Rosa M. Espinosa-Marzal, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL), United States
Presentation title
“Correlation between the adsorption and the nanotribological performance of fatty acid and amine based organic friction modifiers on steel surfaces.“
Biography
Since 2013 Dr. Espinosa-Marzal is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. In in 2019 she received the Deans Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Espinosa-Marzal has a Ph.D. in materials engineering from Hamburg University of Technology (Germany). After her Ph.D., she received an award to promote academic career of young researchers from the German Research Foundation (DFG), which brought her to Princeton University as a research fellow. Prior to joining Illinois, Dr. Espinosa-Marzal spent four years as senior scientist in the laboratory of surface science and technology in the Materials Science Department at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Her research interests include understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying friction, lubrication and wear of lubricated contacts. She has published over eighty peer-reviewed manuscripts. Since 2016, she serves as member of the executive committee of the Division of Colloids and Surface Chemistry at the American Chemical Society in the role of membership secretary.
Jayashree Bijwe, Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Presentation title
“Polymers and composites- Versatile tribo-materials”
Biography
Jayashree Bijwe is working as a Professor in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi India for 27 years. She is a material scientist and her major research areas are; tribology of polymer composites and nano-composites leading to applications in dry-bearings, brake-pads/ shoes and high performance adhesives. She also works in nano-additives for engine oils and gear oils. She has published 220 research papers in journals, one US patent, 1 French patent and few Indian patents. Her google scholar index (h index) is 54, i10 is 165 and citations around 9800. She has worked with several Indian and International Industries and collaborated with Institute of Lightweight Materials (ILK) in Dresden Germany and Ecole Centrale de Lille, France for a long time. She has received the most prestigious Faculty Lifetime Research award from I. I. T. Delhi in 2021. She has been on Editorial/advisory board member of Tribology Intl, Wear, STMP, I.O.P. SciNotes ISRN Tribology, and Industrial Lubrication & Tribology. She has served/serving on several Govt funding Schemes as a Chairperson/ subject expert.
Kati Valtonen, Ph.D.
Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Presentation title
“Experimental studies of high stress abrasive and impact-abrasive wear”
Biography
Kati Valtonen works currently as a Staff Scientist at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of Tampere University. She is responsible for the research services and infrastructure of Tampere Wear Center. Her particular research interests are the high stress abrasive and impact wear of steels, characterization of wear mechanisms, and assessment of the relevance of laboratory wear test methods in regard of the in-service performance of steels and other wear resistant materials. Since 2012, she has acted as an editor for the Finnish Journal of Tribology.
Anna Igual Munoz, Ph.D.
Technical University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Presentation title
“Tribocorrosion solutions: the only way to mitigate the consequences of systems subjected to wear and corrosion interaction”
Biography
Anna Igual Munoz was Professor at the Technical University of Valencia (UPV, Spain) in the Chemical and Nuclear engineering department and at present scientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the Tribology and Interfacial Chemistry lab (TIC). She has a master degree in Industrial engineering (specialized in chemical engineering) and a PhD in Electrochemical corrosion (2001) from UPV. She did a Postdoctoral research at the University of Virginia (USA) in 2002 in the field of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and local electrochemical techniques. Her scientific interests are mainly focused in the understanding the interactions (chemical, mechanical and biological) between materials and surfaces (mainly metals and oxides) with the environment. Mainly in the fields of corrosion, tribology and new functional coatings.
Stefanie Hanke, Ph.D.
University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Presentation title
“Fundamental Investigations of Cavitation Damage Mechanisms using Single Laser-Induced Bubbles”
Biography
Stefanie Hanke is a researcher and lecturer at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, in the field of Materials Science, Tribology and Failure Analysis in Mechanical Engineering. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014, studying the effect of thermomechanical microstructure modifications on the tribological behavior of various metal alloys. As post-doctoral scientist, she headed a research group for surface modification by solid state joining techniques at Helmholtz Center Geesthacht, Germany. Amongst others, she accomplished a first in-situ study of phase transformations in Ti-alloys during Friction Surfacing using Synchrotron radiation. Back at University Duisburg-Essen since February 2017, she is now head of the research department of Materials Science in Mechanical Engineering. The group is focused on the correlation of microstructural mechanisms of damage accumulation and failure initiation, both under fatigue and tribological loading. This includes the phenomenological and mechanism-based analysis of sliding wear and cavitation erosion behavior of martensitic and austenitic steels, as well as Al- and Cu-based alloys for various engineering applications.
M. Clelia Righi, Ph.D.
University of Bologna, Italy
Presentation title
“Advancing solid interfaces and lubricants by first principles material design”
Biography
M. Clelia Righi is Full Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Bologna University. Her research activity focuses on the development and application of computational methods to understand and predict the behaviour of materials from first principles, particularly of surface and interface phenomena.
She adopted pioneering computational approaches in tribology and applied them for understanding chemical reactions activated by mechanical stresses and designing materials to reduce friction. In 2019 she received an ERC consolidator grant for the project “Advancing solid interfaces and lubricants by first principles material design” (SLIDE).
M. Clelia Righi is visiting professor at the Imperial College London, UK. She collaborates with different multinational companies and international experimental labs. She is part of the editorial boards of Coatings, Lubricants, Lubrication Science, and Scientific Reports.
