Announcements
29 May 2026
Welcoming New Editorial Board Members of Metals
We are pleased to announce that six new scholars have been appointed as Editorial Board Members (EBMs) of Metals (ISSN: 2075-4701). We wish our new members success in both their research and their efforts to develop the journal.
Name: Prof. Dr. Martin Leitner
Affiliation: Institute of Structural Durability and Railway Technology, CD Laboratory for Structural Integrity in Rail Vehicle Design, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
Interests: fatigue design; structural durability; technological aspects; welded joints; high-strength steels; mechanical engineering; rail vehicle design
Name: Prof. Dr. Eduardo De Souza Neto
Affiliation: Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
Interests: multi-scale modelling of solids; computational homogenisation methods; modelling and simulation of biological tissues; modelling of polycrystalline metals; topological derivative; microstructural optimisation
Name: Prof. Dr. Renato Altobelli Antunes
Affiliation: Center for Engineering, Modelling and Applied Social Sciences (CECS), Federal University of the ABC (UFABC), Santo André 09210-580, SP, Brazil
Interests: corrosion; surface analysis; XPS; protective coatings; electrodeposition; scanning probe electrochemical techniques
Name: Dr. José Guadalupe Chacón-Nava
Affiliation: Department of Metallurgy and Structural Integrity, Advanced Materials Research Center (CIMAV), Miguel de Cervantes 120, Complejo Industrial Chihuahua, Chihuahua 31136, Chihuahua, Mexico
Interests: corrosion engineering; coatings; inhibitors; cathodic protection; metallic alloys; stress corrosion cracking; failure analysis; high-temperature corrosion; erosion–corrosion
Name: Dr. Marcos Flávio De Campos
Affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Metallurgical Engineering, Fluminense Federal University, Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Interests: permanent magnets; electrical steels; hard magnetic materials; soft magnetic materials; ferrites; physical metallurgy; rare earths; powder metallurgy; residual stresses
Name: Dr. Luis Filipe Borrego
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: fatigue; fracture mechanics; fatigue crack propagation; crack closure; additive manufacturing; structural integrity
For further details about the Editorial Board of Metals, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/editors.
The journal is currently recruiting new Editorial Board Members. If you are interested in this position, please contact the Editorial Office at metals@mdpi.com.
