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
University of St. Andrews
and the
University of Glasgow
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
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
(formerly, the ICN).
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She has received awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Nuffield Foundation and an Amelia Earhart Fellowship from Zonta International (USA). In 2020 she was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to lead a five-year project (starting in January 2021) aiming at developing a disruptive technology based on phononic interconnects to reduce energy consumption of electronic circuits.
She is author of over 560 scientific papers, 515 of which are indexed (ORCID, WoS, Researcher ID: E-8418-2010), has an h-index of 49 and over 9500 citations. She edited six books on low dimensional structures and nanofabrication.
She leads a strong team working on phonon engineering and is actively engaged in European research. She represents the ICN2 in the Nanoelectronics AENEAS Joint Undertaking (Chamber B).
During 2020 Prof. Sotomayor Torres held the following commissions of trust:
Coordinator of the EU FET Open project, PHENOMEN (full title: All-phononic circuits enabled by opto-mechanics)
Member of the Expert Committee for the Excellence Strategy of German Universities
Board member of the Danish National Research Foundation
ERC panel member
Evaluator for the Ministry of Education of Singapore Panel EP5
Member of the AENEAS Scientific Council
Member of the University Council, University of Ilmenau
Jury member, National Research Prize in Physics, Spain
Member of the Scientific advisory board of Silicon Austria Lab
