Dr Shahira Liza received her Doctor of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in 2015. Her research interest is surface properties and surface modification. Most of her works are related to tribology of carbon based coatings and Graphene-based composite materials. Currently, she studying the surface-protein interaction for Diamond-like carbon-coated implants, where she uses surface-​analytical approaches to understand the interactions of protein as a lubricant with sliding surfaces, as well as correlating these interactions with tribological properties (friction and wear).