M.G.S. Ferreira

Full Professor at University of Aveiro, Portugal, and Member of the University of Aveiro Institute of Materials (CICECO), the largest Materials Science Institute in Portugal. Mario Ferreira has made contributions in a number of areas related to corrosion and protection and electrochemistry, such as electronic structure of passive films, corrosion of galvanized steel, aluminum, magnesium alloys and reinforced concrete, paints, anodizing, biomaterials, atmospheric corrosion, hybrid sol-gel films, inhibitors, self-healing and nanostructured coatings, localized electrochemical techniques. Mario received the “H.H. Uhlig Award” of Corrosion Division of The Electrochemical Society (2013), CAVALLARO Gold Medal, Univ. Ferrara / EFC (2014), Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), Fellow of The Electrochemical Society (ECS), European Corrosion Medal of the European Federation of Corrosion/EFC (2017), Engineers Association Award - Senior Adviser Member (2015), Marcel Pourbaix Award of International Corrosion Council (2021). He has published more than 350 scientific papers and Scopus database reports a h-index=81 (Jan. 2022). He is also co-author of 18 book chapters and 5 patents.