Daniele Dini

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Mechanical Engineer Mechanical may refer to: Machine * Machine (mechanical), a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement * Mechanical calculator, a device used to perform the basic operations of ...

. He is a Professor of

Tribology Tribology is the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative Motion (physics), motion. It includes the study and application of the principles of friction, lubrication and wear. Tribology is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on m ...

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, where he is Head of the Tribology Group. Tribology is the science and engineering of

friction Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other. There are several types of friction: *Dry friction is a force that opposes the relative lateral motion of t ...

lubrication Lubrication is the process or technique of using a lubricant to reduce friction and wear and tear in a contact between two surfaces. The study of lubrication is a discipline in the field of tribology. Lubrication mechanisms such as fluid-lubric ...

and

wear Wear is the damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces. Causes of wear can be mechanical (e.g., erosion) or chemical (e.g., corrosion). The study of wear and related processes is referred to as tribology. Wear in m ...

Education

Dini received an M.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the

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, Italy in 2000, He then studied for a

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in the Department of Engineering Science at the

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, which he obtained in 2004. His

research was performed under the supervision of Professor David Hills.

Research and career

Dini is currently the

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Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

Chair in Complex Engineering Interfaces. Previously, he was an

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Established Career Fellow. Dini has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers in the field of tribology. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited over 6000 times and he has a

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of 43. He is an expert in the modelling and simulation of tribological systems across scales. Dini was promoted to full Professor in 2017, his inaugural lecture was entitled 'Releasing friction's potential'. In the same year, he succeeded Professor Hugh Spikes as Head of the Tribology Group. He is an Assistant Editor for the

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journal ''International Journal of Solids and Structures'' and is on the International Advisory Editorial Board for ''Tribology International''. He is a Co-Director of both the

University Technology Centre (UTC) for Fuels and Lubricants and the

SKF AB SKF (Swedish: ''Svenska Kullagerfabriken''; 'Swedish Ball Bearing Factory') is a Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing company founded in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1907. The company manufactures and supplies bearings, seals, lubrication and l ...

UTC, which are based in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. He is also currently Director of Research for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London.

Honours and awards

Dini is the recipient of a number of awards, including: the Tribology Bronze Medal (

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, 2004); the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation Award (

Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences or ''Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien'' (IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden. The academy is an independent organisation, which promo ...

, 2007); three best paper awards: Thomas Bernard Hall Prize (

, 2008 and 2010) and the Kenneth L. Johnson Award (

ASME The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...

, 2012); Teaching Excellence in Engineering Education (Imperial College London, 2014). He was the recipient of the prestigious

EPSRC The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to universi ...

Established Career Fellowship, awarded in 2016. The strong links of his group with industrial partners was recognised through the Imperial College President’s Award and Medal for Excellence in External Collaboration and Partnerships in 2017. He received the Donald Julius Groen Prize from the IMechE in 2019. In 2022, Dini was presented with the inaugural

Peter Jost (Hans) Peter Israel Jost, CBE (25 January 1921 – 7 June 2016) was a British mechanical engineer. He was the founder of the discipline of tribology, the science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion. In 1966, Jost published ...

Tribology Award from the International Tribology Council at the 7th World Tribology Congress. Dini received the Tribology Silver Medal from the

in 2022. In 2014, Dini was elected as a

Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Fellowship of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) is an award and fellowship granted to individuals that the Institution of Mechanical Engineers judges to be a "professional engineer working in a senior role with significant autono ...

(FIMechE). In 2021, he was also elected as a Fellow of the

Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) is an American non-profit technical society for the tribology and lubrication engineering sectors worldwide. Its offices are in Park Ridge, Illinois. Established in 1944 as the Ameri ...

(FSTLE) and a

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) is an award and fellowship for engineers who are recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering as being the best and brightest engineers, inventors and technologists in the UK and from aroun ...

(FREng).

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