The symposium will focus on current tendencies in synthetic methodology. As a fascinating discipline, organic synthesis evolves constantly in the mission to provide useful molecules for many applications. In this progression, new strategies to assemble structurally complex target molecules, new reagents or new catalyst systems to trigger reactions selectively, are discovered continuously. Advances on these core and related topics will be presented.

Symposium coordinators*
Mikel Oiarbide
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, San Sebastian, Spain
Jose Luis Vicario
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Bilbao, Spain

 (*) This Symposium will be dedicated to the memory of Prof. Kilian Muñiz, initial promoter.

Invited Speakers
Nicolas Blanchard
Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Pauline Chiu
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Elena Fernández
Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Olga García-Mancheño
University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Joseph Moran
University of Strasbourg & CNRS, Strasbourg, France
Daniele Leonori
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Daniel Werz
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Jieping Zhu
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Medalla Félix Serratosa
Juan Carlos Carretero, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, nstitute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem)
Medalla Ignacio Rivas
Uwe Pischel, CIQSO - Center for Research in Sustainable Chemistry, University of Huelva

Sponsors of the Symposium

One of the major scientific challenges of this century is finding sustainable and environmentally friendly energy sources as alternatives to fossil fuels. In this transition to a more sustainable and decarbonized society, the development of more efficient and cost-effective catalysts is critical. Set at the core of emerging energy conversion schemes, (photo)electrochemically driven catalytic process such as water splitting, CO₂ and N₂ reductions, as well as other relevant reactions for the production of renewable fuels and value-added chemicals, are the heart of this symposium. We therefore invite contributions from original research addressing important challenges in those reactions, including the rational design, synthesis, advanced/in-operando characterization and theoretical modelling of (photo)electrocatalysts, either molecular, colloidal or heterogeneous in nature, as well as the study their catalytic activity and mechanistic understanding.
This symposium will draw a multidisciplinary audience and feature both renowned scientists and emerging early career researchers in the field who will share their cutting-edge advances, setting the stage for new collaborations. 

Symposium coordinators
Xavier Sala Román
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
Max García-Melchor
School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Invited Speakers
Vincent Artero
 CEA Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Raffaella Buonsanti
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Erwin Reisner
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jan Rossmeisl
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sponsors of the Symposium

Symposium focused in the progress in the development of new materials for sustainable production and storage of energy, with application among others, in: 

Catalysis for a sustainable development: Thermal, Chemical & photo-electro processes for the use of CO₂ to produce fuels or chemicals. H₂ production and Fuel Cells. N₂ fixation and production of NH₃, fertilizers and Bio-fuels.  
Challenges in new storage systems. Post-Li  batteries: New strategies for the future batteries (multivalent catios, Metal-air batteries). New materials for cathodes and electrolytes. Other EES (Supercapacitors, flux-batteries, etc). 
Light-related technologies as a source of renewable energy.  Bio-opto electronics and Bio-electronics. New advances in solar cells. Electroluminescent and electro-cromic devices (LEDs, Smart Windows…)

Symposium coordinators
 Ana L. Cudero
Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Victor de la Peña
Imdea Energía, Madrid, Spain

Invited Speakers
Kristina Edström
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Annamaría Petrozza          
Istituto Italiano di tecnologia, Milan, Italy
Christoph Brabec
FAU, Nürnberg, Germany
Bert Weckhuysen 
Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tejs Vegge
DTU University, Denmark

Sponsors of the Symposium
Calorimetría y Análisis Térmico (GECAT).
Cristalografía y Crecimiento Cristalino (GE3C).
Grupo de Polímeros (GEP).
Grupo de Química y Computación (GEQC).
Química del Estado Solido (QES).
Química Inorgánica (GEQI).
Grupo Especializado de Electroquímica:
Química Organometálica (GEQO).

This Symposium will be a forum for the exchange of knowledge and discussion in which it is intended to contribute to the formation of scientific culture, help teachers to motivate students towards learning chemistry and other experimental sciences, as well as support their work in the different educational levels, with the aim to promote the “STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) competencies”. The main objective will be to provide information, contrast opinions and share experiences on various aspects of chemistry teaching, history and outreach from the widest possible perspective. Therefore, methodological aspects of teaching (active learning, problem-based learning / projects, acquisition and evaluation of competences, use of ICT, etc.), epistemological aspects (what concepts should be taught?), contents of other types (such as relationship between outreach activities with teaching) as well as new developments in research in the history of science in general and of chemistry in particular, will be included. Contributions on initiatives and results for the application of educational innovations in the period of confinement caused by COVID19 will be especially welcome.

Symposium coordinators
Inés Pellón González
Escuela de Ingeniería de Bilbao, UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
Gabriel Pinto Cañón
ETSI Industriales, universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Invited Speakers
Almudena de la Fuente Fernández
Colegio de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Madrid. Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid , Spain
Adela Muñoz Páez
Facultad de Química de la Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Pascual Román Polo
Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU), Lejona, Vizcaya, Spain
José Miguel Vílchez González
Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Sponsors of the symposium

• Grupo Especializado de Historia de la Ciencia, GEHCi
• Grupo Especializado de Didáctica e Historia de la Física y la Química, GEDHFQ

Computational simulations play a fundamental role in the development, understanding and improvement of chemical and biological processes. The study through theoretical and computational models of the properties of new materials, reaction mechanisms in catalytic reactions and of processes related to the chemistry of life, is nowadays a cross-discipline tool of paramount importance in many areas of chemistry. In addition, in recent years new computational strategies based on artificial intelligence and machine learning are being developed, with wide application in solving a plethora of chemical problems.

In this symposium we will focus on various relevant and trending topics within applied computational chemistry and the development of new computational strategies, dedicating at least one session to each of them:

• catalysis and reaction mechanisms
• structure, dynamics, recognition and biomolecular reactivity
• new functional materials
• theoretical and conceptual developments in computational chemistry

Symposium coordinators
Inés Corral Pérez
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Gonzalo Jiménez Osés
CIC bioGUNE, Derio, Vizcaya, Spain

Invited Speakers
Basile Curchod
Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Fernanda Duarte
Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Celia Fonseca Guerra
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Damien Laage
Ecole Normale Superiéure, París, France

Sponsors of the Symposium

Organometallic Chemistry is a multidisciplinary science whose fundamental principles and seminal discoveries have paved the way for the development of a broad variety of research areas. This symposium will offer a general forum for the organometallic community to present and discuss the latest findings and new applications in the area. This symposium will cover a range of themes that define the current organometallic landscape: bond activation and catalysis by transition and main group metals, ligand design, mechanistic and interaction studies, computational approaches, supramolecular systems and others in the interphase between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis or solutions for better use of renewable resources and energy, among others topics.
This will be a very special occasion for the organometallic Spanish community, since we celebrate the 40^th anniversary of the foundation of the Organometallic Chemistry Specialized Group (GEQO) of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. This celebration will offer an opportunity to reflect on the past, present and future of Organometallic Chemistry in Spain and its long-lasting synergies with international communities. Besides, the program includes poster sessions and flash presentations to promote the active participation of young researchers, as well as a roundtable to discuss about future opportunities for organometallic chemists and their role to seek solutions for the great challenges of modern chemistry.

Symposium coordinators
Mónica H.  Pérez-Temprano
Instituto Catalán de Investigación Química, Tarragona, Spain
Jesús Campos
IIQ, CSIS-Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

Invited Speakers
Peter Chen
ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Pep Cornellá
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Michael Cowley
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Tianning Diao
New York University, New York, USA
Zoraida Freixa
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Spain
Magnus Johansson
AstraZeneca
Ainara Nova
Universidad de Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Sponsors of the Symposium
Specialized groups Companies
Research centers

Territorial sections

Gaining knowledge at the molecular level is of paramount importance to fully understand and modulate biological processes. Chemistry at the interface with Biology includes several disciplines of Chemistry, from inorganic, organic, supramolecular, structural, physical to analytical chemistry, and synthetic Biology, which are essential to tackle these challenges. In the last years, the study of molecular recognition and regulation of biological processes, the formation of new supramolecular structures and the development of new bioinspired systems have gained increasing interest from the scientific community. The design of new molecular sensors and chemical tools for molecular imaging, the development of novel bio-orthogonal reactions to prepare new bioconjugates, the study of the structure and interactions of metal assemblies and their role in biological processes, the modulation of molecular interactions between biomacromolecules, or the synthesis of new bioactive compounds, represent some of the important challenges that scientists will have to address to expand knowledge and understanding of the molecular processes which support life.

Symposium coordinators
Elena Pazos Chantrero
Universidade da Coruña, La Coruña, Spain
Miguel Angel Galindo Cuesta
Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Invited Speakers
Mercè Capdevila Vidal
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Irene Díaz-Moreno
Universidad de Sevilla - CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
Peter Faller
Institut de Chimie, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Juan Granja
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Pascal Jonkheijm
MIRA Institute for Biomedical Research and Technical Medicine and MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Kathrin Lang
Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosc, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Jens Müller
Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
Ruth Pérez
Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Sponsors of the Symposium

The continuous development of optical materials has revolutionized our ability to image biological processes at the molecular level and in almost real time. Optical materials are also increasingly used in the diagnosis and monitoring of specific biological processes associated with multiple diseases. This inter and multidisciplinary symposium aims to disseminate recent progress in the field of optical materials, covering their synthesis and characterization of new materials, as well as, their use in biological application and molecular optics.

Symposium coordinators
Antonio Jesús Fernández Vargas
Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Marc Vendrell Escobar
University of  Edimburg, Edimburg, Scotland

Invited Speakers
Claire Deo Andrey
EMBL Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Andrey Klymchenko
Laboratoire de Biophotonique et Pharmacologie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Dirk Trauner
New York University, New York, USA

Sponsors of the Symposium

Bioanalytical Chemistry is an essential discipline to address the current challenges facing our society. Its markedly multidisciplinary character makes it possible to propose strategies from diverse areas of chemistry that allow us to face the different emerging global challenges in health and food safety more efficiently. Within this framework, and through the active engagement of highly motivated researchers at different stages of their scientific careers, from internationally renowned researchers to those in the early stages, this symposium aims to be a meeting point for the exchange of knowledge, experiences and recent and pioneering research in these fields of action with the aim of making known its unique potential and establish new approaches to national and international collaborative action using the tools and principles of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry.

Symposium coordinators
María Castro Puyana
Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
Susana Campuzano Ruiz
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Invited Speakers
Alegría Carrasco Pancorbo
Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Hans-Heiner Gorris
Masaryk University, Department of Biochemistry, Brno, Czech Republic
Maria Minunni
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Universitá degli Studi Firenze, Firenze, Italy  

Sponsors of the Symposium

The structure-property paradigm is key for current scientific advances, in particular is of crucial relevance in the field of Chemistry. Understanding structure at atomic level, how atoms bond and interact within molecules and materials, is one of the most powerful tools that Chemistry has for the rational design of new compounds and reactive processes. This symposium aims at hosting contributions on the use of this structure-property paradigm to boost the development of different research areas of modern Chemistry.
This symposium is going to be highly inter-disciplinary. Expected contributions will not only be focused on studies about structure-property relationships, but also on the development of new methodologies and characterization techniques, including the use of advanced facilities or combined characterization methodologies (crystallographic methodologies, new functions and representations, structural spectroscopies, etc.). Special emphasis will be given to research that strengths the potential of structural knowledge in the understanding of complex chemical processes or chemical bonds of particular relevance.

Symposium coordinators
Ana E. Platero-Prats
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Fernando J. Lahoz Díaz
Instituto de Síntesis Química y Catálisis Homogénea – ISQCH,  CSIC – Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Invited Speakers
David A. Keen
ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, UK
Julia Contreras-García
Sorbonne Université & CNRS, Paris, France
Tim Gruene
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Sponsors of the Symposium

Supramolecular Chemistry has experienced an extraordinary advance from its implementation as a specialized area in chemistry, at the end of 1960s, until our days. Initial studies based on simple synthetic substrate-receptor systems have evolved to the analysis of more complex phenomena such as: molecular self-assembly and non-covalent synthesis, molecular encapsulation, mechanical bonds, the design of molecular switches, molecular motors and machines, supramolecular polymers, out-of-equilibrium molecular systems, adaptive and auto-replicant systems, etc. Research on Molecular Self-assembly has greatly developed nowadays by using the concepts and tools of Supramolecular Chemistry, and it is of great importance on several fields that develop systems and (nano)materials with non-conventional properties for (photo)catalysis, photoactive devices, molecular machines and motors, optoelectronics, sensors, and self-repairing polymers, among others.

Symposium coordinators
Laura Rodríguez Raurell
Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
David González Rodríguez
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Invited Speakers
David Amabilino
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), Spain
Pau Ballester
ICIQ – Tarragona, Tarragona, Spain
Luisa de Cola
Universidad de Milano, Italia
Stefan Matile
Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland

Sponsors of the Symposium

Chemistry plays a key role in the development of advanced materials for different technologies, including materials for health, which are of crucial social importance. Regenerative medicine, controlled-drug delivery, new diagnosis or theragnosis materials, biosensors, etc. demand for materials with a precise chemical design for the aimed biomedical properties. This symposium aims to highlight the interdisciplinary approach of Chemistry to the design, synthesis and characterization of materials for health such as nanomaterials, polymers, bioceramics, hybrid, metallic materials or composites, with particular emphasis on the assessment of their properties and their biological applications.

Symposium coordinators
Alvaro Somoza
Fundación IMDEA Nanociencia, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
Luis Oriol 
Universidad de Zaragoza – CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain

Invited Speakers
Sanjukta Deb
King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
Laura Lechuga
Instituto Catalán de Nanociencia y Nanotecnología (ICN2), Barcelona, Spain
Hélder A. Santos
University of Groningen/ University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands

Sponsors of the Symposium

The broad scope of the symposia is to provide an appropriate debate forum to the research community devoted to the investigation of compounds and nanomaterials with advanced properties (electronic, magnetic or optical), and to the interdisciplinary applications of these kind of nanomaterials. This research area gathers synthetic approaches, the analysis of conducting, magnetic and optoelectronic properties, the use of theoretical models to validate structure-property relationships, or the different applications in nanotechnology.Key topics of the symposia are carbon nanomaterials (fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene), 2D materials beyond graphene, on-surface chemistry, or materials for organic electronics, bioelectronics and spintronics.

Symposium coordinators
Mª Ángeles Herranz
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Ángela Sastre
Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Elche, Spain

Invited Speakers
Eugenio Coronado
Universidad de Valencia, Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Valencia, Spain
Silvia Marchesan
Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Thomas J. J. Mueller
Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Sponsors of the Symposium

The symposium ensures visibility to the recent advances in chemical science and technology on the mitigation of Climate Change dealing with the challenges of society and industry derived from the massive use of fossil fuels, pollutant emission and deficient waste management. The industrial revolution required for climate change mitigation has been approached with the increasing penetration of renewable resources in the chemical-industrial and energy sectors, as well as the integral valorization of wastes and CO2 capture and valorization. Chemical Engineering shows in this symposium its capability for providing solutions to these challenges, as evidence the contributions in the following fields:

• - Clean technologies for the synthesis of chemical products and energy production.
• - Chemical use of natural resources.
• - Valorization of petrochemical residues for the production of materials and energy.
• - Technologies for CO2 capture and valorization.
• - Advanced technologies for controlling pollutant emissions.
• - Materials for energy production and storage.
• - Energy efficiency in chemical processes

Symposium coordinators
Javier Bilbao Elorriaga
Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Bilbao, Spain
Raquel Ibáñez Mendizábal
Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Invited Speakers
Andrea Cipollina
Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italia 
Joao A.P. Coutinho.
CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Juana M. Frontela Delgado
Centro de Investigación de CEPSA, Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U., Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Sponsors of the Symposium

Natural products have demonstrated through history to be a key resource in the discovery of new bioactive molecules with application in the development of new drugs, cosmetic ingredients, bioestimulants, pesticides, biomaterials and polymers. The symposium will cover recent strategies for the identification, structural characterization and production of new bioactive natural products. It will encompass aspects related to the early identification of new compounds of interest in extracts, through the use of LC/MS and NMR based approaches, as well as the identification of organisms with potential to produce new molecules using genome mining. Additionally, it will cover new methodologies for structural characterization, including the development of new NMR methods, pulse sequences and strategies. Finally, aspects related to the production of molecules of interest, including their large-scale isolation from the original sources, modern synthetic organic chemistry approaches, heterologous expression of biosynthetic gene clusters and synthetic biology methodologies will also be contemplated.

Symposium coordinators
Pedro M. Nieto-Mesa
Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
José Fernando Reyes Benítez
Departamento de Química, Fundación MEDINA, Granada, Spain


Invited Speakers
Laura Castañar Acedo
School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Carmen Cuevas
PharmaMar, Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain
José Antonio Salas
Universidad de Oviedo, España.

Sponsors of the Symposium

In recent years, there has been an accelerated growth in the development of new synthetic porous materials with a wide range of compositions, structures and porosities. These materials exhibits a great versatility either through the geometric design concept or post-synthetic methodologies which can modulate its surface chemistry and consequently, their properties and applications. These characteristics are responsible for the rapid growth of this field of chemistry and its growing importance in real-world applications in modern catalysis, storage and separation technologies. In this context, this field has evolved from the fundamental interest in synthesis and characterization to the design of advanced materials that surpass classic adsorbent materials in various aspects such as improved processability, optical and electrical properties and host-guest chemistry. All this provides a thriving picture not only in the field of chemistry, but also in the field of materials science, physics and engineering, which allows access to a new world of possibilities.

This symposium aims to give an overview of the state of the art in the chemistry of porous materials, covering both zeolites and reticular solids (MOFs and COFs). This edition also aims to expand it to other porous materials such as Porous Organic Polymers (POPs) and Porous Organic Cages (POCs).

Symposium coordinators

Carlos Martí-Gastaldo
ICMOL, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Francisco Carrasco Marín
Depto. de Química Inorgánica, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Invited Speakers
Daniel Maspoch
ICN2, Barcelona, España
Avelino Corma
Instituto de Tecnología Química-SCIS, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Juan Matos Lale
Instituto de Ciencias Químicas Aplicadas. Facultad de Ingeniería.
Universidad Autónoma de Chile. Director, Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Aplicadas.
Stefan Kaskel
Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Félix Zamora
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España

Sponsors of the Symposium