Graduated as Metallurgical Engineering at Universidad de Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia) in 1995 and as PhD in Chemical Sciences at Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain) in 2002. Since 2002 he has developed his research and teaching activities in the Department of Materials Engineering of Universidad de Antioquia. At present, he is researcher of CIDEMAT (Materials research, innovation and development center) in “Corrosion and protection” and “New materials” research lines. His research is currently involved in atmospheric corrosion of different structural metals (including steel, galvanized steel and aluminium), evaluation of different protection methods, (including paints, galvanization and anodizing) and development of environmentally-friendly methods for application of Ni-P and Ni-B electroless coatings on steel and magnesium alloys. Besides, he is working in different projects related with powder metallurgy, development of magnesium biodegradable implants, corrosion of titanium alloys used in biomaterials, additive manufacturing of titanium alloys and development of Ni-P antibacterial coatings