Daniele Dini Editor

Professor Tomas Liskiewicz is Head of Department of Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has over 20 years of international academic and engineering experience from leading research institutions in the UK, France, Canada, and Poland. His research interests focus on surface engineering and tribology of functional surfaces, with a particular interest in fretting wear phenomena. His work has been published in such journals as Applied Surface Engineering; Tribology International; Surface and Coatings Technology; Wear and Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. He has presented at an array of international conferences and has been involved in fretting research for 20 years, with a main focus on wear processes. He previously spent 2 years in Alberta, Canada, working as a Senior Scientist at Charter Coating, leading material testing projects for the oil and gas industry. He was elected Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London in 2014 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in London where he acts as Chair of the Tribology Group Committee. Daniele Dini is Head of the Tribology Group at Imperial College London. Prior to joining Imperial in 2006, Professor Dini studied in the Department of Engineering at the University of Oxford, working on fretting fatigue of gas turbine components. He has been involved in work on fretting fatigue and wear for over 20 years, and currently leads the advanced modeling research team within the Tribology Group at Imperial, collaborating closely with its experimentalists. His current research portfolio supports a large team of researchers focused on studies related to the modeling of tribological systems and materials. Most of these projects are multidisciplinary and range from atomic and molecular simulation of lubricants, additives, and surfaces, to modeling of systems, such as machine and biomedical components. He has received many individual and best papers awards, sits on a number of international committees and editorial boards, is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Mechanical Engineers, and has published over 200 journal articles along with several book chapters.