Justus BENAD. He is a research assistant at the Berlin University of Technology where he obtained
a Bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering in 2015 and a Master degree in Engineering
Science in 2017. He has work experience in the aerospace industry and in academic
research and teaching. He is interested in a wide range of engineering disciplines,
among them are numerical simulation methods, software development, tribology, fluid
and solid mechanics, materials, gas turbines, aircraft design, and areodynamics. Recent
projects he has worked on include the simulation of stresses in turbine blades, the
preliminary design of a flying- wing aircraft, the development of a hydrofoil control
system for racing sailboats, and the simulation of rolling noise of train wheels.
He is a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation and has received awards
from the Royal Aeronautical Society and the German Aerospace Center.
Ken NAKANO. He is a full professor at Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences of Yokohama
National University. He studied aeronautics and astronautics at University of Tokyo
(1988-1997), and obtained his doctorate from University of Tokyo (1997). He worked
at Department of Mechanical Engineering of Saitama University as an assistant professor
(1997-2000). After working at Department of Mechanical Engineering of Yokohama National
University as an associate professor (2000– 2015), he obtained a full professorship
at Yokohama National University (2015). His areas of interest include tribo-physics
(e.g., multiscale and multiphysics of solid friction), tribo-dynamics (e.g., stabilization
mechanisms of tribosystems by breaking structural symmetry), and tribo-informatics
(e.g., objective evaluation of tactile sensations). In 2015, from Japan Society of
Mechanical Engineers (JSME), he was awarded with the JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper
on the measurement error of friction coefficient generated by friction-induced vibration.
He is the chair of the technical committee on tribo-dynamics of Japanese Society of
Tribologists (JAST). He is also a board member of JAST.
Valentin L. POPOV. He is a full professor at the Berlin University of Technology, studied physics (1976–
1982) and obtained his doctorate in 1985 from the Moscow State Lomonosov University.
He worked at the Institute of Strength Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
After a guest professorship in the field of theoretical physics at the University
of Paderborn (Germany) from 1999 to 2002, he has headed the department of System Dynamics
and the Physics of Friction of the Institute of Mechanics at the Berlin University
of Technology. His areas of interest include tribology, nanotribology, tribology at
low temperatures, biotribology, the influence of friction through ultrasound, numerical
simulation of frictional processes, research regarding earthquakes, as well as topics
related to materials science such as the mechanics of elastoplastic media with microstructures,
strength of metals and alloys, and shape memory alloys. He has published over 100
papers in leading international journals during the past 5 years. He is the author
of the book “Contact Mechanics and Friction: Physical principles and applications”
which appeared in three German, two English, Chinese, and Russian editions and co-author
of the book on “Method of Dimensionality Reduction in Contact Mechanics and Friction”
which appeared in German, English and Chinese editions. He is the joint editor of
international journals and regularly organizes international conferences and workshops
over diverse tribological themes. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the
German Tribological Society. He has intensively collaborated with many industrial
corporations and possesses experience in implementing the results of scientific research
in industrial applications.
Mikhail POPOV. He received a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from the Freie Universität Berlin
in 2011 and a Master degree in Engineering Science from the Tomsk Polytechnic University
and the Berlin University of Technology in 2016. Currently he is a doctoral student
at the Berlin University of Technology and a research assistant at the Tomsk Polytechnic
University. His research interests include efficient numerical methods in tribology,
rubber friction, as well as friction and damping under the influence of oscillations.