ICREA Research Prof. Dr Clivia M. Sotomayor Torres was awarded her PhD in Physics in 1984 by the University of Manchester (UK). She then held tenured academic appointments at the universities of St. Andrews and Glasgow also in the UK, before becoming a C4 professor at Universität Wuppertal (Germany) in 1996. She was a research professor at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork (Ireland) from 2004 to 2008. Since May 2007 she has been an ICREA Research Professor based at the ICN2.

She has received awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Nuffield Foundation, as well as an Amelia Earhart Fellowship from ZONTA International (USA). She is the author of over 470 scientific publications and has edited/co‐edited six books (Researcher ID; E‐8418‐2010, Hirsch index 40, over 6900 citations). She leads a strong team working on phonon engineering and is actively engaged in European research. She serves in scientific advisory committees on nanoscience and nanotechnology in Grenoble and Paris‐Saclay. She is a member of the Board of Stakeholders of Photonic21, represents the ICN2 in the Nanoelectronics ECSEL Joint Undertaking and is a visiting professor at the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH) in Sweden. She is also currently serving as deputy chair of the Advisory Group for the European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technologies programme.