Summary

Javier Jesús González Martínez holds the degree of University Professor in the Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering area of ​​knowledge, and has been attached to the Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao (UPV/EHU) since 1996.

He has been teaching since 1982, when he began his teaching career at the Higher Technical School of Civil Engineering of the University of Cantabria, later moving to the University of the Basque Country as Professor in 1996. In his first years he had the role of Assistant Professor, Collaborating Professor, and interim Professor, obtaining in 1990 the position of University Professor. He has dedicated his professional life to teaching and research within the university world.

His career in the field of research has been framed in Materials Technology. In early years he devoted himself to the study of the mechanical and service behaviour of steels, writing his doctoral thesis in this area. After his transfer to the University of the Basque Country, he opened a new line of research in collaboration with former colleagues from the University of Cantabria, researchers from the Tecnalia centre and researchers from the SUCONS group at the University of Burgos, in the study of waste recovery from the iron and steel industry and its use in the construction sector, mainly in cement-based materials. It could be said that the aforementioned members of the scientific group have been pioneers at the national level and highly relevant researchers at the international level in the study of steelworks slag as a by-product for the preparation of concrete mixtures, reflected in the large number of citations the publications produced by this group of researchers in the aforementioned field have. On the other hand, he has collaborated with Tekniker technology center in Eibar (Guipúzcoa) for more than a decade in the line of work on tribocorrosion of metallic materials and gas-phase electrodeposition layers on metallic substrates, resistant to wear and corrosion, publishing articles and directing several (3) doctoral theses in this line.

He was the thesis director of Professor Juan Manuel Manso Villalaín, from the University of Burgos, and since then the relationship between the UPV/EHU groups and the SUCONS group from the University of Burgos has been constant. This relationship is observed in the large number of quality indicators shared (scientific production) and in the research projects in which they have collaborated. To highlight the coordinated project between both BLUCONS universities of the call Challenges of Society 2015.

The synergy of his facets within his professional career is reflected in the direction of the 14 doctoral theses and more than 35 Degree projects and Master projects, all of them in the field of engineering materials.

He has participated in 31 research projects, with public or private funding, acting in 16 of them as principal investigator, of which four projects have been related to the use of industrial by-products in the construction sector. The results obtained in the projects and theses mentioned have been disseminated in 44 articles of scientific impact in the JCR, achieving up to the present time an h=17 (SCOPUS), with 1 JCR with around 300 citations, 3 more JCR, with more than 100 citations and 5 more JCRs, with more than 50 citations. They have also been disseminated in 40 papers, presented at 25 international conferences.

The professional trajectory of the applicant has meant that he is considered a prestigious researcher both in the field of metals and in that of cementitious matrix materials, having been invited to participate in 28 thesis tribunals, acting as president in 12 of them, both at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and at different universities nationwide. In addition, for years he has been an evaluator of research projects, requests for infrastructure and requests for support technicians for the ANEP and other regional agencies (ACSUCYL) in an approximate amount of 80 evaluations. He also acts as a reviewer in different international journals (Materials & Design, Construction and Building Materials, Tribology International), reviewing an average of more than 15 articles per year.