In general, students must hold an official Spanish bachelor's degree or equivalent and a master's degree or equivalent, with a minimum total of 300 ECTS credits between both degrees.
Oscar Pamies Ollé
Montserrat Diéguez Fernández
From batch to continous flow production of high-value chemicals assisted by machine learning
The production of enantiomerically pure compounds is a key process of the chemical industry. It is especially relevant in the pharmaceutical industry, for example, as many drugs are enantiomers. Asymmetric catalysis provides the means to obtain these compounds in higher yields, in fewer reaction steps and less energy than other processes. It is thus a key facilitator of sustainable growth. There are many asymmetric synthetic processes whose catalytic version is not ready yet. In this regard, the goals of this project are to increase the stability and selectivity of chiral catalysts for existing processes, develop chiral catalysts based on earth abundant metals for processes for which they are not widely available, improve the catalytic process to make it more transferable to industry (with the development of continous flow versions) and use of machine learning and other computational chemistry tools to facilitate these advances.
Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry
Chemical Science and Technology
Innovaciones catalítiques per la producció sostenible d’energia, fàrmacs i otros productes d’alt valor afegit
Pamies Ollé, Oscar
oscar.pamies@urv.cat
Contract
48 months
Full time
18269.64 €
37.5 hours a week
01 October 2025
Photocopy of identity card, resident`s card or passport currently in force.
Curriculum Vitae
Photocopy of the certificate of the official academic qualification or proof of payment of the fees for the issuance of the certificate that allows the holder to access the doctoral studies. Students who are registered on an official university master`s 2024/2025 course that allows them to access the doctoral programme during the 2025/2026 academic year must present a photocopy of their master`s course registration form.
Academic transcript of the undergraduate degree issued in one of the following languages: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese
Academic transcript of the master`s degree issued in one of the following languages: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese. Candidates who have not completed their master’s degrees must send their provisional academic transcript
Motivation letter
Declaration of equivalence calculated in accordance with the resolutions of 21 March 2016, 21 July 2016 and 18 September 2017 of the General Directorate of University Policy of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport or the resolutions that are effect at the moment when the application is presented and which can be consulted here
Reference letter (Optional)
Accreditation of linguistic knowledge of English (Optional)
Pamies Ollé, Oscar (President Titular) Diéguez Fernández, Montserrat (Vocal 1 Titular) Ferré Baldrich, Joan (Vocal 2 Titular) Rodríguez Fortea, Antonio (President Suplent) Biosca Brull, Maria (Vocal 1 Suplent) Besora Bonet, Maria (Vocal 2 Suplent)