**Renato Altobelli Antunes**

Renato Altobelli Antunes is a professor at the Federal University of the ABC (UFABC), at the Center for Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Science. Currently, his research activity is centered on the study of corrosion mechanisms of metallic materials, protection methods, scanning probe techniques, and the correlation between surface chemistry and the corrosion behavior of light alloys and steels. Prof. Antunes is a Guest Editor for the journal Metals. He has been awarded a Research Productivity Grant from the Brazilian agency CNPq (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) since 2015.
