Singapur) and Antonio Monzón (Spain) during the CAIQ 2019, Santa Fe, Argentina. Click here to see more photos
  
  
  

• Cristina Padró y Eugenia Sad participated at the 26th North American Catalysis Society Meeting (NAM26), which was held in Chicago, USA, 23-28 June, 2017. They presented two works of GICIC in this Congress.

  

  Cristina y Eugenia in the Poster session of NAM26

• Mauricio Musso, from the Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo, Uruguay, stayed in GICIC on June/July 2019 in the framework of his PhD thesis in Chemistry at UdelaR. The Mauricio’s stay was funded by CAP (Postgraduate Academic Commission of UdelaR) on the subject “Steam reforming of biomass-derived compounds using novel Ni catalysts”.

  

  Mauricio during his stay at GICIC

• Development of healthier edible oils

  Isabel Di Cosimo, Verónica Diez, Pablo Luggren y Liza Dosso, researchers of GICIC, were interviewed by several national local media interested in disseminating the research advances reached in the development of healthier edible oils. To read the Article: click here

  

  Liza Dosso, Verónica Diez, Pablo Luggren e Isabel Di Cosimo in the laboratories of GICIC

• Leandro Duarte, from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, Estadual Paulista, Brazil, stayed in GICIC on March/May 2019 in the framework of his PhD thesis in UFMG. The Leandro’s stay was funded by AUGM (Asociacion de Universidades del Grupo Montevideo) on the subject “Conversion of carboxylic acids toward light olefins”.

  

  Leandro during his stay at GICIC

• Prof. Carlos Apesteguía was appointed Emeritus Researcher by Resolution 2018-2621 (12/19/2018) of the Board of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina. This distinction of Emeritus Researcher award is the highest CONICET honor for those who excelled in career, investigations and contributions to science in Argentina.

  

  Carlos, distinguished as Emeritus Researcher of CONICET

• Eight members of GICIC participated at the XXVI Iberoamerican Congress on Catalysis (CICAT 2018), Coimbra, Portugal, September 9-14, 2018. They presented 7 Oral Lectures and 5 Posters.

  

  The GICIC's Group during the XXVI CICAT, Coimbra, Portugal. Click here to see more photos
  
  
  

• Prof. Luis Gugliotta, Researcher of CONICET at INTEC (FIQ-UNL) and Professor of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, delivered in GICIC the lecture "Synthetic polymers/protein nano particles for biomedical applications" on July 16, 2018

  

  Prof. Luis Gugliotta during his dissertation at GICIC

• Giuliana Bianchi joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on April 2018

  

  Giuliana at the laboratories of GICIC

• Prof. José Bisang, Researcher of CONICET at PRELINE (FIQ-UNL) and Professor of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, delivered in GICIC the lecture "Electrochemical reactors” on July 2, 2018

  

  Prof. José Bisang during his dissertation at GICIC

• Dr. José Iturraspe, Development Director of Eriochem SA delivered in GICIC the lecture "Development of pharmaceutical formulations at industrial level” on June 18, 2018.

  

  Dr. José Iturraspe during his dissertation at GICIC

• Prof. Alejandra Maine, Researcher of CONICET at the Instituto de Química Aplicada del Litoral (UNL-CONICET) and Professor of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, delivered in GICIC the lecture "Wetlands for treatment of wastewater” on June 11, 2018

  

  Dr. Alejandra Maine during his dissertation at GICIC

• Dr. Javier Schmidt, Researcher of CONICET at the Instituto de Física del Litoral (UNL-CONICET) and Professor of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, delivered in GICIC the lecture "Solar photovoltaic energy” on May 2018

  

  Dr. Carlos Apesteguia introduces Dr. Javier Schmidt for his dissertation on "Solar photovoltaic energy”

• Lissa Dosso joined GICIC on June 2018, as a Posdoctoral Fellow of Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT). Dr. Dosso obtained her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering at FIQ, UNL

  

  Eduardo at the laboratories of GICIC

• Prof. Leandro Martins, from the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brasil, visited GICIC on February 2018. During his stay, he delivered the lecture “Catalytic conversion of glycerol by dehydration/oxidation consecutive reactions using solid multifunctional catalysts”

  

  Prof. Leandro Martins during his dissertation at GICIC

• Seventeen members of GICIC participated at the XX Argentine Congress on Catalysis (XX CAC), Cordoba, Argentina, November 1-3, 2017. They presented 9 Oral Lectures and 13 Posters. Pablo Nieres was the winner of the Best Poster Award awarded by the Organizing Committee.

  

  The GICIC's Group during the XXV CICAT, Montevideo, Uruguay. Click here to see more photos
  
  
  Pablo Nieres receiving the Best Poster Award of XX CAC

• Eduardo González Leal joined GICIC on November 2017, as a Posdoctoral Fellow of Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT). Prof. González Leal comes from the University of Zulia, Venezuela.

  

  Eduardo at the laboratories of GICIC

• Silvina Regenhardt, Natalia Suarez and Camilo Meyer participated at the XII Argentine Symposium on Polymers (XII SAP), which was held in October 1-3, 2017, in Los Cocos, Córdoba, Argentina. They presented the work “Development and production of bio-composites from soybean meal and sawdust wastes”

  

  Camilo, Natalia y Silvina in the Poster Session of XII SAP

• Hernan Duarte participated at the IX Argentine Congress of Chemical Engineering (CAIQ 2017), Bahia Blanca, Argentina, August 6-9, 2017. He delivered the oral presentation “Hydrogen production biomass-derived products”.

  

  Hernan during his oral presentation at CAIQ 2017

• Jonathan Mendez Moreno joined GICIC on September 2017, as a Posdoctoral Fellow of Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT). Prof. Mendez Moreno comes from the University of Zulia, Venezuela.

  

  Jonathan at the laboratories of GICIC

• PRODUCTION OF LACTOBIONIC ACID FROM LACTOSE

  Camilo Meyer, Juan Zelin, Silvina Regenhardt, Alberto Marchi y Teresita Garetto, researchers of GICIC, were interviewed by several national and local media interested in disseminating the research advances reached in the production of lactobionic acid from lactose.

  Article in newspaper:  click here

  Radio Interview: click here

  

  Camilo Meyer, Juan Zelin, Teresita Garetto, Silvina Regenhardt and Alberto Marchi in the laboratory of production of lactobionic acid from lactose

• Eduardo Pighin obtained his PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on June 30, 2017. The Eduardo’s thesis dissertation was “Catalytic valorisation of trioses: Obtention of lactic acid esters and other valuable oxygenates”.

  

  Eduardo Pighin and his Thesis Directors, Dr. Isabel Di Cosimo and Dr. Verónica Diez.

• Isabel Di Cosimo, Cristina Padró y Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 25th North American Catalysis Society Meeting (NAM25), which was held in Denver, Colorado, USA, 4-8 June, 2017. They presented five works of GICIC in this Congress.

  

  Isabel, Cristina y Carlos, with Nicolás Grosso Giordano, University of California at Berkeley, USA, and Armando Borgna, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore, in the Posters session.

• Isabel Di Cosimo participated at the Workshop on Catalytic Biomass Conversion, which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 11th, 2017. She delivered the Lecture “Glycerides for food and fine chemistry applications”.

  

  Isabel y Carlos with Prof. Lucia Appel (Instituto Nacional de Tecnología, Rio de Janeiro), Eduardo Falabella (Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro) and Cristiane Henriques (Universidad del Estado de Rio de Janeiro) during the Workshop on Catalytic Biomass Conversion.

• Isabel Di Cosimo, Verónica Diez y Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 8th International Symposium on Acid-Base Catalysis (ABC-8), which was held in May 7-10, 2017, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They presented a Keynote, an Oral Lecture and a Poster.

  

  Verónica, Carlos e Isabel in the Poster Session. Click here to see more photos

• Thiago Holanda Abreu, from the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil, stayed in GICIC on April/May 2017 in the framework of his PhD thesis on the “Oxidative dehydration of glycerol on V-MCM41”. The Thiago’s stay was funded by AUGM (Asociacion de Universidades del Grupo Montevideo).

  

  Thiago during his stay at GICIC

• Natalia Suarez joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on April 2017

  

  Natalia at the laboratories of GICIC

• Luciana Martinez Bovier joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on April 2017

  

  Luciana at the laboratories of GICIC

• BIO-HYDROGEN PRODUCTION FROM AGRICULTURAL WASTE

  Hernán Duarte, Maria E. Sad y Carlos Apesteguía, researchers of GICIC, were interviewed by several national and local media interested in disseminating the research advances reached in the production of bio-hydrogen from agricultural waste.

  Article in El Litoral  click here

  Article in Clarin click here

  

  Carlos Apesteguía, Hernán Duarte y María E. Sad in the laboratory of production of bio-hydrogen from agricultural waste

• Pablo Nieres obtained his PhD title in Chemistry at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on March 15th, 2017. The Pablo’s thesis dissertation was “Catalytic valorization of vegetable oils via metathesis reactions”.

  

  Pablo with the Jury members of his PhD Thesis: Dr. Andrés Trasarti, Dr. Carlos Apesteguia, Dra. Griselda Eimer, Dr. Gustavo Romanelli, Dr. Santiago Vaillard

• Twelve members of GICIC participated at the XXV Iberoamerican Congress on Catalysis (XXV CICAT), Montevideo, Uruguay, September 15-19, 2016. They presented 10 Oral Lectures and 7 Posters. Carlos Apesteguía delivered the Plenary Lecture “Heterogeneous catalysis in Fine Chemistry: Fundamental aspects of the selective hydrogenation of nitriles”.

  

  The GICIC's Group during the XXV CICAT, Montevideo, Uruguay. Click here to see more photos

• Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 11th International Congress on Catalysis and Fine Chemicals (CAFC 11), Lyon, Francia, Septembre 5-8, 2016. He delivered the oral lecture "Synthesis of fine chemicals by selective hydrogenation of unsaturated nitriles" and presented two Posters.

  

  Carlos with Prof. Laurent Djakovitch, President of the Organizing Committee of CAFC 11

• Andrea Rodriguez joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on August 2016.

  Andrea at the laboratories of GICIC

• Matias Passamonte joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT) on August 2016.

  Matias at the laboratories of GICIC

• Emanuel Virgilio joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on August 2016.

  Emanuel at the laboratories of GICIC

• María Laura Spotti joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT) on August 2016.

  Laura at the laboratories of GICIC

• Isabel Di Cosimo and Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 16th International Congress on Catalysis (ICC 16), which was held in July 3-8, 2016, Beijing, China”.

  

  Isabel and Carlos with Armando Borgna, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore, and Jorge Beltramini and wife, University of Queensland, Australia, in the Poster session. They delivered four scientific presentations in this Congress (see details in Presentations item)

• Silvina Regenhart y Camilo Meyer participated at the 5th international Conference on Structured Catalysts and Reactors (ICOSCAR), which was held in June 22-24, 2016, San Sebastian, Spain. They presented the work “Selective lactose oxidation in liquid phase on Au/Al2O3 metallic monolith catalysts”.

  

  Camilo y Silvina in the Poster session.

• Crisitina Padró participated at the 18th International Zeolite Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 9-24, 2016. She delivered the oral presentation “m-Cresol methylation: control of product distribution by shape selectivity”.

  

  Cristina with Prof. Leandro Martins, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• BREAKTHROUGH: DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHY EDIBLE OILS

  Pablo Luggren, Verónica Diez, Cristian Ferretti and Isabel Di Cosimo, researchers of GICIC, developed healthy edible sunflower and soybean oils. By employing a novel catalytic glicerolysis process, they succeeded in partially converting triglycerides in diglycerides which helps to properly metabolise oils and fats. The glicerolysis process developed by the researchers of GICIC is protected by a Patent claim in Argentina since 2014.

  

  Pablo Luggren, Verónica Diez, Cristian Ferretti e Isabel Di Cosimo in the laboratory of development of healthy edible oils.

  

  Samples of commercial sunflower oil and diglyceride-enriched sunflower oil, obtained in GICI

  LT10 radio interview click here
  Article in El Litoral click here
  Article in UNO click here
  
  

• Alejandro Vallejo joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on April 2016.

   

  Alejandro at the laboratories of GICIC

• Karla Martinez joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on April 2016.

   

  Karla at the laboratories of GICIC

• Hernán Duarte obtained his PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on March 16th, 2016. The Hernan’s thesis dissertation was “Hydrogen production from biomass-derived renewable feedstocks”.

  Hernan with the Jury members of his PhD Thesis: Dr. Carlos Apesteguia, Dra. Laura Cornaglia, Dra. Nora Nichio, Dra. Norma Amadeo, Dra. María E. Sad

• Matias Bertone obtained his PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on March 11th, 2016. The Matias’s thesis dissertation was “Highly dispersed non-noble metal catalysts to obtain γ-butyrolactone from maleic anhydride”.

  Matias with the Jury members of his PhD Thesis: Dra. Teresita Garetto, Dr. Alberto Marchi, Dra. Gabriela Tonetto, Patricia Vazquez, Sergio de Miguel

• SResearchers of GICIC are usually members of the Advisory Committees of CONICET. In 2015, Teresita Garetto and Isabel Di Cosimo integrate the Committees of Special Projects and of International Projects, respectively.

  Isabel Di Cosimo (third from the left) at the Advisory Committee of CONICET
  
  

  Teresita Garetto (second from the left) at the Advisory Committee of CONICET

• Santiago Veiga, from the Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, stays at the GICIC laboratories under the supervision of Dr. Carlos Apesteguía by a 2-month Doctoral appointment. He will characterize several Ni-based catalysts developed to promote the tri-reforming of CO2 for producing synthesis gas that is the subject of his ongoing PhD thesis at the School of Chemistry, Universidad de la República

  Santiago Veiga during his dissertation at GICIC

• Magdalena Villaverde obtained his PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on October 15th, 2015. The Magdalena’s thesis dissertation was “Development of ecofriendly metallic catalysts for the selective hydrogenation of biomass-derived furfural”.

  Magdalena with the Jury members of his PhD Thesis: Dr. Alberto Marchi, Dr. Fernando Mariño, Dra. Viviana Milt, Dra. Nora Nichio, Dra. Teresita Garetto

• Fourteen members of GICIC participated at the XIX Argentine Congress on Catalysis, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, September 21-23, 2015. They presented 7 oral lectures and 15 posters (see details in Presentations item).

  The GICIC's Group during the XIX Argentine Congress on Catalysis, Bahia Blanca, Argentina. Click here to see more photos

• Isabel Di Cosimo participated at the 18th Brazilian Congress on Catalysis (SBCat 18), Arraial D’Ajuda, Porto Seguro, Bahía, Brasil, Septembre 13-17, 2015. She delivered the Plenary Lecture “Liquid transportation fuels from sugar derivatives" (click here).

  Isabel at the SBCat 18: Poster Session.

• Production of furfural from agricultural wastes: To obtain information on the current research activities at GICIC on this subject, click here

• The Argentine Association for the Progress of Sciences (AAPC, Asociación Argentina para el Progreso de la Ciencias) edits the journal Reseñas (ISSN 2314-3134) devoted to publish the biographies of distinguished argentinian scientists. In Volume 3, 2015, Reseñas published the biography of Dr. Carlos Apesteguía (“Una historia de trebejos y catálisis”, Reseñas, Vol 3 (1), 4-19, 2015). To read the biography (in spanish), click here.

• Since May 2015, Dr. Issam Oueslati from Coimbra University (Portugal) stays at the GICIC laboratories under the supervision of Dr. Carlos Apesteguía by a 6-month Posdoctoral appointment in the framework of AMIDILA-Erasmus Mundus Program. Dr. Oueslati received his PhD degree from the University of Strasbourg, France. His current research interest include design of functional nanostructured molecular materials and nanoparticles. During his stay at GICIC he is investigating the application of calixarene materials in heterogeneous catalysis.

  Issam and Carlos with the Dean of the School of Chemical Engineering, UNL, Dr. Enrique Mammarella

• Isabel Di Cosimo, Cristina Padró, Teresita Garetto and Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 23rd North American Catalysis Society Meeting (23rd NAM), Pittsburgh, USA, June 2-7, 2015. They presented seven works of GICIC in this Congress (see details in Presentations item).

  Isabel, Cristina, Teresita and Carlos in the poster session

• Eugenia Sad participated at the 3rd Symposium on Green Chemistry, La Rochelle, France, May 3-7, 2015. She presented the work "Effect of Pt loading over hydrogen production from xylitol and sorbitol via aqueous phase reforming".

  Eugenia in the poster session

• Kateryne Montañez joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on April 2015

  Kateryne at the laboratories of GICIC

• Dr. Ednilsom Orestes and Dr. José Walkimar de M. Caneiro, Professors of the Universidad Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Río de Janeiro (Brasil) visited GICIC on April 2015.

  Professors Ednilsom Orestes and Dr. Walkimar Caneiro with researchers of GICIC during the visit to laboratories

• Pablo Luggren obtained his PhD title in Chemistry at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on March 11th, 2015. The Pablo’s thesis dissertation was “Catalytic valorization of carbohydrates: Production of liquid fuels based in ketones and alcohols”.

  Pablo with the Jury members of his PhD Thesis: Dr. Carlos Apesteguia, Dra, Isabel Di Cosimo, Dra. Nora Okulik, Dr. Sergio de Miguel, Dr. Fernando Mariño

• Mauro Acevedo obtained his PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on March 18th, 2015. The Mauro’s thesis dissertation was “Synthesis of valuable chemicals by selective alkylation of m-cresol”.

  Mauro with the Jury members of his PhD Thesis: Dra. Nora Okulik, Dra. Cristina Padró, Dra. Andrea Beltramone, Dra. María Cristina Abello, Dr. Carlos Vera

• Dr. Sebastian Collins, researcher of INTEC, UNL-CONICET, Argentina, visited GICIC on October 9th, 2014, and delivered the lecture "Mechanisms of the WGS reaction on Pt and Au supported on pure and modified Ceria”

  Dr. Collins during his dissertation at GICIC

• Eight members of GICIC participated at the XXIV Iberoamerican Congress on Catalysis (XXIV CICAT), Medellín, Colombia, September 15-19, 2014. They presented 1 Key Note, 7 Oral Lectures and 9 Posters

  The GICICs Group during the XXIV CICAT, Medellín, Colombia

• Lucia Sosa joined GICIC as Doctoral Fellow of CONICET on June 2014

  Lucia at the laboratories of GICIC

• Silvina Regenhardt joins GICIC as Researcher of CONICET on May 2014

  Silvina at the laboratories of GICIC

• Lactose valorization: To obtain information on the current research activities at GICIC on this subject, click here

  Research group on Lactose Valorization: Silvina Regenhardt, Alberto Marchi, Teresita Garetto, Camilo Meyer 

• Nicolás Vanoy obtained his PhD title in Chemistry at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on March 28th, 2014. The Nicolás’ thesis dissertation was “Catalytic dehydration of xylose on solid acids for the synthesis of furfural”

  Nicolás with the Jury members of his PhD Thesis: Dr. Carlos Pieck, Dra. Cristina Padró, Dra. Sandra Casuscelli, Dr. Javier Grau, Dr. Carlos Apesteguia 

• Dr. Gustavo Romanelli, Professor of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, visited GICIC on March 2014 and delivered the lecture "Ecofriendly synthesis of organic compounds on reusable solid catalysts”

  Dr. Gustavo Romanelli during his dissertation at GICIC

• Juan Zelin obtained his PhD title in Chemistry at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on March 26th, 2014. The Juan's thesis dissertation was “Metathesis of functionalized olefins in oleochemistry using supported catalytic complexes".

  Juan with the Jury members of his PhD Thesis: Dr. Pedro Mancini, Dr. Carlos Apesteguía, Dra. Laura Briand, Dr. Gustavo Romanelli, Dr. Andrés Trasarti 

• Dr. Jorge Beltramini, Professor of the University of Queensland, Australia and leader of the Clean Energy and Green Chemistry Group at the Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials visited GICIC on December 2013. During his stay, Professor Beltramini delivered on December 5th the lecture "Nanocomposite materials enabling innovations for sustainable energy and environmental technologies”.

  Prof. Jorge Beltramini during his dissertation at GICIC
  

• Prof. Leandro Martins, from the Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brasil, visited GICIC on December 2013, in the framework of AUGM (Asociacion de Universidades del Grupo Montevideo). During his stay, he delivered the lecture "Hierarchichally structured porous supports and catalysts for conversion of ethanol”.

  Prof. Leandro Martins during his dissertation at GICIC
  

• Pablo Torresi obtained his PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on November 13, 2013. The Pablo's thesis dissertation was “Valorization of polyols via dehydrogenation and dehydration reactions".

  Pablo with Dr. Isabel Di Cosimo and Dr. Verónica Diez, Director and Co-director of his thesis, respectively.
  

• Twenty members of GICIC participated at the XVIII Argentine Congress on Catalysis, San Luis, Argentina, October 30-November 1, 2013. They presented one plenary lecture, 5 oral lectures and 11 posters (see details in Presentations item).

  The GICIC's Group during the XVIII Argentine Congress on Catalysis, San Luis, Argentina. Too see more photos click here.
  

• Isabel Di Cosimo participated at the 18th Brazilian Congress on Catalysis (SBCat 18), Arraial D’Ajuda , Porto Seguro, Bahía, Brasil, Septembre 13-17, 2015. She delivered the Plenary Lecture “Liquid transportation fuels from sugar derivatives" (click here).

  Isabel at the SBCat 18: Poster Session.
  

• Mariana Veiga Rodrigues from the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) de Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brasil, stayed two months at the GICIC laboratories in the framework of the Doctoral Program in Chemistry of UNESP. The stay was supported by FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo).

  Mariana during her stay at GICIC
  

• The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has invited Prof. Carlos Apesteguía to be the James Y. Oldshue Lecturer in the upcoming 2013 AIChE Annual Meeting to be held in San Francisco, CA, USA on November 3-8, 2013 (for more information click here and here).

• Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 17o Congresso Brasileiro de Catálise and VII Congresso de Catálise do Mercosul, Gramado, Brazil, September 15-19, 2013. Carlos delivered the Plenary Lecture “Some fundamental aspects of the liquid-phase synthesis of valuable chemicals on solid catalysts”.

  Carlos delivering the Plenary LectureCarlos with Prof. Roberto de Souza, President of the Organizing Committee
   

• Three new Researchers of CONICET join GICIC on August 2013: María Sol Avila, Cristian Ferretti y Camilo Meyer

  María Sol, Cristian and Camilo at the laboratories of GICIC
  

• Isabel Di Cosimo, Cristina Padró and Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 23rd North American Catalysis Society Meeting (23rd NAM), Louisville, USA, June 2-7, 2013. They gave four scientific presentations in this Congress (see details in Presentations item).

  Cristina and Carlos with Dr. Armando Borgna, Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, Singapore. Isabel with Dr. Walter Alvarez, Conoco Phillips Research Center, OK, USA.
  
  

• Hernán Duarte participated at the XVIII Argentine Congress on Physical Chemistry, Rosario, Argentina, April 9-12, 2013. He presented the work “Steam reforming of glycerol on Pt-supported catalysts” 

  Hernán in the poster sesión  

• Dr. Enrique Iglesia, Professor in Chemical Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley visited GICIC on March 2013. Professor Iglesia is the current President of North American Catalysis Society. During his stay, he delivered the lecture "The Chemistry and Engineering of C1 Species .... and the Challenges of Diverse Feedstocks without C-C Bonds

  Professor Enrique Iglesia during his dissertation at the School of Chemical Engineering of the National University of Litoral, Santa Fe.

• Darío J. Segobia obtained his PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on February 28th, 2013. The Darío's thesis dissertation was “Selective catalytic hydrogenation of saturated and unsaturated nitriles to primary amines¨

  Darío with the Jury members of his PhD Thesis: Dr. Andrés Trasarti, Dr. Adrián Bonivardi, Dr. Daniel Damiani, Dr. Carlos Apesteguía, Dra. Mónica Casella  

• Juan Zelin participated at the XXIX Argentine Congress on Chemistry, Mar del Plata, October 3-5, 2012. He presented the work “Metathesis of methyl oleate using chemical complexes immobilized on different supports” 

  Juan in the Poster Session  

• The XXIII Iberoamerican Congress on Catalysis took place in Santa Fe, from 2 to 7 of September 2012. The researchers of GICIC had a main role in the organization of this Congress as members of the Organizing and Scientific Committees as well as of the Iberoamerican School of Catalysis. They delivered 9 Oral presentations and presented 11 Posters (see details in Presentations item). Carlos Apesteguía delivered the Plenary Lecture “Basic Catalysis for the synthesis of Fine Chemicals” as the recipient of the Scientific Career Award 2012 of the Iberoamerican Federation of Catalysis Societies (FISOCat).

• Isabel Di Cosimo, Cristina Padró, Francisco González Peña and Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 15th International Congress on Catalysis, Munich, Germany, July 1-6, 2012. Isabel delivered the oral presentation “Catalytic and DFT study of the MgO active site participating in glycerolysis reactions toward monoglycerides” and Carlos the Keynote lecture “The role of solvent in heterogeneous catalysis: A comprehensive approach for hydrogenation reactions”, respectively. Francisco and Cristina presented two posters (see details in Presentations item)
     Carlos, Isabel, Cristina and Francisco in the Poster session
   

  

                        Carlos delivering the Keynote lecture
  
  

• Carlos Apesteguía participated at the X Encontro Regional de Catálise (X ERCAt), Araraquara, SP, Brazil, May 17-19, 2012. Carlos delivered the Plenary Lecture "Synthesis of valuable chemicals on solid base catalysts”.

  Carlos with Prof. Dilson Cardoso and Clelia and José M. Correa Bueno  ( Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil).

• Two new Doctoral Fellows joined GICIC on April 1st 2012: Eduardo Pighin y Pablo Nieres

• Francisco González Peña obtained his PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on March 22th, 2012. The Francisco's thesis dissertation was “Development of solid acid catalysts for the synthesis of valuable chemical compounds  ”

  Francisco with the Jury members of her PhD Thesis: Dr. Ulises Sedrán, Dra. Cristina Padró, Dr. Horacio Thomas, Dr. Luis Cadus

• The Iberoamerican Federation of Catalysis Societies gave the Scientific Career Award 2012 to Dr. Carlos Apesteguía.

   On Thursday, 15th March, the Executive Committee of the Iberoamerican Federation of Catalysis Societies (FISOCat) announced that Dr. Carlos Apesteguía was the recipient of the Scientific Career Award 2012. The FISOCat gathers the National Societies of Catalysis of the Iberoamerican countries which currently are the Catalysis Societies of Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Mexico, Venezuela, Perú, Portugal, Cuba and Chile. Since 2006, and every two years, the Federation gave this Award that honors those researchers of long and recognized international trajectory.  This is the first time that a researcher from Argentina is the recipient of the Scientific Career Award administered by the FISOCat.

• Prof. Carlos Apesteguía participated at the Round Table Meeting on “Implementation of work programme for 2012: Focus on ICS training programme in biomas technology” that took place in Trieste, Italy, from 12 to 14 December, 2011. This workshop was organized by the International Centre for Science and High Technology, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ICS-UNIDO), as part of the activities of the international Programme “Renewable Energies and Biofuels ”. Carlos delivered the lecture “Catalytic conversion of bio-resources to valuable chemicals”.

  Carlos with Graziano Bertogli, Area Coordinator of Renewable Energies and Biofuels, ICS-UNIDO, Trieste, Italy

• Dr. Leandro Martins, from the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) de Araraquara,, Sao Paulo, Brasil, visited GICIC on November 2011, in the framework of AUGM (Asociacion de Universidades del Grupo Montevideo). During his stay, he delivered the lecture "Development of hyerarchally structured porous catalysts for conversion of renewable raw materials”.

  Dr. Leandro Martins during his stay in GICIC

• The construction of the new building of INCAPE in the CCT campus of CONICET is progressing.  It should be finished ending 2012.

  Members of GICIC visiting the construction of the new building of INCAPE

• On December 1st, the GICIC research Group receives practical and intensive training for firefighting in the campus of CCT (Centro Científico Tecnológico), CONICET

  Members of GICIC during the training for firefighting 

• Carlos Apesteguía participated at the XXIX Jormadas Chilenas de Química, Termas de Quinamávida, Chile, November 8-11, 2011. Carlos delivered the Plenary Lecture "Development of innovative catalysts for the chemical industry".

  Carlos with Prof. Patricio Reyes, President of Scientific Committee and Prof. Adelio Matamala, President of the Organizing Committee

• T. Garetto, C. Padró, V. Diez, M.E. Sad, J.I Di Cosimo, A. Trasarti, N. Bertero, N. Vanoy, F. González Peña, D. Segobia, Ch. Vignatti and C.R. Apesteguía participated at the XVII Argentine Congress on Catalysis, Salta, October 17-20, 2011. They presented nine lectures and four posters (see details in Presentations item)

  The GICIC's Group during the XVII Argentine Congress on Catalysis, Salta, Argentina. Too see more photos click here.

• Teresita Garetto at the EuropaCat X Congress, Glasgow, UK, August 29th-September 2nd, 2011. Teresita presented three posters (see details in Presentations item)

  Teresita with Prof. Jim Anderson, Secretary of the Organizing Committee 
        
  Teresita at theUniversity of Glasgow, during the EUROPACAT
  

• Dr. Maria Sol Avila, Posdoctoral fellowship of CONICET, started in May 2011 a Posdoctoral stay for eight months in Bologna, Italy, at the Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale e dei Materiali, University of Bologna, on the subject "Catalytic valorization of biomass" under the supervision of Dr. Francesco Basile. Maria Sol received a fellowship of the International Centre for Science and High Technology, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ICS-UNIDO), in the framework of the training activities organized by this organism

  María Sol with Prof. Francesco Basile at the University of Bologna, Italy
  
  

• In June 28th, the journal Perfil  of Argentina published the article “Argentine scientists developed ecological perfumes”, referring to the research accomplished in this subject by GICIC researchers (click in www.elperfil.com also in El Federal to read the interview with the authors).

  Carlos Apesteguía, J. Isabel Di Cosimo y Verónica K. Díez, at the photography taken by the reporter from www.elperfil.com.
  

• Isabel Di Cosimo and Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 22nd North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Detroit, USA, June 5-10, 2011. Isabel and Carlos delivered the oral presentations “Monoglyceride synthesis by glycerolysis of methyl oleate on MgO: catalytic and theoretical investigation of the active site” and “Effect of the MgO activation conditions on its basicity and catalytic properties”, respectively. They also presented two posters (see details in Presentations item)

  Carlos in the Poster session with Prof. Gabriele Centi, Universitá di Messina, Italy
  
    Isabel and Carlos with Prof. Daniel Resasco (University of Oklahoma, USA), Dr. Gary Jacobs (University of Kentucky, USA), Dr. Walter Alvarez (Conoco Phillips Research Center, OK, USA) and Prof. Victor Teixeira da Silva (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
   

• Two new Doctoral Fellows joined GICIC on April 1st 2011: Hernán Duarte and Matías Bertone

• Sol Avila obtained her PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on March 14th, 2011. The Sol's thesis dissertation was “Supported Pt catalysts for the abatement of volatile organic compounds”

  Sol with the Jury members of her PhD Thesis: Dr. Carlos Querini, Dra. Teresita Garetto, Dr. Fernando Mariño, Dr. Luis Gambaro, Dr. Carlos Apesteguía

• In February 2011, Edwin Alarcón Durango (University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia) and Cinthia Castro (Chemical Engineering Department, Sao Carlos University, Brazil) were in GICIC for a training program.

  Pablo Torressi, Cinthia Castro, Cristian Ferretti and Edwin Alarcón during the stay of Cinthia and Edwin at GICIC

• Carlos Apesteguía and Nicolás Vanoy participated at the VI Argentine Congress on Catalysis, Mar del Plata, Argentina, Septiembre 25-29, 2010.  Carlos presented the Plenary lecture “Novel catalytic materials for the chemical industry”.  They also presented two posters (see details in Presentations item)

   Nicolás Vanoy during the Poster Session

• Prof. Carlos Apesteguía visited the University of Zaragoza invited by Prof. Antonio Monzón and Jesús Santamaría of the Chemical Engineering Department, and delivered a lecture on "Catalytic conversion of bio-resources to valuable chemicals". He also visited the University of Barcelona, invited by Prof. Narcís Homs and Pilar Ramírez de la Piscina, and the Instituto of Tecnología Química at Valencia directed by Dr. Avelino Corma, presenting the lecture "Development of catalysts for oil refining and fine chemistry". In September 17-24, 2010

    Carlos with Dr. Avelino Corma, Director of the Instituto de Tecnología Química, Valencia, Spain.

• Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 9th Congress on Catalysis Applied to Fine Chemicals (CAFC9), Zaragoza, Spain, September 13-16, 2010. He delivered the oral presentation "Synthesis of ionones on solid Bronsted acid catalysts".

    Carlos with the Chairman of CAFC9, Prof. José A. Mayoral

• T. Garetto, C. Padró, V. Diez, M.E. Sad, J.I Di Cosimo, C. Ferretti, N. Bertero, and C.R. Apesteguía participated at the XXII Iberoamerican Congress on Catalysis, Cón-Cón, Chile, September 5-10, 2010. They presented six lectures and five posters (see details in Presentations item)

   The GICIC's Group during the XXII Iberoamerican Congress on Catalysis in Cón-Cón, Chile

• Prof. Carlos Apesteguía was invited by the University of Antioquia at Medellin, Colombia, to be a Jury member of the Edwin Alarcón´s PhD thesis entitled “Synthesis of Nopol by the Prins reaction using heterogeneous catalysts”, on August 19th, 2010. 

  Carlos with Edwin Alarcón, Aída Luz Villa (Thesis Director), Consuelo Montes (Thesis Co-Director), and the other Jury members (Dr. Ligia Sierra García; Dr. Carlos Trujillo)

• Cristian Ferretti stayed in June 2010 at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, for participating in a training program on Molecular Modeling with the Group of Materials and Catalytic Systems of the Department of Physics (Dr. Ricardo Ferrullo, Dr. Norberto Castellani and Dr. Silvia Fuente).
  Cristian in Bahía Blanca with R. Ferullo, N. Castellani and S. Fuente
  
  

• Charito Vignatti obtained her PhD title in Chemical Technology at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on June 23th, 2010. The Charito's thesis dissertation was "Development of novel catalysts for the water gas shift reaction".
  Charito with the Jury members of her PhD Thesis: Dr. Cristina Abello, Ing. Laura Cornaglia and Dr. Miguel Laborde
  
  

• Prof. Carlos Apesteguía participated at the 9th Novel Gas Natural Conversion Symposium (9NGCS), Lyon, France, May 30th - June 3rd, 2010. He delivered the oral presentation "Catalytic and DRIFTS study of the WGS reaction mechanism on Pt-based catalysts". Dr. Apesteguía participated as a Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board in the Natural Gas Conversion Board Meeting that took place during the 9NGCS, on June 2nd.

  Carlos with Dr. Jay Labinger (California Institute of Technology, USA) and Dr. Matthew Newrock (University of Virginia, USA).
  Carlos with the Chairman of 9NGCS, Dr. Claude Mirodatos
  

• Dr. Nicoletta Ravasio, from the Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, Milan, Italy, visited GICIC on May 2010, in the framework of a CONICET-CNR collaborative research project entitled "Selective hydrogenation of vegetable oils for the production of biodegradable lubricants". During her stay, she delivered the lecture "Cu-catalyzed mono and bifunctional processes for organic synthesis".

  Dr. Nicoletta Ravasio during her visit at GICIC
  

•  Cristian Ferretti obtained his PhD title in Chemistry at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on April 28th, 2010. The Cristian's thesis dissertation was "Catalytic valorization of glycerol: Synthesis of monoglycerides". 

•  Three new Doctoral Fellows joined GICIC on April 1st 2010: Mauro Acevedo, Pablo Luggren, and María Magdalena Villaverde    

•  Camilo Meyer obtained his PhD title in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, on December 18th, 2009. The Camilo’s thesis dissertation was "Synthesis of gama-butyrolactone via the selective maleic anhydride hydrogenation on metal supported catalysts”.   

•  Dr. Nicolás Bertero finished his Posdoctoral stay at the Center of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Trieste, Italy, on the subject “Catalytic valorization of bioresources” under the supervision of Dr. Paolo Fornasiero. Nicolás resumed his research position at GICIC on December 15th

• Dr. Verónica Ganduglia-Pirovano visited GICIC on November 2009. She is a recognized researcher on surface science and catalysis of the University of Humboldt, Berlin, Germany.  During her stay, he delivered the lecture "The effect of the supporting oxide on the activity of vanadia catalysts".

  Dr. Verónica Ganduglia-Pirovano during her visit at GICIC
  

• Prof. Carlos Apesteguía was Plenary Lecturer at the VI Colombian Symposium on Catalysis (VI SICCAT), Medellin, Colombia, October 28-30, 2009. He delivered the lecture on “The role of Catalysis in the valorization of bio-resources.
  
  Carlos with Prof. Consuelo Montes, Chairman of VI SICCAT, and Prof. Christopher Williams, University of South Carolina, USA
  

• Dr. Andés Trasarti performed a stay in October 2009 in the Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari, Milan, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Nicoletta Ravasio, in the framework of a CONICET-CNR collaborative research project entitled “Selective hydrogenation of vegetable oils for the production of biodegradable lubricants”

• Dr. Teresita Garetto, Dr. Cristina Padró and Dr. Verónica Diez participated at the 15th Brazilian Congress on Catalysis and 5th Mercosur Congress on Catalysis, Buzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 13-17, 2009. They presented three lectures and four posters (see details in Presentations item

•  Dr. Teresita Garetto participated at the EuropaCat IX Congress, Salamanca, Spain, 30th August-4th September. She presented three posters (see details in Presentations item).

• Dra. María Eugenia Sad finished her Posdoctoral stay at the University of California, at Berkeley, under the supervision of Prof. Enrique Iglesia. María Eugenia resumed her research position at GICIC on August 28th

• On August 7th, during the XVI Argentine Congress in Catalysis in Buenos Aires, the Argentine Catalysis Society confers to Dr. Carlos Apesteguía the “Premio a la Trayectoria en Catálisis 2009”

• The Argentine Catalysis Society has officially announced on July 14th that Prof.  Carlos Apesteguía is the recipient of the “Premio a la Trayectoria en Catálisis” in recognition of “..substantial contributions to catalysis science in Argentina, formation of human resources  and continuous support to the development of academic institutions”.  The Award consists of a plaque to be presented during the XVI Argentine Congress on Catalysis in Buenos Aires (August 3-7, 2009).

• Prof. Carlos Apesteguía, Prof. Isabel Di Cosimo and Dr. María E. Sad participated at the 21st North American Catalysis Society Meeting (21st NAM), San Francisco, California, June 7-12, 2009. They presented three lectures and two posters (see details in Presentations item). Dr. Apesteguía participated as representative of Argentina in the IACS (International Association Catalysis Societies) Meeting that took place during the 21st NAM on June 10th. More information on this congress in: http://www.21nam.org.

•  Dr. Andrés Trasarti participated at the XVI Argentine Congress of Physicochemistry and Organic Chemistry, organized by the Argentine Society of Physicochemistry, in Salta, Argentina, from 18 to 21 May, 2009. Andrés delivered an oral presentation (see details in Presentations item).     

• Dr. Nicolás Bertero, Posdoctoral fellowship of CONICET, started in May 2009 a Posdoctoral stay for eight months in Trieste, Italy, at the Center of Excellence for Nanostructured Materials, Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Trieste, on the subject “Catalytic valorization of bioresources” under the supervision of Dr. Paolo Fornasiero. Nicolás received a fellowship of the International Centre for Science and High Technology, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ICS-UNIDO), in the framework of the training activities organized by this organism.

• Prof. Carlos Apesteguía participated at the Workshop on “Next Generation Biofuels and bio-based Chemicals” that took place in Trieste, Italy, from 21 to 23 April, 2009. This workshop was organized by the International Centre for Science and High Technology, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ICS-UNIDO), as part of the activities of the international Programme “Biofuels and chemicals from bioresources”. Carlos delivered invited lectures on “Catalytic processing of glycerol to fuels and chemicals” and “Biofuels in Argentina”. More information on this workshop in http://www.ics.trieste.it  

• Dr. Andés Trasarti stayed in April 2009 at the Chemistry Institute of the Universidad Estatal de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, under the supervision of Prof. Regina Buffon for training on the start up of metathesis reactions of functionalized olefins. In particular, he investigated the liquid-phase metathesis of fatty acid methyl esters.

Andrés with Prof. Regina Buffon´s research Group, Campinas, Brazil .

• Three new Doctoral Fellows join GICIC on April 1st 2009: María Nievas, Juan Zelin and Francisco Vanoy Villamil

• Cristian Ferretti, Doctoral Fellow of CONICET, moved to the University of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, for a one-month stay with Prof. Donato Aranda, in the framework of the Doctoral Program in Technology of Chemical and Biochemical Processes. He also participated in a training program on Molecular Modeling with Prof. Walkimar Carneiro at the Institute of Chemistry of the Universidad Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro