Sotomayor Torres, Clivia Marfa

Clivia obtained her PhD in Physics (Manchester Univ., UK 1984). She held tenured appointments at St. Andrews and Glasgow Universities and became a C4 professor at Wuppertal Univ. (Germany 1996). During 2004-8 she was a research professor at Univ. College Cork, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland). Since 2007 she is at ICN2 and heads a 17-strong team working on phonon engineering and nanofabrication. Clivia received awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Nuffield Foundation and an Amelia Earhart Fellowship from ZONTA International (USA). She is author of over 600 scientific works, most of which are in the WoS, has an h-index of 50+ (WoS) and over 11,000 citations (WoS). She was a guest professor at the P. Sabatier Univ. Toulouse and at KTH in Sweden. During the Winter Semester 2022-23 she was the Mittlesten-Scheid guest professor at the University of Wuppertal. She is member of the Academia Europaea. She was appointed Director General of the International Iberian Nanotechnology