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Felipe M. Castro Cerda is Associate Professor at the University of Santiago de Chile. He graduated as metallurgical engineer and obtained his master’s degree in materials science in 2008 at the same institution. He entered Equipos Mineros SA as heat-treatment engineer in the same year. In 2013, he began his PhD studies in a joint framework between Chile and Belgium, obtaining the double degree in 2017. His research topic is the physical metallurgy of steel, with a focus on experimental assessment of the microstructure evolution during phase transformations. He has authored several scientific papers and participated in research projects as both director and co-researcher. His teaching activities include the courses “Phase transformations” and “Mechanical metallurgy” at undergraduate level, and “Physical metallurgy of steel” and “Applied computational thermodynamics” at postgraduate. To date, he has supervised three PhDs (four ongoing), four master’s (two ongoing) and 10 bachelor theses (three ongoing). Additionally, he has been guest researcher at The University of Alberta (Canada), Ghent University (Belgium), Delft University of Technology (The Nederland) and the University of Twente (The Nederland). Currently, he is also working in applied research projects with partners in Chile, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Canada and Belgium.

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Employment (1)

Universidad de Santiago de Chile: SANTIAGO, CL

2023-01-01 to present
Employment
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Education and qualifications (1)

Ghent University: Ghent, BE

2013-09-01 to 2017-02-17 | PhD in Materials Science (DEPARTMENT OF ELECTROMECHANICAL, SYSTEMS AND METAL ENGINEERING)
Education
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Felipe Manuel Castro Cerda

Funding (4)

Understanding the structure-property relationship on advanced high strength steels obtained via chemical patterning of austenite

2022 to 2024 | Grant
National Agency for Research and Development (Santiago, CL)
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Felipe Manuel Castro Cerda

Santander scholarship for academic mobility

2022 to 2022 | Award
Banco Santander (Spain) (Santander, ES)
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Felipe Manuel Castro Cerda

Development of new Ag-SnO2-ZnO materials for electrical contact applications by mechanical alloying, hot mechanochemical processing and hot pressing

2019 to 2021 | Grant
National Agency for Research and Development (Santiago, CL)
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Felipe Manuel Castro Cerda

Novel approach to third generation advances high strength steels: combining ultrafast heating with Q&P processes

2018 to 2020 | Grant
National Agency for Research and Development (Santiago, CL)
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Felipe Manuel Castro Cerda

Peer review (9 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for Materials and design. (3)
Review activity for Materials science & engineering. (2)
Review activity for Scripta materialia. (3)
Review activity for Steel research international (1)