Javier Garcia Peláez

EM ELF Technical Signing Authority at Navantia

A professional associated with the Navantia shipyard in Cartagena since 1999, with a career specialising in naval engineering and submarine design.

Currently (since March 2024), he is ATD EM ELF and a senior scientific consultant in the Engineering Department of the Submarine Division, where he works on CONOPS, mission profiles, conceptual architecture, situational awareness and naval analysis.

Between March 2018 and March 2024, he worked as a naval consultant in the Anaerobic Propulsion Engineering Department.

Previously, he was head of the Preliminary Submarine Design Department between March 2007 and March 2018, leading key activities in the initial design phases.

He began his career in November 1999 in the fields of hydrodynamics, signature control and submarine naval architecture, building up solid technical expertise in the submarine sector.