Ankush Anand Editor

Dr. Ankush Raina is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu and Kashmir, India. His area of interest includes Wear and Lubrication, Additive Manufacturing, Rheological properties of lubricating Oils. He has been awarded Ph. D in the area of Industrial Lubrication. He completed his M. Tech in Mechanical System Design from NIT Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. He was awarded with Gold Medal for securing first position in M. Tech. He has extensive research experience in the field of nano lubrication and has carried out various studies using nano-additives in different lubricating oils and composite materials. Further, he has also explored the tribological characteristics of different types of 3D Printed polymeric materials. He has published more than 50 articles in the SCI/SCIE/Scopus indexed journals with more than 1200 citations and h-index of 19 and i-10 index of 32. He has also presented several papers in national and international conferences in India and abroad. He is the reviewer of several reputed SCI/SCIE indexed journals and has also coordinated several events at university level.

Dr. Mir Irfan Ul Haq is currently working as Assistant Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University. He has previously worked with the R&D wing of Mahindra and Mahindra. He has obtained Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from SMVD University and Master of Engineering in Mechanical System Design (Gold Medalist) from National Institute of Technology Srinagar. He has carried his Ph.D. in the area of tribology of lightweight materials. He is actively involved in teaching and research for the past 10 years in the field of materials, tribology and 3D printing. His research interests include lightweight materials, New Product Development and Additive Manufacturing, Development of Green Lubricants, Self-Lubricating Materials and Cutting Fluids, Mechanical Testing of Composites, Friction and Wear of Materials, Surface Engineering. He has published around 50 research papers in SCI and Scopus indexed journals. He has edited 03 books and has served as guest editor in reputed journals.

Moreover, he has been awarded various research grants for various projects from various agencies like DST and NPIU AICTE. He has attended numerous conferences and workshops both in India and abroad like USA and Singapore. He is member of reviewer boards of various international journals apart from chairing technical sessions in various international and national conferences. Dr. Haq is actively involved in organizing various conferences and workshops. He has also coordinated various student events such as SAEBAJA, ECOKART and TEDX. Moreover, he has supervised around 20 Masters and Bachelor level projects. Dr. Haq has served as member of various committees at national and state level.

Dr. Patricia Iglesias Victoria earned her PhD in Mechanical Engineering with focus on Tribology from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (Spain). Dr. Iglesias also worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher in the Center for Materials Processing and Tribology at Purdue University. Currently, she is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Tribology Laboratory in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on wear and friction of materials, ionic liquids as lubricants and additives of lubricants, bio-lubricants, nanostructured materials and textured surfaces. Dr. Iglesias has extensive experience working on tribology and has published 40 peer-reviewed articles and more than 40 conference proceedings in the area.

Dr. Sudhanraj Jeganmohan is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Szombathely, Hungary. He has an industrial experience of 3 years at Bharath Electronics Limited, Bengaluru as Contract Engineer in Production department. He has an additional 2 years of experience at Wipro Technologies, Chennai as Design Engineer in Design and Development Team. He has obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical engineering from Anna University, Chennai and Master of Engineering in Engineering Design from Anna University, Coimbatore. He has carried his PhD in the area of industrial tribology in automotive disk brake pads. He is actively involved in teaching and research for a decade in the field of industrial tribology, composite materials and 3D printing. His research interests include Noise, Vibration and Harshness studies in automotive brakes, Yaw brakes, Biomedical Materials, Eco friendly polymers, Material development and characterization. To his credit he has published various research papers in SCI and Scopus indexed journals and presented various papers in national and international conferences.

Dr. Ankush Anand is currently working as Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, India. His Areas of Interest includes Sustainability and Product Life Cycle Design, Tribology of Metal Matrix Composites, Polymer Composites, Biotribology, etc. He is actively involved in teaching and research activities for more than 17 years. He has successfully guided 06 Ph.D’s and supervised more than 15 M. Tech. Dissertations. He has extensively published more than 50 articles in the SCI / SCIE /Scopus indexed journals with more than 1000 citations and h-index of 18. He has also attended various International Conferences in India and abroad and presented research articles and has also chaired various technical sessions in USA, UK, Europe, etc. He is an active member of various professional bodies including American Society for Mechanical Engineers.