Professor Robert Wood

National Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS)

Associate Dean Research for faculty of Engineering and the Environment

Robert Wood is Professor of Surface Engineering and Tribology and has 30 years’ experience of tribology and surface engineering. He has spent 4 years at BP before returning to Southampton to re-establish surface engineering/tribology research. His group was awarded £10M from EPSRC in 2008 to create the National Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS) and was awarded a further £3M for research into Green Tribology. He is Chairof UK Tribology and was Editor-in-chief between 2016 and 2021of theIoP Journal: Surface Topography - metrology and properties. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2016. He was awarded the Annual Donald Julius Groen Prize in 2011 and the Tribology Trust Silver medal in 2018 for his outstanding achievements in tribology.  

Prizes

• The Len Gelman Award (2010)
• Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (2003)
• Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (2002)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2002)
• Donald Julius Groen Prize – IMechE Annual Prize for outstanding achievements in tribology (2011)
• FREng (2016)
• Tribology Trust Silver Medal (2018)
• Tribology Trust Silver Medal (2018)
• Donald Julius Groen Prize (2011)
• IMechE Journal of Engineering Tribology PE Publishing Award (2007)