Professor Ardian Morina holds a chair in Engineering Tribology. His research is focused on developing experimental and numerical tools for elucidating the chemical and physical processes at tribological interfaces and their effect on friction and wear performance of industrial engineering systems. He is author of >100 papers and has been PI/Co-I on around £15M of research grants supported by EPSRC, EU and industry. From July 2016 until April 2020, Professor Morina was Director of Research and Innovation for the School of Mechanical Engineering, and since 1st of April 2020 holds the role of Deputy Pro-Dean for International of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Leeds. He was the School of Mechanical Engineering lead for REF2021. Prof Morina is programme leader of the first international joint master programme at the University of Leeds, Joint European Master on Tribology of Surfaces and Interfaces (https://www.master-tribos.eu/) and is actively involved in teaching undergraduate (Solid Mechanics module, individual and group project supervision) and postgraduate (Lubricants and Lubrication module, master project supervision) students. Prof Morina's research has been recognised through several best paper/presentation awards as well as with the STLE Wilbur Deutsch Hunt Memorial Award in 2013 and with the IMechE Donald Julius Groen Prize in 2016. He is Associate Editor of Tribology Online, published by the Japanese Society of Tribologists, and Guest Editor of the 2014 and 2016 Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology special issues in Tribology International and Journal of Engineering Tribology, and is on the Editorial Board of Lubrication Science and Tribology – Materials, Surfaces and Interfaces journals. He is past chair the IMechE Tribology Group Committee (https://www.imeche.org/get-involved/special-interest-groups/tribology-group), in which he has been a member since 2011.