Faculty

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