Francisco Javier Velasco López
Professor Francisco Javier Velasco López
Mining Engineer (1992) and PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering (1995), both of them from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, he is working at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid since 1996, where he is Full Professor since 2017. He has developed the majority of his research career in surfaces, mainly studying the corrosion of metallic materials, organic coatings, surface treatments for paints and adhesive bonds, and wear. Since 2004, he has worked in corrugated stainless steels and carbon steels for concrete, deepening in the influence of processing and microstructure on the corrosion mechanisms. Nowadays, he also works in funcionalized organic coatings to improve corrosion and wear properties. He has worked in research projects (national, international and regional founds, and with companies as well. He has supervised 3 European projects (VII PM, H2020, Interreg Sudoe). He has published 140 papers in journals included in JCR (such as Corrosion Science, Oxidation of Metals, Applied Surface Science, Wear, Construction and Building Materials or Electrochimica Acta). His personnel interests include reading and rugby.