Claudia Loreto Alvarado Gatica

Biography

Claudia Loreto Alvarado Gatica She obtained the professional title of Industrial Chemistry and a Bachelor of Science, Chemistry Mention, at UTEM in 2011, doing a thesis on the synthesis of amphiphilic block copolymers. She obtained the degree of Doctor of Engineering Sciences mention in Materials Science and Engineering, at the USACH, in 2017, through research in microbiologically influenced corrosion in an aluminum alloy for aeronautical use by means of electrochemical techniques, mainly using the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. She currently works as a scientist at the Chilean Air Force Research and Development Center, since 2017, in the area of biocorrosion, corrosion and materials science, developing and collaborating on research projects. She has taken classes in Thermodynamics at the Polytechnic Aeronautical Academy and Materials Science for a Master in Mining. She is currently the principal investigator for an ANID postdoc in mitigating biocorrosion.