Donald Julius Groen Lecture
The day will feature seven presentations from early career researchers working across a range of topic areas in tribology. It will be followed by the Donald Julius Groen Lecture, presented by the winner of the 2026 Donald Julius Groen Prize in Tribology, Prof Daniel Mulvihill.
His talk will explore how surface roughness, contact pressure and real contact area affect the performance of triboelectric nanogenerators, helping researchers understand how to design, model and test these emerging energy-harvesting devices more effectively.
Daniel M. Mulvihill is Professor of Materials Engineering and Tribology at the University of Glasgow and Head of the Materials and Manufacturing Research Cluster (MMRC). He completed a D.Phil. in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in 2012 and subsequently undertook postdoctoral periods at University of Limerick, EPFL Switzerland and the University of Cambridge prior to joining Glasgow in 2016.
His interests mainly focus on tribology, triboelectrification, experimental mechanics and materials for energy applications. He led a major £1.5M EPSRC project (EP/V003380/1) on next generation textile triboelectric nanogenerators between 2021 and 2026.
Prof. Mulvihill is ‘Energy Materials and Devices’ Executive Editor for Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier) and Special Issues Executive Editor for Results in Engineering (Elsevier). He served as Chair of the British Society for Strain Measurement between 2024 and 2026. He is a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) in the UK, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) and was the 2013 recipient of the IMechE Tribology Trust Bronze Medal.