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. 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 Laboratory (Braga, Portugal) and left ICREA on 14th September 2023.
Research interests
Her group investigated new concepts for multi-state variables based on the engineered interactions of phonons and photons, in device-like structures. One particular interest is thermal transport at the nanoscale to address heat dissipation in nanoelectronics, the role of phonons in noise and dissipation in nano-scale systems. Another strand is Si-based opto-mechanics for phonon-based information processing which is supported by one additional research grants this year. The experimental research portfolio consolidated research in 2D materials. The ERC project LEIT made substantial progress in the realisation of mechanical gaps with guided modes and enhanced experimental methods for characterisation. During 2022 we made considerable progress in phononic waveguides exhibiting phonon lasing and in multimode coupling in optomechanical circuits mediated by localization.
Selected publications
- Madiot G, Albrechtsen M, Stobbe S, Sotomayor-Torres CM & Arregui G 2023 'Multimode optomechanics with a two-dimensional optomechanical crystal', Apl photonics, 8 - 11.
- Ng RC, Nizet P, Navarro-Urrios D, Arregui G, Albrechtsen M, Garcia PD, Stobbe S, Sotomayor-Torres CM & Madiot G, 2023, 'Intermodulation of optical frequency combs in a multimode optomechanical system', Physical Review Research, 5, 3, L032028.
- Chavez-Angel E, Tsipas P, Xiao P, et al. 2023, 'Engineering Heat Transport Across Epitaxial Lattice-Mismatched van der Waals Heterointerfaces', Nano Letters, 23, 15, 6883 - 6891.
- Arregui G, Ng RC, Albrechtsen M, et al. 2023, 'Cavity Optomechanics with Anderson-Localized Optical Modes', Physical Review Letters, 130, 4, 043802.
- Esteso V, Duquennoy R, Ng RC, Colautti M, Lombardi P, Arregui G, Chavez-Angel E, Sotomayor-Torres CM, Garcia PD, Hilke M & Toninelli C 2023, 'Quantum Thermometry with Single Molecules in Nanoprobes', Prx quantum, 4 - 4.
- Krushynska AO, Torrent D, Aragon AM, et al. 2023, 'Emerging topics in nanophononics and elastic, acoustic, and mechanical metamaterials: an overview', Nanophotonics, 12, 4.
- Madiot G, Ng R C, Arregui G, Florez O, Albrechtsen M, Stoebbe S, Garcia P D and Sotomayor Torres CM, 'Optomechanical generation of coherent GHz vibrations in a phononic waveguide', Physical Review Letters, 130, 106903
- Maire J, Necio T, Chavez-Angel E, Colombano M F, Jaramillo-Fernandez J, Sotomayor-Torres C M, Capuj N and Navarro-Urrios D, 'Contactless characterization of the elastic properties of glass microspheres', APL Materials 11 (4) 041128