Prof. Dr. Alicia Durán is degree
in Physics by UNC (Argentina) and PhD in Physical Sciences from UAM (Spain), developing her professional
career at the Institute of Ceramics and Glass (CSIC).
She is Research Professor of CSIC and responsible of the research group GlaSS, a group of excellence, in the
higher 10% among the 1600 research groups of CSIC (
http://glass.icv.csic.es). The Glass group is the Spanish reference
in Glass science and technology, with close relation with national and international glass field centres and
industries, in particular with Spanish glass companies and their associations, ANFEVI and VIDRIO ESPAÑA.
Alicia has more than 295 publications in WOK. She was Treasurer of ICG from 2002 to 2016 and President
of the International Commission on Glass (ICG) on 2018-2021. From this position she nominated 2022 as
International Year of Glass 2022 at United Nations, being the chair of the IYOG. Among the prizes she
received the Gottardi Prize in 1988. In the last years she received the Phoenix Award, being named Glass
Person of the Year 2019 and bestowed with the Otto-Schott Award in 2022 as well as the ICG President’s Award
in 2022.