DrBob or Facundo Varela

(He/Him)

Senior Research Fellow

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering

  • Senior Research Fellow
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Engineering
  • +61 3 522 78098 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Methods and Materials for Keyhole Pipeline Coating Repair and Corrosion Mitigation
    Salman Abdullah Ali Al-Saeedi - Institute for Frontier Materials
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Developing Gemini Surfactants to Mitigate Preferential Corrosion in Pipeline Welds
    Sohd Sofi Bin Numin - School of Engineering
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Infrastructure Corrosion Protection and Life Extension
    Mostafa Elsayed - School of Engineering
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Measuring and understanding cathodic protection current through disbonded organic coatings and its effect on corrosion.
    Mauricio Leonel Latino - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A study on enhancing the reliability of corrosion monitoring using electrochemical corrosion probes
    Ke Wang - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Inhibition of Hydrogen Permeation in Pipeline Steel by Chemical Inhibitors
    Zhi Wang - Institute for Frontier Materials - 2025