**About the Editors**

**Raj Shah** is a Director at Koehler Instrument Company, in Long Island, NY where he has been working for over 25 years. He holds a Ph. D in Chemical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and Fellowship from the Chartered Management Institute, London. Dr. Shah is an elected Fellow by his peers at STLE, NLGI, AIC, RSC, INSTMC, IChemE, CMI, IOP and EI. He also holds all six of these highly coveted certifications: namely CPC, CCHE, CEng, CSci, CChem, CPEng. Dr. Shah was on the Board of Directors for 15 years of National Lubricating Grease Institute, and vice chair of ASTM D02. G (Grease committee) for over 10 years and is the co-editor of the fully revised 2022 NLGI Grease handbook. He is the recipient of numerous awards from ASTM, STLE and NLGI, Dr. Shah is also an adjunct Professor in the Dept of Material Science and Chemical Engineering at State University of New York, Stony Brook and serves on the advisory board of directors of several professional societies and universities in the USA. A Tau Beta Pi eminent engineer, he has over 475 publications and lives in Long Island, NY.

**Mathias Woydt** is managing partner of MATRILUB Materials I Tribology I Lubrication, with more than 36 years of experience in R&D and with more than 360 publications and 51 priority patents filed. He is a STLE Fellow, recipient of an ASTM award of excellence and board member of the German Society for Tribology.

**Simon C. Tung** holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA Degree from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Dr. Tung has been involved in the automotive industry since joining the Fuels and Lubricants (F&L) Department at General Motors Research Laboratories in 1982. While there, Dr. Tung led pioneering research and development on automotive propulsion systems, powertrain tribology, fuels, and lubricants (F&L) performance testing, and advanced manufacturing lubrication processes going back approximately 30 years. During the period 2000-2008, Dr. Tung was appointed as a Technical Fellow and Engineering Group Manager to lead the advanced energy efficient propulsion technology and discovery research programs in the General Motors R&D Center. Dr. Tung led GM R&D and manufacturing teams in improving powertrain energy efficiency and drivetrain durability.

Dr. Tung has been engaged in various leadership role working with automotive and chemical industries. During that time, he worked at General Motors R&D Center, Vanderbilt, and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Dr. Tung was responsible to lead R&D teams for improving energy efficiency capability in advanced powertrain or manufacturing lubrication systems. Dr. Tung has accomplished many outstanding R&D programs for powertrain/hybrid propulsion vehicles, powertrain/manufacturing lubrication, tribology testing, thermal managemen<sup>t</sup> design, and global OEM lubricant liaison program management.

In 2008, Dr. Tung joined the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) as General Director, where Dr. Tung was responsible to manage all R&D programs in the Energy and Environmental Research Laboratories. Dr. Tung made significant contributions in the research areas of green energy, energy storage system, fuel cell, hydrogen energy, and reducing greenhouse emissions. Dr. Tung's technical expertise includes powertrain engineering, tribology control, energy storage materials, green energy technology, and advanced propulsion systems.

At present, Dr. Tung is serving as the Senior Consultant to coach OEMs in the areas of advanced lubricants R&D and manufacturing lubrication at Innovation Technology Consulting. Dr. Tung has secured 25 US/International patents, most of which have been integrated into modern automotive functionalities. Dr. Tung has published 195 papers and presentations, 5 reference handbooks, 165 journal papers, and 25 U.S. and international patents. Dr. Tung has received 26 outstanding achievement awards and delivered 25 invited keynote presentations,

Dr. Tung has received many distinguished honors, including being named as an STLE Fellow in the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE), SAE Fellow, as well as receiving the Gold Award from the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD). Dr. Tung was honored with SAE International's Edward N. Cole Award for Automotive Engineering Innovation during the SAE 2011 World Congress. In addition, Dr. Tung has been recognized by SAE as the winner of the SAE Franz Pischinger Powertrain Innovation Award in April 2013, based on his outstanding professional achievements, innovative research, and his leadership in the fields of automotive engineering, and powertrain systems. Dr. Tung also won the SAE International Leadership Citation Award during the SAE 2015 World Congress to recognize his distinguished leadership and international contributions. Dr. Tung is an internationally recognized expert on automotive powertrain tribology, advanced materials implementation, driveline lubrication and the commercialization of innovation products in propulsion technology, including tribology control, energy storage materials, and thermal managemen<sup>t</sup> technologies.

**Andreas Rosenkranz** is a Professor for Materials-Oriented Tribology and New 2D Materials in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials at the University of Chile. His research focuses on the characterization, chemical functionalization, and application of new 2D materials. His main field of research is related to tribology (friction, wear, and energy efficiency), but in the last couple of years, he has also expanded his fields towards water purification, catalysis, and biological properties. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal publications, is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and acts as a scientific editor for different well-reputed scientific journals including Applied Nanoscience and Frontiers in Chemistry.
