Tribology 2025 – Materials Making the Difference
Tuesday, 3rd June 2025
Rolls-Royce Learning and Development Centre, Gate 5A, Wilmore Road, Derby DE24 9BD
The EMMS conference “Tribology 2025 – Materials Making the Difference” will be the UK’s foremost tribology conference for researchers, engineers, technicians, industrialists and managers. The 1-day conference will cover tribology in a wide spectrum of industries, with a focus on materials.
Join us at Derby to network with industry and academic leaders.
Why should you attend?
The EMMS conference will feature:
- 9+ invited speakers from sector leaders from Universities, Industry and RTOs
- In-depth technical talks from academic experts on tribology
- Insightful talks from Industry Leaders on cutting-edge topics shaping our lives in the 21st century
- A forum moderated by EMMS experts
- Dedicated networking time over coffee/tea and buffet lunch
- Exhibition space to showcase developments in tribology
- A poster session
- Visit to the at the Rolls-Royce Heritage Centre
- And much more!
Our growing list of invited confirmed speakers includes:
- Dr Neil Glover, Rolls-Royce plc “Introduction and Welcome”
- Prof Robert Wood, University of Southampton Keynote “Tribology for Net Zero”
- Lloyd Pallett, Rolls-Royce plc “Tribology and the Product Lifecycle in Aerospace”
- Prof Phil Shipway, University of Nottingham “Wear and subsurface damage in fretting: the key role of debris formation and transport”
- Dr-Ing Emanuel Tack, Tribology Expert, Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG “Winning the tribological contest using a Digital Twin for PVD coated applications (Subtitle: Surface Solution for Gears as an example)”
- Dr Honor Powrie, Head of Data Science, GE Aviation/Southampton University “Digitalization in Tribology: Challenges and Opportunities”
- Dr Dave Stewart, Rolls-Royce plc “Nuclear Plant Tribology Materials, Mechanisms and Models”
- Prof Suman Shrestha, Keronite “Space Tribology”
- Dr Mazen Al Hajjar, DePuy Orthopaedics “The science of biotribology in total joint replacement”
- Prof Ian Taylor, UCLan “Tribology in Transportation – a lubricant perspective”
