Pedro Poza

Background

About Pedro Poza

Dr. P. Poza (PhD. 1996) Is Full Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the URJC since 2011. The research activity was initiated in 1993, in the Polytechnic University of Madrid, with special dedication to the microstructural (TEM, SEM and AFM) and mechanical characterization of materials. The investigation has been focussed, during the last years, on the degradation of coatings for applications at high temperature, simulating the operating conditions. Prof. Poza is author of more than 60 scientific papers, published in journals included in the Science Citation Index, which have been cited more than times (h-index 20, acording JCR data base). His research has been funded through grants from the CICYT (Spanish National Science Foundation), European Union (Brite-Euram and 7th Framework programmes) and the local government (Comunidad de Madrid) as well as through contracts with major Spanish industrial enterprises (Abengoa Solar NT, ITP, ACCIONA etc). In addition, the research activity was also developed in the United Kingdom, at Oxford University, in a project sponsored by Rolls-Royce aerospace and leaded by Professor Patrick Grant and Professor Brian Cantor. Actually, Dr. Poza is the responsible from the URJC within the project “COld spray Radical Solutions for Aeronautic Improved Repairs, CORSAIR” (http://corsair-project.eu/) funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement n° ACS3-GA-2013-605207.