Maksim Antonov (PhD) has been a senior researcher and head of the “Research Laboratory of Tribology and Materials Testing” at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) since 2006. He received training at “Aerospace Materials Technology Testhouse” (Austria), “University of Strathclyde” (UK), “École Centrale Paris” (France), “Łukasiewicz Research Network – The Institute for Sustainable Technologies”(Poland) and in "SKF Engineering & Research Centre" (the Netherlands). Maksim took part in the EU WEMESURF project (Marie Curie Research Training Networks) and was the TalTech coordinator of EU FP7 project NeTTUN. Maksim’s main areas of interest are wear testing, development and optimization of materials for tribological applications, and the design of new tribological equipment. He serves as a reviewer or guest editor for more than 20 international journals, is a member of the Estonian Centre for Standardization commission EVS/TK 37 and IRG-WOEM OECD, and is a certified project manager. He has more than 190 scientific publications and 5 patents. He is currently supervising and has previously supervised 6 PhD postgraduates in tribology and materials engineering. His h-index is 32.