Daniele Dini

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Daniele Dini FREng FIMechE CEng is an Italian/British Mechanical Engineer. He is a Professor of Tribology at Imperial College London, where he is Head of the Tribology Group. [1] Tribology is the science and engineering of friction, lubrication and wear.

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Education

Dini received an M.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Bari, Italy in 2000, He then studied for a D.Phil. in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, which he obtained in 2004. His D.Phil. research was performed under the supervision of Professor David Hills. [2]

Research and career

Dini is currently the Shell-Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Complex Engineering Interfaces. [3] Previously, he was an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Established Career Fellow. Dini has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers in the field of tribology. According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited over 6000 times and he has a h-index of 43. [4] He is an expert in the modelling and simulation of tribological systems across scales. [5] Dini was promoted to full Professor in 2017, his inaugural lecture was entitled 'Releasing friction's potential'. [6] In the same year, he succeeded Professor Hugh Spikes as Head of the Tribology Group. [1]

He is an Assistant Editor for the Elsevier journal International Journal of Solids and Structures [7] and is on the International Advisory Editorial Board for Tribology International. [8] He is a Co-Director of both the Shell University Technology Centre (UTC) for Fuels and Lubricants [9] and the SKF UTC, [10] which are based in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. He is also currently Director of Research for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. [11]

Honours and awards

Dini is the recipient of a number of awards, including: the Tribology Bronze Medal (IMechE, 2004); the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation Award (Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 2007); three best paper awards: Thomas Bernard Hall Prize (IMechE, 2008 and 2010) and the Kenneth L. Johnson Award (ASME, 2012); Teaching Excellence in Engineering Education (Imperial College London, 2014). He was the recipient of the prestigious EPSRC Established Career Fellowship, awarded in 2016. [1] The strong links of his group with industrial partners was recognised through the Imperial College President’s Award and Medal for Excellence in External Collaboration and Partnerships in 2017. [12] He received the Donald Julius Groen Prize from the IMechE in 2019. [13] In 2022, Dini was presented with the inaugural Peter Jost Tribology Award [14] from the International Tribology Council at the 7th World Tribology Congress. [15] Dini received the Tribology Silver Medal from the IMechE in 2022. [16]

In 2014, Dini was elected as a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE). In 2021, he was also elected as a Fellow of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (FSTLE) [17] and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). [11]

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  2. ↑ Dini, Daniele (2004). Studies in fretting fatigue with particular application to almost complete contacts (Ph.D. thesis). University of Oxford.
  3. ↑ "Imperial scoops three new Royal Academy of Engineering research chairs | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
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  5. ↑ Vakis, A.I.; Yastrebov, V.A.; Scheibert, J.; Nicola, L.; Dini, D.; Minfray, C.; Almqvist, A.; Paggi, M.; Lee, S.; Limbert, G.; Molinari, J.F.; Anciaux, G.; Aghababaei, R.; Echeverri Restrepo, S.; Papangelo, A.; Cammarata, A.; Nicolini, P.; Putignano, C.; Carbone, G.; Stupkiewicz, S.; Lengiewicz, J.; Costagliola, G.; Bosia, F.; Guarino, R.; Pugno, N.M.; Müser, M.H.; Ciavarella, M. (1 September 2018). "Modeling and simulation in tribology across scales: An overview" (PDF). Tribology International. 125: 169–199. doi:10.1016/j.triboint.2018.02.005. ISSN   0301-679X. S2CID   139353632.
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  7. ↑ "Editorial Board - International Journal of Solids and Structures - Journal - Elsevier". journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  8. ↑ "Editorial Board - Tribology International - Journal - Elsevier". journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  9. ↑ "Shell UTC | Research groups | Imperial College London". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "SKF UTC | Research groups | Imperial College London". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  11. 1 2 "Professor Daniele Dini". Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 22 September 2021.
  12. ↑ "Mech Eng academics win President's Awards and Medals for Excellence | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  13. ↑ "Donald Julius Groen Prize Lecture 2019: From Lubricants to Triboelectrification and Bioinspired Applications - Enhancing our Understanding through Modelling in Tribology | London | TLE6968". events.imeche.org. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  14. ↑ "Peter Jost Tribology Award - Awards - ITC". www.itctribology.net. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  15. ↑ "Prof. Daniele Dini awarded 1st Peter Jost Tribology Award - News - ITC". itctribology.net. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  16. ↑ "IMechE's Tribology Silver Medal 2022 Winner Announced". www.imeche.org. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  17. ↑ "New Fellows – STLE". www.stle.org. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
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