Maria Isabel De Barros BOUCHET. She received her doctoral thesis on the “Development and characterisation of diamond coatings for tribological applications” from Institut de Combustion, Aérothermique, Réactivité et Environnement (ICARE, CNRS) in France. She joined the Laboratory of Tribology and System Dynamics at Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2001. She is a lecturer in the Department of Materials and Surface Sciences and deputy director of research of école centrale de Lyon (ECL). Her research activities cover surface science, tribochemistry, and superlubricity mechanisms