Homero Castaneda is a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the director of the National Corrosion and Materials Reliability Laboratory at Texas A&M University. He is also an Instructor for NACE CP certifications. He received an M.S. in materials science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, in 1997 and a B.S. in chemical metallurgical engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, in 1994. He earned his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Penn State University in 2001. He holds eight patents and four copyrights. He received the H.H. Uhlig Award from NACE International in 2018. He was awarded to be the NACE Fellow of the Class of 2019. He was appointed as adjunct professor (professeur affilie) with the Mechanics, Surface and Processing Laboratory at ENSAM, Aux in Provence, France. He has served on the Corrosion of Buried Steel at the New and In-Service Infrastructure Committee by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He received the award of the Invention of the Year in 2021 by AMPP (formerly NACE).