Dr Mainã Portella Garcia

Dr Mainã Portella Garcia is currently a Research Fellow at University of Wollongong. She received her PhD degree in Nanoscience and Advanced Materials in 2018 from Federal University of ABC, Brazil. Her PhD research focused on the weldability and corrosion resistance of high strength steel. The last year of her PhD project was conducted at University of Cambridge in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. She joined University of Wollongong in 2018 and her main research interests include optimisation of alloy design, phase transformation and weldability of high strength steels.