María Ángeles Arenas Vara studied Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (M. Sc., 1997). She joined to the Corrosion and Protection Department of the National Centre for Metallurgical Research (CENIM-CSIC) in 1998, where she carried her doctoral thesis (Ph.D. degree in 2002 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid). From 2002-2004 she worked at the Corrosion and Protection Centre (UMIST, currently The University of Manchester, UK) as research associate where her research focused on studying the anodizing process using different surface analysis techniques as RBS and MEIS. In 2005, she joined to Corrosion and Protection Department of CENIM-CSIC granted by the Juan de la Cierva program from the Ministry of Science and Innovation (Noviembre2004-July2007) and from 2007 she is Tenured Scientist of CSIC. Since January 2010 she is the head of the Laboratory of Galvanized Materials in CENIM accredited by ENAC. She has participated as project leader or member of the research team on numerous national and international research projects and technological projects with the industry. She co-authored more than 60 research papers, two patents and has presented numerous papers at congress.
Her research interests focus on the study and characterization of the phenomena of corrosion and tribocorrosion of metals and metal alloys by electrochemical techniques (DC, AC, electrochemical noise) and the development of new methods of protection against corrosion by anodizing processes, surface modification techniques such as laser and concentrated solar energy, ion implantation and PVD.
