Viñes Solana, Francesc | IQTC - The Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of the Universitat de Barcelona

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  The Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of the Universitat de Barcelona (IQTCUB) is integrated by more than 60 researchers, experts in several fields of the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. The research activity carried out at the IQTCUB covers methods and computational tools development, application of several techniques of electronic structures and simulation to problems in materials science, the study of reactivity and reaction dynamics in chemical reactions as well as of biological systems and soft-matter. The main goal is to generate synergies between researchers encouraging the interdisciplinary activities that allow to tackle new challenges. Another important goal is to share expertise in handling the computational resources, which are the main tools in this type of research. See the IQTCUB director’s welcome. For a more detailed information see the 2017 IQTCUB Scientific Activity Report and the XRQTC disseminating video.
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  The Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of the Universitat de Barcelona (IQTCUB) was created by the university Government Board on 27th November 2007 involving professors and researchers of different departments of the Faculties of Chemistry and Physics of the Universitat de Barcelona. Nowadays, also some groups of the Faculty of Pharmacy belong to the Institute. The common theme of the research projects conducted at the Institute is the use of methods that are rooted in quantum chemistry, recently it is also open to experimental groups of our Departments with deep collaborations with those focusing on computational chemistry. This should help to increase the multidisciplinary character of our research. Although traditionally the research at IQTCUB is mainly focused on chemistry, it is different from one would expect of a traditional chemist. Indeed, the common tools employed by the researchers at IQTCUB do not belong to a typical laboratory, but to a virtual computational “laboratory”. This “laboratory” is usually a gateway to our computational resources or to the supercomputing centers with even larger computacional facilities. The main goal of theoretical and computational chemistry is to achieve a detailed understanding of chemical and physical processes in order to assist in the interpretation…
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- XRQTC disseminating video
  You are welcome to see this video elaborated by XRQTC.This is a project done with the support of Direccio General de Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya through AGAUR. Authors: Xavier Gimenez (UB), Lourdes Vega (Matgas), Jean Didier Marechal (UAB).
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Viñes Solana, Francesc

Associate Professor

Research Area:
Catalysis, energy and environment

Department of Materials Science & Physical Chemistry
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Barcelona
c/Martí i Franquès, 1

+34 93 4033707

Prof. Francesc Viñes is currently a permanent associate professor (professor agregat) at the Department of Materials Science and Physical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona (UB) since 2019. He is ascribed to the Physical Chemistry Section and a research member of the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (IQTCUB) of the UB, one of the Spanish María de Maeztu Research Units of Excellence. He obtained his Chemistry Bachelor’s degree at UB (1999-2003) and afterwards his PhD (2003-2008) supervised by Profs. Drs. Francesc Illas and Carme Sousa. After a postdoctoral stage at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2008-2011), under the direction of Prof. Dr Andreas Görling at the Theoretical Chemistry chair, mostly funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he obtained a postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva grant (2011-2014) at UB tightly collaborating with the experimental group of Dr. Marcos Fernández-García at the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Afterwards, he gained a researcher tenure-track Ramón y Cajal position at UB (2014-2019) and is currently a permanent associate professor and one of the Principal Investigators of the Surface Chemistry group at IQTCUB. In addition he is secretary of the IQTCUB from 2022, and got the ICREA (Catalan Institute of Advance Research) Academia Award in 2022. His research spans over different fields of Physical Chemistry, Nanotechnology, and Environmental Science, with emphasis on the Catalysis field, including heterogeneous, photo-, and electrocatalysis, mostly focused at using cutting-edge theoretical and computational techniques to study the use of transition metal carbides and MXenes compounds on environmentally and/or energy-related applications, such as CO₂ and CH₄ capture and conversion. He published more than 158 papers in international journals, which received more than 6300 citations in Scopus with an h-index of 43.