Dr.ir. A.M. Homborg

Dr.ir. A.M. Homborg

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Axel Homborg graduated from the Royal Netherlands Naval College in 2004 as an officer within the Royal Netherlands Navy with a specialization in electrical engineering. In 2006, he obtained his Msc degree in Materials Science at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering of Delft University of Technology. He acted as a Deputy Engineering Officer where he led a team of radar, communication and navigation systems specialists on an Air Defence and Command frigate (De Zeven Provinciën class) and as a system engineer for command, control and communication systems for the Dutch newly-built Holland-class Navy ships. In 2014, he obtained his PhD degree at the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Delft University of Technology. The focus of his Thesis was the study of small perturbations in current and potential which are spontaneously generated by corrosion, also known as electrochemical noise, for the detection and identification of corrosion.

In 2014, Axel became Assistant Professor dynamics based maintenance at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy. There, he further matured the electrochemical noise principle into a remote corrosion and coating health monitoring sensor concept for practical use by the Royal Netherlands Navy. In 2016 he became Associate Professor maintenance technology at the same institute. Among else, his activities involve the development of corrosion monitoring concepts for the Royal Netherlands Navy and Air Force, as well as their integration into adaptive maintenance protocols, the further development of passive corrosion monitoring, corrosion inhibition and the replacement of hexavalent chromium for the Dutch armed forces.

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