**Philippe Refait**

Prof. Philippe Refait specializes in electrochemistry, materials science, and surface science. His main research axes are corrosion mechanisms (mainly of carbon steel and low alloy steel), including biocorrosion, and cathodic protection (more specifically the processes occurring under cathodic polarization).

He has published more than 175 research articles and 9 book chapters. He is currently the chair of the "Marine Corrosion" working party of the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) and the head of the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Science and Technology, La Rochelle University.
