Robert L. Jackson, Ph.D. (2029)
Editor-in-Chief
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Auburn University
1418 Wiggins Hall
Auburn, AL 36849
P: (334) 844-3340
E: jacksr7@auburn.edu
Associate Editors
  • Ali Beheshti, Ph.D. (2027)
    George Mason University, USA
  • Jean Bouyer, Ph.D. (2027)
    Université de Poitiers, France
    Athanasios Chasalevris, Ph.D. (2027)
    National Technical University of Athens, Greece 
    Maria G. Faga, Ph.D. (2027)
    Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
    Leonardo I. Farfan Cabrera, Ph.D. (2027)
    Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico 
    Kora Farokhzadeh, Ph.D. (2027)
  • Envalior, USA
    Robert A. Fleming, Ph.D. (2027)
    Arkansas State University, USA
  • Hamid Ghaednia, Ph.D. (2027)
    Cedars Sinai Health System, USA
  • Hannes Grillenberger, Ph.D. (2025)
  • Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Germany
  • Wassim Habchi, Ph.D. (2027)
    Lebanese American University, Lebanon
    Tevis Jacobs, Ph.D. (2027)
  • University of Pittsburgh, USA
    Amir Kadiric, Ph.D. (2026)
  • Imperial College London, UK
  • Oliver Koch, Ph.D. (2026)
    RPTU University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
  • Hui Long, Ph.D. (2027) 
  • The University of Sheffield, UK
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  • Pradeep Menezes, Ph.D. (2027)
  • University of Nevada - Reno, USA
  • Prathima Nalam, Ph.D. (2027)
  • University at Buffalo, USA 
  • Narguess Nemati, Ph.D. (2027)
    Aarhus University, Denmark
    Laura Peña-Parás, Ph.D. (2027)
  • Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
  • Ramin Rahmani, Ph.D. (2026)
  • Loughborough University, UK
  • Andreas Rosenkranz, Ph.D. (2027)
    University of Chile, Chile
  • Elon Terrell, Ph.D. (2027)
  • Baylor University, USA
  • Noritsugu Umehara, Ph.D. (2026)
  • Nagoya University, Japan 
  • Dairene Uy, Ph.D. (2027)
    Shell Technology Center Houston, USA 
    Victoria Van Camp, Ph.D. (2025)
  • Axa Consulting, Sweden 
  • Balasubramaniam Vengudusamy, Ph.D. (2027)
    Klüber Lubrication, Germany
  • Yue Wu, Ph.D. (2027) 
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
  • Yang Xu, Ph.D. (2027) 
  • Hefei University of Technology, China
  • Wenyang Zhang, Ph.D. (2026) 
  • Tesla, Inc., USA
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  • Xiaohan Zhang, Ph.D. (2027)
  • Qingdao University of Technology, China
  • Zhinan Zhang, Ph.D. (2028)
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
     
Tribology Division EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Bharat Bhushan
Chair
Officers of the ASME
  • Susan Ipri-Brown
    President
  • Thomas Costabile
    Executive Director
  • Tara McMahan
    Secretary/Treasurer
Publishing Staff
  • Christine M. Reilley
    Managing Director, Publishing
  • Tara Smith
  • Manager, Journal and Publishing Operations
  • Erica Hodge
  • Journal Production Specialist
Past Editors
  • D. F. Wilcock (1967-1974)
  • D. F. Hays (1975-1980)
  • W. O. Winer (1981-1987)
  • A. Z. Szeri (1988-1993)
  • F. E. Kennedy, Jr. (1993-1998)
  • J. Tichy (1998-2005)
  • M. D. Bryant (2006-2011)
  • M. Khonsari (2012-2022)
  • F. Sadeghi (2022-2023)
     
Technical Committee on Publications and Communications
  • Shapour Azarm
    Chair
  • Yogendra K. Joshi
    Vice-Chair
  • Beth Winklestein
    Chair, Board of Editors

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