Research Staff
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Dr Alfredo Fantetti
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Granular crystals, solitary waves, ultrasound, dry friction, friction hysteresis, contact interface analysis, wear and friction mechanisms nonlinear dynamics of jointed structures, turbomachinery, under-platform dampers, vibration testing, experimental friction monitoring
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Dr Asad Jamal
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Corrosion inhibitors, friction modifiers, aqueous lubrication, surfactants, atomic force microscopy (AFM), biotribology
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Dr Carlos Corral-Casas
Location
456 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Rarefied gas dynamics, kinetic theory, statistical mechanics, molecular simulations
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Dr Debashis Puhan
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Polymer tribology, polymer composites, triboemission, t riboelectrification/charging , mechanochemistry , tribochemistry, additives, boundary lubrication, friction and wear mechanisms
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Dr Giulio Fatti
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Computational modelling and Triboelectrification
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Dr James Ewen
Research Interests
Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations, lubricant additives, boundary lubrication, organic friction modifiers (OFMs), elastohydrodynamic lubrication ( EHL), mechanochemistry, surfaces and interfaces
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Dr Jie Zhang (Jason)
Research Interests
Boundary lubrication, wear measurements, lubricant additives, elastohydrodynamic (EHD) friction, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), zinc dialkyldithiophosphate (ZDDP), mechanochemistry
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Dr Keita Inose
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Contact mechanics, Seal, Coating
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Dr Li Shen
Research Interests
Analytical fluid dynamics, experimental fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, a ntifoaming, bubbles, surfactants
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Dr Min Yu
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Mechatronic systems design and modeling, vehicle dynamics and control, actuation and sensing, instrumentation and measurement
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Dr Nicola Menga
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Contact mechanics, rough surfaces, computational modelling
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Dr Pan Dou
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Lubrication condition monitoring using ultrasonic reflection
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Dr Peng Wang
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Contact modelling, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), liquid slip, elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL)
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Dr Songtao Hu
Location
564 City and Guilds Building South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Surface science, tribology, contact mechanics, wear, friction, acoustic emission, seals, lubrication
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Dr Sophie Campen
Research Interests
Surface adsorption/deposition, boundary lubrication, Organic Friction Modifiers (OFMs), self-assembly, in-situ adsorption measurements (AFM and QCM)
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Dr Sorin-Cristian Vlădescu
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Laser surface texturing, film thickness measurements in lubricated contacts , s oft contact tribology (seals), automatic transmissions, automotive safety
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Dr Stefano Galvan
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Software design and development for scientific research, parallel programming, linux system administration and network management, project management
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Dr Suhaib Ardah
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL), contact mechanics, thermal analyses , wear mechanisms, numerical simulations
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Dr Thomas Kirkby
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Soot wear
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Dr Tian Yuan
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Biotribology, fluid flow, Convection-Enhanced Delivery (CED), Finite Element Method (FEM)
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Dr Zhengchu Tan
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Biotribology, 3D-printing, bio-printing, tissue mimicking materials, crack growth modelling in soft materials
Research Students
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Ajit Bastola
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Contact mechanics, wear phenomena (particularly rolling wear), wear simulation using Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
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Alexander MacLaren
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Geared transmission efficiency, churning, elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) , rheology of oils, gear failure, scuffing, micropitting, electric current damage (ECD), triboelectrochemistry
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Ammad Yousuf
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Small electric potential-induced effects, electrochemical effects, friction, wear, micropitting, rolling contact fatigue, bearings and gears
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Amran Mohamed
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Lubricant additives, viscosity modifiers, polymers, molecular dynamics, dissipative particle dynamics
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Andrea Bernardini
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Biotribology, biomechanics, multiscale modelling
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Andrea Zovko
Location
564 City & Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Andreas Varellas
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Arshad Kalathil
Location
564 City & Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology, material, biomechanical, finite element analysis, solids, fluids
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Bastien Bolle
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Beikang Liu
Location
City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Ben Collard
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Benjamin Wainwright
Location
456 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Micropitting, fatigue, spalling, cracks
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Björn Kunzelmann
Research Interests
Bearings, rolling contact fatigue, crack propagation, elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL), finite element methods (FEM) and numerical simulation
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Calum Green
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Data fusion, machine learning, synchrotron-based imaging and spectroscopy
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Carlos Ayestarán Latorre
Research Interests
Lubricant additives, surfaces, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT)
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Chiara Bertuccioli
Research Interests
Bearings, additives, rolling contact fatigue, crack propagation
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Chuan Wang
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Mechanochemistry, lubricant additives and tribofilm formation
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David Uribe Saenz de Camara
Research Interests
Contact mechanics, machine element failure mechanisms and vibrations
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Dimitrios Bikos
Research Interests
Biotribology, mouth feel, food tribology
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Dominika Senajova
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Egheosa Ogbomo
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Eliane Gendreau
Research Interests
Lubricant additives, viscosity modifiers, polymers, fluorescence spectroscopy
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Erik Weiand
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Filimonas Kaliafetis
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Digital twins, boundary and mixed lubrication modelling, tribofilm modelling, wear modelling, numerical simulations
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Fionn Carman
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Modelling, batteries, surfaces, lubricants and heat
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Georgios Samaras
Research Interests
Biotribology, mouth feel, food tribology
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Haochen Yao
Research Interests
Water-based lubricants for EVs, rolling contact fatigue (pitting and micro-pitting), friction, bearings and gears
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Jack Hayes
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Biotribology, mechanobiology, fluorescent microscopy, tissue viability, finite element methods
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Jagjeevan Bhamra
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Molecular dynamics, density functional theory, lubricant additives, diamond-like-carbon
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Joseph Shore
Research Interests
Bearings, additives, rolling contact fatigue, crack propagation
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Jun Wen
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
MEMS, NEMS, microtexturing, coatings
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Kian Kun Yap
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Polymer tribology, high-temperature sliding, transfer film formation, high-performance polymers
(HPPs), polyimide composites, solid lubricants, graphite filler -
Lu Yin
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Luli Li
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Biotribology, mechanobiology, contact mechanics, soft tissue
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Mao Ueda
Research Interests
Lubricant additives, thermal stability, mechanochemistry, stress-augmented thermal activation (SATA)
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Margarida Santos
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Biotribology, non-invasive testing, skin composition, microstructure and progression
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Marie-Louise Schlichting
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology, wire drawing
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Matteo Valderrama
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Solid lubricants, surface coatings, frictionless 2D materials, molecular simulations, predictive machine learning models
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Minnie Leung
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Antiwear additives, boundary lubrication, tribofilm formation, mechanochemistry
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Mohamed Abdelbar
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Molecular dynamics, coarse graining, polymers, biotribology
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Mohanad Bahshwan
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
3D printing, additive manufacturing, water desalination
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Mohd Syafiq Abd Aziz
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Muhammad Rizwanur Rahman
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology, molecular dynamics
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Oli Prendergast
Location
City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Paul-Anael Pogu
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Fluid dynamics, aeration, oil rheology, antifoaming agents, bubbles, oil additives
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Peter Knudsen
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Rachel Januszewski
Research Interests
Bearings, surface analysis, crack proprogation
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Robert Gutierrez
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Roland Jones
Research Interests
Bearings, rolling contact fatigue, crack propagation, elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL), finite element methods (FEM), numerical simulation
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Sarah Bellingham
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Oil degradation, aged oil, sensors
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Shouyi Yin
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Polymer tribology, transfer film, cryogenic conditions
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Shuhang Chen
Location
City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Biotribology, soft functionalized hydrogel, additive manufacture, soft robotics and sensors
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Stavros Bontitsopoulos
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Tribology
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Stavros Ntioudis
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Tom Briggs
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Environmentally acceptable lubricants, pressurised lip seals. soft elastohydrodynamic lubrication, computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis
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Vasily Rublev
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Xikai Yu
Research Interests
Rolling contact fatigue, bearings, crack proprogation, surface analysis
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Xue Zhou
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Tribology
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Yun Zhao
Location
564 City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Triboelectrochemistry, electrochemistry, lubricant additives, boundary lubrication, aqueous lubrication
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Zhaoran Zhu
Location
564 City & Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus
Research Interests
Lubricant additives, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT)
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Zheng Sun
Location
564 City and Guilds Building
South Kensington CampusResearch Interests
Tribology