Dr Romeo Glovnea, Reader in Mechanical Engineering, Research Group Leader.   Contact details.

Dr Glovnea is a reader in Mechanical engineering in the School of Engineering and Design and Head of the Tribology Laboratory.  Before joining the University of Sussex he was a senior lecturer in solid body mechanics and design at Brunel University London. He carried out a PhD in Romania, and until 1997 was a Reader in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Suceava, Romania. He joined Professor Spikes’s Tribology Group, at Imperial College London in 1997 and worked as a Research Fellow until 2005, when he moved to BrunelUniversity. Dr Glovnea’s main research interest has been tribology working and publishing in the fields of lubrication (with emphasis on transient phenomena), contact mechanics and mechanical transmissions.

Miss Karolina Jablonka

Karolina has a MSC in Chemistry and one in Chemical Technology from the Wrocław University of Technology, Poland.  She is now undertaking a doctoral research programme with a topic in the field of the lubrication of rolling elements bearings, sponsored by SKF.

Mr Konstantinos Kalogiannis

Konstantinos is a doctoral research student.  He graduated with a Bachelor degree in Mechanical engineering form BrunelUniversity, in 2005 and a Master degree in Automotive and Motorsport Engineering a year later.  His research project is on the vibration behaviour of lubricated contacts and is sponsored by both EPSRC and SKF.

Mr Yuichiro Nagata

Yuichiro is a doctoral research student  He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tokyo University of Science, before completing a Master degree in Automotive and Motorsport Engineering in 2007.  His research project is on grease lubrication.