Ashlie Martini
Tribologist
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Ashlie Martini is a tribologist and professor of mechanical engineering[1][2][3] at University of California, Merced.[4]
Biography
Education
Martini received her Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering in 1998 from Northwestern University,[5] in Evanston, Illinois. She later completed her Doctor of Philosophy in the same field, at the same school, in 2007.[4]
Career
She was an assistant professor[6] at Purdue University[7] in West Lafayette, Indiana before becoming a full professor at University of California, Merced.
Research
The topics of study at "Martini Research Group: Fundamental Tribology Lab" at UC Merced include:[4]
- Solid and liquid lubricants
- Tribochemistry
- Nanoscale contact and sliding[8]
Martini's lab helps test dry lubricants for the Mars rover.[9] "The Martini research group is performing some very critical and important data gathering for us and presenting that data in a way that helps us make critical, mission-sensitive decisions for Mars," said Duval Johnson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[10][11]
Awards and honors
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers - ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award (2012)[12]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research - AFOSR Young Investigator Award[13]
Distinctions
- Tribology Letters - Editor[4]
- Tribology Transactions - Associate Editor[4]
- Tribology International - Editorial Board Member[4]
- Computational Materials Science - Editorial Board Member[4]
- Lubricants - Editorial Board Member[4]
- Gordon Research Conference on Tribology (International Conference) - Chair[13][14]
- Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Tribology Frontiers Conference[15] (International Conference) - Chair[13]
Publications
Martini has over 250 publications. Her most cited work has been cited over 4400 times:[16]
- Moon, Robert J.; Martini, Ashlie; Nairn, John; Simonsen, John; Youngblood, Jeff (20 June 2011). "Cellulose nanomaterials review: Structure, properties and nanocomposites". Chemical Society Reviews. 40 (7): 3941–3994. doi:10.1039/C0CS00108B. PMID 21566801. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
Her second most cited work has been cited over 400 times:[16]
- Song, Jianwei; Chen, Chaoji; Zhu, Shuze; Zhu, Mingwei; Dai, Jiaqi; Ray, Upamanyu; Li, Yiju; Kuang, Yudi; Li, Yongfeng; Quispe, Nelson; Yao, Yonggang; Gong, Amy; Leiste, Ulrich H.; Bruck, Hugh A.; Zhu, J. Y.; Vellore, Azhar; Li, Heng; Minus, Marilyn L.; Jia, Zheng; Martini, Ashlie; Li, Teng; Hu, Liangbing (2018). "Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material". Nature. 554 (7691): 224–228. Bibcode:2018Natur.554..224S. doi:10.1038/nature25476. PMID 29420466. S2CID 4469909. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
