Gareth Hinds is NPL Fellow and Science Area Leader in the Electrochemistry Group at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and holds visiting professorships at UCL, the University of Strathclyde and Harbin Institute of Technology. Gareth is the author of over 200 publications and is also currently Vice President of the European Federation of Corrosion.