Dr Moray Stark Highlights

Recent lectures

Invited Lectures

  • The Degradation of Lubricants in Gasoline Engines, Additives 2005, Dublin (April 2005) (Keynote Speaker)

Other Conference Lectures

  • The Effect of Biodiesel on Engine Lubricant Degradation, STLE 11, Atlanta, USA, (May 2011)
  • Free Radicals and Aromatic Species in Engine Lubricant from the Piston Assembly, STLE 08, Cleveland, USA, (May 2008)
  • Chemical Mechanisms of Engine Lubricant Antioxidants Under Piston Conditions, STLE 08, Cleveland, USA, (May 2008)
  • Persistent Free Radicals and Aromatic Species in Degraded Engine Lubricant, Additives 2007, London (April 2007)
  • Factors Affecting Lubricant Degradation in the Piston Assembly of Gasoline Engines, STLE 06, Calgary, Canada, (May 2006)
  • The Degradation of Hydrocarbons Base Fluids at Elevated Temperatures, STLE 06, Calgary, Canada, (May 2006)
  • Degradation of Methyl Ester Analogues of Vegetable Oils at Elevated Temperatures, STLE 06, Calgary, Canada, (May 2006)
  • The Degradation of Lubricants in Gasoline Engines, 31st Leeds-Lyon Symp. on Tribology, Leeds (Sept. 2004)
  • The Degradation of Lubricants in Gasoline Engines, STLE 04, Toronto USA, (May 2004)
  • Interaction of Lubricant Degradation and Tribology in Automotive Gasoline Engines, STLE 02, Houston USA, (May 2002)
  • Addition of Oxygen Centred Radicals to Alkenes, R.S.C. Faraday Division: Gas-Kinetics Discussion Group , York, (January 1999)

Recent external collaborations

Academic Collaboration

  • Institute of Tribology, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK

Industrial Collaboration

  • Shell Global Solutions BP-Castrol BASF Infineum Lubrizol

Conference organiser

  • Additives 2009, York (April 2009)

Outreach Activities

  • Giving numerous schools talks on Climate Change