Prof. Dr. José Spinelli

Prof. Dr. José Eduardo Spinelli is an Associate Professor at the Departamento de Engenharia de Materiais (DEMa), Universidade Federal de São Carlos. He got his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Estadual Paulista in 1998, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He served as an Assistant Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (June 2009–June 2010) and as a Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta (February 2017–January 2018). He has been at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos since 2010. His research interests include the solidification of metals and alloys, heat and mass transfer in the solidification process, dendritic and cellular growth in solidification, eutectic, monotectic, and peritectic alloys, the effects of natural convection in as-cast structures, macrosegregation and microsegregation in binary alloys, laser surface remelting, mechanical properties, corrosion and wear resistance, and alternative lead-free solder alloys.