Gilberto Vicente Prandi

Graduated as an Electrical Technician from the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of São Paulo (IFSP) in 2015, and as a Control and Automation Engineer from the same institution in 2021. He is currently pursuing a direct doctorate with a FAPESP scholarship, which began in 2022, at the Physical Metallurgy Laboratory of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), focusing on hybrid and heterogeneous titanium alloys. He has international research experience, including a research internship at the Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France) from September 2024 to February 2025, focusing on corrosion studies. A second international internship took place between February and March 2025 at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain), with an emphasis on microscopy techniques and physical metallurgy. His main research activities involve feasibility analysis, development, corrosion assessment, and metallographic characterization of hybrid and heterogeneous titanium alloys, with an emphasis on those produced by additive manufacturing via laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). He also has professional experience in precision casting (microcasting) at Biagio Turbos and Microffusão do Brasil. His main research interests are the continuous investigation of titanium alloys, with an emphasis on additive manufacturing and the development of functionally graded materials (FGM). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)