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Mário Ferreira
Mario Ferreira got his degree in Chemical Engineering in 1971, from Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal, and his PhD degree in Corrosion Science and Engineering from UMIST - The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, in 1981. In 1993 he received his “Agregação” title in Chemical Engineering, from Instituto Superior Técnico and, currently, Mário Ferreira is Full Professor at the Department of Materials Engineering at University of Aveiro, Portugal. From 2003 to 2007 he was Deputy Director General for Higher Education at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education. In 2011, he was nominated Director of the Department of Materials Engineering of the University of Aveiro. He has also been Adjunct Full Professor of the Chemical Engineering Department at Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisboa).
He is member of several scientific societies, namely Portuguese Order of Engineers, Portuguese Materials Society, Portuguese Society of Electrochemistry (co-founder), Institute of Corrosion (United Kingdom), International Society of Electrochemistry, Electrochemistry Society (United States of America), National Association of Corrosion Engineers - NACE (United States of America) and Matsumae International Foundation (Japan). He is also a member of the European Federation of Corrosion, serving presently as member of its Board of Administrators, and of the International Corrosion Council where he is Portuguese delegate.
His main scientific interests are focused on the study of Materials Degradation, Development of Advanced Materials and Ecological Processes for Surface Treatments. He has edited 4 scientific books, published more than 250 articles on scientific journals, having more than 300 communications in conferences. He was responsible for 55 R&D projects, totally or for the Portuguese participation, co-financed by several national entities, by the European Commission (namely Framework Programmes) and by NATO.
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