Modeling and Simulation of Tribological Problems in Technology

Marco Paggi is full professor of Structural Mechanics at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, where he serves as director of the research unit Multi-scale Analysis of Materials (MUSAM) and of the experimental laboratory MUSAM-Lab. He has been the principal investigator of several Italian and EU projects, including a prestigious ERC Starting Grant and an ERC Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research Council. His research interests span various topics of continuum mechanics, with special focus on contact mechanics, fracture mechanics and coupled problems. On these topics, he published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed international journals.

David Hills read Engineering Science at St John’s College, Oxford, UK from 1973-6, and was a research assistant and then lecturer at what was then Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham from 1977-1983. He then took up an appointment at University of Oxford, UK in the Department of Engineering Science, together with a Fellowship at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he has been ever since. His main research interests have been in fretting and fretting fatigue, supported mainly by the British physical sciences research council (EPSRC) and commercially by Rolls-Royce plc.