Keynote

Pr. Dr. Clivia Sotomayor Torres

International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory

Pr. Dr. Sotomayor Torres is a world leading scientist in nanophononics, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, nanometrology and nanofabrication. She 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). Clivia received awards from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Nuffield Foundation, the ERC (Advanced grant, 2021), and an Amelia Earhart Fellowship from ZONTA International (USA). In 2025, she received the Bloch Prize for her outstanding contribution to the field of phononics. She is author of over 600 scientific works, has an h-index of 68 (GS) and over 18,500 citations (Google Scholar). 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. In 2023, she was appointed Director General of the International Iberian Nanotechnology.