Rate My Professor Yaiza Gonzalez-Garcia

Yaiza Gonzalez-Garcia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering within the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology. She leads the Localized Corrosion and Electrochemistry team and serves as the Coordinator and Director of Studies for the Master of Materials Science and Engineering program. Gonzalez-Garcia earned her MSc in Chemistry from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of La Laguna, Spain, in 2003, followed by a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the same university in October 2007. Her doctoral research centered on the novel application of microelectrochemical methods to study the degradation of coated metals. Post-PhD, she undertook post-doctoral research at Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany, as part of the national project “Function by switching” (SFB677), and was awarded a Humboldt Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship for investigating the early stages of polyurethane degradation at the nanoscopic level using in situ techniques. In 2010, she joined TU Delft's Corrosion Technology and Electrochemistry group as a post-doc, focusing on the local microelectrochemical evaluation of self-healing coatings under the IOP-Self Healing Materials framework. Subsequently, she contributed to the SURF-group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, simulating microelectrochemical measurements for corrosion studies within the NANOMET project. In July 2014, she received a Delft Technology Fellowship grant, leading to her tenure-track appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.