Professor Roger Lewis became a lecturer in the Department in 2002 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006, before becoming a Reader in 2011 and then being awarded a personal chair in 2013. He graduated from The University of Sheffield in 1996 with an MEng in Mechanical Engineering and continued to work at Sheffield towards a PhD in the Tribology Research Group. He then had posts as a Research Associate and Teaching Fellow in the Department. In 2001 he was awarded the Tribology Trust Bronze Medal and in 2003 received a Brian Mercer Award for Innovation from the Royal Society. He also received the Institute of Physics Innovation in Tribology Prize in 2008. He was awarded the Donald Julius Groen Prize in Tribology in 2020. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IMechE. In 2019 Roger was made a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair. This position is co-funded by the Rail Safety and Standards Board and will focus on management of low adhesion in the wheel/rail interface. Roger has edited an essential guide to wheel/rail contacts issues, 'The Wheel/Rail Interface Handbook' which is published by Woodhead. Roger is a member of the Leonardo Tribology Centre. (Source: University of Sheffield)