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Prof. Vöhringer-Martinez will lead the first associated Max-Planck Laboratory in Chile

With the support of Prof. Grubmüller from the Max-Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and Prof. Erb from the Max-Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg  the associated Max-Planck Laboratory lead by Prof. Vöhringer-Martinez will use computer simulations to improve CO2 fixation in photosynthesis.

New graduate in Chemistry!

We congratulate Joaquín Portiño on the successful defense of his undergraduate thesis work.

New graduate in Chemistry!

We congratulate Isabel Camus on the successful defense of his undergraduate thesis work.

We say good bye to Tobias Dorer (Max Planck school – Matter to Life)

Complementary to his lab work, Tobias spent three months at the QCMM to simulate the reductive aldol reaction catalysed by mutants of Old Yellow Enzyme (OYE) to find plausible minimum free energy pathways.

 

New graduate in Chemistry!

We congratulate Leandro Valdés on the successful defense of his undergraduate thesis work.

 

Fondecyt Regular 2024

We celebrate Prof. Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez, who was adjudicated a FONDECYT Regular 2024!

New PhD in the QCMM: Dr. Aharon Gómez

QCMM-2022 Photos!

October 27th-28th, 2022

Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

QCMM 2022 Photos

New PhD in the QCMM: Dr. Duvan Gonzalez

Our PhD student Giulia Bovolenta offered a Latex mini course for the UdeC summer school

The course was in the context of the annual summer school of Universidad de Concepción, this year with the theme “Horizonte de lo Humano”.  The course focused on using Latex together with Overleaf and included topics such as latex history, basic syntax  and graphics.

Dr. Stefan Vogt-Geisse and Giulia Bovolenta had a successful participation in the Chemistry in Star Forming Regions conference in Torino/Italy

Giulia presented a poster with the title: High level ab initio binding energies of Molecules on interstellar ices, and Stefan gave a talk about the new Binding Energy Evaluation Platform (BEEP).

We welcome Prof. Saez to the group

Dr. David Saez was recently appointed as assistant professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of Universidad de Concepción! We would like to congratulate David for this achievement and are happy to have him as part of our group.

Prof. Vöhringer promoted to Full Professor, congratulations!

In the celebration of the 102th anniversary of Universidad Concepción Prof. Vöhringer-Martinez was promoted to Full Professor. Reaching the highest academic hierarchy being 42 years old he dedicated this recognition to the students, postdocs and colleagues of the QCMM group together with the international collaborators, with whom he had the pleasure to share his passion of doing science.

A new edition of our summer course “Introduction to Python Programing” was finished with great success.

Congratulations to Dr. Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez on his new grant of joint Max Planck and ANID research.

Congratulations to Dr. Maximiliano Riquelme, on his PhD degree and his new job in the Universidad de Valdivia!

An interview in the magazine Vortice with our Italian PhD student Giulia Bovolenta about doing a PhD in Universidad de Concepción

Dr. Stefan Vogt-Geisse is on a sabbatical leave in the Georgia Institute of Technology. He will be back in March of 2019.

QCMM members Prof. Esteban Vöhringer-Martinez and Dr. David Saez are co-authors on an article published in the in the Journal of American Chemical Society.

Python in Chemistry Workshop With lectures of Dr. Toon Verstraelen (Best Coding Practices in Python.) , Dr. Fernaz Heidar (Chemtools) and Dr. Paul Ayers (Horton). Also with a special lecture of Dr. Christopher Rowley.

QCMM @ 44th International Congress of Theoretical Chemists of Latin Expression, Santiago de Chile 2019

Dr. Stefan Vogt gave a talk in the University of Ohio State and at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “Exploring chemistry with second layer software. Examples and applications”

Dr. Voehringer Martinez gave a talk at the conference. “Computer Simulation of Biological Membraners and Free Energy Calculation of Biological Systems”.