Faculty

Marcelo earned his doctoral degree in structural integrity and fracture mechanics from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012, after serving 15 years as an officer in the Ecuadorian Navy. Before joining the Department of Ocean Engineering at Texas A&M University in Galveston (TAMUG), he spent five years as a researcher at the Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, where he worked on industry-driven projects focused on damage assessment and material modeling of Oil & Gas (O&G) infrastructure, including pipeline networks, risers, and subsea systems. Since joining TAMUG, his research interests have expanded to emerging fields such as corrosion sensing technologies and combinatorial alloy design, complemented by state-of-the-art material characterization techniques—including EBSD, EDS, SEM, XRD, and XPS—as well as electrochemical methods for probing novel materials.