Dr. Amaya Igartua is the Coordinator of Materials Initiatives at TEKNIKER, Co-Secretary of European Materials Platform (EUMAT) and the Alliance for Materials (A4M), as well as the Vice President for Spain of the International Tribology Council (ITC). Amaya is an expert in tribology, which is the study of interacting surfaces including friction, wear and lubrication. Among many other activities, Amaya has been involved in approximately fifty European projects, over twenty national and regional initiatives and 50 industrial projects that have made it possible to transfer both the knowledge and results obtained to the industry at large.