Begoña Santillana

Principal Scientist · Tata Steel · company speakers →

Dr. Begoña Santillana. Graduated back in 2002 as Metallurgical Engineer at the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional in Argentina, with a PhD from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands on Thermomechanical properties of steel during solidification. Currently working as a Principal Scientist in the Steelmaking & Casting group within the Ironmaking, Steelmaking and Casting department, at Tata Steel R&D, The Netherlands. Her research fields are in solidification of steels and their thermomechanical properties during solidification. Her research is closely connected with the continuous casting industrial process and how the process parameters can affect the solidification, and vice-versa, how research could help on tuning process parameters towards defect-free casting. Complementary to Dr. Santillana’s research, she also supervise regularly several PhDs and MScs students along different universities worldwide. Additionally, Dr. Santillana has more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and is a regular reviewer for several journals and for the Research program of the European Union. She has also co-authored the 2013 IOM3 Williams award manuscript, the 2017 AIST Jerry Silver award, and received a special mention on the the 2013 Tata Innovista award. Dr. Santillana is also a member of the Materials Chemistry committee of the IOM3.

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