| Name | Role | Affiliation |
| Sriram Sundararajan | Conference Chair | Iowa State University, USA |
| Jun Qu | Program Chair | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA |
| Martin Dienwiebel | Editorial Chair | KIT and Fraunhofer IWM, Germany |
| Stefanie Hanke | Editorial Co-Chair | University Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Richard Chromik | Secretary | McGill University, Canada |
| Steve Shaffer | Treasurer | Shaffer Tribology Consulting |
| Marcello Papini | Liason for journal Wear | Ryerson University, Canada |
| Alfons Fischer | Liason for journal Wear | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Eisenforschung, Germany |
| Thomas Scharf | Immediate Past Chair | University of North Texas, TX, USA |
| Peter Blau | Conference Historian | Blau Tribology Consulting, NC, USA |
| Laura Peña Parás | Publicity Chair | Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico |
| Stefanie Hanke | Poster Chair | University Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Wenjun Cai | Awards Chair | Virginia Tech, VA, USA |
| Mark Gee | Tutorial Chair | National Physical Lab (NPL), UK |
| Ken Budinski | Exhibit Advisor | Bud Labs, USA |
| Alfons Fischer | Session Co-Coordinator: Abrasive Wear | Max-Planck-Institute for Eisenforschung, Germany |
| Carsten Gachot | Session Co-Coordinator: Abrasive Wear | TU Wien, Vienna, Austria |
| Markus A. Wimmer | Session Co-Coordinator: Biotribology | Rush University Medical University, Chicago, USA |
| Thomas Scharf | Session Co-Coordinator: Ceramics and CMCs | University of North Texas, TX, USA |
| Carsten Gachot | Session Co-Coordinator: Surface Texturing | TU Wien, Vienna, Austria |
| Patricia Iglesias | Session Co-Coordinator: Surface Texturing | Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA |
| Sriram Sundararajan | Session Co-Coordinator: Coatings and Surface | Iowa State University, USA |
| Dirk Biermann | Session Co-Coordinator: Cutting and Tool Wear | TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany |
| Jens Hardell | Session Co-Coordinator: Elevated Temperature Wear | Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden |
| Peter Lee | Session Co-Coordinator: Engine Tribology | Southwest Research Institute, TX, USA |
| Robert Wood | Session Co-Coordinator: Erosion and Erosion-Impact | University of Southampton, UK |
| Stefanie Hanke | Session Co-Coordinator: Erosion and Erosion-Impact | University Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Siegfried Fouvry | Session Co-Coordinator: Fretting Wear, Friction and Wear under Vibratory | Ecole Centrale Lyon, France |
| Jun Qu | Session Co-Coordinator: Lubricated Wear, Scuffing, Rolling | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA |
| Mitjan Kalin | Session Co-Coordinator: Lubricated Wear, Scuffing, Rolling | University of Ljublijana, Ljublijana, Slovenia |
| Sebastian Weber | Session Co-Coordinator: Metals and MMCs | University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany |
| Gianandrea Vittorio Messa | Session Co-Coordinator: Modeling and Simulation | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| Emile van der Heide | Session Co-Coordinator: Polymers and PMCs, Friction Materials | Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands |
| Martin Dienwiebel | Session Co-Coordinator: Renewable Energy Applications | KIT and Fraunhofer IWM, Germany |
| Sylvie Descartes | Session Co-Coordinator: Role of Third Bodies | INSA Lyon, France |
| Richard Chromick | Session Co-Coordinator: Sliding Wear | McGill University, Quebec, Canada |
| Jun Qu | Session Co-Coordinator: Sliding Wear | Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA |
| Anna Igual Munoz | Session Co-Coordinator: Tribocorrosion (including erosion-corrosion) | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Stefano Mischler | Session Co-Coordinator: Tribocorrosion (including erosion-corrosion) | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Mark Gee | Session Co-Coordinator: Wear Testing and Monitoring | National Physical Lab (NPL), UK |
| Laura Peña Parás | Session Co-Coordinator: Wheel/Rail Contact | Universidad de Monterrey, México |
| Sylvie Descartes | Session Co-Coordinator: Wheel/Rail Contact | INSA Lyon, France |
| Pantcho Stoyanov | Session Co-Coordinator: Aviation and Aerospace Wear | United Technologies Corporation – Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, USA |
Peter M. Lee is a Staff Engineer and the Chief Tribologist at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio Texas. He established the Tribology Research and Evaluations Group in 2011 following his move to the US from the University of Leeds, where he was a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow.
Mark Gee is an NPL Fellow in the Materials Division at the National Physical Laboratory. Recently he was awarded the status of visiting Professor at the University of Southampton and is a core member of the national Centre for Advanced Tribology and Southampton. He leads projects that are concerned with the development of an improved infrastructure for friction and wear testing in the UK. Particular research interests are the mechanisms of abrasive and erosive wear for ceramics and other hard materials, and the development of nanotribology test techniques. He has published over 200 papers and reports. He has recently been Chairman of the UK Institute of Physics Tribology Group, and was recently Secretary of the Surface Engineering Division of the UK Institute of Materials, Mining and Minerals. He is also a member of the International Advisory Editorial Boards of Tribology International, and Tribology – Materials Surfaces and Interfaces. He is a member of various standards committees including ASTM Committee G2 on Wear, ISO TC 206 Advanced Ceramics, and ISO TC 229 Nanotechnologies where he lead a project that recently published the first international standard on nanotechnologies.
Peter J. Blau is a Distinguished Research and Development Staff Member, and Leader of the Tribology Research User Center in the Materials Science and Technology Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Lehigh University, and a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from The Ohio State University. His research career began with studies of impact-melted meteorites, and led to an appointment as a co-investigator for the NASA Apollo Lunar Sample Examination Program (ALSEP) in the early 1970s. With more than 30 years of research, development, and project management experience in materials engineering and tribology, he has held positions at the Air Force Materials Laboratory, the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST), the Office of Naval Research, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Peter Filip, PhD, DSc
