Results

Conferences Attended

Name of the conference: El origen de la vida: Ciclo de encuentros interdisciplinares

Title of the presentation: “The protometabolic nature of prebiotic chemistry towards LUCA”

Participants: Andrés de la Escosura

Date: 6 April 2026

Name of the conference: Jornada EIC Pathfinder y Transition 2026 en IMDEA Nanociencia

Title of the presentation: “The Pathfinder program: A personal perspective from the CLASSY and CORENET projects”

Participants: Andrés de la Escosura

Date: 17 November 2025

Name of the conference: 20th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity

Title of the presentation: “Molecular information processing using chemical reaction networks”

Participants: Wilhelm T. S. Huck

Date: 9-11 September 2025

Name of the conference: 9th International Conference on Micro and Nano Flows 2025

Title of the presentation: “Silicon Microfluidics Platform with Electrified Channel Walls for Chemical, Electrochemical and Biochemical Applications”

Participants: A. E. Frackowia, K.-S. Csizi, D. Monserrat Lopez, R. Lovchik., M. Mayor and E. Lörtscher

Date: 3-5 September 2025

Name of the conference: XL Meeting of the RSEQ

Title of the presentation: “Programming catalysis and replication networks with minimal nucleobase sequences”

Participants: Andrés de la Escosura

Date: 30 June – 3 July 2025

Name of the conference: 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2025

Title of the presentation: “Experiment-Guided Exploration of Complex Reaction Networks”

Participants: K.-S. Csizi and E. Lörtscher

Date: 29 June – 4 July 2025

Name of the conference: 13th Triennial Congress of World Association of Theoretical Chemistry 2025

Title of the presentation: “Experiment-Guided Exploration of Complex Reaction Networks”

Participants: K.-S. Csizi and E. Lörtscher

Date: 22-27 June 2025

Name of the conference: CECAM Flagship Workshop – Virtual Materials Design 2025

Title of the presentation: “Experiment-Guided Exploration of Complex Reaction Networks”

Participants: K.-S. Csizi, A. E. Frackowiak, H. Wolf. R. Montalvo Lopze and E. Lörtscher

Date: 2-5 June 2025

Name of the conference: SCS Spring Meeting 2025 «Electrocatalysis: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives»

Title of the presentation: “Solid-state Platform for Chemical and Electrochemical Applications”

Participants: A. E. Frackowiak, K.-S. Csizi, R. Lovchik. M. Mayor and Emanuel Lörtscher

Date: 24 April 2025

Name of the conference: Complex Organic Mixtures in Aquatic Systems, International Symposium

Title of the presentations: “Exploring Chemical Graph Spaces”

Participants: Mehmet Aziz Yirik

Date: 11-14 March 2025

Name of the conference: iCAN-X Talks

Title of the presentations: “Metasurfaces for Light Manipulation”

Participants: Wilhelm T. S. Huck

Date: 4 October 2024

Name of the conference: International Conference on Molecular Systems Engineering

Title of the presentations: “Chemical Reservoir Computation in a Self-Organizing Reaction Network”

Participants: Mathieu Baltussen, Adrianna Frackowiak

Date: 2-4 September 2024

Name of the conference: Molecular Origins of Life 2024

Title of the presentations: “NADH-mediated primordial synthesis of amino acids” //  “Tuning the catalytic function of lipopeptide assemblies using nucleobases” // “Collective adaptability in replication network of minimal nucleobase sequences”

Participants: David González Martínez // Alonso Puente Arribas // Marcos Sanz Sánchez

Date: 19-20 July 2024

Name of the conference: GRC 2024

Title of the presentation: “Harnessing Chemical Reaction Networks through closed loop experimentation”

Participants: Thijs de Jong, Andrés de la Escosura, Wilhelm T. S. Huck

Date: 16-21 June 2024

Name of the conference: GRS 2024

Title of the presentation: “Harnessing Chemical Reaction Networks through closed loop experimentation”

Participants: Thijs de Jong

Date: 15-16 June 2024

Name of the conference: NVMS-BSMS Rolduc 2024

Title of the presentation: “Harnessing Chemical Reaction Networks through closed loop experimentation”

Participants: Thijs de Jong

Date: 28-30 April 2024

Name of the conference: LifeHUB-CSIC Meeting

Title of the presentation: “The protometabolic nature of prebiotic chemistry”

Participants: Andrés de la Escosura

Date: 18-20 March 2024

Name of the conference: 7th International Conference on Foodomics

Title of the presentation: “Omics technologies to investigate the in vivo neuroprotective capacity of natural extracts”

Participants: Alberto Valdés

Date: 14-16 February 2024

Name of the conference: Jornadas CIAL Proyectos 2023

Title of the presentation: “Isolation and characterization of bioactive compounds from Ferula persica and their neuroprotective evaluation”

Participants: Alberto Valdés

Date: 19 October 2023

Name of the conference: OLDM’23 – ORIGINS OF LIFE

Title of the presentation: “Programming self-assembly and replication networks with minimal nucleobase sequences”

Participants: Andres de la Escosura, Javier Luis Barrera, Daniel González Santamaría 

Date: 2-4 October 2023

Name of the conference: French Days of Mass Spectrometry

Title of the presentation: “Mapping Chemical Reaction Networks with Mass Spectrometry”

Participants: Quentin Duez

Date: 08 September 2023

Name of the conference: IUPAC/CHAINS 2023

Title of the presentation: “Information Processing in Chemical Networks”

Participants: Mathieu Baltussen

Date: 24 August 2023

Name of the conference: Seminario Avanzado sobre Tecnologias omicas

Title of the presentation: “Metabolómica y sus aplicaciones (foodomics) ”

Participants: Alberto Valdés

Date: 17 July 2023

Name of the conference: SFI Collective Intelligence Symposium

Title of the presentation: “Information Processing in Chemical Networks”

Participants: Mathieu Baltussen

Date: 19-23 June 2023

Name of the conference: 51st HPLC2023

Title of the presentation: “Recent Advances in the Application of Foodomics to Alzheimer’s Disease”

Participants: Alejandro Cifuentes

Date: 18-22 June 2023

Name of the conference: Organic Chemistry PhD Workshop 2023

Title of the presentation: “Autocatalytic Networks Based on Molecular Chimeras of Amino Acids, Nucleobases and Lipids: Applications, Emergence and Properties”

Participants: Marcos Sanz Sánchez

Date: 14 June 2023

Name of the conference: NVMS Spring Symposium

Title of the presentation: “Mapping Chemical Reaction Networks with Mass Spectrometry”

Participants: Quentin Duez, Thijs de Jong  

Date: 14 June 2023

Name of the conference: Winter seminars: Complex CR networks

Title of the presentation: “Complex chemical reaction networks for scalable reservoir computing”

Participants: Mehmet Aziz Yirik and Daniel Merkle

Date: 12-17 February 2023

Name of the conference: APCE-CECE-ITP-IUPAC 2022 Meeting

Title of the presentation: “New methodologies for improving safety and bioactivity in green foodomics” // “Activity of natural compounds against Alzheimer investigated by foodomics”

Participants: Elena Ibáñez // Alejandro Cifuentes

Date: 06-10 November 2022

Name of the conference: 1st Symposium on “Dynamic Covalent Chemistry (DCC) in Water

Title of the presentation: “Dynamic chemistry of biohybrid systems and materials”

Participants: Andres de la Escosura

Date: 24-25 October 2022

Name of the conference: Workshop on Graph Theory and Its Applications-X

Title of the presentation: “Chemical Graph Generators”

Participants: Mehmet Aziz Yirik and Daniel Merkle

Date: 14-15 October 2022

Name of the conference: SYMPOSIUM SSAS 2022

Title of the presentation: “Food and food by-products to (re)-valorize our world”

Participants: Elena Ibáñez

Date: 08 July 2022

Name of the conference: Gordon Research Conference “Life-Like and Emergent Behavior in Complex Molecules and Ensembles”

Title of the presentation: “Reservoir Computing using Chemical Reaction Networks: the Formose Reaction is a Molecular Computer”

Participants: Wilhelm T. S. Huck and Andres de la Escosura

Date: 30 June 2022

Scientific publications

Title of scientific publication:Non-enzymatic coupling of protometabolic reactions with a prebiotic redox cofactor

Name of the journal: Nature communications

Authors: David González-Martínez, Noemí Nogal, Iván de la Infanta, Pilar Ocón, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Javier Luis-Barrera, Andrés de la Escosura

Date: 06 May 2026

Title of scientific publication: AI Tools for Chemical Computing

Name of the journal: ETHZ Master Thesis

Authors: R. Montalvo Lopez

Date: 2025

Title of scientific publication:ChemReservoir – An Open-Source Framework for Chemically-Inspired Reservoir Computing

Name of the journal: IEEE Access

Authors: Mehmet Aziz Yirik; Jakob Lykke Andersen; Rolf Fagerberg; Daniel Merkle

Date: 25 August 2025

Title of scientific publication:Finding Thermodynamically Favorable Pathways in Chemical Reaction Networks Using Flows in Hypergraphs and Mixed-Integer Linear Programming

Name of the journal: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Authors: Adittya Pal, Rolf Fagerberg, Jakob Lykke Andersen, Christoph Flamm, Peter Dittrich, Daniel Merkle

Date: 10 June 2025

Title of scientific publication:Opportunities of scalable and electrostatically optimized electrodes for electric field- and current-driven microfluidic applications

Name of the journal: Biomicrofluidics

Authors: K.-S. Csizi, A. E. Frackowiak, R. D. Lovchik, E. Lörtscher

Date: 02 May 2025

Title of scientific publication:Environmental History is Transferred via Minerals Altering Formose Reaction Pathways

Name of the journal: Angewandte Chemie

Authors: Thijs J. de Jong, Astra D. Demertzi, William E. Robinson, Wilhelm T. S. Huck

Date: 21 March 2025

Title of scientific publication:Computation in chemical graph rewriting networks

Name of the journal: Journal of Physics: Complexity

Authors: Christoph Flamm, Daniel Merkle, Peter F Stadler

Date: 11 March 2025

Title of scientific publication:Estimating reaction barriers with deep reinforcement learning

Name of the journal: Sage Journals

Authors: Adittya Pal

Date: 21 October 2024

Title of scientific publication: “Chemical reservoir computation in a self-organizing reaction network

Name of the journal: nature

Authors: Mathieu G. Baltussen, Thijs J. de Jong, Quentin Duez, William E. Robinson, Wilhelm T. S. Huck

Date: 26 June 2024

Title of scientific publication:Complex chemical reaction networks for future information processing

Name of the journal: Frontiers of Neuroscience

Authors: Katja-Sophia Csizi, Emanuel Lörtscher

Date: 13 March 2024

Title of scientific publication: “NADH-mediated primordial synthesis of amino acids

Name of the journal: Org. Chem. Front.

Authors: Noemí Nogal, Javier Luis-Barrera, Sonia Vela-Gallego, Fernando Aguilar-Galindo, Andrés de la Escosura

Date: 14 February 2024

Title of scientific publication:Modifying the catalytic activity of lipopeptide assemblies with nucleobases

Name of the journal: Chemistry – A European Journal

Authors: Dr. Sonia Vela-Gallego, Dr. Bartosz Lewandowski, Dr. Jasper Möhler, Alonso Puente, David Gil-Cantero, Prof. Helma Wennemers, Prof. Andrés de la Escosura

Date: 25 October 2023

Title of scientific publication:The Protometabolic Nature of Prebiotic Chemistry

Name of the journal: Chemical Society Reviews

Authors: Noemí Nogal, Marcos Sanz-Sánchez, Sonia Vela-Gallego, Kepa Ruíz-Mirazo, Andrés de la Escosura

Date: 19 October 2023