Hugh Spikes


Hugh Alexander Spikes is a British mechanical engineer. he is emeritus professor of tribology at Imperial College London. He is the former head of the at Imperial College. Tribology is the science and engineering of friction, lubrication and wear.

Education

Spikes studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge in 1968 and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy for research in tribology from Imperial College in 1972.

Research and career

Spikes has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and patents in the field of tribology, spanning many aspects of liquid lubricant behaviour ranging from boundary to hydrodynamic lubrication. Another focus of his research has been lubricant additives, particularly antiwear additives and friction modifiers., Spikes' work had been cited on 13,455 occasions, and he had a h-index of 64 and an i10-index of 229.

Honours and awards

In 2004, Spikes was awarded the three major medals that are bestowed internationally for contributions to tribology, the International Award of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, the Mayo D. Hersey Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Tribology Trust Gold Medal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. With his research students, he has also received ten best paper awards, from the STLE, the AMSE and the IMechE.
In 2012, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers.