Dr. Rogerio S. Lima obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and a Master’s Degree in Materials Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); in Brazil.
From 1998 to 2001 he pursued his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the Center for Thermal Research of the State University of New York at Stony Brook University (USA); studying under the mentorship of Prof. Chris Berndt (now Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology – Australia).
Dr. Lima received the Distinguished Doctoral Student Award from Stony Brook University (USA).
After his PhD graduation, Dr. Lima joined the Thermal Spray Team of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in 2001 as a Research Associate and was awarded permanent position in 2006. He currently holds the position of Senior Research Officer at the NRC.
Dr. Lima has published 70 refereed (peer-reviewed) journal papers and 66 conference papers.
Scientific publications cited over 5200X - h-index: 35 (source: Google Scholar – May 19, 2023).
He has worked three two times as Lead-editor and three times as Co-editor for the Proceedings of the International Thermal Spray Conference (ITSC) and has been Co-editor of eight special editions of the Journal of Thermal Spray Technology.
Dr. Lima is currently the President of the Thermal Spray Society (TSS) at ASM International and Fellow of ASM International (FASM).
He is also Affiliate Professor at Concordia University (Canada) and Senior Associate Investigator at the Surface Engineering for Advanced Materials Centre (Australia).
Dr Lima’s main scientific interest is R&D of thermally sprayed thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) and environmental barrier coatings (EBCs) for aerospace applications.