Martina Stella

Martina is a Boltzmann Research Fellow at The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste. Her main research is centred around the development and application of multi-scale DFT methods for the modelling of excited states in molecular and extended systems (e.g OLED materials). In recent years she started working with classical molecular dynamics for modelling the tribology of solid lubricants and 2D materials in confined and extreme conditions, e.g. under shear and high pressure.

Michael Wolloch

Michael is an independent postdoc at the computational material science group of the University of Vienna, where he works on the fundamental aspects of adhesion and friction. His main interest is the development of high-throughput methods for ab-initio tribology, especially at solid-solid interfaces. Recently he joined the VASP software company part time, contributing to various high-throughput-DFT approaches.

Norbert Bader

Norbert is a post doctoral researcher currently working at the Institute of Machine Design and Tribology of Leibniz University Hannover. His research focuses on the high pressure rheology of lubricants in highly loaded non-conforming contacts, especially elastohydrodynamicly lubricated contacts (EHL). Further areas of ongoing work are the behaviour of grease in EHL contacts, the electrical behaviour of lubricants in highly loaded contacts, simulation of lubrication problems, and measurment techniques to determine fluid properties at high pressures and temperatures.

Chiara Gattinoni

Chiara is a Lecturer at London South Bank University. She is a surface scientist with an interest in the computational modelling of tribological and catalytic processes. She dreams of seeing ab initio methods become routinely used in tribology and she is working hard to make it happen.

James P. Ewen

James is a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow at Imperial College London. His research focuses on the application of molecular simulations to study surfaces and interfaces. Currently, he is particularly interested in mechanochemical effects on lubricant additive behaviour.