Peter Jost Tribology Award list
Professor Daniele Dini, UK
For his development and practical application of advanced numerical tools for the solution of tribological and related problems, as well as multi-scale strategies to couple molecular-, meso- and macro-scale solvers, Prof Daniele Dini, of Imperial College, London, is awarded the 2020 Peter Jost Award in Tribology.
Professor Feng Zhou, China
For his soft-matter and bioinspired approach to a greater understanding of tribology and his creative solutions to the design of innovative lubricants for many applications, Prof Feng Zhou, of the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, is awarded the 2024 Peter Jost Award in Tribology.
Dr. Juliette Cayer-Barrioz, France
For her fundamental interfacial studies of fluid lubrication mechanisms across all regimes, from boundary and elastohydrodynamic to hydrodynamic, at length scales from nanometers to micrometers under both steady-state and transient conditions over a wide range of temperature, Dr. Juliette Cayer-Barrioz, CNRS Director of Research of the Laboratory of Tribology and System Dynamics (LTDS), Ecole centrale de Lyon, France is awarded the 2025 Peter Jost Award in Tribology.
Professor Tianbao Ma and professor Lars Pastewka
Professor Tianbao Ma
For his contributions toward deepening our understanding of interfacial friction at the electronic level and tribochemical reactions at the molecular/atomistic level, leading to breakthroughs in both theory and the realization of solid superlubricity, Prof. Tianbao Ma, State Key Laboratory of Tribology and Tribology Institute, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China is awarded the 2026 Peter Jost Award in Tribology.
Professor Lars Pastewka
For his contributions to simulations in tribology, including the Atomic Simulation Environment, which has proven invaluable to thousands of modelers at the interface of physics, chemistry, and materials science, worldwide, and his crucial contributions to understanding the role of roughness in tribology, Prof. Lars Pastewka, Freiburg University, Germany is awarded the 2026 Peter Jost Award in Tribology.