Dr. Juan Carlos Galván CSIC Staff Scientist Departamento de Ingeniería de Materiales Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas, CENIM Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC Av. Gregorio del Amo 8, 28040 MADRID  (SPAIN) Phone: +34 91 553 8900  (extension 340) Fax: +34 91 534 7425 e-mail: jcgalvan@cenim.csic.es

 

Dr. Galvan is a Staff Senior Scientist in the Department of Materials Engineering of the National Centre for Metallurgical Research, CENIM (CSIC). He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 1982 and 1987, respectively. He joined CENIM as a graduate student in November 1981. There he obtained several pre- and post-doctoral appointees from the CSIC and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.  From September 1988 to October 1989, he was a Scientist Visitor in the Zetlemoyer Centre for Surface Studies of Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania). In January 1989 he was promoted to Staff  Scientist for the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and assigned to the Department of Corrosion and Protection of CENIM. In 1991, he spent a sabbatical term as a Visiting Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of California at Berkeley. In 1994, he joined Department of Porous Materials and Intercalation Compounds of the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (CSIC). He returned to CENIM in 2001, where he is serving now in the specialization field of the Electrochemistry of Materials. The current research interest of Dr. Galvan is driven toward two main direction related with the design, preparation and characterization of the following materials:

(i)            Sol-gel nanocomposite thin films and multilayer coatings for surface treatments and corrosion protection of metal surfaces (mainly steel, zinc and aluminium alloys).

(ii)          Multifunctional nanostructured materials for electrochemical devices and chemical sensors for the detection and quantitative analysis of chemical species of an ionic or molecular nature. These new devices could have potential applications in diverse sectors (e.g. Metallurgy, Mining, Environment, Health, Clinical Analyses, Food Industry, etc.).

  

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