Prof. Leszek A. Dobrzanski DSc, PhD, MSc, Eng, Hon. Prof., M Dr HC is currently a Full Professor of Materials Engineering, Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Medical, Dental and Manufacturing Engineering, Management and Organisation and the Director of the Science Centre ASKLEPIOS of the Medical and Dental Engineering Centre for Research, Design and Production ASKLEPIOS in Gliwice, Poland and Principal Investigator and the Supervisory Council Chairman of the Centre. He is a Fellow of the Materials Science Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) and the President of the Metallic Materials Section of this Committee, and a Member of several Sections of the Metallurgy Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Committee of Machine Design of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a Vice President and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineers in Poland. He is a foreign Fellow of the Ukrainian Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a foreign Fellow of the Slovak Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is the President of the World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, and a President of the international scientific society - the Association of Computational Materials Science and Surface Engineering. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Achievements in Materials and Manufacturing Engineering", "Archives of Materials Science and Engineering" and "Open Access Library" supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland. Prof. Leszek A. Dobrzanski is a creator and leader of the Scientific School - actively created by him new scientific specialisations, which resulted in promoting by him in person of a group of 62 completed PhD theses and next PhD dissertations in progress, as well as promoting ca. 1000 MSc and BSc theses. The published creative scientific output of Prof. Leszek A. Dobrzanski of the international significance pertains to materials science, surface engineering, nanotechnology, biomaterials and bioengineering, computer aided engineering materials design and modelling of their structure and properties. His scientific output includes about 2500 scientific publications with others currently in printing, including about 55 books and monographs and ca 50 chapters in books and monographs, 225 papers in English in journals covered in the Web of Science Core Collection. He is the author or co-author of 52 patents and scientific editor of over 450 joint publications, including many editions of the scientific journals of worldwide circulation edited by him in English, as well as of proceedings of the international scientific conferences. Prof. Leszek A. Dobrza?ski has been cited ca. 12500 times in worldwide scientific journals according to Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar & Harzing's Publish or Perish and also in Poland; number of citations: 12402 (GS - Google Scholar), 3749 (SC-SCOPUS), 2274 (WoS-Web of Science), h-index: 46 (GS), 29 (SC), 23 (WoS). Prof. Leszek A. Dobrza?ski has 55 position in ranking most cited Polish scientists of all scientific disciplines and is included to the group of 5% most read Authors on the Academia Platform. https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?hl=tr&user=hSDLvSQAAAAJ

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Briem International BTKS 2019 Denizli, 26th to 28th September, 2019 Ulrich Briem, OTH Regensburg BIOGRAPHY Ulrich Briem is born in Stuttgart Bad Cannstatt on 18th August, 1964. From 1985 to 1990 he studied mechanical engineering at university of Stuttgart. After that he was assistant at institute of materials handling at the same university. He worked on the field of wire ropes and finished with PhD in 1996. His thesis was "Recognition of discard state of running ropes by combining different discard criteria". Then he changed into industry and was Manager of Research and Development of the rope manufacturer CASAR Drahtseilwerk Saar GmbH. Since 2005 he is Professor at OTH Regensburg and since 2013 also Dean of Faculty Mechanical Engineering. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Briem has published approx. 40 articles about various aspects of behavior of wires and wire ropes and about calculation methods regarding service life of wire ropes. He is member of OIPEEC (International Organization of Rope Research) and head of the working group Cranes of VDI (Association of German Engineers). Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Briem Galgenbergstraße 30 D-93053 Regensburg Tel.: +49-941/943-5191 Fax: +49-941/943-1428 Mail: [email protected] Web: www.oth-regensburg.de

Assistant Professor Luca Fumagalli Politecnico di Milano | Polimi · Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering DIG PhD Maintenance 4.0 Maintenance Management has evolved into the new concept of Asset Management and maintenance related activities are increasing their importance in the mature companies that have understood the importance of a good monitoring and control of the assets. To this end, new technologies allow to improve the knowledge about the asset, thanks to new Digital Twin solutions and predictive maintenance capabilities. Moreover, maintenance 4.0 means also a new way of considering the role of the maintenance operator as well as new skills required to the maintenance staff. https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?hl=tr&user=4mNOqu0AAAAJ

Prof. Dr. Miroslaw Bonek Silesian University of Technology
Institute of Engineering Materials und Biomaterials
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