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.

Kenneth Holmberg

Retired Research Professor in tribology, condition monitoring and operational reliability
VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland

Impact of Tribology on Global Energy Use and Decarbonisation

Kenneth Holmberg, Dr Tech, is retired Research Professor in tribology, condition monitoring and operational reliability from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He is the author of two books on coating tribology, editor of 16 books and he has given 53 invited plenary/keynote lectures at international conferences. He has published over 200 scientific papers mainly in areas of tribology, surface engineering, lubrication, computational material modelling and simulation, operational reliability, maintenance and diagnostics.
He was Interim Acting President of the International Tribology Council 2016-2018. He has been the leader of Model based design of tribological coating systems in the IEA programme on Advanced Materials for Transportation 2012-2017. He was president of the OECD IRG Wear group 1992-2006 and chairman of the European COST 516&532 TRIBOLOGY joint research actions 1995-2008.
He has been Chief Engineer Councillor at the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland and a frequently used expert in the European Community and European Science Foundation research actions and programmes. He is member of the Board of Directors at the Taiho Kogyo Tribology Research Foundation (Japan). He was member of the Programme Committee for Materials Research at the Foundation of Strategic Research (Sweden), and a frequently used consultant for industrial contracts and R&D projects. At VTT he was coordinating the strategic computational materials modelling and simulation research, named VTT Propertune.