Kenneth Gösta Holmberg (born 26 May 1949, Helsinki) is a Finnish professor emeritus in Mechanical Engineering, especially Tribology, Holmberg has studied the friction and wear of coated surfaces, computer simulation of tribological contacts, E-maintenance and global impact of friction and wear on energy consumption, emissions and economy.

He has published more than 200 scientific papers mainly in areas of tribology, surface engineering, lubrication, computational material modelling and simulation, operational reliability, maintenance and machine diagnostics.

They describe in the book the fundamental tribological mechanisms of loaded sliding surfaces covered by thin coatings, such as used today in automotive and electronics.

In 2010, Holmberg wrote a book on E-maintenance, and he has developed computational modelling and simulation technology for tribological contacts.

He has been responsible for organizing major international conferences in tribology, condition monitoring and diagnostics, EUROTRIB’89, COMADEM’97 and NORDTRIB’00 .