During the visit, professor Pradeep Mathur contacted various research groups and visited their laboratories and the Scientific Resources Service. The visit concluded with a meeting with the rector and the vice-rector for Scientific and Research Policy with a view to establishing future agreements

Professor Pradeep Mathur, director of the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), visited the URV on 27 June. During the visit he had the opportunity to visit the Scientific Resources Service, and to contact various research groups at the School of Chemical Engineering (Research Group on Applied Thermal Engineering) and the Faculty of Chemistry (the Laboratory Organometallics and Homogeneous Catalysis Research Group- OMICH and the Quantum Chemistry Research Group), where he was received by the dean of the faculty, Yolanda Cesteros. He also took advantage of his visit to the Faculty of Chemistry to give a talk entitled “Synthetic strategies for mixed metal clusters and iron carbonyl mediated transformations and catalysis of acetylene-functionalised molecules”, which was attended by various researchers working the field of organometallic compounds.

Towards the end of his visit, professor Mathur met the rector, Josep Anton Ferré, and the vice-rector for Scientific and Research Policy, Josep Manel Ricart, in a preliminary encounter aimed at establishing relations between the two institutions, particularly in the ambit of mobility for students and teaching and research staff. Professor Mathur expressed a keen interest in the postgraduate programmes in chemistry and engineering, that the URV offers in English and in particular the Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, which will soon be taught entirely in English. At the end of his visit, Professor Mathur invited the rector to visit the IITI in November to consolidate the agreements established between the two institutions.