“Increasing data’s trustworthiness eases the process of transforming data into knowledge”
“computer methods expect that the data they work with is in a perfectly structured format with an unambiguous meaning”
Topics of Interest:
Linked Data and Metadata ∙ Digitalization ∙ Materials Science ∙ Tribology ∙ Nanotribology ∙ FAIR Data ∙ Machine Learning ∙ Open Science & Reproducibility ∙ Research Data Management (RDM)
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Serving as a Team Leader of "Linked Tribological Data" group; formerly an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow. My current research interests lie at the intersection of linked data engineering, materials science, experimental nanotribology, machine learning, research data management, FAIR data, and Open Science & Reproducibility. Our diverse team of 12 is actively integrating knowledge from multiple scientific avenues in order to develop the most applicable, reliable and sustainable solutions for FAIR data collection within tribology and materials science.
Digitalization in experimental tribology holds promises of accelerated solutions that can save up to 23% of the global energy needs. To achieve this digital transformation, I focus my efforts on, first, bringing together as many active researchers from tribology as possible, and second, integrating the collected knowledge with practices from various branches of computer science. The end goal of all my research is to promote improved tribomaterial design and frictional control by linking our understanding of the molecular origins of friction to more practical macroscale tribological systems.
Would you like to adopt FAIR Data practices within your lab or institution? Drop me a message and let's have a chat!
Graduate School Panel at Universiry of Delaware
Nick Garabedian Receives STLE Early Career Award 2022
Scanning Electron Microscopy
Tribometry
Elemеr Klaus Award
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Group Leader of “Linked Tribological Data” → Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, IAM-ZM, 2022–present
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow → Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, IAM-ZM, 2021–present
Postdoc → Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IAM-CMS, Germany, 2019–2021
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Ph.D. mechanical engineering → University of Delaware, Newark DE, USA, 2014–2019
B.S. (hon.) mechanical engineering and economics → Union College, Schenectady NY, USA, 2010–2014
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Early Career Award - Postdoctoral Researcher → STLE, Orlando FL, 2022
MetaCook - the metadata cookbook → Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, Germany, 2021
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship → AvH Foundation, Germany, 2020
Robert W. Gore Fellowship → University of Delaware, Newark DE, 2018
Philadelphia STLE Scholarship → STLE Philadelphia, 2018
Elmer E. Klaus Fellowship → STLE, Minneapolis MN, 2018
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
1Waviness Affects Friction and Abrasive Wear, Yulong Li, Nikolay T Garabedian, Johannes Schneider, Christian Greiner, Tribology Letters, 2023, 71:64, DOI: 10.1007/s11249-023-01736-1
Generating FAIR research data in tribology, Nikolay T. Garabedian (co-lead author), Paul J. Schreiber (co-lead author), Nico Brandt, Philipp Zschumme, Ines L. Blatter, Antje Dollmann, Christian Haug, Daniel Kümmel, Yulong Li, Franziska Meyer, Carina E. Morstein, Julia S. Rau, Manfred Weber, Johannes Schneider, Peter Gumbsch, Michael Selzer, Christian Greiner, Sci Data 9, 315, 2022, DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01429-9
Managing FAIR Tribological Data Using Kadi4Mat, Nico Brandt, Nikolay T Garabedian, Ephraim Schoof, Paul J. Schreiber, Philipp Zschumme, Christian Greiner, Michael Selzer, Data, 2022, 7, 15 DOI: 10.3390/data7020015
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Traceable Lateral Force Calibration (TLFC) for atomic force microscopy, Arnab Bhattacharjee (co-lead author), Nikolay T Garabedian (co-lead author), Christopher L. Evans, David L. Burris, Tribology Letters, 2020, 68:111, DOI: 10.1007/s11249-020-01349-y
Integrated QCM-microtribometry: friction of single-crystal MoS2 and gold from µm/s to m/s, Brian P Borovsky (co-lead author), Nikolay T Garabedian (co-lead author), Gabriel R McAndrews, Raymond J Wieser, David L Burris, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, 11 (43), 40961-40969 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b15764
Durability of Poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene) (PEDOT) films on metallic substrates for bioelectronics and the dominant role of relative shear strength, Jing Qu, Nikolay T Garabedian, David L Burris, David C Martin, Journal of Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2019, 100, pp 103376, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.103376
Quantifying, locating, and following asperity scale wear within macroscale contact areas, Nikolay T Garabedian, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Martin N. Webster, Gary L. Hunter, Peter W. Jacobs, Andrew R. Konicek, David L. Burris, Tribology Letters, 2019, 67:89, DOI: 10.1007/s11249-019-1203-6
Spatial patterning of molecular cues and vascular cells in fully integrated hydrogel channels via interfacial bioorthogonal crosslinking, Kevin. T. Dicker, Axel. C. Moore, Nikolay T Garabedian, Han Zhang, Samuel L. Scinto, Robert E. Akins, David L. Burris, Joseph M. Fox, and Xinqiao Jia, ACS Appl. Mater. Interface, 2019, 11 (18), 16402-16411, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b04383
Mechanical and compositional characterization of thick tribofilms formed from silicon- and oxygen-containing hydrogenated amorphous carbon, J.B. McClimon, A.C. Lang, Z. Milne, N.T. Garabedian, A.C. Moore, J. Hilbert, F. Mangolini, J.R. Lukes, D.L. Burris, M.L. Taheri, J. Fontaine, R.W. Carpick, Tribology Letters, 2019, 67(2), DOI: 10.1007/s11249-019-1155-x
AFM at the macroscale: methods to fabricate and calibrate probes for millinewton force measurements, Nikolay T Garabedian, Harman S Khare, Robert W Carpick, David L Burris, Tribology Letters, 2019 67: 21, DOI: 10.1007/s11249-019-1134-2
The cause of premature wind turbine bearing failures: overloading or underloading?, Nikolay T Garabedian, Benjamin J Gould, Gary L Doll, David L Burris, Tribology Transactions, 61:5, 850-860, 2018, DOI: 10.1080/10402004.2018.1433345
2020 Wilbur Deutsch Memorial Award, STLE Awards Committee, May 2020
Editor’s Choice paper in Tribology & Lubrication Technology, July 2018, pp 60-74
Exploiting feedstock diversity to tune the chemical and tribological properties of lignin-inspired polymer coatings, Jillian A Emerson, Nikolay T Garabedian, Axel C Moore, David L Burris, Eric M Furst, Thomas H Epps III, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6 (5), pp 6856–6866, DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b00667
Unexpected tribological synergy in polymer blend coatings: leveraging phase separation to isolate domain size effects and reduce friction, Jillian A Emerson, Nikolay T Garabedian, Axel C Moore, David L Burris, Eric M Furst, Thomas H Epps III, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9 (39), pp 34480–34488, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b10170
IN REVIEW: Robust vibration-activated lubricity, Arnab Bhattacharjee, Nikolay T Garabedian, Brian P Borovsky, David L Burris, Tribology Letters, 2022