Farfán-Cabrera, Leonardo Israel

Young research professor CONACYT-SNI (level 1) of mechanical and automotive engineering at Tecnologico de Monterrey since 2018. He is founder and head of the Laboratory of automotive tribology (E-Mobility) at Tecnologico de Monterrey. He is currently dedicated to research of tribology of electric vehicles, bio-lubricants and innovation of tribological testers. He has participated in 5 projects of research, technological development and consulting/capacitation for the automotive and lubrication industry. He has master's and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering awarded by IPN in CDMX in 2014 and 2018, respectively. He was visitor research schoolar in 2013 and 2017 at the University of Sheffield, UK. He was awarded by "The best doctoral thesis" by IPN in 2018 and "Inspiring professor" in 2021 by Tec de Monterrey. He has 1 patent (tribometer) and a total of 37 publication in prestigiuos journals (Q1/Q2), from which 25 are related to tribology. He has participated as speaker in 8 prestigious international conferences of tribology since 2016, and has been invited as keynote speaker in 2 international conferences in 2019 and 2021 to speak about Tribology of electric vehicles. This year, he has been named as Associate Editor of the journals "Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology" and "Mechanics and Industry"; Guest Editor for the journals "Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering" and "Frontiers in Chemical Engineering" and Technical Editor of the "Tribology and Lubrication Technology Magazine (TLT)" of STLE.