Edgar Dutra Zanotto is a professor of materials science and engineering at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in Brazil. Currently, he is the director of the Center for Research, Technology and Education in Vitreous Materials (CeRTEV), and an editor of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. He holds a PhD from Sheffield University. His studies include fundamental research on the crystallization kinetics and properties of glasses and glass ceramics. His research work encompasses rigorous tests; improvements in or developments of nucleation and growth models for glasses; the effects of liquid phase separation on crystallization; surface crystallization kinetics; overall crystallization; glass stability versus glass-forming ability; correlations between molecular structure and nucleation mechanism; sintering with simultaneous crystallization; diffusion processes controlling; crystallization; and mechanical, rheological, and biochemical properties of glasses and glass–ceramics. The technological branch of his team includes projects about the development or improvement of glass ceramics with improved or new functionalities. He has received 28 awards, including the Gottardi Prize by the ICG, the Zachariasen Award by the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, the Morey Award by the GOMD-ACerS, the Engineering Sciences Prize by The World Academy of Sciences, and the National Science Prize (the most important in Brazil). He is a member of five science academies.