Plenary Lectures

Victoria Van Camp

Adjunct professor of machine elements
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Efficiency first! How tribology could reduce global power need
and ease decarbonisation, today.

Deploying existing tribological knowledge could help us reduce global power consumption by 10%, and with that improve industrial competitiveness and help decarbonise society. Why is this not being done already? What can the tribology research community do to make it happen? There is another 10% to save if lab scale insights in tribology would be brought forward and industrialised - what is needed to realise this? The answer lies in making knowledge available to laypeople, in formats they can use, and to understand how industrial leaders think. Can it be done? YES, ABSOLUTELY.
Dr Victoria Van Camp holds an MSc in mechanical engineering and a PhD in tribology, from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. She joined SKF in 1996 and had multiple roles in research, new product introduction and management, and was company CTO from 2017 to 2022. She left SKF in 2022 and now serves as board member within the Swedish steel- paper- and energy industry. Since 2022, Dr Van Camp is an associate professor of tribology at LTU.