University of Berkeley, USA;

Ohio State University, USA;
Gerald S. Frankel is Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Director of the Fontana Corrosion Center at the Ohio State University. He earned a Sc.B. degree in Materials Science Engineering from Brown University and a Sc.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT. Prior to joining OSU in 1995, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Technical Institute in Zurich and then a Research Staff Member at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. His primary research interests are the passivation and localized corrosion of metals and alloys, corrosion inhibition, protective coatings and atmospheric corrosion. He is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of the Electrochemical Society and Corrosion and a fellow of NACE International, The Electrochemical Society, and ASM International. He received the W.R. Whitney Award from NACE International in 2015, the U.R. Evans Award from the UK Institute of Corrosion in 2011, OSU Distinguished Scholar Award in 2010, the 2010 ECS Corrosion Division H.H. Uhlig Award, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award for Senior US Scientists in 2004. From 2012-2016, he served as a member of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board after being appointed by President Obama. In 2016, he became the director of a DOE-funded Engineering Frontier Research Center focused on the performance of nuclear waste forms.

University of Virginia, USA;
Dr. John R. Scully is Charles Henderson Chaired Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Co-Director of Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia, USA. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 1978 from The Johns Hopkins University. His primary research interest is to understand the relationships between a material's structure and composition and properties related to environmental degradation. He focuses on properties associated with hydrogen embrittlement, stress corrosion cracking, localized corrosion, and passivity of materials. His historical current focus is on advanced aluminum, magnesium, titanium, ferrous and nickel-based alloys, as well as stainless steels and aluminum-based intermetallic compounds.

Monash University, Australia;

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain;

Pennsylvania State University, USA;
Dr. Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald is Professor Emeritus at The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Engineering Science and owner of the Mechanics Sabrina Technology. She has authored over 300 scholarly papers, published one book and two book chapters, and supervised more than 40 graduate students. Over the past twenty-three years, her research interests had revolved around designing, creating, and managing computer applications to solve engineering and scientific problems. While at Penn State University, she has actively fostered a “North/South” (Canada, US, Latin America) research program to address technical issues that transcend national borders and that require the development of interdisciplinary solutions.

Australian National University, Australia;
Dr. Nick Birbilis is Deputy Dean of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University. He has a PhD (2004) in Materials Engineering and was a postdoctoral fellow at The Ohio State University. Then he moved to Monash University (2013-18), where he was Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the inaugural Woodside Innovation Chair. Dr. Birbilis is a passionate educator and passionate advocate for diversity in STEM, who enjoys working in projects of social relevance and impact. Prof. Birbilis’ research interests focus on materials design, materials durability, and sustainability. In other words, creating (from computational design to production) materials to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving world, ensuring such materials remain durable, and imposing responsible consideration of life cycle. Such areas of research involve the spectrum of advanced materials characterisation, electrochemistry, and machine learning. Nick has >300 publications and numerous patents. His research has been instrumental in the development of corrosion resistant lightweight alloys, and in elucidating the role of microstructure in the corrosion of engineering materials.

National Physical Laboratory, UK;

ETH Zürich, Switzerland;

University of Science and Technology Beijing, China;

B N Leis, Consultant, Inc.;

University of Michigan, USA;
Gary S. Was is Professor of Sustainable Energy, Environmental and Earth Systems Engineering, and holds appointments in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He has held positions as Director of the Michigan Memorial Phoenix Energy Institute, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Chair of the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department. Professor Was’s research is focused on materials for advanced nuclear energy systems and radiation materials science, including environmental and radiation effects on materials. He is a Fellow of TMS, MRS, ASM, NACE and ANS. Professor Was has published over 300 technical articles in referred, archival journals and delivered over 260 invited talks and seminars, published a graduate level textbook on Radiation Materials Science and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nuclear Materials.

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium;
Dr. Herman Terryn is Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Engineering, and Head of the Department of Materials and Chemistry (IR-MACH). He has produced 17 book chapters, 528 scientific papers, 2 patents and supervised 57 defended PhDs. He was awarded with the Leonardo Da Vinci Helsinki Award in 2006; the Bronze medal for an outstanding project promoting and supporting the LifeLong Learning EU policy Award, Berlin, 2007; and the Eu-Award European Federation of Corrosion 2014, Pisa, Italy. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden;
Dr. Inger Odnevall is Professor at the Div. Surface and Corrosion Science Dep. Chemistry, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She is also affiliated researcher at AIMES - Center for the Advancement of Integrated Medical and Engineering Sciences, Karolinska Institutet and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Her main research interests are the interdisciplinary studies related to health and environmental effects in relation to corrosion and surface chemistry processes of metallic surfaces. Her main areas of interest cover a large variety of different applications such as outdoor construction materials, high-touch hygiene surfaces, bio- and implant materials, as well as on engineered (nano)particles used in different consumer products and non-intentionally formed (nano)particles at different occupational settings (e.g. during welding and AM manufacturing). Dr. Odnevall’s research, which is both fundamental and applied, is highly interdisciplinary and performed in close collaboration with both national and international academic partners, industry, stakeholders and metal associations. Its outcome has strong implications on for instance the classification and regulatory system of chemicals (REACH) within EU, as well as for environmental and health risk assessments and management of metals and alloys. She is author of 186 peer-reviewed scientific papers, has an h-index: 50 (google scholar), has 8832 citations (Jan., 2020) and >50 conference proceedings and presentations; >20 popular scientific publications, >30 invited lectures, >30 industrial reports, 1 book, and several contributions to book chapters.

University of Aveiro, Portugal;