Roland Larsson

Background

About Roland Larsson

I'm a researcher and teacher at Luleå University of Technology (LTU). My research field is primarily tribology, i.e. the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion. In tribology my focus is on lubrication processes, surfaces and lubricants. I'm the Chair Professor of the Machine Elements group, i.e. the tribology research group at LTU. We are a relatively large group with 7 professors, 1 associate professors, 5 researchers/teachers, 4 postdocs, and 30 PhD students (Jul 2023). Our focus is on tribological processes in machine elements, metal forming, hip joints, skis, and much more. I was, during 2013-2018, the Dean and vice-Dean for Faculty of Science and Technology at Luleå University of Technology but I'm since January 2019 back as full time professor. With focus to develop the research and education in the constantly evolving subject of tribology!Since 2020 I’m running LTU’s large project on Circular economy. It is named Creaternity and in this project we are developing ways to obtain circular economy, often by the use of digitalisation. Creaternity is a movement for sustainability, see