Co-organization of ECOTRIB 2009 conference, biennial European conference on Tribology primarily focused on the economy and industrial landscape of central and southern Europe attended by more than 150 participants. Conference was first organized in 2007 by prof. Vizintin from Centre for Tribology and Technical Diagnostics. In 2009 it was co-organized in Italy by three groups: Slovenian Society for Tribology, led by Centre for Tribology and technical diagnostics, Italian Tribology Association and Austrian Tribology Society.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 10959131Since 2006 dr. Kalin works as associate editor one of the main renowned SCI journals in the field of tribology, the Journal of Tribology. Currently he is working his second three-year mandate. For journal he independently defines reviewers, asses their work and lead procedure of articles evaluation, and finally makes independent decisions on publication of articles. With that he indirectly actively directs and evaluates research in the world, and helps to the program group at its visibility and quality.
C.06 Editorial board membership
COBISS.SI-ID: 7267077Important recognition in the international arena in this field is also invitation of dr. Kalin to assume the Presidency of international conference under the auspice of a recognized organization Engineering Conferences International (ECI, New York) which was successfully organized and leaded in 2009 in Seville, Spain. Conference was attended by practically all the relevant scientists in this field from all round the world. His colleagues were most distinguished scientists in this field from around the world, thus further consolidating his, and reputation and recognition of the group.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
COBISS.SI-ID: 26558976Special issue of Elsevier journal WEAR (Vol. 266) containing papers selected by the editorial board from the joint European Conference on Tribology—ECOTRIB 2007 and the Final Conference of the COST 532 Action: Triboscience and Tribotechnology. Complete peer-reviewed process was led by guest editor Prof. Bojan Podgornik.
C.03 Guest-associated editor
COBISS.SI-ID: 5374213The results we have presented represent completely new findings on the level of physical adsorption mechanisms and lubrication in the elastic-hydrodynamic (EHD) regime. We discovered that friction significantly depends on the wetting properties of surfaces. Therefore, in the full EHD lubrication regime, where there are no contacts between surfaces, friction can be affected only by altering the physicochemical properties of surfaces, without changing the lubricant.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 10945819