Andreas Almqvist is a Professor in the Division of Machine Elements at Luleå University of Technology, where he leads the research in Computational Tribology. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Proceedings of the IMechE, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology. His scholarly contributions have earned him both best paper awards and other academic honours, and now he is also recognized as a Swedish Olympic Committee (SOC) Research Fellow, undertaking sports tech research. In collaboration with SOC and the national teams in XC skiing and the biathlon, he coordinates a variety of activities within the Ski & Snow laboratory at LTU.

More about him and his research endeavours is found on his homepage: https://www.ltu.se/en/staff/a/andreas-almqvist

Multi-Scale Insights into the Interplay of Ski, Snow, and Skier Dynamics.

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Giuseppe Carbone received the MSc Mechanical Engineering Degree on February 1998 and in February 2002 the Ph. D. degree in Advanced Production Systems at Politecnico di Bari (Italy). He is currently Full Professor of Applied Mechanics, Head of the Department of Mechanics Mathematics and Management at Politecnico di Bari (IT) and President of the Italian Association of Tribology. In 2010 he founded the Tribology Lab at Politecnico di Bari (IT). He has been Visiting Scientist at the Juelich Research Center (D) and at the Eindhoven University of Technology (NL). He is currently permanent academic visitor at the Imperial College London and visiting scholar at University of North Texas. His scientific interests focus mainly on tribology, viscoelastic materials, contact mechanics, adhesion, biomimetics, superhydrophobicity, mechanical transmissions. Since 2015, he has been also working on swarm intelligence and specifically on the mechanisms enabling the emergence of collective Intelligence in complex systems. His research has been funded over the years with more than € 8.5 million. He serves as Associate Editor of Chaos Solitons and Fractals (Elsevier) and Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering (Tribology Section). He is member of the Editorial Board of (i) Tribology International, (ii) Biomimetics, (iii) ISRN Tribology and also served as Guest Editor of Tribology International, Biomimetics, Coatings, Lubricants, and Applied Science. His H-index is 39 (source: Scopus). He authored about 270 publications, of which more than 150 in archive journals indexed in Scopus and ISI Web of Science.

Improving the sustainability of engineering technologies and devices by tailoring their surfaces tribological properties.

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Prof. Mitjan Kalin’s areas of research are the wear and friction mechanisms of advanced materials, nanoscale interface phenomena, and boundary films for novel green-lubrication technologies, including his recognized contribution to the lubrication of DLC coatings. He has given 60 invited lectures world-wide and has published over 180 peer-reviewed journal papers with over 5500 citations and an H-index of 39. He also published 3 books and holds 13 patents, including USA and EU patents. In his career he has led 40 large, 3-year projects, half of them international. He also collaborated in industrial projects with renowned companies in Europe, Japan and the USA in over 150 R&D projects. He has received several international awards, including the ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award (2006) and Fellow of STLE (2012) and is among few in Slovenia who received both national highest state awards, namely Zois plaque for early achievements and Zois award for outstanding contributions. He is a member of International Engineering Academy and Slovenian Academy of Engineering. Since 2012 he serves as the Editor of Lubrication Science. He is a Full Professor since 2010 and was a Dean at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at University of Ljubljana (2017-2021), where he is the Head of the Laboratory for Tribology and Interface Nanotechnology. He is currently serving as the Deputy President of the International Tribology Council ITC in his second 4-year term.

Interpreting friction behaviour through real contact area analyses.

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Dae-Eun Kim is currently a Full Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Professor Kim received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Professor Kim served as the President of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering and the President of the Korean Tribology Society. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of IJPEM, Senior Editor of JMST, and Associate Editor of ASME J. of Tribology. He currently serves in the editorial board of several tribology journals including Tribology Letters and Friction. Professor Kim has received many awards from various professional societies and institutions including the Ministerial Commendation from the Korea Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and the Science and Technology Pojang National Award from the Korean President. Professor Kim is a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) and a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. His research interests are tribology, coatings and surface modification.

Design for Tribology in Engineering Practice.

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