Dr Daniel Grasser is a mechanical engineer with interests in bulk materials and resulting wear. Daniel obtained a PhD from the Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), Australia, in 2022, and was then appointed as an Associate Research Fellow, working in the field of wear testing of metals. In 2023, Daniel joined TUNRA Bulk Solids as a Consulting Engineer. He is particularly interested in addressing issues related to wear of mining equipment resulting from abrading and impacting solid particles. Daniel employs experiments and numerical simulations, including the Discrete Element Method.