Name: SwissTribology Symposium 2026
Start: 2026-09-11T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-11T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Empa Akademie

This years' SwissTribology Symposium again features expert talks by leading national and international experts on progress in understanding friction, lubrication and wear processes. Attendees will meet the Swiss tribo community, explore cutting edge tribology innovations and take advantage of new collaboration opportunities.
Get inspired by ten industrial use cases, from tool steel wear mechanisms to marine engines, DLC and semiconductor coatings, a new type of tribometer, lubricant ageing, to AI data management. An inspirational talk on wine tribology will complement the lineup.

There will be plenty occasion for networking over coffee, lunch, and apéro.

Programm/Ablauf

08:30	Welcome Coffee
09:00	Welcome Address
09:15	Simulation-Guided Risk Assessment of In−Cylinder Condensation in Two-Stroke Marine Engines	Andrea Arcifa, WinGD
09:45	From In-Situ Experiments to Digital Twinning of DLC Coatings	Renato Pero, Alemnis \| Emanuel Tack, Oerlikon
10:15	Coffee Break
10:30	Artificial Ageing of Marine Engine Oils under Ammonia−Relevant Contamination Scenarios	Ádám Agóc, AC2T Research
11:00	Tribological Coatings at the Extremes: From Wind Turbines to Mechanical Wristwatches	Esteban Broitman, Sentys
11:30	Advanced Coatings for Critical Semiconductor Manufacturing Components	Julien Keraudy, Oerlikon
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Between Tongue and Tannins: The Tribology of Wine Mouthfeel	Nicholas Spencer, ETH Zürich
13:30	Data Management for Al in Tribology	Nick Garabedian, datin
14:00	Title t.b.d.	Mousab Hadad, Tribomatix
14:30	Coffee Break
15:00	A New Tribometer Setup to Resemble High-Pressure Contacts in Metal Forming Processes	Marcus Morstein, Hightech Zentrum Aargau \| Sebastian Heidrich, Thomas Stoel, MTI, RWTH Aachen
15:30	Abrasion–Corrosion Performance of Tool Steel Dies in High-Pressure Extrusion	Christof Scherrer, Arnd Jung, ZHAW-IMPE \| Marcus Morstein, Hightech Zentrum Aargau
16:00	Title t.b.d.	Jens Kondratiuk, Hilti
16:30	Apéro