Committee

Ling Wang, University of Southampton
Ian Sherrington, University of Central Lancashire
Honor Powrie, University of Southampton

Ling Wang, University of Southampton

Ling is Professor of Tribo-Sensing at the national Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS), University of Southampton. She has over 25 years research experience in the field of tribology and sensing and published over 100 research papers in relevant areas. Her research focuses on tribology of rolling contact fatigue; novel sensing techniques for tribological contacts; and intelligent tribological systems using machine learning methods. She is Fellow of British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) and chairs the Tribology Group Committee at Institute of Physics since 2022. She won the 2017 BINDT COMADIT Prize and the 2021 IMechE Donald Julius Groen Prize.

Prof Ian Sherrington, Director: Jost Institute for Tribotechnology, University of Central Lancashire

Ian Sherrington has been a passionate advocate of tribology as an element of sustainable engineering for many years, promoting good practice in tribology as tool to help arrest climate change by reducing power loss, emissions and the waste of materials. In 2000 he edited a book “Total Tribology” to encourage the use of best practice in tribology at all life cycle stages of a product. More recently, he instigated this series of workshops, “Tribology and the Journey to Net Zero”, now in their fourth year, with the aim of inspiring tribologists to maintain the momentum of applying good practice in tribology to optimise mechanism and system designs to reduce friction (power loss) and wear (material waste) thereby supporting good environmental practice.

Professor Honor Powrie, University of Southampton

Honor Powrie has worked in the Aviation Industry for more than 30 years and is renowned for her expertise in Tribo-sensing, Machinery Health Monitoring and Asset Management. Honor is head of GE Aerospace’s UK Data Science Group, delivering innovative AI/ML based solutions for managing Aviation assets. Honor is also Visiting Professor in Data and Analytics, Asset Condition Monitoring and Management at the national Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS), University of Southampton. She is Chair of the IMechE Tribology Group and a Member of the IOP Tribology Group. She was the recipient of the General Electric Edison Award in 2019 and the 2023 BINDT COMADIT Prize. Honor is included in the Engineering Icons Tube Map, a collaboration between TfL and the Royal Academy of Engineering, to celebrate the achievements of engineers past and present.