Prof. Dr. Josep Maria Guilemany

Thermal Spray Centre Leader has approximately 35-year-long, distinguished career at University of Barcelona as Full Professor of Physical Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of Spain and in the field of Thermal Spraying in general. He is the author of more than 700 papers on materials science and engineering and the co-author of 10 books, he had supervised about 45 students degree of PhD and has 26 patents & industrial secrets concerning welding processes, cast iron, smart materials, metals recycling particularly copper, coatings from gas sensors and radiation to electrodes for electric car, prosthesis, new technologies of Thermal Spray and so on. During the last 30 years has organized or co-organized conferences, schools like the world recognized "Barcelona Cold Gas Spray Summer School", scientific and technical sessions, workshops, meetings and congress in collaboration with the professional societies and worldwide industrial sector, he is very reputed at National and International level. He has been awarded Gold Medal and Prize (1977) of The Spanish Royal Academy of Science, in 1982 he was awarded by the International Metallographic Society, USA. In 1988 was awarded as Honor Member of the Spanish Welding Society and in 2006 by The Barcelona Town "Premi Ciutat de Barcelona" for the technical trajectory of the Thermal Spray Centre and in 2010 he receives the Rose Prize from the Chinese Academy of Science. More recently in 2011 the Scientific Spanish Association awards him as the best Spanish Scientific and in 2013, he has been elected VicePresident of the European Thermal Spray Association (ETSA).