Meet the 2013 Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker; Dr. Kenneth Holmberg, Dr. Tech

Dr. Kenneth Holmberg, Dr. Tech, is a Research Professor in tribology, condition monitoring and operational reliability at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He will be presenting the keynote lecture for the 2013 STLE Annual Meeting & Exhibition titled, "Global Energy Consumption Due to Friction in Passenger Transportation and Industry.”
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Bio
Kenneth Holmberg, Dr. Tech, is a Research Professor in tribology, condition monitoring and operational reliability at the VTT Technical Research Centre in Finland. Mr. Holmberg has been very active in the tribology community written and edited several books on the subject as well as published 170 scientific papers mainly in the areas of tribology, surface engineering, lubrication, computational material modeling and simulation, operational reliability, maintenance and diagnostics. At VTT he is currently coordinating the strategic computational materials modeling and simulation research.

Dr. Holmberg started in tribology research in 1978 with investigations on boundary lubrication effects of macrotextured surfaces in sliding and rolling contacts. It was followed by investigations of wear of steel and ceramic surfaces as well as wear particle monitoring. For the last 20 years he has intensively studied the friction and wear mechanisms of surfaces coated by very thin, about one micrometre thick ceramic surface coatings such as physical and chemical vapour deposited surfaces.

Dr. Holmberg has been very active in the tribology community. Holmberg has written and edited several books on the subject of tribology as well as published 170 scientific papers mainly in the in the areas of tribology, surface engineering, lubrication, computational material modeling and simulation, operational reliability, maintenance and diagnostics.

Holmberg holds many positions of trust and professional assignments. He is vice president of the International Tribology Council. 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 is 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 in the editorial board of 8 scientific journals and he has been responsible for organising major international conferences in tribology, monitoring and diagnostics e.g. EUROTRIB’89, COMADEM’97 and NORDTRIB´00. He is member of the Board of Directors at the Taiho Kogyo Tribology Research Foundation (Japan), member of the Steering Committee of the Leonardo Centre of Tribology and Surface Technology at the Sheffield University (UK), member of the Programme Committee for Materials Research at the Foundation of Strategic Research (Sweden), member of the Programme Committee for Strategic Materials Research at FIMECC (Finland), and a frequently used consultant for industrial contracts and R&D projects.

At VTT he is presently coordinating the strategic computational materials modelling and simulation research.