Prof. Dr. Citlalli Gaona-Tiburcio is a professor of corrosion electrochemistry, materials engineering, and failure analysis at the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, México. She has 30 years of experience in corrosion and metallurgy, is member of the National Research System (SNI), and Technology Consultant for CONAHCYT. She has authored more than 74 international indexed papers, has co-authored twenty book chapters, and her graduate students have produced 15 B.Eng., 28 M.Sc. and 11 Ph.D. theses. She was awarded as the best average in her undergraduate and doctoral studies, and received the following distinctions: Award for Educational Excellence; Golden Magisterial Order; Doctor Honoris Causa from the OIICE (International Organization for Educational Inclusion and Quality; and National Trajectory Award for the AMPP-Mex. She is currently President of the SMEQ (Mexican Society of Electrochemistry) and a Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.