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Prof. Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin current research at EPFL focuses on Dye Sensitized and Perovskite Solar Cells, CO2 reduction, Hydrogen production, and Light-emitting diodes. He has published more than 530 peer-reviewed papers, ten book chapters, and inventor/co-inventor of over 65 patents. The high impact of his work has been recognized by invitations to speak at over 150 international conferences. Nazeeruddin has been named Thomson Reuters “Highly Cited Researcher” and one of the 19 scientists identified by Thomson Reuters as The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 from all scientific domains. He appeared in the ISI listing of most cited chemists, and has more than 55 000 citations with an h-index of 110. He is teaching “Functional Materials” course at EPFL, and Korea University. He is appointed as World Class University (WCU) professor by the Korea University, Jochiwon, Korea, Adjunct Professor by the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Visiting Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Eminent Professor at Brunei.

Prof. Hua Zhang is the Herman Hu Chair Professor of Nanomaterials in City University of Hong Kong.He has filed74 patent applications (including 8 granted US patents,1 China patent and 1 Singapore patent), and published over 510 paperswith citations of over 83,600 (H-index of 142, Web of Science), and over 98,000(with H-index of 153, Google Scholar)on6 Feb. 2021. He is co-Editor-in-Chiefof SmartMatand Co-Chairmen of the Editorial Board of ChemNanoMat, and sits on the Editorial/Advisory Board of more than 20 scientific journals including Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Nano, etc.He was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (2020), an Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (2015), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014). In 2014-2020, he was listed in the "Highly Cited Researchers" in Chemistry(2015-2020) and Materials Science(2014-2020) (Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters). In 2015, he was listed as one of 19 “Hottest Researchers of Today” in the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015 (Thomson Reuters, 2015). In 2014, he was listed as one of 17 “Hottest Researchers of Today” in the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014 (Thomson Reuters, 2014). His numerous awards include the Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholar Award (University of Wollongong, Australia, 2016), ACS Nano Lectureship Award (2015), World Cultural Council (WCC) Special Recognition Award (2013), SMALL Young Innovator Award (Wiley-VCH, 2012),Nanyang Award for Research Excellence (2011), etc.

Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen was President of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of several journals and Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 60 research grants and contracts and 600 publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in sustainable energy, environmental impact, and energy technology (including renewable energy and efficiency improvement). Much of his research has been carried out for industry, and he has written numerous books. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors.

Dr. Zheng Liu received his B.S. degree (2005) at Nankai University, China. He completed his Ph.D. at National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST, China), working on the synthesis and energy harvest of carbon nanotubes. He then worked in Prof. Pulickel M. Ajayan and Prof. Jun Lou's groups as a joint postdoc research fellow (2010~2012) and research scientist (2012~2013) at Rice University (USA), focusing on the synthesis and applications of two-dimensional (2D) crystals, including graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN, so-called "white graphene"), oxides and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs: MoS2, WS2, MoSe2 etc.) Sicne 2015, he joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, as a Nanyang Assistant Professor He is currently an associate professor at NTU. His work now focuses on the following topics: 1) Synthesis and engineering of high-quality and large-size novel 2D monolayers such as graphene and TMDs; 2) Physical properties of 2D monolayers such as 2D superconductivity, 2D ferroelectricity, 2D ferromagnetism and 2D Wyle semi-metals; 3) Applications of 2D materials such as novel semiconducting electronics. He has published > 300 papers, including 28 papers in Nature and Science serial journals; 26 in Adv Mater; 24 in Nano Lett; 16 in ACS Nano, 4 in JACS, with total citations > 35,000 and H-index of 93 (Google Scholar, as to 1 Jan 2022). He was the finalist of the World Technology Award in Energy category in 2012. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Singapore NRF Fellowship and the elite Nanyang Assistant Professorship. He was awarded ICON-2DMAT Young Scientist Award and the prestigious Singapore Young Scientist Award in 2018. He was highly cited researcher in 2018 in the category of Materials Science. He was named Materials Research Society of Singapore Chair Professorship in 2019.

Renata Reisfeld was born in Poland. She came to Israel in 1950, he graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her husband Reisfeld Lazare Eliezer, her children Danny and Gideon. Reisfeld became head of the research group of Sciences, Institute of chemistry the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1975. Reisfelds research interests of fluorescent solar concentrators to reduce the cost of solar electricity, the interaction of nanoparticles with fluorescent species, an anti-reflecting coating, and Sol-gel glass. She began developing solar concentrators with her research team in 1978. From 2007 to 2010, Reisfeld acted in GreenSun Energy And the chief scientist. Reisfeld, together with Professor Georges Boulon, Lyon, France 6, French-Israeli scientific conferences on solid-state lasers and related disciplines. Reisfeld also organized the Israeli-Polish scientific conferences with Professor V. Strek, J. Legendziewicz Professor A. Suchocki, Professor M. Pietraszkiewicz, Professor E. Rysiakiewicz-Pasek. International research cooperation in Reisfeld included Professor A. Vaseashta, USA, Professor G. Boulon France, Professor G. BaldacchiniItaly, Professor M. CasalboniItaly, Professor S. Klingshorn Germany, Professor D. Enke of Germany, Professor W. Strek, J. Legendziewicz Professor M. Pietraszkiewicz, Professor B. Jasinska, Professor A. Grabowska, Professor E. Rysiakiewicz-Pasek, Professor M. Greenberg, Dzh. Profwssor Misiewicz, Dr. K. Wodnicka Poland, Professor J. Daniel Spain, Professor I. N. Mihailescu of Romania, Professor O. Malta, Brazil, Professor A. Patra India, Professor J C. G. Bunzli, Switzerland, Professor Yuri Latvia Dehtjars, Professor B. Orel of Slovenia. On July 4, 1976, Reisfeld was among the 102 hostages rescued by Israeli forces at Entebbe airport, Uganda. A week earlier she was a passenger aboard "air France" flight 139 from tel Aviv via Athens to Paris, who was abducted by Palestinian commandos and German air pirates, trying to free the 55 are mostly of Palestinian prisoners in Israel and other countries on terrorism charges. Reisfeld was one of several witnesses who shared their experiences in media interviews immediately after their return to Israel, and to mark the events 40th anniversary.

Elena received her PhD in Intelligent Sensor Systems in 2000 (Coventry University); she was awarded a Professorship in Pervasive Computing, at the same university in 2009. Over the course of her career, Elena has accrued a sturdy academic reputation in the area of Cyber Physical Systems - specifically MEMS based smart sensing systems, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT). She routinely engages with national and international advisory and grant awarding bodies in the areas of sensing and distributed energy solutions. She chaired (2007–2013) the UK Wireless Intelligent Sensing Interest Group (WiSIG) within the Electronics, Sensors, Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network and is an expert reviewer and assessor for the European Commission (EC), Leverhulme trust, UK Research Councils, Finland Academy of Science and other international funders. She is a full member of the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council College of Peers (www.epsrc.gov.uk) and the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College and serves on the British Council Newton Fund Panels. She is an EPSRC affiliated member of the Women’s Engineering Society. She is actively involved with the European Commission and regional government organizations to promote the knowledge transfer from academia to industry and society at large, particularly focusing on the use of sensing technologies for reducing poverty, increasing health, enabling social mobility, and towards the adoption of wireless technologies, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet to tackle global energy challenges.Her work is sponsored by the EPSRC, Innovate UK, Royal Society, European Programmes, British Council, Singapore- MIT Alliance and benefitted from direct sponsorship from industry (Jaguar Land Rover, Orbit Housing Association, NP Aerospace, Meggitt Ltd, etc).

Dr. Hongxia Wang is a full Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia and a theme leader in two research centres at QUT (Centre for Materials Science and Centre for Clean Energy Technology and Practice). Her research has been primarily focus on development of new routes to enhance performance and stability of next generation solar cells and energy storage devices. She has carried out extensive research in the area of dye/quantum dots sensitized solar cells, perovskite solar cells, CZTS based thin film solar cells as well as supercapacitors, batteries. She has published over 160 peer-reviewed scientific articles with total citation over 5000 times and two book chapters to date. She has h-index=43.She is also inventor of four patents in the area of energy materials. She has co-organized two scientific special issues in the area of solar cells and supercapacitors as Guest Editor. She was recipient of“Solar Energy Journal Best Paper Award for 2016 in the topic of Photovoltaics” by International Solar Energy Society. She was also recipient of several prestigious fellowships including “Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship”, “ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Industry)”, “Queensland University of Technology Vice-Chancellor Senior Research Fellow”. She was awarded QUT’s “ Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Award for Best Research with Real World Impact” in 2015 an 2017 respectively. Currently she is a member of Autralian Research Council (ARC) College of Expert.

Gao Liu is a Senior Scientist and Group Leader of the Applied Energy Materials Groupin the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His laboratory combines synthetic chemistry, composite engineering and electrochemistry to solve interdisciplinary problems. Liu Lab’s current research in battery and energy storage include silicon materials and electrode binders for advanced lithium-ion battery, lithium-sulfur battery, solid-state battery, and electrode interfaces. His lab also performs research in hydrogen generation, plastic recycling, and advanced manufacturing. More information about the Liu Lab can be found at the Lab’s website: https://liulab.lbl.gov

Dr Chua Kian Jon is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has been conducting research on renewable energy systems and heat recovery systems since 1997. He has conducted both modelling and experimental works for specific thermal energy systems. He is highly skilled in designing; fabricating; commissioning and testing many sustainable energy systems to provide for heating, cooling and humidity control for both small and large scale applications. He has more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters and tworecent monographs on advances in air conditioning (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811584763 and https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030808426). He was highlighted among the top 1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and top 0.5% in the Stanford list of energy researchers. His works has garnered more than 11,000 over citations with a current h‐index of 55. Further, he owns more than 10 patents related to several innovative cooling and dehumidification systems. On a regular basis, he has been invited to deliver many plenary and keynote talks on his research findings. He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million competitive research grants. Additionally, he has been awarded multiple local, regional, and international awards for his breakthrough research endeavours.

Professor Andrew R. Barron is the Sêr Cymru Chair of Low Carbon Energy and Environment, where his research involves the application of nanotechnology to fundamental problems in energy research. He is the founder and director of the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI), a £38 million investment on the new Science and Innovation Campus which will concentrate elements of the University’s energy research with a unique focus on safety. Educated at Imperial College (London), Professor Barron has held posts at the University Texas at Austin and Harvard and he continues to hold the Charles W. Duncan, Jr. - Welch Chair of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science at Rice University. Professor Barron is the author of over 400 publications, 20 Patents, 5 books, and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Hümboldt Senior Scientist Research Award, the Corday Morgan Medal, the Meldola Medal, and the first Welch Foundation Norman Hackerman Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and in 2009 was appointed as the Prince of Wales Visiting Innovator. In 2011 he won both the Houston Technology Center's Lifetime Achievement Award in Nanotechnology and the World Technology Award for Materials.

2009-present Full Professor Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China 2007-2009 Research Associate University of California, Riverside, CA, USA (with Prof. Yadong Yin and Prof. Yushan Yan) 2005-2007 Research Associate University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA (with Prof. Z. Ryan Tian) 2004-2005 NIH Research Associate National Institute for Nanotechnology, NRC & University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (with Prof. Hicham Fenniri) 2003-2004 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany (with Prof. Markus Antonietti and Prof. Charl F. J. Faul)

Professor AbuBakr S Bahaj, leads the 55-strong Energy & Climate Change Division and the Sustainable Energy Research Group (ECCD, www.energy.soton.ac.uk)at the University of Southampton, where he completed his PhD, progressing from a researcher to a Personal Chair in Sustainable Energy. For more than 30 years, Professor Bahaj has pioneered sustainable energy research and established the energy theme within the University. His major research programmes include Renewable Energy, Energy Access, Cities & Infrastructure, Buildings & Communities, and Behaviour & Modelling – details are within the ECCD research portfolio booklet. Professor Bahaj’s work has an h-index of 48 and resulted in over 300 articles, published in academic refereed journals and conference series of international standing. In 2013, he founded the International Journal of Marine Energy (IJOME) followed in 2018 by the International Marine Energy Journal (IMEJ) for which he was/is the Editor-in-Chief. Prof Bahaj also holds visiting professorships at the Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT), Xi’an, China, (2017 – ), the Ångström Laboratory and Engineering University of Uppsala, Sweden (2011-15) and holds King Salaman bin Abdulaziz Visiting Chair for Energy Research, at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2014 – ). He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), Institution of Engineering Technologies (FIET) and the Royal Academy of Arts (FRSA). In 2012, Prof Bahaj was appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to Southampton City Council—believed to be the first such appointment in the UK. In 2014, he was named by the UK’s Science Council as one of the UK’s 100 leading practising scientists.

Marco Liserre received the MSc and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Bari Polytechnic, respectively in 1998 and 2002. He has been Associate Professor at Bari Polytechnic and from 2012 Professor in reliable power electronics at Aalborg University (Denmark). From 2013 he is Full Professor and he holds the Chair of Power Electronics at Kiel University (Germany). At Kiel University he is leading a team of 25 researchers with a 2 Million Euro annual budget through third-party funded projects, with a Power Electronics Laboratory, a Medium Voltage Laboratory and a Laboratory on Batteries and Energy Conversion, in cooperation with colleagues in material science, approved for 2 Million Euro. He has been leading in the last 7 years’ third-party projects for more than 13 Million Euro (of which 5 % direct company assignment) having responsibility role, among the other, within the strategic governmental 10 years’ initiative “Copernicus” in Germany for the Energy Change towards 80 % renewable based energy society and in a priority program of the German research Foundation DFG within a cooperative project with EPFL. Notably he has been awarded in 2013 with an ERC Consolidator Grant (European Excellence Grants) for the project “The Highly Efficient And Reliable smart Transformer (HEART), a new Heart for the Electric Distribution System”. He has published 500 technical papers (1/3 of them in international peer-reviewed journals) and a book. These works have received more than 35000 citations. Marco Liserre is listed in ISI Thomson report “The world’s most influential scientific minds” from 2014. He is fellow of IEEE (achieved at the age of 38) and member of IAS, PELS, PES and IES. He has been serving all these societies in different capacities. He has received the IES 2009 Early Career Award, the IES 2011 Anthony J. Hornfeck Service Award, the 2014 Dr. Bimal Bose Energy Systems Award, the 2011 Industrial Electronics Magazine best paper award and the Third Prize paper award by the Industrial Power Converter Committee at ECCE 2012, 2012, 2017 IEEE PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award and the 2018 IEEE-IES Mittelmann Achievement Award, which is the highest award of the IEEE-IES.

Dr. Qiuwang Wang is now a full professor of School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He was a visiting scholar at City University of Hong Kong from May 1998 to March 1999, a guest professor at Kyushu University of Japan from September to December2003, and a senior visiting scholar atRutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA from December 2012 to June 2013. His research interests include heat transfer enhancement and itsapplications, high-temperature/high-pressureheat transfer and fluid flow, transport phenomena in porous media, numerical simulation, prediction &optimization, etc.He is a Fellow of ASME(American Society of Mechanical Engineers), the China Delegate of Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conference (AIHTC), a member of Scientific Council of International Centre for Heat & Mass Transfer (ICHMT), a Vice President of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics in Heat & Mass Transfer, an Associate Editor of Heat Transfer Engineering, and Editorial Board Members for several international journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Conversion and Management, Energy, Applied Thermal Engineering, International Journal of Green Energy.He is the Initiatorof International Workshop on Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control (IWHT) (every two yearssince 2011). He has also delivered more than 40 Invited/Keynote lectures in international conferences or foreign Universities.He has also been authors or co-authors of 4 books and more than 200 international journal papers. He has obtained more than 40China Invent Patents and 3 US Patents.

Professor Fulei Chu received his PhD from Southampton University in UK. He is now a full professor of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is the Vice President of the Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering (CSVE) and Chairman of the Technical Committee for Machine Fault Diagnostics of CSVE. His research interests include rotating machinery dynamics, machine condition monitoring and fault diagnostics, nonlinear vibration and vibration control. His research results have been extensively used in the condition monitoring of water turbines and wind turbines. He has published more than 300 papers in peer review journals with citations of over 11000 (H-Index of 50, Google Scholar). He has received many awards in China, including the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Natural Science Foundation of China.

Ph.D. (1983); Doctor of Technical Sciences (1992); Professional Engineer (Ontario, Canada) (2008); Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2012), Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME) (2015), and Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) (2013); member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) (2004) and Canadian NS (CNS) (2010); is an internationally recognized scientist within the areas of nuclear engineering (thermalhydraulics of nuclear reactors, Generation-IV nuclear-reactor concepts, etc.) and thermal sciences / engineering (boiling, forced convection including supercritical pressures, etc.) (https://nuclear.ontariotechu.ca/people/faculty/dr-igor-pioro.php). He is author/co-author of more than 500 publications - 12 technical books, 32 chapters in encyclopedias, handbooks and books, 99 papers in refereed journals, 285 papers in refereed proceedings of international and national conferences / symposiums, 26 patents and inventions, and 47 major technical reports. Dr. Pioro has supervised / co-supervised 3 Ph.D., 16 M.A.Sc., 4 M.Eng. students with projects, 53 design-group students and 21 summer students, who have completed their studies successfully. Dr. Pioro graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kiev Polytechnic Institute" with M.A.Sc. in Thermal Physics in 1979. After that, he worked on various positions including an engineer, senior scientist, deputy director, professor, director of a graduate program in nuclear engineering, and associate dean. Currently, he is associated with the Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Oshawa, Ontario, Canada). Dr. Pioro is a Founding Editor – Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science. He was a Chair of the Executive Committee of the Nuclear Engineering Division (NED) of the ASME (2011-2012) and a Chair of the International Conference On Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-20) (2011-2012). Professor Pioro has received many international and national awards and certificates of appreciation including Harold A. Smith Outstanding Contribution Award from CNS (2017), Medal 60th Anniversary of NED (Nuclear Engineering Division of ASME) (2016); Service Recognition Award from the ASME (2014); Honorary Doctor’s Degree from National Technical University of Ukraine “Kiev Polytechnic Institute” (2013); The CNS Education and Communication Award (2011); UOIT Research Excellence Award (2011); ICONE Award from ASME (2009); etc.

Suk-Ho Choi is a professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Kyung Hee University. He received BS degree from Seoul National Univ. and MS/Ph.D. degree from KoreaAdvancedInstituteofScienceandTechnology. He spent sabbatical years at NationalInstituteofStandardsandTechnology in the USA, Australian National University, and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. He worked as a director at the Institute of Natural Sciences at Kyung Hee University for 10 years, and was appointed as Fellow Professor from 2009. Prof. Choi has been involved in areas of fabrication and characterization of semiconductors over the last 4 decades. During this time, he has designed, developed, and constructed various chemical vapor deposition (CVD) systems including graphene/2D materials CVD, and PL/EL, I-V, C-V, dark- and photo-conductivity systems. In recent years, Prof. Choi has established two major areas of research, one on the optical and electrical properties of low-dimensional materials such as quantum dots/nanowires/graphene/2D materials and their heterostructures, and the other on fabrication/characterization of the low-dimensional-materials-based electronic and optical devices including LEDs, solar cells, piezoelectric cells, photodetectors, non-volatile memories, and sensors. He has published over 225 papers in the relevant research area.

Manuela Sechilariu is Full Professor at Alliance Sorbonne University – School of Engineering Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France, Department Urban Engineering, and Director of the interdisciplinary research unit AVENUES (EA 7284), which research area focuses on urban system modeling. Her broad research interests focus on the power and energy systems, smart grid, microgrids, electromobility, distributed generation, photovoltaic-powered systems, energy management, optimization, intelligent control, and Petri Nets modeling. She has delivered several invited lectures and has published more than 100 refereed scientific and technical papers in international journals and conferences, with over 2000 citations. Her research has been funded by agencies and sponsors including the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) andADEME (French agency for ecological transition), FEDER (European Fund for Regional Economic Development). She has managed several international and national research projects and industrial research contracts, including IEAPVPSTask17. Since 2018 she is Deputy Director of French research CNRS group GDR SEEDS (Electric Power Systems in their Social Dimension). Since 2016 she is the founder of the French Working Group Microgrids (included into GDR SEEDS supported by CNRS France) and coordinates activities and several research teams working on microgrids.His current researches are clarification on PV benefits in transportation, electro-mobility and microgrids optimization applied to urban areas utilizing renewable energy actively.

Dr. Akira Nishimura is an associate professor in Division of Mechanical Engineering at Mie University, Japan. He received the B.S. Eng., the M.S. Eng. and Dr. Eng. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan in 1995, 1997 and 2000, respectively. He worked at Center for Integrated Research in Science and Engineering, Nagoya University as research associate from 2000 to 2002. He moved to Mie University in 2002 as an assistant professor and promoted to associate professor from 2014. His current researches are clarification on energy supply chain combining renewable energy and hydrogen, smart city utilizing renewable energy actively, heat and mass transfer mechanism of polymer electrolyte fuel cell, CO2 reduction by photocatalyst and H2 production from biogas.

Martin Kalbac graduated in inorganic chemistry from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, (1998), where he also received his Ph.D. degree in 2002 and has been habilitated in the field of inorganic chemistry (2019). Since 2001 he has worked at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Currently, he is a vice-director of the institute and the head of the Department of Low dimensional Systems. His research interests include carbon nanotubes, 2D materials, Raman spectroscopy and spectroelectrochemistry, isotope engineering of carbon nanostructures and sensorics.

Dr. AssuntaBorzacchiellois Senior Scientist at IPCB-CNR, She received PhD in Material Technologies (1998) from the University of Naples “Federico II”. She has both depth and breadth of expertise in the development of materials for applications that range from industrial to biomedical and in the study ofrheology and microrheology and in the development of newmaterial production technologies such as microfluidics.In the last ten years she has been responsible of 15 projects.She iscoordinator and responsible of an ongoing project, MIUR-PON ARS01_01081 INMBIOMED, local responsible of ongoing projects: POR CampaniaB43D18000240007 ADVISE, MUR-FISR 2019-04798 SUSSTAINEBLE, MISE-AltergonContratto di Sviluppo CDS000463, Research Project in the frame of cooperation agreement Fondazione Betania–IPCB-CNR 0000449/2020.The key outcomes have been published in highly impacted, peer reviewed journal ranked Q1 in the related field in more than120 papers(H-index 33,2803 citations). book chapters and conference proceedings. She is a member of the editorial board of the international journal and she is the Editor of the Encyclopedia of Composites published by Wiley.

Dr Tayebeh Ameri became a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Institute for Materials and Processes, Chemical Engineering discipline at the University of Edinburgh in December 2020. She carried out her PhD research in Konarka GmbH Austria and received her PhD degree in Engineering Sciences from the Johannes Kepler University Linz, in 2010. Afterwards, she conducted her postdoctoral and Habilitation research in the institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). From 2018 till 2020, Dr Ameri was a team leader and lecturer in the chair of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU). She is also the scientific mentor of the start-up SERINO, recently founded by the Medical Valley Award, on development of the next generation of IR-detectors for medical applications. Dr Ameri’s research involves development of printed optoelectronics with a focus on photovoltaic and photodetector technologies. She has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications/book chapters, which are cited over 8900 times (Google Scholar). Dr Ameri has received several prestigious awards including Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard-Stiftung, Wolfgang Finkelnburg, and Arnold Sommerfeld Awards. In November 2020, she has been awarded with a fellowship in the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Dr Ameri is selected as one of the WES Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) 2021: Engineering Heroes. Academic Qualifications

Dr. Gabrielis an elected member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and the former A/Deputy Minister at the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. In 1990, Dr. Gabriel attendedthe prestigious, MIT-founded, International Space Universityand received a diploma in Space Sciences. For over 14 years, Dr. Gabriel led an international team in the research efforts spearheaded by NASA to design, test and operate a thermal management system for the International Space Station (ISS). In 2004, Dr. Gabriel was invited to lead the development of the research and innovation ecosystem in a newly announced university. He assumed the position of the founding AVP research and graduate programs at Ontario Tech University (formerly known as University of Ontario Institute of Technology) in Ontario, Canada. Under his leadership, Ontario Tech University was ranked as one of the top Canadian higher learning institutions in the categories of innovation and leaders of tomorrow.

Prof. Zijian Zheng is currently Full Professor at the Institute of Textile and Clothing (ITC) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests are surface and polymer science, nanofabrication, flexible and wearable electronics. Prof. Zheng received his B. Eng. in Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University in 2003, and PhD in Chemistry at University of Cambridge in 2007 (Supervisor: Prof. Wilhelm T. S. Huck). In 2008, he worked as postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Chad A. Mirkin at Northwestern University. He joined ITC as Assistant Professor in 2009, and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2013 and Professor in 2017. He has published >100 papers in high-impact international scientific journals including Science, Nat. Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Journal of the America Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie. He also files 25+ patents and is recipient of more than 15 academic awards. He serves as Guest Editor of Advanced Materials and Small, and Editor-in-Chief of EcoMat, a flagship open-access journal in green energy and environment published by Wiley. He is elected as Founding Member of The Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong.

Dr. Jieshan Qiu is Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), China, and Dean of Chemical Engineering Collegeat BUCT. He is an internationally-recognized research and thought leader in chemical engineering and carbon science. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis and environment protection. He has published 760+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule,Matter,Chem, Energy Technology, etc., with a citation 36000+ times and h-index of 93 (web of sci.). He has a strong record of innovation–with 140+ Chinese and International patents issued. Currently, he is the Vice President of Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, Associate Editor of CIESC Journal, and is on the advisory boards of several high profile journals, including Chemical Engineering Science, Science China Materials, andEnergyTechnology, etc. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and Elsevier Highly Cited ChineseResearchersin 2019and 2020 in the field of chemical engineering, and 2019 Top 1% highly cited author in the field of energy &sustainability in 2019 in China by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has served as Associate Editor of three international journals for years, including: Carbon, FlatChemand ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Kaoshan Dai is a full professor and Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, Sichuan University, Chair of the Faculty Academic Committee, Sichuan University- Hong Kong Polytechnic University Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, China. He obtained his Ph.D. from University of North Carolina in 2009and worked at the Department of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering, University of North Carolina from 2009 to 2011. He also has short time working experiences in a risk management company ImageCat Inc., California, USA. In 2011 he joined Tongji University, Shanghai, Chinaas an Associate Professorand Assistant Dean at the College of Civil Engineering. He worked in Tongji University and the State Key Laboratory of Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering at Shanghai for seven years before he joined Sichuan University in 2018. His research interests include wind turbine infrastructure resilience, application of sensing techniques for civil structure monitoring, vibration control, and post-disaster evaluation. He has presided over more than 20 research projects, including three projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China.Up to now, he has published more than 130 journal papers, and holds more than 20 Chinese patents. He is the editorial board member of the World Earthquake Engineering and Sichuan Building Science.

Dr. Zhifeng Huang obtained B.Sc. in Chemistry (in 2000) and M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry (in 2003) at Xiamen University (China), and Ph.D. in Science and Engineering of Materials at Arizona State University (US, 2007). After working as a postdoctoral fellow in Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering at University of Alberta (Canada, Jan. 2008 – Aug. 2009), Dr. Huang joined Department of Physics at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. Dr. Huang is Associate Director (Nanomaterials) in Golden Meditech Centre for NeuroRegeneration Sciences at HKBU, is member of The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences, and serves as Vice President in Hong Kong Materials Research Society. Dr. Huang is devoted to fabricating sculptured nano thin films to study chiral nanoplasmonics, surface enhanced chiroptical spectroscopies, enantioselective synthesis, photochirogenesis, enantiodifferentiation, trace (bio)molecular detection, bio-nano interaction, specific differentiation of stem cells, functional optic coating, and flexible/wearable energy generation and storage. He contributed to two book chapters, and published his studies in high-impact journals, such as Nat. Chem., Nat. Nanotechnol., Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Nano Lett., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Sci., and Small. Dr. Huang was awarded with Outstanding Research Achievement (APSMR, 2017 and 2018), the Prof. Rudolph A. Marcus Award 2016, the Incentive Award for Outstanding Research Achievement (Faculty of Science, HKBU, 2015), and National-level Technology Project Award for Advanced Individual (2012, 2014). He is serving as Review Editor for Frontiers in Chemistry, Associate Editor for Science Advances Today and Science Letters Journal (Cognizure). Dr. Huang, together with Prof. Ken Yung (Department of Biology, HKBU), co-founded a spin-off, Mat-A-Cell Ltd., to commercialize a new-generation medical device for cell culture. The invention was awarded with 2019 TechConnect Innovation Award, and Gold Medal with Congratulations of Jury (The 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2018).

Arnold is the Exec. Director of EGB Engineering (http://egb-eng.com), and Founder and CEO of Ventiarge (http://ventairge.com). He holds a B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D in Engineering from Cranfield University, United Kingdom. He has leadership and technical experience in the field of power and propulsion within the energy (including renewables), aerospace, defense and nuclear industries. He has been involved in EPC contracts on several projects in Europe and Africa and has provided advisory services to institutions and government departments on aerospace, energy and nuclear. He is an expert on rotating complex machineries and systems including the techno-economical and environmental risk analysis of power projects and energy economics, aircraft engine development and certification activities, civil nuclear power, and marine technology. He is a Chartered/Professional Engineer (CEng) with the UK Engineering Council and a European Engineer (Eur. Ing) with the European Federation of National Engineering Associations. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). He also has active memberships and affiliations with the Institution of Power Engineers (MIPowerE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is the Chairman of the IET Aerospace Technical Network, a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University, and has authored numerous journal papers and conference proceedings in the field of power and propulsion.

Deb P Jaisi is Associate Professor Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware.USA Research and Professional Experience Years Position 2017-date Associate Professor, Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, University of Delaware 2018-2020 NSF Visiting faculty fellow, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology 2011-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, University of Delaware 2007-2010 Interdepartmental Bateman Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University. Publications: Total 99 (2005-2021) Google indices: h-index: 31; i10-index: 59; total citations: 4682 ResearchGate index: 37.65

Dr. Lin Chen is now a full professor in the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and jointly at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China. He is currently one Board member of the Experts Commission of China Energy Society. He was previously a JST-CREST and JSPS Research Fellow in the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan. He obtained his B.E and Ph.D. in Mechanics (Energy and Resources Engineering) from Peking University. His current research topics include energy resources, supercritical fluids,soil remediation, microscale compressible fluid flows, and multiscale heat/mass transfer. In recent years, he has authored over 140 well-cited international journal papers and/or conference presentations, and 7 chapters, 3 books, including the most famous one on energy conversion (“Advanced Applications of Supercritical Fluids in Energy Systems”, IGI Global, 2017, 680 pages). He has an h-index of 23 according to google scholar's record. His doctoral thesis was also selected and published as a Springer book (“Microchannel Flow Dynamics and Heat Transfer of Near-Critical Fluid”, Springer, 2016, 153 pages). He revealed the heat transfer laws and stability conditions of supercritical fluid-based natural circulation loop (NCL) (with applications in solar, geothermal, chemical fields), which is in the TOP5 most-cited list of Elsevier (2013-2016). Recently, he developed a robust model for utilizing oceanic methane hydrate (CH4•6H2O) and proposed the first strategic production system with CCS process. Dr. L. Chen is a winner of the President Scholarship, National Scholarship (MOE), Elite Scholar (PKU) and many other honors/awards. He received the Innovation Award in 2011, 2012, and 2014, the Best Paper of the Chinese Association of Refrigeration (2015), and the Elsevier Excellent Reviewer (2013, 2014, 2015). He was the winner of the Young Scholar Award of the Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering (AUTSE) in 2018 due to his contribution in supercritical fluid thermodynamics. He is also a Reviewer, an Editorial/Advisory Member, and the Guest Editor of many renowned international journals. He is currently an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Supercritical Fluids (Elsevier).

Prof. Wenxi Tian is now the dean of School of Nuclear Science and Technology, director of Shaanxi Key Lab on advanced nuclear energy technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He obtained his Ph. D on Nuclear Science and Technology from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2006. From Oct. 2007 to Apr. 2010, he did his post-doctor research in the University of Tokyo. In Dec. 2014 he was promoted to be Professor. His research interests cover advanced nuclear reactor system, Nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics and safety, two-phase flow and heat transfer etc. He already published more than 150 journal papers, two monographs and one text book, fifteen invention patents. He servers as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design and Technology(JANDT), Associated Editor of Frontiers in Energy Research-Nuclear energy Section, Editorial member of Annals of Nuclear Energy etc..

• Vitezslav Benda was born in Dvur Kralove n.L. (Czech Republic) in 1944. • He graduated at MSc level in Solid State Physics at the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1967. • From 1967 to 1973 he worked in the R&D department of CKD Semiconductors. Since 1973, he has been at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he was awarded a doctoral degree in Electrotechnology (PhD) in 1976. From 1983 to 2001 he was Associated Professor at the Department of Electrotechnology , Czech Technical University in Prague. Since 2001 he has been a Professor in Materials and Technology for Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Department of Electrotechnology of CTU in Prague, where based in 2010 Laboratory of photovoltaic systems diagnostics. He specialises in electronic materials and devices, especially in the physics, technology and diagnostics of power semiconductor devices and in photovoltaics. He is supervisor of PhD students. He was awarded the Czechoslovak State Prize for Technology in 1980 and the Merit Award for inventors in 1989. He also obtained the CTU award for the best prestige publication in the year 2000. He is author or co-author of 14 textbooks, 19 Czechoslovak patents and more than 100 papers. Prof. Benda is a Fellow of the IET, and serves as Chairman of the IET Czech Network. He is also a committee member of the Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship of Czech Republic. He has served as a member (or as chairman) of the organising or programme committee of several international conferences and as a referee for conferences and international journals and as a member of editorial board or a guest editor of international journals. He is also active in ETIP-PV and ETIP-SNET.

Dr. Stefan Sauer is an Academic Councillor at the Nuremberg Campus of Technology, founded by the FAU Nuremberg University and the Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg. He earned his doctoral degree in 2016 at the FAU Nuremberg University and his master's degree in 2009 at LMU Munich University. His fields of interest are sociology of work, environmental sociology and gender studies. He worked in several research projects focusing on sustainability within organizations and production processes, project management, and digitization. He published in international journals like f.e. Sustainability and World Organisation, Labour&Globalisation.

Kamyar Mehran (M’09, SM’20) is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Electrical Power Engineering and the director of the Real-Time Power and Control System (RPCS) Laboratory at the school of EECS in Queen Mary University in London. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and MSc degree in Control and Automation from Newcastle University, UK, in 2010 and 2004 respectively. From 2013 to 2015, he was a research fellow in the University of Warwick, UK and from 2010-2013 he was a research associate in the Newcastle University where he also acted as a commercialisation manager for a university spin-off developing disruptive GaN technology for optoelectronics. Before his academic career, he worked for eight years in industry in a variety of software-related roles. Since 2015, his research has been focused on the theory and application of advanced control and optimisation methods for (vehicular, grid) energy storage, SiC-based power electronics and dc/ac microgrids with over 50 peer-reviewed publications, and several book chapters. He has been the PI of CI of several projects totalling £1.27M of external funding supported by Innovate UK, Royal Society, Newton fund, and industry. He is a reviewer for the EPSRCand several high-impact IEEE Transactions journals. He has been an invited speaker in several conferences and companies.

Since 1999 he has been with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca an “Advanced Research and Education University”, where is currently Full Professor, Director of the Energy Transition Research Center and PhD Supervisor. Between 2006 - 2010 he was Scientific Expert at the Managerial Agency of Scientific Research at Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation and staring from 2020, he has been selected as a Scientific Officer at the National Council for Scientific Research at the same Ministry. He lectured at more than 50 Universities all over the world. In 2017-2018 he was a Fulbright Senior Fellow at University of Florida, US. Since 2019 he works also as a Part-time Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, China. He has authored and coauthored more than 250 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences. He was project manager at 15 research grants obtained by international competitions (8 Horizon2020 Projects) in the field of energy analytics numerical tools and energy efficiency in buildings & industry

Dr James Carroll is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. He is also the Academic Manager of the UK Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures Centre for Doctoral Training. He obtained his PhD in Wind Energy Maintenance Modelling and Turbine Reliability from the EPSRC Wind Energy Systems CDT, hosted at the University of Strathclyde. Following his PhD he was awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize to research "data driven wind turbine component failure and remaining useful life prediction". Since 2017 he has received funding from EPSRC, H2020, Innovate UK and Industry to continue carrying out research in the areas of wind turbine reliability, maintenance modelling, data driven component failure prediction and novel wind turbine development. Before his time at the University of Strathclyde Dr Carroll worked for a wind turbine developer in Germany and a wind turbine manufacturer and operator in both Germany and Denmark.

Dr. Eugene Frumker is a head of attosecond science and nanophotonics group in the Department of Physics of Ben-Gurion University and fellow of Institute of Quantum Science and Engineering of Texas A&M University. Frumker received his Ph.D. in physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2007. As a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow, his research focused on attosecond science at Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory of the Canadian National Research Council / University of Ottawa (JasLAB) and at Texas A&M University; and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Germany). His research interests include ultrafast nonlinear optics, nanopotonics and attosecond science.

Professor Fushuan Wen received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1991, all in electrical engineering. He joined the faculty of Zhejiang University in 1991, and has been a full professor and the director of the Institute of Power Economics and Information since 1997, and the director of Zhejiang University-Insigma Joint Research Center for Smart Grids since 2010. He is now a Professor in Energy Systems at Tallinn University of Technology, taking leaves from Zhejiang University. He has been undertaking various teaching, research and visiting appointments in National University of Singapore (NSTB Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Fellow), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Research Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor), University of Hong Kong (Research Assistant Professor), South China University of Technology (University Distinguished Professor), University of New South Wales in Australia (ARC Project Senior Fellow, Senior Visiting Fellow), Queensland University of Technology in Australia (CSIRO and ARC Project Visiting Fellow), Brunei University of Technology (Professor in Power Systems), Technical University of Denmark (Otto Monsted Guest Professor in Power Systems), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (Visiting Fellow), Murdoch University in Australia (Adjunct Professor), Hangzhou Dianzi University in China (Yusheng XUE Education Foundation Distinguished Professor), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia (Honorary Visiting Scientist), Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (Visiting Principal Research Fellow). His research interests include: 1) power economics and electricity markets; 2) power system investment, planning and operation optimization; 3) smart grids and electric vehicles; 4) power system alarm processing, fault diagnosis and system restoration; 5) artificial intelligence applications in power and integrated energy systems. He has published 200+ SCI-indexed papers, 610+ EI-indexed papers, and 710+ Scopus-indexed papers. His publications have been cited for 15400+ times. He has completed and is undertaking more than 170 grants and projects from governmental organizations and industry. Prof Wen received many awards both at the national level and provincial level, including the most prestigious National Natural Science Award of China. He has been listed in "Most Cited Chinese Researchers" in six consecutive years since 2015 by Elsevier, and is the author of one of the China's 100 Most Influential Domestic Academic Papers in 2016. Prof Wen is the editor-in-chief of Energy Conversion and Economics (IET, Wiley), the deputy editor-in-chief of Journal of Automation of Electric Power Systems, an editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and IEEE Power Engineering Letters, a subject editor in power system economics of IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, associate editor of Journal of Energy Engineering and Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy. He is also on the editorial boards of more than 10 journals.

Rita Zakhia Douaihy received her Master’s degree in inorganic chemistry from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2016 where she worked on the synthesis of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) via the reaction-diffusion framework (RDF). Currently, she is completing her PhD at Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie (LCS, Caen) in France. Her central research interests include the synthesis of core-shell materials, particularly zeolite-based hybrid materials via the photopolymerization of acrylate monomer on the surface of the zeolites for the dehydration of ethanol. Her main expertise focuses on understanding the mechanisms of adsorption and characterization by IR spectroscopy. Her recent work has been published in Wiley online Library, Elsevier and ACS.

Graduated in Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Paraíba UFPB (1999), Campus Campina Grande, currently transformed into the Federal University of Campina Grande - UFCG, Master in Civil Engineering from the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP (2002) and PhD in Electrical Engineering from State University of Campinas - UNICAMP (2005). He is currently linked to the faculty of the Polytechnic School of the University of Pernambuco, assigned to the Basic Engineering Course and Permanent Professor in the Systems Engineering Graduate Program (PPGES). He works as a researcher in research & development projects and in addition to teaching and extension activities in the areas: probability, statistics, stochastic processes, water resources, time series forecasting, Box and Jenkins models, artificial neural networks, renewable energies and energy planning. He works as a teacher in post-graduate courses (lato sensu) at POLI / UPE: Specialization in Construction and Assembly Engineering, Quality / Productivity Management and Automotive Engineering. He is currently coordinator and professor of the Specialization Course in Reliability Engineering, in the area of Life Data Analysis, Repairable Systems and Extreme Conditions of Use.

Dr. Chen Bin is a full professor and vice director in State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received his Ph.D in 2002 from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. Thereafter, he worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 2002 to 2004. For more than two decades, Prof. Chen has devoted his efforts to the research in multiphase flow and thermal-physics in high-efficient utilization andconversion of fossil energy and mass production of renewable energy. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed international journal papers and more than 20 keynote lectures. Owing to his achievements, He was awarded as New Century Excellent Talents in University (2007) and National outstanding leading scientist of China (2018).

Edgar Harzfeld, Professor at Stralsund University. Studies and research in Leipzig and Zurich. Since 1996 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Stralsund University responsible for electrical power supply and renewable energy systems. Since 2004 - 2022 numerous research projects on the subject of electrical energy storage technologies.

Xiaoli Zhao， Full Professor，Ph. D. Director at the Institute for Low Carbon Economy and Policy； Deputydeanat the School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum-Beijing; Secretary-general at the Energy & Resource Branch of System Engineering Society of China. Her study fields focus on Energy Economics and Environmental regulation. She studies20 scientific research projects as a leader, including2 key research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and the National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC), respectively; 4 general research projects supported by NSFC, 1 project supported by NSSFC,4 projects supported by the Energy Foundation of United States. She has published more than 100 papers，35 of them are indexed by SSCI/SCI(25 of them are the first area of JCR), and more than 20 of them are indexed by CSSCI. She has published seven monographs, and obtained 5 provincial and ministerial level awards; Awarded as 2020 "Highly cited Chinese Researchers" in environmental Management Science and Engineering, and 2020 "Top 2% Of the World's top scientists" in environmental science and Engineering by Elsevier.

Dr. Jiehui Yuan is now anassociate professor of School of Economics and Management, Yichun University, Jiangxi, China. He is the supervisor of Institute of Resource & Energy, Environment and Economy, Yichun University. He received his PhD from China University ofPetroleumBeijing in 2015 and conducted postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University Beijing from 2015 to 2017.His research interests include energy system analysis, technical and economic evaluation of energy, life cycle analysis, energy policy, etc. Over these years he has published high-qualitypeer-reviewedpapers including Applied Energy, Energy,Energy Policy and Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering.He has also been authors or co-authors of 4 books.

Mr. Kim was a career diplomat of Korea since he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976. He assumed different positions in the Ministry until the retirement in 2012 including director and deputy director – general of North American Affairs, political minister at the Korean Mission to the United Nations, director- general of international cooperation at the North Korea Light Water Reactor (Nuclear Power Plant, Korean HQ for Agreed Framework follow-ups) project headquarter. He was assigned to the Ambassador to Iran, Consul General to New York. Mr. Kim completely retired from the Korea Government in 2016 after serving as President and Chairman of “Korea International Cooperation Agency”, which implements Korea’s Grant ODA to developing countries. Inclusive partnership and climate change were focused goals among others. Mr. Kim undertook different missions as coordinator and negotiator with regard to North Korean Nuclear development program including the Genève Agreement in 1993 and subsequent negotiations leading to the Nuclear Power Plant Construction by Korean Energy Development Organization (KEDO), a multilateral consortium for resolving North Korea nuclear issue. He assumed executive deputy director general of that organization. He graduated from Seoul National University, International Institute of Public Administration (currently ENA) France. He attended professional scholar program at SIPA, Columbia University, New York. He is chair-professor at Young Nam University for international development. Mr. Kim is currently President and Chair of Grace & Mercy Foundation, Korea, a philanthropic, cultural foundation.

Dr.Fredy S. Monge-Rodríguez, is professor in the National University San Antonio Abad del Cusco.He is editor-in-chief of the journal Environment, Behaviour and Society. He has won the award as a Researcher in Psychology in 2017, by the College of Psychologists in Peru.He has been a visiting researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of Leeds and the University of Hull in UK. Holds a PhD in Psychology from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, a European Master's Degree in Research Designs and Applications in Psychology and Health from the University of Granada - Spain and a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. He has specialised courses in Climate Change at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom), in qualitative methodology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), in research methods and scientific writing at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), and in ethics and scientific publication at the Peru-Belgium agreement. He is a member of the American Psychological Association (APA), member of the Interamerican Society of Psychology (SIP). He leads a research team on perceptions of deglaciation and climate change. Recently participated in projects on energy and water conservation. He has published several scientific articles in JCR journals (Journal Citation Report), and has participated in more than a hundred conferences as a speaker and lecturer, is the author of two book projects in his field.

Paula Llanquileo-Melgarejo is Dra. In Engineering Sciences, Civil Engineering area of the Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is a Chemical Engineer, and her beginnings as a professional were in the agricultural, cosmetic and renewable energy industries, participating in production and management processes. In 2017, she entered the Doctorate program at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where her objective was to contribute with solutions applicable to the industry and academic. Her research and work interests include waste management, circular economy, evaluation of technical-economic projects of an environmental nature, renewable energies, chemical processes and projects in the cosmetic, agricultural and food industries. Moreover, she has presented her research on Waste Management at conferences in Chile, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain. She and she maintains a constant collaboration with mainly Italian and Spanish researchers. She also collaborated in the Climate Change Challenges project organized by the University of Otago (2020), New Zealand, and Romanian researchers in Waste Management in rural populations, focusing on Latin America. She is active as a peer reviewer for related environmental journals and wants to continue contributing where needed, constantly applying science to the real problems we are currently experiencing worldwide.

Dr Hossein Ameli is a research associate at Imperial College London. He got his PhD degree from Electrical and Electronic Engineering department at Imperial College London. His research is mainly focused on interaction of gas/hydrogen and electricity systems from operation and planning perspectives. In this context, the modelling is carried out for e.g., GB energy system in 2030 and 2050, where a significant part of heat and transport sector should be electrified. Furthermore, cost-effective transition to lower-carbon energy system achieved by employment of flexibility options (i.e., demand side response, electricity storage, flexible gas plants, multi-directional compressors, and interconnections) in the integrated operation and planning of different energy vectors (mainly gas/hydrogen, heat and electricity) is investigated. He contributed in many scientific papers as well as research projects related to energy industry such as projects for Committee of Climate Change (CCC) and Ofgem.

Dr. GERSHON GROSSMAN is a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, ISRAEL EDUCATION: B.Sc. ME, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 1964 M.Sc. ME, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, 1967 Sc.D. ME, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1971 AREAS OF INTEREST: Thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer; Solar energy; Energy conservation; Heating and air conditioning systems; Cryogenic cooling; Absorption/sorption heat pumps SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE: • At the Technion since 1973; Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 1997-2001; Head of Energy Engineering Research Center 1975 1977, 2002-2007, 2008-2011; Head of Solar Energy Laboratory 1982 87, 1989 present; Head of the Rechler Cryogenic Cooling Laboratory, 2005–present. Head of Energy Forum, the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, 2005-present. Various administrative positions at Technion; Member of a number of Technion committees, including Steering, Research and Academic Development Committees. • Visiting Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder, CO (2005, 2007, 2010), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (2001), the University of California, Irvine (1987 89), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN (1983, 1985 87, 1990 95), Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany (1984, 1987), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa (1978). • Consultant in energy conservation and solar energy utilization in Israel, USA, several other countries. • Senior Development Staff Member, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (1995-96); Program Engineer at L'Garde Inc., Tustin, Ca. (1987 89); Research Staff Member, Union Carbide Nuclear Division, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (1980-82); Staff Scientist at AVCO Systems Division, Wilmington, Mass. (1971 73),

Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem spent 8 years in one of the pioneer labs in Japan in the field of electrochemical energy devices, i.e., fuel cells. During his Ph.D. study, Dr. Mohammad developed a novel electrode structure for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC), thereby; the methanol concentration which can be used efficiently in DMFC has been increased from 7 to 100 wt%. After his Ph.D. study, he worked on a project for the fabrication of a complete passive fuel cell stack operated with high methanol concentration based on this novel electrode structure. As the high cost of the electrodes of the direct methanol fuel cells is one of the main obstacles facing their commercialization, Dr. Mohammad is working on the development of nano-sized material for the replacement of the Pt catalyst with non-precious catalysts. Dr. Mohammad secured international and national funds of more than 600,000 USD through them he built up two pioneer labs in the field of the Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Microbial Fuel Cells. Right now Dr. Mohammad is working as an Associate Professor in the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department, University Sharjah, UAE. He is working on developing energy conversion/storage devices such as fuel cells and supercapacitors. Dr. Mohammad published more than 100 SCI journal papers.

Professor Aissa Boudjella has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Tokyo City University, Japan. He has been working with different international institutions for more than 20 years, teaching, conducting, and developing research in different topics (Electrical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Applied Mathematics, Digital Image Processing, Applied Physics, Data Science & Analysis, Machine Learning, natural language processing, Deep Learning. Gas discharge, Nanotechnology, Business, etc...). As a visiting professor atthe University Hospital of Oran (EtablissementHospitalierUniversitaired'Oran-EHUO). He is leading the research team. His research work focuses on the development of new computational methodologies using Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning Applications in Medical Image Analysis to current problems of different diseasesto diagnostic their status such as Breast cancer,Covid-19,Vertebral Column, Cerebral Tumor, Alzheimer,Parkinson's disease ( PD), Epilepsy, Diabetes, etc. Many GUI applications have been developed.Professor atBircham International University since 2014, a member of the academic Board of distance learning system. He is in charge of designing programs, evaluating, and supervise student works. He joined the American University of Afghanistan at the department of information technology and computer science (2017-2019). He worked at the department of information technology, Al Khawarizmi international college,Abu Dhabi (2012-2016). He has served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer and Communication Technology,Tunku Abdul Rahman University,Malaysia(2008-2012). At EcolePolytechnique, Montreal Canada, as a research associate, his research work focused on molecular nanodevices (2001-2004). Prior, he was employed by Algerian public universities for many years: University of sciences & technology, University of Mostagnem, and University of Chlef/Algeria. Dr. Boudjella is also a reviewer for many international conferences and journals. He is currently a committee member of WASET, International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Malaysia Nanotechnology Association (MNA), International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS), International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), etc... He published several articles.His research work has appeared on the transaction of the institute of electrical engineers of japan, Japanese journal of applied physics, International Conference on Mechatronics and Computational Mechanics, Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, International Microprocesses, and Nanotechnology Conference/japan, International Forum on Mechanical and Material Engineering, Advanced Materials Research Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, Applied Mechanics and Materials Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland,American Institute of Physics.

Dr. Xing Zhao received his B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2014. He then served as an Engineer in aircraft industry for two years. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, in 2020. From July 2019 to January 2020, he was a Research Scholar with the Center for Advanced Power Systems, Florida State University, United States. Since July 2020, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he currently holds a position of Research Assistant Professor. His research interests include electrical machines, motor drives, and power electronics for electric propulsion and renewable energy systems. In this field, he has published over30 technical articles in international journals and holds 6 granted patents. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society.

Dr. Edgardo Saucedo received his PhD in Materials Physic at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain in 2007 with a FPU fellowship. In 2007, he joined the Institut de Recherche et Développement sur l’Énergie Photovoltaïque IRDEP (Paris, France), with a CNRS associated Researcher fellowship, working in the development and optoelectronic characterization of CIGS low cost based solar cells. In 2009, he joined NEXCIS, a spin-off created from IRDEP, to further pursue their training in photovoltaic technology. From 2010-2020 he was the Deputy Head of the Solar Energy Materials and SystemsGroup at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) working in new low cost materials and processes for thin film photovoltaic devices. In 2020 he becomes Professor and Researcher at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He holds five patents and has authored or co-authored more than 238 papers andhe has more than 350 contributions to the most important International Conferences. He has been involved in more than 40 European and Spanish Projects, and he was the Coordinator of the ITN Marie Curie network Kestcell (www.kestcells.eu), the research and innovation project STARCELL (www.starcell.eu), and the RISE project INFINITE-CELL (www.infinite-cell.eu), for the development of Kesterites. In 2019 he was granted with an ERC-Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (SENSATE, 866018, 2020-2025), for the development of low dimensional materials for solar harvesting applications to be developed at UPC. Currently he is also the scientific coordinator of the European project CUSTOM-ART (952982), for the industrialization of kesterite for BIPV/PIPV applications. He has supervised 13 PhD Thesis and is currently supervising 5 more. He has an h factor of 41 and more than 6000 citations. In 2020 he has been awarded with the ASEVA-Toyota Award for his contribution to the development of sustainable photovoltaic technologies using vacuum techniques.

Nabil Abdel Jabbar is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1996. His major areas areprocess control, synthesis and optimization, and green engineering. He has published over 65 publications in high-impact international scientific journals and international conference proceedings. Prof. Abdel Jabbar is the recipient of Fulbright Scholar Research Award in 2002 andHisham the Hijawi Scientific Award on Informatics and Energy in 1999. He is a member of the editorial board of an International Journal of Modern Nonlinear Theory and Applications, a senior member of AIChE, and a member of several organizing and technical committees of international and local conferences.

Jura Arkhangelski received the engineer Diploma from the Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU-Minsk, Belarus) in 2013 and the Master’s degree from University of Paris-Saclay, France, in 2017. Since 2017, he is completing his PhD at University Paris East Creteil, France, with topic “Self-Consumption and Building Energy Management Optimization”. His current interests include energy transition, collective and individual self-consumption, transactive control, microgrids and intelligent day-ahead optimal power flow control.

Dr Rifqi Irzuan Abdul Jalal is a senior lecturer at Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) with many years of experience in automotive industry. Received his PhD degree in automotive engineering from Loughborough University in 2017, which was on “Model Predictive Control on Engine Thermal Management”. He has won many innovation competitions and holds many grants including internal grants, industrial grants, and government grants. He has strong technical expertise on engine testing, control system, thermal management, and simulation. Currently, he is working on electric vehicle and biodiesel

Dr. Eng. Giorgio Graditi - PhD in Electrical Engineering / Director of the Department of Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources of ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), Rome, Italy. He received the doctoral degree and the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Palermo (Italy). Since July 2020, he is the Director of the Department of Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources of ENEA. Since 2000, he is a Researcher at ENEA. From 2011 to 2017, he was the head of the Photovoltaic Systems and Smart Grid Unit of ENEA, whereas from 2018 to 2019 he was the head of Solar Thermal and Smart Network Division of ENEA. From April 2019, he is the President of MEDENER, Mediterranean Association of National Agencies for Energy Management for energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources, and from May 2019 is the Coordinator of the Scientific Technical Committee of National Energy Technological Cluster under the Ministry of Education, University and Research. He is a member of IEA task 11 “PV Hybrid systems within mini-grids” and task 14 “High penetration of PV systems in electricity grids” and of Italian Electrotechnical Committee (CEI) CT 82 “Solar photovoltaic”, CT 316 “Connection to LV, MV and HV distribution networks” and CT 313 “Smart grids”. In 2017, he received the Italian National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in the sector of electrical energy engineering. He is operating as Italian member for Mission Innovation Challenge 1 “Smart Grids” and Challenge 2 “Off-grid access to electricity”, and he is a member of the H2020 National Steering Board for the "Safe, Clean and Efficient Energy" Cluster, and member of the working group of the thematic area "Industrial Energy” for the “Climate, Energy and Sustainable Mobility” area set up by the Italian Ministry of University and Research within the drafting of the national research plan 2020-2027. He is the vice-coordinator of the Joint Programme on Smart Grid (JP SG) within European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) and the responsible of many National and European (FP7, H2020) projects on the topics of RES, integrated energy networks and smart grid. His main research interests are in: design, modelling and tools development for the control and management of Smart Grids and microgrids in the presence of DER; energy conversion components and systems design and characterization; performance analysis of integrated energy networks by multi-objective techniques; design, modelling, and analysis of multi-energy hubs; management and operation optimization of local and renewable energy communities; design, characterization and testing of concentrated solar power and photovoltaic components and plants; RES production and demand forecasting based on artificial intelligence techniques (machine learning). He has supervised several MSc and PhD theses. He is also peer review, associated editor, member of editorial and advisory board of scientific journals, and chairman in international conference. He is also responsible of many R&D contract and agreement in the energy sector with international and national stakeholders. He is author of more than 250 scientific papers (with Scopus H-index 33) published in international journals and proceedings of international conference most of them awarded as highly-cited papers.

Tianzhen Wang received the B. Eng. and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China, in 2006, respectively. She made post doctor in Naval Academy Research Institute of France, Brest, France from 2007 to 2008. Since 2006, she joined Shanghai Maritime University, where she is currently a full Professor of Electrical Engineering and automation. She is an IEEE Senior Member, she is also the Research Affiliate and doctoral supervisor of Institut de Recherche Dupuy de Lôme of France since 2016. Her main research interests and experience include Fault Diagnosis and tolerant control methods for Converters, Marine Current machines,s and so on. She published more than 100 international journal papers and 3 books, got the authorization of 21 China patents and one USA patent.

Dr. Hongzhong Zhu is an assistant professor of Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan. He received his Master Degree of Informatics from Kyoto University in 2011, and Doctoral Degree of Electrical Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 2014. After conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Tokyo for a short period of time, he joined Kyushu University and engaged studies on renewable energy in 2015. His research interests include control theory and application, convex optimization, multi-body dynamics, floating offshore wind turbines, wave energy converters and floating offshore overhead power transmission system. His research is interdisciplinary and had published 26 peer-reviewed papers in different research fields.

Dr. Weixiao Han received his BS degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematicsand BM double degree in Business Administration from the China University of Petroleum: Qingdao, China, in 2014; MS degree in Physical Oceanography from the First Institute of Oceanography, SOA and Ocean University of China: Qingdao, China, in 2017;from September 2017 to now: Ph.D. in Cartography and Geography Information System from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.From February 2019 to July 2019, he was a Research Scholar with the Division of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology: Nanjing, China.His research interests include Google Earth Engine, machine learning, remote sensing big earth data, lake and reservoir, and water level change for hydrology and cryosphere science. In this field, he has published over8research articles in international journals, 2book chapters, one dataset, involved 11 projects, reviewed 8 research articles (include Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Lake Sciences, et.al.). He is a member of the China Association for Science and Technology: Beijing, China.

Filippo Spertino received his M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1995 and 2000, respectively, from Politecnico di Torino (PdT) university, Torino, Italy.Currently, he is an associate Professor (with full professor recognitionwithin the Italian Scientific Qualification) in Electric Power Systems and Renewable Energy Systems with reference to Photovoltaic and Wind power systems at Energy Department, PdT.His research activities include design, simulation, experimental testing on Photovoltaic, Wind, storage power systems and instrument calibration. He was principal investigator of some research projects,regarding innovative photovoltaic applications with storage systems,fundedby various companies.He participated to the following European Projects: PERSIL, SINGULAR, e-HIGHWAY 2050,OSMOSE and EUMONG. He is senior member of: IEEE (since 2007 and 2018, respectively), Italian Association of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineers (AEIT since 1994), CEI (Italian Electrotechnical Committee since 2007) and IEC, regarding Photovoltaic Energy Systems and Wind Energy Systems.He organized seminars, regarding PV and wind energy generation, at PdT on behalf of AEIT.He is author/coauthor of more than 100 publications: 40 on Journals, 2 chapters of books and the remainder on proceedings of Conferences.

Giorgio Sulligoi (Senior Member IEEE) earned the Ph.D. (University of Padua, 2005) and the M.Sc. (University of Trieste, 2001, summa cum laude), both in Electrical Engineering. Prof. Sulligoi is the Deputy Director for Community Affairs and Business Relations of the Dept. of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Trieste, Italy. He is the founder and Director of the Digital Energy Transformation & Electrification Facility (D-ETEF lab.) at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Trieste. He joined the University of Trieste by 2007, and presently is Full Professor of Electric Power Control Systems for Energy and Transportation. He authored more than 150 scientific papers in the fields of on-board power systems, e-transportation, generators modeling and voltage control, where he also has earned some scientific awards. He has been Deputy Rector of the University of Trieste (2013/2019) for Community Affairs and Business Relations. Professor Sulligoi is a member of many technical/scientific committees and working groups in the field of marine electrical applications. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Italy. He is member of IEEE (PES, IAS), ASNE (American Society of Naval Engineers), ATENA (Italian society of naval architects and marine engineers). He is a reviewer for a number of International Conferences and Journals. He is the Vice (and Past) President of the AEIT (Italian Association of Electrical Engineers) Section of Friuli Venezia Giulia. He has been a member (2012) of the Board of Directors of ACEGAS-APS S.p.A., distribution system operator in Trieste/Padua (traded on Milan Stock Exchange), Italy, and a member (2007-2011) of the Board of Directors of Sincrotrone Trieste S.c.p.A., a joint stock company of national interest managing the Synchrotron Light Source “Elettra” and the Free Electron Laser “FERMI@Elettra” laboratories in Trieste, Italy. Presently he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Maritime Technology Cluster of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region (MARE-TC FVG), in Italy, where he serves also as President of the Technical-Scientific Committee. Recently he has been appointed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research a member of the Boards of Directors of CINIGEO (Italian University Consortium for Engineering in Earth Resources) and ENSIEL (Italian University Consortium for Electrical Energy and Power Systems). He has been a member of the PNR (Plan for National Research 2020-2027) Committee, appointed by the Italy Ministry of University and Research (MUR) for the thematic area "Climate, Energy and Sustainable Transportation".

Dr. Guili Peng was born in Tianjin Province, China in 1981. He received a Doctor degree from Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan, China,in2021. He is currently a senior lecturer at Tianjin Chenjian University. His research interests are automatic control theory and Electrical and electronic technology. The main research and experience include data signal processing, nuclear electronic technology, Oil and natural gas exploration, tunnel excavation, microseismic monitoring, air pollution data analysis, etc. He has undertaken more than 10 projects and 5 patents, published more than 40journal research papers, and is currently in charge of several projects to support my work.

Dr. Zhu is an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, focusing on the study of Solar Cities. Dr. Zhu was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Senseable City Laboratory at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Dr. Zhu obtained PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong SAR) with an exchange study at Université Laval (Canada), MSc from KTH – Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), and BSc from Nanjing Normal University (China). Dr. Zhu’s study in modelling 3D solar cities and using solar energy with high efficiency has been reported by Singapore TV, MIT News, Lianhe Zaobao, Topos Magazine, and Portfolio Magazine, etc.

Prof. Decheng Wan received his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China in 1994. He was promoted to a full professor of SJTU in 2006. He was selected as a distinguished professor of Shanghai Eastern Scholar in 2008, and a chair professor of Chang Jiang Scholar of China in 2014, as well as a distinguished professor of SJTU in 2015. Currently, he is Head of Computational Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory (CMHL) at SJTU. His research interest is mainly on computational marine hydrodynamics, simulation based design for offshore and polar structures, renewable energy in deep sea, nonlinear wave theory, wave loads on structures, etc. In these areas, he has published over 530 papers and carried out more than 30 projects on marine hydrodynamics and computational hydrodynamics, received many awards, such as Moan-Faltinsen Best Paper, CH Kim Award, ISOPE Award, etc. He is Board of Directors and Chair of International Hydrodynamic Committee (IHC) of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering (ISOPE), Member of Advisor Committee of International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC), Member of Steering Committee of CFD Workshops in Ship Hydrodynamics, Standing Council Member of Association of Global Chinese Computational Mechanics, Standing Council Member of International Workshop of Ship and Ocean Hydrodynamics, etc.

Prof. Zhe Wang, PhD, Associate Professor of Marine Engineering in Dalian Maritime University (DMU). He successively conducted doctoral and post-doctoral research in the School of Engineering, Lund University, Sweden, and the Energy Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. At present, he is mainly engaged in design and optimization of renewable energy systems and equipment for marine vessels, multi-energy flow collaboration technology in complex energy systems, energy conservation issues in low carbon/zero carbon fuel acquisition, refueling, storage and transportation, and the use of cold, hot and power, as well as system-to-equipment digital twin simulation methods and intelligent control technologies. In recent years, more than 50 peer reviewed papers have been published in international journals in related fields, and more than 10 patents have been applied/approved.Has been invited to serve as a reviewer and speaker at several Journal(Energ. Rev., Energy, Appl. Energy, Energ. Convers. Manage). and international conferences.Up to now, he has presided over and participated in more than 10 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, key research and development programs, the 13th Five-Year National Science and Technology Support Plan, and industry-university-research projects.

Tai Thien Huynh studied Chemistry at the Dalat University, Vietnam, and graduated with a Master of Science in Chemistry in 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City - University of Technology (HCMUT). Dr. Huynh has been working at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of General Science, Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam from 2009 to the present. His main research interests concern new materials and their electrochemical properties for energy conversion, and fuel cells. Dr. Huynh focuses on the synthesis and characterization research of electrochemical catalysts to enhance catalytic activities, specifically for oxygen reduction reaction, alcohol oxidation reaction, hydrogen evolution reaction, electrochemical water splitting. He has published numerous research articles on the innovative design of catalyst materials for energy conversion in SCI(E) journals such as Materials Today Chemistry, Fuel, Catalysis Science & Technology, ACS Applied Nano Materials, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Scientific Reports,… Tai Thien Huynh is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr. Huynh achieved international awards such as Kurita-AIT Research Grant - Kurita Water and Environment Foundation (KWEF) 2018 Research Grant Program, Japan; Best Paper Award at International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, 2020; Best Poster Presentation at 2nd International Conference on Alternative Fuels & Energy, Daegu, South Korea, 2017;... He has also received many domestic awards and certificates of merit such as the 3rd Award of the 25th Ho Chi Minh City Technical Innovation Contest, Viet Nam; consolation Award of the 15th National Technical Innovation Contest, Viet Nam; Certificate of Merit from the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment for excellent achievements in completing tasks in 2019; Certificate of Merit from the Rector of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment for excellent scientific research achievements, 2020. Dr. Huynh was awarded the title "Emulation Soldier of the Natural Resources and Environment Sector" by the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam for his outstanding achievements from 2018 to 2020.

Graduate and Master Degree in Physics UFMT Brazil. Doctor Degree in Physics UFC Brazil with research on Computational Physics and Petroleum Reservoir Simulation at LSN Lab which was supported by PETROBRAS. Act as Professor at UEA Amazon State University, Parintins, Amazon since 2012 to present days. Their research includes Computational Physics Simulations and Applied Physics for New Technologies. 2015 Samuel Benchimol Prize Laureate, 1st Place on Category Supporting Regional Development with project Producing Electricity Using Concentrated Solar Power Energy CSP. Actually studying alternative Large Scale Concentrated Solar Power fields with Fresnel Lens and Solar Energy Applications.

Jianzhong Lin is a professor in the department of mechanics at Zhejiang University, China. He received his PhD degree from Peking University in 1991. His scientific interests are multiphase fluid flows, nanofluids, micro fluid dynamics, turbulence and fluid machinery. His works were funded by more than 40 research projects, including National Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scientists, Key Project of the National Science Foundation of China. So far he has published more than 600 academic papers and won more than ten science and technology awards. He was the associate editor of International Journal of Multiphase flow, and is currently serving as the chief editor of Mechanics in Engineering, associate editor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, associate editor of Journal of Drainage and Irrigation Machinery Engineering, and editorial board members of more than ten academic journals. He is now the vice president of China Metrology and testing society, and member of council of the Chinese society of mechanics.

Stefano Rinaldi received the M.S. degree (Hons.) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic instrumentation from the University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He is Senior Assistant Professor with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia. He is author of more than 160 research papers. His current research interest includes industrial real-time Ethernet network, communication and automation systems for smart grid and renewable generators, Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical System, cognitive buildings, electric vehicles and charging systems. He is member of IEEE1588 WG and of the IEEE TCFA F4 technical subcommittee.

Mohammad SalayNaderi (M’10 – SM’11) received his B.Sc. in electric power engineering (1996) and M.Sc. (1998) in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology (SUT). In 2006, he finished his PhD at the same university, which was on partial discharge monitoring and localization within power transformer based on modeling. He joined energy systems research group in the school of electrical engineering and telecommunications (EE&T) at UNSW in 2004 as visiting research associate and continued his research work until late 2005. He worked with Iran power generation, transmission, and distribution management company (TAVANIR) as deputy managing director of the bureau of technical and transmission network administration from 2005 to 2010. In 2010, he joined the school of EE&T at UNSW as a lecturer in energy systems group. Subsequently, in 2013, he joined the electric power industry in Australia and worked as a senior high voltage testing and commissioning engineer and then as an engineering manager leader. He was involved in advance testing and commissioning of power transformers and switchgear. In addition, he gave consultancy to Australian and International companies in the areas including smart energy solutions, development and requirements of smart cities, power products manufacturing, strategic relationship management with industry and academia to foster new business, science and commercial opportunities, high voltage engineering, condition monitoring of power equipment, and sustainable energy systems analysis and development. He has been serving as the managing director at Smart Energy Solutions Group (SESG) Pty Ltd since 2016.

Prof.Yaohui Bai obtained his B.Sc. degree from the Department of Biology, Sichuan University in 1998. He then completed his Master's degree at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University in 2005, and obtained his Ph.D. degree at the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University in 2009. Between 2008 and 2009, he was an exchange Ph.D. student at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, USA. In 2011, He joined RCEES as an Assistant Professor (Associate Professor from 2013 to 2020). At RCEES, he continued his research into controlling water pollution with an emphasis on microbiological technique. From 2013 to 2014, he worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) as a research scientist. Currently, he is a professor (since 2020) at RCEES and his research mainly focus on (i) new biological water treatment techniques, and (ii) microecology process & manipulation. He has published more than 90peer-reviewed papers and his works were funded by more than 10 research projects including 7 national projects.

Dr. Jianxiong Zhu is an associate Professor from Southeast University, China. He received d Ph.D. from the University of Missouri Columbia in 2015. After that, he worked as assistant professor in Beijing institute of Nanoenergy and Nanaosysem. He also worked as postdoc in KAIST, Korea, and National University of Singapore for several years. His research interests are focused on MEMS zero-power sensor, wearable flexible sensor, and gas sensor.

Dr. Nikolaos E. Farantouris is Jean Monnet Professor in Competition, Energy & Transport at the International & European Studies Department, University of Piraeus, Greece. He studied law at the University of Athens and completed a Master’s degree (MJur) in European and Comparative Law and a Doctorate (DPhil) in European Law, both at the University of Oxford. His work focuses on EU business law, competition law including state aids, energy law and regulation, shipping law, environmental protection and international trade law. He has published 10 monographs, textbooks and edited volumes and more than 50 papers in scientific legal journals and periodical editions including European Competition Law Review (ECLR), Revue du Marché Commun et de l’Union européenne (RMCUE), Revue de l’Energie, Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law, Revue des Affaires Européennes (RAE), European State Aid Law Quarterly (EStAL). He has held posts as adjunct professor, research associate or visiting professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Dresden University Germany, Athens University, European University Cyprus, Bahçeşehir University Istanbul, Oxford University et al. He has worked in Goldman Sachs’ Legal & Compliance Department in London and in Norton Rose LLP Competition & EU Law Department in London, Brussels and Athens, where he handled major antitrust, merger control, multinational cartel and state aid cases in the banking, energy, maritime and air transport sectors, before national and international authorities, the EU Commission and the European Court of Justice. He has also gained experience as a Board member of Hellenic Competition Commission, a member of the Legal Committee of the Union of Greek Shipowners and a member of the Board of Directors, General Counsel and Chairman (caretaker) of the Public Gas Corporation of Greece (DEPA) S.A. Between 2014 – 2017 he organized and was appointed Director of the MSc Program in Energy Strategy, Law & Economics at the Dept. of International & European Studies, University of Piraeus, Greece – the first and the most popular interdisciplinary Master’s in Greece and one of the few postgraduate programs in Europe devoted to Energy strategy, law & economics. He is a member of the Energy Committee of the Academy of Athens and Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee of EUROGAS.

Prof. Malek GHANES is currently the director of the Chair on Electric Vehicle (EV) and Hybrid EV (HEV) performances between Renault and Centrale Nantes (CN) (https://www.ec-nantes.fr/research/industrial-chairs/renault-centrale-nantes-chair), where several patents were published, mainly related to torque monitoring and sensorless control as well as battery and series HEV energy management. Integrating process of developed techniques is in progress on EV/HEV. In the framework of this Chair, he is the coordinator of the first program on electric vehicle propulsion and its control (E-PiCo) in Europe (https://master-epico.ec-nantes.fr/). This program was accredited and supported in 2019 by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, label of excellence. Since 2020, Prof. Malek GHANES is the co-head of the LS2N Control team (https://www.ls2n.fr/membresequipe/commande/?lang=en). From September 2006 to April 2016 he has been with ECS-Lab, Quartz, ENSEA, where he was an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Automatic and Electrical Engineering. He received the M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. in applied automatic and informatics both from IRCCyN (now LS2N), CN, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. From sept. 2005 to sept. 2006, he was a Postdoctoral position at GReyC. In 2000-2001, he received the engineer’s and magister degrees in control systems from UMMTO. His research interests include observation and control of nonlinear systems, with applications mainly to electric systems. Prof. Malek GHANES was recipient of the Best Paper Award 2014 (http://www.ifac-control.org/awards/journal-awards) from the Journal of Control Engineering Practice (CEP) and the Applied Research Award 2015 (https://www.instituts-carnot.eu/fr/actualit%C3%A9/prix-fieec-de-la-recherche-appliqu%C3%A9e-2015) from the Federation of Electronic, Electrical and Communications Industries (FIEEC). He has published several journals, conferences and patents. He served as Associate Editor for the CEP journal from 2012 to 2020 and his now an associate editor of Energies (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/wevj/editors) and World Electric Vehicle (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/wevj/editors) journals.

Mr. Xianting Li is a full professor at Dept. of Building Science, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), and Head of Dept. of Building Science. He got his PhD degree in 1995 at Tsinghua University. He is now the President of E1 Commission, International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), Administrator of CAR-ASHRAE Beijing Group; editorial board member of Energy and Buildings, Indoor and Built Environment, International Journal of Ventilation, Journal of Building Engineering etc.; a fellow of International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) and fellow of International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA). Since 1995, Dr. Li has been the PI or Co-PI for more than 90 sponsored research projects. Dr Li’s research interest includes: (1) Demand-oriented non-uniform indoor environment; (2) Energy-efficient air-conditioning and heat pump system; (3) Efficient utilization of natural energy for cooling and heating. Up to now, Dr. Li has published 8 books or chapters in book (3 are in English), 170 peer-reviewed journal papers in English, 100 journal papers in Chinese, 60 conference papers in English. He holds70 Chinese patents.

Ewelina Szaniawska received her master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Warsaw in Poland. She continued her Ph.D. study at the Faculty of Chemistry, the University of Warsaw in the Laboratory of Electroanalytical and Electrocatalytic Chemistry and has obtained her PhD degree in 2020. During her doctoral work she gained broad experience in the field of the (photo)electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide into organic compounds. In 2016 -2019 shehas completed short practical trainings at the academic research institutes: in Szeged, Hungary (University of Szeged; under supervision of Prof. CsabaJanaky); in Arlington, Texas, USA (University of Texas; under supervision of Prof. Krishnan Rajeshwar) and in Paris, France (University Paris VII, Denis-Diderot; under supervision of Prof. Mohamed Jouini). After her doctoral defense, she has started a collaboration with Dr. hab. Renata Solarska within the HERA project. In January 2021 she has joined the group of Prof. JiříČejka at the Faculty of Science, Charles University as a postdoc in the CUCAM project. Currently, her research mainly focuses on (I) photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide, (II) synthesis and modification of titanium oxide-based materials (micro-and mesoporous materials) (III) application of hybrid/multi-component system capable of direct production of alternative fuels from sunlight and atmospheric CO2.

Zeljko Tomsic from 1991 is working on University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the Department of Energy and Power Systems. From 2004-2008 he was Assistant Minister for energetics and mining in the Croatian Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship. From 2008-2009 he was a board member at Croatian power Utility - HEP d.d. for corporate strategy, international relationships and gas business. Today he is full professor at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER). As professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb his teaching subjects are: 'Energy Consumption Measuring and Analysis', 'Environment and Sustainable Development '(undergraduate programme), 'Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development', 'Economics of Energy', 'Energy-Economic Models for Construction of Electricity System', 'Introduction to Energy Market Theory', 'Energy Management and Energy Efficiency' (graduate programme) and 'Environmental Impact of Electric Power System', 'Planning of Construction of Generating Plants in Uncertain Conditions' (postgraduate programme). Postgraduate Professional Studies teaching subjects: Sustainable production and consumption of Electrical Energy; Electrical Energy and Environment. Scientific research and professional activities are conducted in the area of: energy policy and energy strategies, electricity system generating capacity planning, ecology and energy, impact of electricity system on environment, modelling and analysis of energy and gas emissions markets, energy management and energy efficiency. He is expert in computer programmes for modelling and planning of energy systems and databases. He is founder and leader of new research laboratory at FER: Laboratory for Energy and Environmental Markets and Exchanges-LEEMaE. He is a co-author of two university books and has published more than 100 papers in international and national journals and conference proceedings. He is also co-author of more than 50 scientific and expert studies. He held more than 80 invited lectures on international and domestic conferences, participated in 6 scientific projects from Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, several international scientific projects and two FP EU projects. He was national coordinator for several multilateral and bilateral research projects with IAEA Vienna. He was leader of Work group for chapter 15 Energy of Accession Negotiations for EU 2005-2011, member of European Union Programme Committee for the Horizon 2020 Energy Challenge, 2014-2020, member of EU FP7 Programme Committee – Energy 2011-2014, leader of a power system part of the project Low Carbon Development Strategy for Croatia 2030, with view on 2050 for energy sector, MZOP/EKONERG. 2015-2017. He is a member of: Full Member of Croatian Academia of Technical Sciences, IEEE senior member, Croatian Electrical Engineering Association, HED, HK CIGRE, Croatian Nuclear Society, KOREMA, and European Nuclear Society. He won numerous expert and scientific awards. Project leader for the Project ‘Financial Risk Evaluation, Using IAEA FINPLAN Tool, for Financing New Large Energy Project Build, Especially Nuclear, in Liberalised Markets for Company with Large Part of Production by Hydro Power Plants’. Leader of national project 2012-2013 IAEA TC programme: Identifying and Managing Financial, Economical and Energy Risks for Nuclear Power Plant Projects in Small Economies - Case Study Croatia (CRO/2/003). National coordinator for IAEA Project RER/0/029 "Support for Introduction of Nuclear Energy (phase II)" (2009 - 2011).

Hugh Ross education, Bachelor of Science in Physics, University of British Columbia (1967) Master of Science in Astronomy, University of Toronto (1968) PhD in Astronomy, University of Toronto (1973) career Research Fellow in Radio Astronomy, California Institute of Technology (1973-78) Minister of Apologetics, Sierra Madre Congregational Church, (1976-present) President, Reasons To Believe (1986-present) Scientist in Residence, College of Arts & Sciences, Regent University (2017-present) Adjunct Professor, Southern Evangelical Seminary (2014-present) awards Texas A&M University Trotter Prize (2012) academic debates the following scientists: Peter Atkins, Jerry Coyne, Paul Davies, Danny Faulkner, Deborah Haarsma, Eugenie Scott, Michael Shermer, Victor Stenger, Peter Ward, Lewis Wolpert university lectures at over 200 North American universities and colleges and at over 50 overseas universities

Dr. Sadok BEN DKHIL has received his ph.D. degree from Claude BernardUniveristy, France (2012). After his Ph.D., he worked as a post-doctoral researcher for 5 years on a different subject related to the efficiency and stability of organic solar cells. He has published more than 35 peer-reviewed papers and is inventor/co-inventor of over 6 patents. The high impact of his work has been recognized by invitations to speak at severalnational and international conferences. His research work was supported through funds from various companies (likeMerck Group) and national/international projects. He participated in many national and international projects/activities related to the organic photovoltaic. His research and development interestssolution processed thin films, organic and hybrid photovoltaic, inkjet printing of functional materials. He is currently the CTO of the French startup Dracula Technologies specialized in OPV by inkjet printing for indoor application.

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Technical University, Vienna, Austria and James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored 450+ publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. His most recent awards are 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems and 2019 Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society’s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.

Dr. Amos Bardea is a senior lecturer and the head of the undergraduate program at the Faculty of Engineering in Holon Institute of Technology (HIT). He got in 2000 his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for his thesis on developing high-sensitivity electronic sensors. After graduating, Bardea worked at Intel company for several years as a senior engineer, and led implementation of advanced technologies of micro and nano processors in manufacturing. Joined the Department of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science (2007), he has developed a novel method for nano and molecular patterning by applying magnetic fields, known as "Magnetolithograpy." This new method has been applied for developing ultra-sensitive sensors based on Molecular Photonics and other application such fabrication of micro reactors. In 2011 Dr. Bardea joined to the Faculty of Engineering at HIT. A pioneer in teaching nanotechnology in higher education, he developed the first course about this subject in 2005. Since then, Dr. Bardea has taught graduate students at Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials (BINA) and at the Faculty of Engineering in HIT. Dr. Bardea is a member of the board of the Israel Vacuum Society (IVS). He has organized already five conferences of "Nanotechnology from Academia to Industry" (NTAI) that build a bridge between Academia and Industry in Nanoscience field.

Rakesh Agrawal is the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Before joining Purdue in 2004, Agrawal had a fruitful and productive carrier at Air Products and Chemicals rising to its highest technical position of Air Products Fellow. He received a B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and an M.Ch.E. From the University of Delaware and an Sc.D. in chemical engineering from MIT. His research includes novel processes for the fabrication of low-cost thin-film solar cells, energy systems analysis, shale gas processing, biomass to liquid fuel conversion, synthesis of efficient multicomponent separation processes using distillation, membranes and adsorption, and basic and applied research in gas separations and liquefaction. Agrawal has published 235 technical papers and has given 263 invited lectures. He holds 126 U.S. and more than 500 foreign patents. These patents are used in over one hundred chemical plants with total capital expenditure in multibillion dollars. He has served on technology and engineering advisory boards of a number of companies. Agrawal has received dozens of awards and honors, including Purdue’s Philip C. Wankat Graduate Teaching Award, Shreve Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, and the Morrill Award for excellence in research, teaching and service. From the AIChE he has received Gerhold award in separations, the Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology, the Chemical Engineering Practice Award, Alpha Chi Sigma and the Founders Award. He received Award in Separations Science and Technology from the ACS. He delivered Peter V. Danckwerts Lecture at the 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Agrawal received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Obama in 2011.

Laura Inzerillo is Associate Professor at University of Palermo within the Department of Engineering. Graduated cum laude in Management Engineering at University of Palermo, 1995. Ph.D in Digital Survey and Representation of the landscape and Architecture at University of Palermo in 1999. She won a fellowship ata Columbia University from 1999 to 2000 with the confirmation of researcher at Columbia University from 2000 to 2003 at MUD. She won a post PhD fellowship at Univesrity of Palermo from 2000 to 2004 when she became researcher. Her field of expertise are the digital survey, 3D representation, Descriptive Geometry, reverse Engineering, monitoring. She is editorial member of several International Journals, reviewer member in other several International Journals, chief in editor of a special issue in MDPI Journal. She is actually authors of about 150 paper, 3 monographies, 2 chief in editor books and she won a best award paper. She has been involved in several international and national projects. Actually she is involved in SMARTI ETN - Sustainable Multi-functional Automated Resilient Transport Infrastructures European Training Network HORIZON20-20; in REMED - Application de l'innovation pour le développement de l'économie circulaire pour une construction durable en Méditerranée ENI CBC MED European Union.

Dr. Constantinos Sioutas, Sc.D., is the first holder of the Fred Champion Professorship in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), starting in 2006, and the director of the University of Southern California Aerosol Laboratory at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Utilizing an integrated approach in his research, over the past twenty-five years Dr. Sioutas has generated a well-publicized body of work demonstrating the significant effects that particulate air pollution has on human health and the environment. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), outdoor particulate air pollution is estimated to cause roughly 4 million premature deaths worldwide, making it the sixth non-injury related cause of mortality globally. Dr. Sioutas’ research has focused on investigations of the underlying mechanisms that produce the health effects associated with exposure to particulate air pollutants that are generated by a variety of combustion sources, most notably traffic (including light- and heavy-duty vehicles, natural gas buses and biodiesel vehicles), harbor and airport operations and power plants, as well as the degree to which photochemical processing of these emissions alters these particles’ physical, chemical and toxicological properties. A unique aspect of Dr. Sioutas’ research has been his use of feedback from ongoing biological and toxicological in vivo, in vitro, epidemiological and risk assessment research studies that use combustion-generated aerosols in order to identify strategies that would reduce health risks. Such information is crucial in implementing effective control strategies and environmental regulations that would reduce public exposure to toxic particulate pollutants and, the enforcement of which, in fact, has led to improvements in air quality. His research activities have been recognized internationally, resulting in a number of collaborations studying the characterization as well as the health and environmental effects of particulate air pollution across the globe.

Prof. Dr. Kay Pfaffenberger (born 1965) holds a Master in Economic Sciences from Leibniz University Hannover and a PhD in Business and Administration from the University of Leipzig. He started his career as a consultant at the S-­‐Kommunal Beratung in Hannover. As head of department he developed and managed electronic banking services at the Cooperative Bank Bremen­Nord. Furthermore he has been consultant for company communication at CardProcess GmbH, Frankfurt. 2009 he founded the Institute for Communication, Finance and Good Governance. Since 2008 he has been teaching as visiting lecturer for different Universities, e.g. Bremen, Berlin and Hamburg. In 2012 Kay Pfaffenberger has been appointed as Professor for Business Administration at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences. Also he is the managing director of the Center for Business and Technology in Africa (CBTA). The main focus of his work is lecturing and applied research on business administration and political economics with special focus on business in Africa and inter-­‐cultural-­‐communication, banking and finance, good governance and renewable energy. In these fields he has supported cooperative banks especially in transaction banking with strong relations to DZ Bank. He has a wide experience with projects in the financial sector and recently with solar industry respective renewable energy companies in West‐Africa. The sustainable development and green energy are also in his focus. The CBTA had held an online conference last year about Green Hydrogen cooperation possibilities between Africa and Europe.

Professor Jan A. Stasiek received an undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from Gdansk University of Technology (GUT), Poland in 1972, followed by a PhD and DSc in 1975 and 1985 respectively. He went through the academic ranks until becoming a professor in Mechanical Engineering. He was awarded the professor title given by President of Poland in 1998 and since 2005 he has been employed as a Full Professor at GUT. From 2008 to 2016, he was the dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology. An undeniable achievement of Prof. J.A. Stasiek is obtaining the second PhD (1992) and DSc(1995) from City University, London , United Kingdom, which he joined as a professorial research fellow from 1989 until 1995. He had previously held visiting fellowships in RWTH Aachen (1986) and University of Munich (1989-DAAD scholarship) Germany. Throughout his career he has actively researched in the areas of thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, energy conversion, flow visualization and renewable energy resources. He published well over 315 papers and book chapters and acted as a guest editor on numerous projects. He is a highly distinguished scientist and internationally recognized expert and member of various national and international scientific journals boards and committees. He was an outstanding expert of the European Union Framework Programmers as an evaluator and reporter. These achievements resulted with his cooperation with numerous universities and research institutions in various countries as a Rector's proxy e.g. City University ,Brunel University London, UK; Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden; University of Genoa, University of Palermo and University of Rome “La Sapienza” Italy.

Roberto Teixeira Siniscalchi wasborn in Itajubá, Brazil, onJanuary 24, 1967. He got a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1993 and received an M.Sc. degree in Energy Engineering in 2009 from Federal University of Itajubá. Mr. Siniscalchiholdsan MBA from Cândido Mendes University. Mr Roberto Siniscalchiis manager of Production Departmentof Furnas Centrais Elétricas. He is responsible for the operation and maintenance of 3 hydropower plants totaling 2,872 MW, including Furnas hydropower plant, 10 power substations, and about 3,000 km of transmission lines in 345 kV and 500 kV. He is a senior member of the IEEE PES EMC, WG-4 (IEEE STD. C50.12), of the WG-7 (IEEE STD. 115), WG-8 (IEEE STD. C50.13), and WG-10 (IEEE STD. 1110). He is a memberof SPIE- SocietyofPhotoOpticalIntrumentationEngineersand IHA - International Hydropower Association. He hasauthoredorcoauthoredseveralpapersand collaboratingreviewerof IET- GenerationDistribuitionandTransmissionJournal. His areas of interest include maintenance, field testing, and power generation, and energy efficiency.

M.Sc. Electrical Engineer specializing in low voltage & medium voltage projects and renewable energy. Experienced with all stages of the generator projects, sales and marketing on low voltage & medium voltage and renewable energy projects. Well-versed in numerous sales and marketing processes including import and export. Strong background in sales and project management and customer relations. Experience: Area Sales Manager - 01/2017 - present Vekmar Elektrik Sistemleri Yatırım ve Tic. A.Ş. - Istanbul

Tareq Abu Hamed holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Ankara University. He did his first post doctorate research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where he worked at Environmental Sciences and Energy Research Department. His second post doctorate was at the University of Minnesota, at the Solar Energy Laboratory of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Tareq has published profusely in a wide variety of journals, and received several awards (Dan David Prize). Tareq served as the Vice Chief Scientist and The Director of Engineering Research at The Ministry of Science, Technology and Space. Tareq is currently the Academic Director and the head of the Renewable Energy Center at the Arava Institute and a researcher at the Dead Sea and Arava Science Center.

Hideo Ishii joined Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) in 1988. He was a visiting scientist in Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1989 to 1991. He received Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1996. From 2010, he has been engaged in some major smart grid related National projects in Japan as an organizer. He is now a Professor with Advanced Collaborative Research Organization for Smart Society (ACROSS) at Waseda University. His current activity is in Electric Energy System, especially regarding Demand Response (DR) and integration of distributed energy resources (DER) including renewable energy. He has been leading DR standards in Japan. Since August 2020, he has been a Chair of IEC TC 8 SC 8C.

Andreas Theocharis received his BSc in Physics (2000), MSc in Electrical Engineering (2001) and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2009) form the University of Patras, Greece. In his research interests, power systems transients, renewable energy systems and artificial intelligence for transactivemicrogrids are included. He is currently working as Associate Professor at Karlstad University in Sweden, for the Department of Engineering and Physics, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology.His teaching activities focus on electrical power and renewable energy systems. Andreas Theocharis worked as Postdoc researcher at TUDelft, Electrical Sustainable Energy for the Intelligent Electrical Power Grids group (2012-2014) and at University of Patras, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for the Electrical Power Systems group (2009-2011). He got several grants with different industrial partners for power systems research and he is a reviewer for several IEEE Transactions, Elsevier and MDPI journals.

João Murta-Pina is a Professor at NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA), from NOVA University of Lisbon, and a Senior Researcher at the Centre of Technology and Systems, from UNINOVA institute, both in Portugal. His research interests include applied superconductivity, automation of photovoltaic design, and thermal energy storage by phase-change materials, as well as the application of artificial intelligence methodologies for optimization in the previous contexts. He is the coordinator of the MSc program in Renewable Energy Engineering, at FCT NOVA, and he is currently chairing the COST Action CA19108, Hi-SCALE (High-Temperature SuperConductivity for AcceLerating the Energy Transition). João Murta-Pina is the director of the national project PV SPREAD project, also involving two Portuguese companies, that aims to develop an ecosystem to support promoters in all the stages of photovoltaic design.

HongliangLUO, got the Doctor degree of engineering from Hiroshima university, nowworking as an assistant professor in Hiroshima University,Japan. He was the scholarship owner of Japanese Ministry of Education, and KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) fellowships. His research focuses on biofuels spray impingement and fuel dropletbehaviorandcombustionforengineapplication. Hehave published more than 30 papers. Among them, 19 papers indexed by SCI as the first and corresponding author.His current research projects include one national project from China and two from Japan, focusing on the green powertrain applications.

NICOLAS G. CONSTANTIN (SM’2019) received his B.Eng. degree in 1989 from the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) - University of Quebec, Canada, his M.A.Sc. degree in 1994 from the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada, and his Ph.D. degree in 2009 from McGill University, Canada, all in electrical engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor at the ÉTS, Montreal, Canada. From 1989 to 1992 he worked in the design of microwave transceivers for point to point radio links. From 1996 to 1998 he worked as an RF design engineer at NEC, in the development of RF and microwave transceivers for mobile telephony. From 1998 to 2002 he was a senior design engineer at Skyworks Solutions, Inc., California, USA, where he developed GaAs HBT RFIC PAs for wireless communications. At Skyworks he was also actively involved in research on smart biasing and efficiency improvement techniques for RFIC PAs, and he is the author of several patents on the subject. He was the recipient of a doctoral scholarship from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, and a doctoral scholarship from the ÉTS. His primary research interests are in the design and test of Analog, RF & Millimeter-wave ICs and Front-End modules for wireless communications. He conducts research in collaboration with major companies in the wireless communication and aerospace industry.

Francesco L. Cappiello was graduated cum laude in Aerospace and Astronautical Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy in 2017. Since2018,he is a PhDstudent at the University of Naples Federico II in Industrial Engineering. His research activity mainly deals with renewable smart energy grids. In particular, he focused on the following topics: sustainable mobility; electric vehicles fed by renewables; polygeneration plants; district heating/cooling networks (4th and 5th gen); cogeneration/trigeneration; reduction of primary energy consumption of residential districts, energy measure for reducing the primary energy consumption of hospitals and healthcare facilities, reverse osmosis coupled with renewable energy sources, dynamic simulations of energy systems, energy saving in buildings and many others. He spent six months at Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart, developing dynamic models of several modular trigeneration layouts for a bighospital of Stuttgart. This analysis also included the hybridization of the trigeneration plant with photovoltaic technology. His research activity is also developed in cooperation with several international institutions (Spain and Germany). He is a reviewer of about 5 international Journals. He was topic editor for 2 International Journals. He is guest editor in a special issue on an International Journal.He was a supervisor of several BsC, MS students at the University of Naples Federico II. He was a conference presenter in several sessions of International Conferences. He was chair at Energy and water efficiency session of SDEWES 2019 and 2020 conferences.

Roberto Fernandez Martinez is a professor at Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Basque Country, Spain. Previously he served as PhD researcher at University of La Rioja at the Department of Industrial Engineering and after that as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Basque Country. Among others, one of his research areas is related with the use of data mining and wireless sensor networks in industrial, electrical and environmental scenarios, topic on which he wrote his doctoral thesis in 2012. This primary research goal is directed toward getting knowledge from large data bases related with industrial, electrical and environmental processes. Beyond my research successes (including more than 50 journal papers and 70 international conferences), he has been fortunate to obtain a wide range of research and teaching experiences. He was awarded scholarships throughout his academic life, and also awarded as best PhD dissertation of University of La Rioja 2012, and in some conferences and for his work in his research group too. Previously, he also was working as computer network, systems, and database administrator in a Spanish company for 7 years.

Prof. col. Tomasz Jałowiec - specializes in logistic cooperation between the armed forces and the national economy, modern management methods and concepts in logistics, and the efficiency of logistical processes. Author of several publications and expert opinions in the field of modern logistics. He cooperates with many domestic and foreign research centers and institutions. Currently, he is the dean of the Faculty of Management and Command at the War Studies Academy in Warsaw.

Avraham I. Kudish: Date and place of birth: June 8,1943; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Date of immigration to Israel: September 4, 1970 Research interests: Conversion of solar to thermal energy; measurement and analysis of global solar irradiation; measurement and analysis of UVB and UVA irradiation; application of UVB irradiation for the treatment of psoriasis and other skin diseases at the Dead Sea.

Dr Farooq Sher is a Lecturer in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Automotive Engineering at Coventry University, UK. His undergraduate degree was in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, followed by MSc Chemical Engineering from the University of Leeds UK. He was awarded PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from the University of Nottingham UK.Dr. Sher is working towards renewable energy fuels, advanced wastewater treatment, green synthesis, novel electrodes for hydrogen gas production and low carbon technologies.Dr. Sher has published several research papers, book chapters and editorials apart from this he is the editor of different international scientific journals. He has reviewed hundreds of research papers for several high impact journals. Dr. Sher has been awarded a top reviewer for Engineering in 2018 and 2019 from Publons Academy. Dr. Sher is a member of departmental and faculty committees. Externally, he is an associate member of Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and professional engineer member of Engineers Australia (IEAust). Dr. Sher is also interested in various forms of community work both within the University and outside such as British Red Cross, where he is a refugee support worker, a school governor and as a STEM Ambassador for youngsters to value them in their lives and careers.

Safdar Khan is a Principal Economist, Portfolio Investment Officer at the City of Gold Coast (CoGC) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Bond University, Australia. He specialises in economic impact modelling & forecasting, strategies & strategic decision making, portfolio approach to regional economic development, and public policy analysis. He publishes regularly in peer reviewed journals and specialised research reports on regional economies. His publications are receiving ongoing citations in the discipline of economics and development.Safdar is a recipient of prestigious awards including ‘Departmental Commitment Award’, ‘Organizational Competence Award’, 'Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award', 'PVC-research Scholarship’, ‘Dean’s Scholarship’, ‘Murray Award for Educational Citizenship’, ‘Vice Chancellor’s Excellence Award’, Dean’s Excellence Award’, ‘Merit Scholarship’ and ‘Publication Award’.

Emilio Ghiani is Associate Professor of power systems in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (DIEE) of the University of Cagliari where he teaches Power Systems Generation and Economics, and he is co-teacher in the course of Fundamentals of Electric Power Distribution and Smart Grids, and in the integrated course of Power Electronics and Electrical Power Systems. His research focuses mainly on the development of methodologies and tools for decision making processes in planning and operation of power distribution networks with large penetration of distributed energy resources. He is author of more than 90 papers published on top ranked international journals or presented in top class national and international conferences. He is author of 7 chapters of books dealing with smart grids, network planning and integration of renewable sources and distributed energy resources. h-Index 17, 1300+ Citations (Scopus January 2021).

Dr Evangelos Kordatos graduated with an MEng degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Ioannina, Greece, in 2008. He received his MSc in Chemistry and Materials Technology and his PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Ioannina in 2013. Upon the completion of his PhD, he became a Postdoctoral research associate at the Texas A&M University, Texas (USA), working on Non-Destructive assessment of aerospace materials, shape memory alloys (SMAs). Evangelos joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2013 as a Lecturer in Materials Engineering and became a Senior Lecturer in 2016. Evangelos is the Course Leader for the BEng and MEng Materials Engineering courses at Sheffield Hallam University, UKand he led the MEng Materials Engineering course successful accreditation by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3).Evangelos’ research is focused on the study of the mechanical and thermal behaviour of advanced materials, such as Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs), Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs), Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers (CFRPs), Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs), smart materials, etc. He has worked extensively on the non-destructive monitoring of materials behaviour developing advanced NDE (Non-Destructive Evaluation) methodologies based on Infrared Thermography, Acoustic Emission and Ultrasounds. He ismember of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Hen Friman holds Ph.D. and Master's degrees from Bar-Ilan University. His master's thesis investigated the effect of Cyt1Aa on prokaryotes, and his Ph.D. research focused on energy production from aromatic chemical degradation of bacteria Using "Bio-Fuel Cells". Since 2012, Dr. Friman is research and lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering. He is currently the academic director at the Renewable Energy & Smart Grid Excellence Center at the HIT - Holon Institute of Technology. Dr. Friman developed an innovative teaching method for a "paperless" laboratory in the field of solar, wind, and water energy. He also managed the "Energy Supervisor" training program at HIT. He was part of the team responsible for developing "Pre-Project and Developing Soft Skills for Engineers" for the undergrad B.Sc. students. The purpose of the course is to define and improve the "toolbox courses" that will provide students with employability skills - Teamwork, effective management of time, risk and quality control, design excellence, and presentation excellence Dr. Friman's research interests include renewable energy, fuel cells, microbial fuel cells, water and wastewater treatment, chemical engineering, ecological education, and academic collaboration.

Tomoo Nakai received a Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Tohoku University in 2005, and presently a general researcher of electrical and information technology department of Industrial Technology Institute, Miyagi Prefectural Government. He has worked on magnetic sensor, sensor network, energy harvesting, and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) technology. The Magnetic Society of Japan, The Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Japanese Society of Non-Destructive Inspection, and IEEE member.

Born in Naples, 1952. Received in 1975 a laurea degree "cum laude" in Mechanical Engineering at University of Naples. He worked at FIAT, at Research National Council of Italy, at University of Naples and at University of Salerno, where he is Full Professor in Mechanical Engineering. Chair of the Mechanical and Management Engineering Teaching Council (2011-2019). Founder of the spin-off companies eProInn and ePowerIng. Past Chair of the IFAC TC “Automotive Control” (2008-2014). Associate Editor of Control Engineering Practice. Member of Editorial Board of "International Journal of Powertrains" and of "Journal of Solar Energy". Author of about 200 papers on Modeling and Control of Automotive Engines, Hybrid and Solar Vehicles, Renewable Energy, Optimal Management of Bio-Economic Systems. Responsible and partner of European projects funded by European Committee, industry, public institutions. Member of numerous committees. Recipient of numerous awards. Best Paper Award at AVEC04.

Liliana Rusu is full professor at ‘Dunarea de Jos’ University of Galati, Romania, Department of Mechanical Engineering since 2016. She received her first Ph.D. degreein Mechanical Engineering from‘Dunarea de Jos’ University of Galati in 2006, while the second PhD in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture was awarded to her in 2009 by University of Lisbon, Portugal (former Technical University of Lisbon)under the supervision of Professor Carlos Guedes Soares, IST - CENTEC, University of Lisbon, Portugal.In 2015 she received the Habilitation degree. She has continued her collaboration with CENTEC in the framework of a Post-doctoral fellow (individual grant financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), currently being Professor Collaborator.Since December 2017 she is a Member of the marine knowledge expert group of the European Commission. Also, she was elected as Short Term Scientific Missions Coordinator of theWECANet project - A pan-European Network for Marine Renewable Energy, COST Action 17105. From 2016 she is also Member of the National Ethics Council for Research Activities. Her research interests cover the fields of wave modelling, assessment of the wave climate in various geographical areas, assessment of the wave/wind energy, data assimilation, climate change impacts.She has many scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, her most relevant publications are included in the scientific profiles http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8179-1347.

Eugen Rusu received a diploma in Naval Architecture (1982) and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering(1997). Between 1999 and 2004, he worked as a post-doc fellow at the at Hydrographical Institute ofthe Portuguese Navy, where he was responsible for wave modelling and provided environmentalsupport for some major situations such as: the accident of the M/V Prestige (2002) and the NATOexercises Unified Odyssey (2002) and ‘Swordfish’ (2003). Eugen Rusu worked as a consultingScientist at the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, La Spezia, Italy (2005),having modelling coastal waves and surf zone processes as main tasks. Starting in 2006, in parallel with his activity as professor at the University Dunarea de Jos of Galati,he has been working as a professor collaborator at CENTEC (Centre for Marine Technology andOcean Engineering)http://www.centec.ist.utl.pt/en/centec/personnel.aspx?id=1,University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2012, he has also acted as an expert for theEuropean Commission. Eugen Rusu has published more than 150 works in the fields of renewableenergy and marine engineering and he received awards including Doctor Honoris Causa (2015) atthe Maritime University of Constanta, Romania Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, RenewableEnergy (2015) and Ocean Engineering (2016) journals; and Top 1% World Reviewers in the field ofengineering (2018 and 2019). He is also the President of the Council of the Doctoral Schools in Galati Universityand of the Romanian National Commission of Mechanical Engineering. Since 2018, he has been acorresponding member of the Romanian Academy, the highest level scientific and cultural forumin Romania.

Virginie Francoeur holds a bachelor's degree in management, a master's degree in organizational development (HEC Montreal) and a Ph.D. in administrative sciences (Laval University). Since June 2020, she’s a professor of organizational change at Polytechnique Montreal. As part of her thesis where she did a doctoral internship at the psychology faculty of the University of Valencia in Spain, she studied human aspects in relation to the environmental responsibility of organizations. Member of theCanada Research Chair in Internationalization of Sustainable Development and Organizational Accountabilityand the Research Group on Globalisation and Management of Technology (GMT), her field of expertise is related to organizational change and sustainable development. Her research, which has been published in scientific journals (Organization & Environment; Journal of Cleaner Production, European Management Journal) shows that problems related to the environment affect the behaviors of individuals and are a source of growing concern. It therefore seems urgent to her to understand how individuals can become agents of change to accelerate the ecological transition. In 2021, she will publish a book on the subject with Prof. Pascal Paillé “Pro-environmental behaviors in the workplace” at Palgrave Macmillan.

Education: Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada, 2001. M.A.Sc., Civil (Environmental) Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada, 1994. B.A., Civil Engineering, Shiraz University, Iran, 1990. Research Interests: Municipal and Industrial/Hazardous Solid Waste Management (Bioreactor Landfilling Technologies, Anaerobic Digestion, Biogas/Bioenergy/Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) production) Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils Industrial Wastewater Treatment (Adsorption, Ion-Exchange, Chemical Precipitation, etc.) Water Quality Modeling

Dr. Alavy has more than ten years of research, innovation, and hands-on experience in the geothermal industry. He is the architect of revolutionary algorithms that are used to optimize the design of geo-exchange systems in North America and Europe and was instrumental in helping MCR develop Thermal Caissons. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Ryerson University. He has held two of the most prestigious awards in North America, namely, Alaxendar Graham Bell NSERC Canada Graduate fellowship, and the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Grant-in-Aid award. He has experience teaching sustainable energy technology related courses in various institutions, such as, University of Toronto, Ryerson University, McMaster university, and Seneca College.

Dr. Hadigheh is an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow and a Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney. He focuses on multidisciplinary themes to develop and implement innovative materials and systems in order to provide sustainable, more durable and less resource-intensive infrastructure. He investigates the intricate behaviour of interface in composite systems and how they interact at multiple scales from macro- to nano-levels via experimental, advanced computational modelling, and machine learning techniques.His research interests include a) development of smart and sustainable materials for use in construction, b) recycling and utilisation of composite wastes, and c) structural health monitoring using deep learning techniques.Ali has also been involved in design and construction projects related to repair/strengthening of infrastructurefor more than 10 years. He is a committee member of Concrete Institute of Australia (CIA).

Dr. Yameng Renis a research scientist at the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces (LPI, director: Prof. Michael Grätzel), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)in Switzerland. He is working on molecular photovoltaic and metal-halide hybrid perovskite solar cells including design and synthesis of organic/nanomaterials with exotic photoelectrical properties, improving the performance and stability of solar cells. He set two world efficiency records for dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) presented in NREL’s Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart and he is a current record holder. Dr. Yameng Ren received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,China in 2018. He conducted his graduate research at State key laboratory of polymer physics and chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun,China (2013 –2015), and Department of chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (2015 –2018). Since Jan. 2019, he joined in LPI in EPFL. He has published seminal papers in international journals of the highest standing with first/corresponding authors, including Nature Communications, Journal of the America Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Energy&Environmental Science, Advanced Functional Materialsetc..

Architect from the University of Malaga. I am currently finishing my PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Granada, my field of research is focused on resilient and sustainable building, mitigation and adaptation of architectural projects to climate change, circular economy, life cycle analysis (LCA ) of the building and assessment methods for sustainable buildings. I have participated in several national projects on building adapted to climate change, energy saving and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). I also participate in the pilot phase of the common framework of sustainability indicators "Level (s)" defined by the European Commission in 2017, through the evaluation of single-family homes in the Autonomous Community of Madrid.

Dr. Ali Ghaffarinejad is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Material Science at Seville (ICMSE), which is part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), working on hybrid Nanogenerators and drop energy harvesting.He received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering and M.Sc. degree in Bioelectronics from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST). He completed his doctoral studies in November 2019 earning the grade “Excellent” for the thesis. His research interests are design, modeling, fabrication, and characterization of Triboelectric, Piezoelectric, and Hybrid nanogenerators and their power management circuits.

Claudia Masselli is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Department of Industrial Engineering of University of Naples Federico II (Italy). She earned the Ph.D title in Industrial Engineering, discussing the thesis entitled "Magnetic refrigeration an attraction toward our future". Among her main research topics there is caloric solid-state refrigeration both experimentally and numerically. Her research embrace, also, the energy and environmental optimization of vapor compression cycles as well as renewable energy systems and heat transfer mechanisms. She is co-author of more than 60 publications among papers on international and national journals and conference proceedings. She is the winner of two Young Researcher Awards. She is Editor-in-Chief of two international journals: among them, the journal Global Transitions Proceedings (Open Access journal of KeAi ed., joint venture of Elsevier with the Chinese Academy of Sciences - ISSN: 2666-285X; Scopus e Science Direct indexed). She is member of the editorial board of 6 international journals: among them, Annales de Chimie: Science des Matériaux, (ed. IIETA - ISSN: 0151- 9107 print; 1958-5934 online; Scopus and Web of science indexed); she reviewer of more than 40 international journals related to heat transfer, refrigeration, energy and engineering science fields. She is Junior Member of the Commission B2 - Refrigerating equipment afferent to the Section B: Thermodynamics, equipment and systems of International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR). Furthermore, she belongs to many international scientific committees of international conferences focused on energy and engineering science fields.

Prof. Wu received his B. S. degree and Ph. D. degree in Energy information and Automation in Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2008 and 2014. He joined Southeast Universityin 2014 as assistant professor in School of Energy and Environment, was promoted to associate professor in 2019. Since 2019, he has been a visiting professor in Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the University of Sheffield, UK. Prof. Wu has been investigators in over 20 research grants with funding from European Union, Royal Society, NSFC, MOST and Industry. He has published over 100peer-reviewedpapers including Applied Energy, Energy, Fuel, IEEE Trans. Energy Conversion. He has been awarded Jiangsu Outstanding Youth Foundation, Excellent young scholar of Jiangsu Engineering Thermophysics Society, Royal Society-Sino-British Trust International Fellow, Young Science and Technology Talents of Jiangsu Province in the last three years. His main research area is in Process Systems Engineering for Energy and Environment, including Process Modelling, Simulation, Control and Optimization, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Power Plants，Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) and Integrated Energy System (IES).

Takayuki Ichikawa was born on April16, 1974 in Okayama, Japan.In 2002, he obtained Ph.D from Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University in the field of theoretical physics, then immediately he joined in the School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University as research associate. At this time, he started the research and development in the field of hydrogen energy. In 2003, his affiliation was changed to Natural science center for basic research and development., Hiroshima University. In 2006, he was promoted to associate professor and also moved to Institute for Advanced Materials Research, Hiroshima University. Then, in 2015, he was moved to Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University. In 2017, he was promoted to Professor and moved to Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University. Recently in 2020, the organization in Hiroshima university was re-constructed and then re-named as Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University. His research focuses on solid-state hydrogen storage materials in metallic and non-metallic states, Li-ion batteries, ammonia storage materials, and thermo chemical hydrogen production. The number of his publication is more than 200, and total citation is over 5000.

Jianwei Renis currently working at University of Johannesburg as a 4IR Professor and deputy director of a newly launched ‘International Centre for Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Advanced Nanotechnology’.His expertise is in the field of materials science, renewable energy, system integration, and particularly, automatic measurement & control. He has over 20 years’ experience in his profession, and devoteshimself to South African science society. He is the registered professional member of South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNSP), the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and has also rated by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) as an Established Researcher. He serves as the panel member for ECSA, NRF, the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF), the National Business Initiative (NBI) and the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA). He severs as the reviewer for over 50 high-level international journals. He has been supervising post-graduates regularly. He often meets with industries to seek the way forward to market, industrial applications and public services. He has published 70 journal articles, 40 conference proceedings, 2 patents, 5 book chapters and also presented in over 60 international and local conferences. He is the international advisory board member of the Journal of Arts Science and Technology. He was appointed as an adjunct professor at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), India in 2019. Non-scientific interests include sports, history and travel.

Fabrizio Cumo : Since 2007 professor in Applied Applied Physic Architettura Valle Giulia – University of Rome "La Sapienza Director of the research center CITERA – Sapienza University President of the degree course in Project Managment -Sapienza University Director of the Master BIM (Building Integrated Modelling)- Sapienza University 2010-2014 Director of the Project managment Master Since 2002 operates in the Institute of the Valorisation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage of Italian CNR (ICVBC) –section of Rome “Marcello Paribeni” 2013-2015 Communication Manager of the ENPI-MED Project “GreatMED” 2015-2017 Italian Scientific responsible for the research center CITERA of the project PRACTICE on the relvance of built environment on ageing society - European bilateral research program Italy-kingdom of Sweden on behalf of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Education Research Internationalization Is author of more than 180 papers regarding the fields of energetic, environmental applied physic (IAQ, heat transfer and lightning) and sustanable buildings

Researcher/Manager/Director in Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan 1969-1995 Professor of Civil & Environment Engineering in Chuo University 1996-2015 Research topics: Dynamic soil properties and their evaluation Dynamic response of ground Liquefaction of sand/gravelly fines-containing sands Earthquake-induced slope failure Siting technology of energy facilities Publications in English Innovative Earthquake Soil Dynamics (2017): CRC Press, London. Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering - from Case History to Practice- edited and written (2009): CRC Press, London. Earthquake Geotechnical Case Histories for Performance-Based Design: edited and written (2009): CRC Press, London. plus more than 100 reviewed papers on Soil Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering and Energy Engineering.

M.I. Ivan Macias Ruiz graduated from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí, México in 2013 as a Mechatronics Engineer and obtained a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with Orientation in Transformers at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, México in 2019. He worked at the National Supercomputing Center in conjunction with the Italian Space Agency as Software Analyst for the creation of a satellite image processing system from 2013 to 2015. Has been working at Prolec GE as Software Engineer for the development of the Distribution Transformer design system since 2015. His work at Prolec GE and his knowledge in renewable transformers and finite element software have allowed him to develop transformer design proposals according to customer specifications. His work on simulating the effect of inverter harmonics towards the pedestal transformer in solar farms was published in 2021 in the Energies MDPI magazine (https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/5/1362/ htm) under the title "Design Implication of a Distribution Transformer in Solar Power Plants Based on Its Harmonic Profile". His versatility in the research and production area has allowed him to be the bridge that connects state-of-the-art knowledge with processes in the industry.

Dr. Jobaidur Rahman Khan is working as Assistant Professor of teaching in the University at Buffalo since Fall 2013. He has extensive experience in unusual and innovative financings. He teaches Thermo-fluid science lab, Application of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and Machines and Mechanisms. He has also taught Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. Dr. Khan’s interest of research is Energy augmentation, Energy conservation, NOx emission, Low Calorific Value Fuel, Wet compression. He has published almost a couple of dozen publications on energy conservation. Most of his work is based on CFD. He has advised almost 50 students for their independent study and research. He advised a few graduate students towards their MS Research. Dr. Khan is a frequent speaker in multiple energy-related conferences. He has participated multiple times in ASME Turbo Expo conferences, ASME IMECE conferences, ASTFE Conferences, etc.

Clive serves as the director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies' Center for Transboundary Water Management where he oversees research and development projects, workshops and conferences that focus on transboundary water and environmental problems facing Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. His specialty is in water resources management and policy. Clive has conducted research for a number of international water agencies such as the World Bank, EU, UNDP and USAID and has been involved most recently with the European Union's Water Initiative project for the Mediterranean region and the USAID Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM) program and the Middle East Regional Cooperation (MERC) program. He also serves as the Israeli partner for the USDA funded project - CONSERVE (COordinating Nontraditional Sustainable watER use in Variable climatEs): A Center of Excellence at the Nexus of Sustainable Water Reuse, Food and Health.” Clive's research and development work has recently focused on cross-border stream restoration and waste water management issues between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and on integrated food, energy and water systems for off-grid communities in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority and the developing world. He is also leading a study in wastewater epidemiology on monitoring the presence of the corona virus in wastewater in Israel and the West Bank as part of an early warning public health program on combatting the spread of the virus in marginalized communities in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. From 2012-2015 Clive served as the chief of party for the Mitigating Transboundary Wastewater Conflict project, funded by the CMM department at USAID West Bank/Gaza, implanting cross border people to people initiatives focusing on issues of transboundary wastewater management. He currentlyl serves as the principal investigator for the USAID Middle East Regional Cooperation (MERC) project entitled Greywater Reuse for Smallholder Agricultural Development in Off-Grid Communities in Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Jordan. Clive, a native from South Africa has been living in Israel for over twenty years. He received a BSc degree in zoology at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, a BSc Honors in wildlife management from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, a MSc in desert ecology from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and a PhD in resource ecology management from the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan.

Talha Anwar received a BS (Hons.) degree from the University of Sargodha, Pakistan,and a degree of MS in mathematics from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan. Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D.degree with King Mongkut's university of technology Thonburi, Bangkok Thailand. Recently, he has joined Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany for a six-month research visit. He has published more than 20 research articles in well reputed international Journals. He has presented his work in 3 international conferences. His research interests include modeling and simulation, Nanofluids, Computational fluid dynamics, Heat transfer, magnetohydrodynamics, fractional calculus, and Hybrid nanofluids.

Volker Roeben is Professor of Energy Law and Global Regulation at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee (www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp/staff/profile/volker-roeben.php) and the director of the MSc Sustainability programme. He is also a professor at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and a docent at the University of Turku. Formerly, Volker was senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative law and Public International Law, and a professor of international law at Swansea University. He has held visiting posts at the universities of Chicago, Minnesota and West Virginia, and served as legal adviser at the Energy Charter Secretariat. He holds degrees from the universities of Kiel, Heidelberg, and Berkeley and from the College of Europe Bruges. Volker is the author or editor of seven books and forty articles. In 2018, he published Towards the European Energy Union – European strategy in international law with Cambridge University Press.He is general editor of the Hart publication series ‘Global Energy Law and Policy’.

Raphael Heffron is Professor for Global Energy Law & Sustainability at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee. As of July 2019, he is also a Jean Monnet Professor in the Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy awarded by the European Commission. He is also Senior Counsel at the law firm Janson in Brussels (Belgium). Professor Heffron is a qualified Barrister-at-Law, and a graduate of both Oxford (MSc) and Cambridge (MPhil & PhD). All his work has a principal focus on achieving a just transition to a low-carbon economy and combines a mix of energy law, policy and economics. He has published over 140 publications of different types and is the most cited scholar in his field worldwide (1150+Scopus). Professor Heffron has given just over 125 keynote or guest lectures in 44 countries worldwide. Raphael was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland in 2018. His research and teaching has been recognised by the award of a Jean Monnet Professorship by the European Commission twice in 2016 (-2019) and 2019 (-2022). His teaching has also been recognised in the UK by becoming a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy in 2018. In addition, Raphael is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts. He is a reviewer for the next IPCC Report. Raphael is on the Editorial Board of the International Energy Law Review, the Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review and is Consulting Editor of the current Halsbury’s Laws of England volumes on Energy Law (the leading practitioner energy law series). Raphael is also co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook for International Energy Law and Editor-in-Chief of the Edinburgh University Press journal Global Energy Law & Sustainability. Raphael is currently or has been in the past the following positions: the Co-Chair of the UK Energy Law and Policy Association; Visiting Professor in Energy Law at the International Hellenic University (Greece); an Associate Researcher at the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge (current); a Visiting Professor at Paris-Dauphine University (Paris, France – current), Queen Mary University of London (UK – current), the University of West Indies (Trinidad-based), Javeriana University (Colombia) and University Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique – current); a Visiting Lecturer at the ESCP Business School (London and Paris); and a Visiting Scholar at MIT (US), University of Sydney (Australia) University Of Texas at Austin (US) and the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (UK). Raphael read for his PhD at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. He is also a trained Barrister-at-Law and was called to the Bar in July 2007 in the Republic of Ireland. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (MPhil-Darwin, PhD-Trinity Hall), the University of Oxford (Christ Church) (MSc) the University of St. Andrews (MLitt), and Trinity College Dublin (BA, MA).

Ali's research focuses on optimizing stormwater management in the Salt Lake Valley in Utah, USA. Ali works full time as an Engineer at Salt Lake City Public Utilities while completing his PhD. Ali joined Utah State University as a PhD student in 2019. As part of the team, Ali's preparing a stormwater master plan for Salt Lake City in Utah, considering climate change and searching for climate adaptation strategies to sustainably manage stormwater

Born in 1956. He got a Doctor of Engineering from Waseda University in 1984. After being a research associate, lecturer, associate professor, he became a professor of Waseda University in 1995. In the university he was assigned to the posts of Director of Research Collaboration and Promotion Center, Associate Director of Environmental Research Institute, and Vice-Dean of School of Science and Engineeringtwice. Outside the university, he experienced many roles in academic institutes, such as President of the Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan (MMIJ), President of the Resources Processing Society (RPSJ) of Japan, and many governmental committee members in the field of recycling and environmental science and engineering. He is also visiting professors of Univ. Tokyo, Tohoku Univ. and Akita Univ. He has held many key positions in government agencies, including the chair of the Councils. His present research interest is in (1)Liberation analysis of natural (mineral) and artificial (waste) resources, (2)Development of new comminution process to improve liberation among compositional elements, and (3)Application of solid phase separation technologies to waste materials, e.g. E-waste, scrap automobiles, and other metal bearing scrap materials.

Meir Teitel is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Sensing, Information, and Mechanization Engineeringin the Institute of Agricultural Engineering of the Agricultural Research Center (Volcani Center). He was head of the department during the years 2018 – 2021. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of Tel Aviv University and obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering. He has been involved in various aspects of Agricultural Engineering research for nearly 30 years in work related to greenhouse/screen house microclimate using experimental and numerical techniques. His research interests include greenhouse management and control (ventilation, heating, CO2 enrichment, shading, structure); Energy in agriculture; Computer controlled data acquisition and instrumentation; Fluid mechanics and heat transfer in agriculture. He has published over 110 papers in reviewed journals and conference proceedings and presented his studies in many international conferences. He has often been invited as a speaker in professional and international meetings. He has actively participated in international and national research projects; he is a member of scientific organizations and relevant societies and a reviewer of international journals in agricultural and environmental engineering. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on greenhouse technologies in the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2021 he is an associate editor of Biosystems Engineering journal (Elsevier).

Dr.Zhanxi FANis an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong.He received his B.S. degree (2010) in Chemistry from Jilin University (China)under the guidance of Prof. Bai Yang and Prof. Hao Zhang, and completed his Ph.D. (2015) in Materials Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) under the supervision of Prof. Hua Zhang.He thendid postdoctoral research in Nanyang Technological University with Prof. Hua Zhang and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) with Prof. Haimei Zheng, respectively.His research interest lies in the fields of materials chemistry, nanoscience, catalysis, and energy conversion. Currently, his research projects mainly include the controlled synthesis of novel low-dimensional metal nanomaterials, designed preparation of functional metal-based heteronanostructures, and catalytic conversion of small molecules. He has published more than 70 paperswith a total citation of over 10500 and H-index of 44. Zhanxi has been listed as a “Highly Cited Researcher” by Clarivate Analytics in 2018, 2019 and 2020.Heis also the recipient of multiple awards likeYoung Scientist Award (E-MRS), MSE Doctorate Research Excellence Award,and Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.

Prof. Keshteli is a Research Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering and Science, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Puebla Campus, Mexico. He is also the member of Optimization and Data Science research center at this university. He has got all his bachelor, master, and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering. Research Background: His main research areas are Sustainable and Smart Logistics, Supply Chain Integration and Optimization, Industry 4.0 and 5.0, and Combinatorial Optimization. He has firstly designed and developed some food and agricultural supply chains such as Citrus, Rice, Sugarcane, Avocado, Walnut, etc. in this research area. He is also the inventor of some famous and capable Metaheuristics Algorithms in optimizations such as Keshtel Algorithm (2012), Red Deer Algorithm (2016), Social Engineering Optimizer (2018), and Tree Growth Algorithm (2018). He has published several book chapters, books, and more than 100 papers in international conference as well as more than 60 papers in Q1 journals, and also worked as a peer reviewer and editor in top- ranked journals like EJOR, COR, INS, CAIE. He has done more than 10 national projects and attracted grants for the universities and research centers. Also, he has supervised more than 15 PhD dissertations as well as more than 50 master theses. Industrial Background: He has strong international collaborations and background in academia, international projects, and industries, especially in European automotive industries, as a general manager, site manager, project manager, head of planning department, business development manager, senior consulter, and member of the board at SAP, Siemens, Savana, and Heavy Diesel Engine Manufacturer companies such as MTU, Wartsila, and MAN. He is also able to speak German, Spanish, Persian, and Arabic languages as well as advanced English. Besides, he is skilled in programming in MATLAB and Python, and usually mentors and teaches in international professional workshops such as CSCP, PMP, IRIS, ISO, and CDA (UNIDO).

Prof. Dr Eng. Emmanuel Karapidakis is Dean at School of Engineering and Director of Energy, Environment and Climate Change Institute (IEECC) in Hellenic Mediterranean University. He has published more than 40 papers in International Journals; as well as more than 50 papers in international conferences. He is/was scientific coordinator of 11 European financed projects, 7 National programmes and more than 20 private funded projects. His research interest focuses on Energy Policy, Power Systems Operation, Diverse & Dispersed Generation, Micro-Grids, Renewable Energy Sources, and Energy Trading

Guilherme Ferretti Rissi was born in Araras, Brazil, on August 28, 1985. He graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2009 from the University of São Paulo, took an MBA in finance from Saint Paul business school in 2017, and is developing his master's degree as a special student at UNUCAMP. He has worked at CPFL since 2010, working in several areas, he is currently responsible for the R&D project that studies the benefits of battery storage systems connected to the wind generation, among other projects. He is the author or co-author of several articles published nationally and internationally. And he was a reviewer at a relevant seminar in the Brazilian electricity sector.His areas of interest include innovation, new technologies, energy storage and renewable generation.

Huan Xi received the Ph.D. degree in 2017 from the School of Energy and Power Engineering,Xi’an Jiaotong University. He was a visiting researcher at Queen Mary University of London in 2016. Since 2017, he joined Xi’an Jiaotong University as a lecture, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His main research interests and experience include waste heat recovery, organic Rankine cycle, energy storage technologies and so on. He published more than 20 journal papers, and currently in charge of several fundings to support my work, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program of China and so on.

Mr. Gerfried Jungmeier has been an energy researcher at the Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH since 1993. He has extensive experience in the development and assessment of systems for eco-mobility, including biofuels, e-mobility and hydrogen, biorefinery, life cycle assessment, sustainable energy systems and climate friendly lifestyles. Mr Jungmeier is currently teaching “Ecological Resource Management” at the Vienna University of Technology as well as “Carbon Footprint and Life Cycle” at the Danube University Krems. He is also a key researcher on the “Future Energy Systems and Lifestyle” project at Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH.

Fumihiko Seta is currently an associate professor of the Department of Urban Engineering (DUE), School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He was born in 1972 in Tokyo, graduated the University of Tokyo in 1995, and worked at the University of Tokyo from 1998 to 2005 and Osaka City University from 2005 to 2012. His major is regional and urban planning in Japan and foreign countries for both growing and depopulating cities and towns. His contribution to publications include Japan's Population Implosion: The 50 Million Shock (ed. Yoichi Funabashi, Springer, 2018) and Community Livability Second Edition (ed. Fritz Wagner and Roger W. Caves, Taylor, and Francis, planned in August 2019). He is currently a member of some committees to support the central government of Japan regarding national spatial strategies and national land-use plans in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT).

Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino is Professor Emeritus at Keio University (Economics), Tokyo, Japan and was Dean/CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)(2014-2020). He served as the Lead-Chair of T20-Japan in 2019. He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University under supervision of Sir Alan Walters who was an economic advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of UK. He received honorary doctorates from University of Goteborg (Sweden) and Matin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). Dr. Yoshino has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) and a visiting professor at various universities including the University of New South Wales (Australia), FondationNationale des Sciences Politiques (France), and University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He has also been an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an economics professor at Keio University (1990-2014). Dr. Yoshino's professional career includes membership in numerous government committees. He has served as Chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance's Council on Foreign Exchange as well as its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section). Additionally, he has been a Board Member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan and President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japanand President of Japan Academic Association of Financial Planning. He was named Director of the Japan Financial Services Agency's (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute, Government of Japan) in 2020and he is also currently an AdjunctProfessor at GRIPS and visiting Lecturer at University of Tokyo. He is nominated as Top 10 scholars in green finance based on recent publications by Energy Policy in 2021.

Prof. Shunli Wang is an authoritative expert in the field of new energy research, the head of DTlab and the new energy measurement& control research team, modeling and state estimation strategy research for lithium-ion batteries. He has undertaken more than 40 projects and 30 patents, published more than 100 research papers as well as won 20 awards such as Young Scholar, Science and Technology Progress Awards, and University & Enterprise Innovative Talent Team et al, developed multiple generation battery systems to improve the reliability and expand the application field with significant social and economic benefits. The following links will briefly introduce our DTlab research team.

Professor Yupeng Wang is a full professor and the assistant dean of the School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering in Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.He obtained hisMaster and Ph.D. (2012) degree from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering, the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. Then he joined the Heat Island Group in Concordia University, Canada, for sustainable urban planning from 2012 to 2016, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada. He obtained a post-doctoral position in the period between 2013 and 2014 at Peking University, China, and carried out urban environmental study under the background of high speed developed Chinese cities. In 2016 he joined the School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering in Xi’an Jiaotong University, started to conduct researches on urban climate information mapping and environmental urban typology evaluation. Professor Yupeng Wang have received a “Hundred Talents Project” of Shaanxi Province, China in 2017, “Person of the Year” from Scientific Chinese magazine in 2018, “AIUE-O Prize” from Asia Institute of Urban Environment in 2019, and “The ISBE Award of Excellence Young Scholar” from the International Society of the Built Environment in 2020.

F. Huchet is researcher from the French Ministry for an Ecological Transition. After a doctoral and post-doctoral training at French National Center for Scientific Research, he was recruited in 2008 at the French Central Laboratory of Roads and Bridges. He has coordinated and participated to several national and international research programs in the fields of energy intensification and sustainable processes. Its activities are devoted to the development of modeling tools to characterize momentum, heat and mass transfer in a complex systems for construction and building materials purposes.

Piotr Maśloch is a Professor at Was Studies University in Warsaw, Management and Command Faculty. Prof. Piotr Maśloch is an officer of the PolishArmy and Dean's Representative for EU projects. He is an author and manager of international projects (founded by UE) in the field of new technologies and modern education. He is an active teacher and researcher in management, sustainable energy, sustainability, and environmental impact. He is a reviewer of scientific publications of the bestPolishUniversities and international publishing houses, is an author and co-author of more than 100 publications as a paper contribution on international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His research interest includes energy, management, global aspects of energy transformation, green energy, globalization. Prof. Maśloch has prepared development strategies based on green energy. In next years prof. Maslochwouldlike to start with the implementation of green energy ideas to the army (a strategy with the management of green energy).

Dr. Mosè Rossi was born on the 14th November 1990 in Fabriano (Italy) where he is currently living. In 2012, Dr. Rossi obtained the Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the Marche Polytechnic University (UNIVPM) defending a thesis entitled "ANALYSIS OF THE TECHNICAL-ECONOMIC CONVENIENCE OF COGENERATION TECHNOLOGIES IN EUROPE AS A FUNCTION OF THE COST OF BOTH ELECTRICITY AND NATURAL GAS", which has been carried on at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (DIISM) with the supervision of Prof. Gabriele Comodi, Ph.D. In 2014, Dr. Rossi obtained the Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering (Thermo-mechanics) at the Faculty of Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Marche (UNIVPM) defending a thesis entitled “FEASIBILITY STUDY OF A FLARE GAS RECOVERY SYSTEM INSTALLED IN AN OIL REFINERY”, which has been carried on at api Refinery of Ancona S.p.A. with the supervision of Prof. Gabriele Comodi, Ph.D. In 2015, Dr. Rossi obtained the qualification to the profession of Engineer. Dr. Rossi attended the Ph.D. course in "SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGIES" at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Free University of Bolzano (unibz) - XXXI cycle – from the 1st November 2015 to the 31st October 2018, obtaining the Ph.D. in the 8th July 2019 defending a thesis entitled "PUMPS-AS-TURBINES (PATs): METHODOLOGIES FOR USED FORECASTING THE PERFORMANCE AND INVESTIGATION ON THE INTERNAL FLUID BEHAVIOUR" with the supervision of Prof. Massimiliano Renzi, Ph.D. In 2018, Dr. Rossi carried on a 4-month research period at the "Brno University of Technology" (Czech Republic) in the "Victor Kaplan Department of Fluid Engineering" as Visiting Ph.D. Student: in this period, Dr. Rossi performed Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations to study the performance of a PaT (Pump-as-Turbine) that was tested at the laboratories of the same university, whose results have been then used for validating the CFD simulations. In particular, Dr. Rossi studied the different fluid dynamic phenomena that occur at different operating conditions. From the 1st November 2018 till the 31st October 2020, Dr. Rossi was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Free University of Bolzano (unibz) where he dealt with the study of hydraulic machines used in small-scale hydropower plants (CFD simulations plus experimental tests). In the same period, Dr. Rossi was also involved in the construction phases of the hydraulic machines’ laboratories at unibz, supervising most of the activities related to the thermos- fluid dynamics laboratories. In 2020, Dr. Rossi obtained a second-level Master's degree (online) organized by the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and ANSYS® discussing a thesis entitled "NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A PUMP-AS-TURBINE (PaT)" with the supervision of Prof. Juan Manuel Tizón, Ph.D. The topics covered during the Master’s course were: i) introduction to the CFD analysis, ii) turbomachinery, and iii) multiphase. Since the 1st November 2020, Dr. Rossi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (DIISM) of the Marche Polytechnic University (UNIVPM). The main research topic is the study of the “cold” thermal energy recovery during the regasification phase of the Liquid Natural Gas (LNG), which is used to store the air (energy carrier) in the liquid form due to the reuse of the recovered “cold” thermal energy. In particular, a case study based on a refuelling station with an Autogrill is studied: the recovered “cold” thermal energy and the electricity produced in the discharge phase of the Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) plant are used for fulfilling the demand of the Autogrill or sent to the national electricity grid to contribute to the national/local electricity demand, and provide flexibility as well. The two previous operating modes depend mainly on both the energy demand of Autogrill and the trend of the national electricity price. Furthermore, Dr. Rossi has started research on “green hydrogen” (e.g., Power-to-Power) and its application with renewables such as hydropower to further increase the profitability and the viability of the latter: also, studies regarding ammonia production, especially the revamping of the current ammonia plants by implementing “green hydrogen” solutions and energy-efficient devices, are currently under investigation.

Giuseppe L. Cascella received his MSc degree with honours (2001) and his PhD in Electrical Engineering (2005) from the Politecnico di Bari (Italy). He won two EU Marie Curie Fellowships in the Nottingham University (UK) and the University of Malta. He completed his PostDoctoral Research project (2008) "Adaptive Memetic Algorithms for Electric Drives". He published 50+ peer-reviewed scientific papers on industry4.0 and AI applications in energy efficiency, has been the coordinator of 30+ R&D industrial projects and received the following awards: • 2018 AWS Activate Builder, "Cloud Data Analytics for Energy Efficiency", Amazon Web Services, 2018. • best experiment in Open Call 2, BEinCPPS, H2020, EU funded, project 680633, 2018. • "SmartSupervisor for Cognitive Energy Efficiency", A&T award for the best innovative i4.0 solution, 2017. He is member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and of the Italian National Order of Engineers.

Yonis.M.Yonis Buswig was born in Benghazi, Libya, in 198. He received the B.Eng.in electrical and power engineering from Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Libya, in 2008. The M.Sc. of electrical engineering from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Malaysia, in 2011. In August 2015, he has awarded his Ph.D degree from Department of Power Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). He is a member of IEEE, and a registered graduate engineers Malaysia (BEM) in the electrical track. Currently, he is a senior lecturer at the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak,(UNIMAS), Malaysia since November 2016. He has authored and co-authored number of well recognized journals and conference papers. His research interests are in DC-DC converter, renewable energy applications, and control of power electronic systems

Tetsuya Hiraishi is a professor of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. His majors are the coastal engineering, especially the transformation of sea waves in a shallow water area, the wave overtopping on seawalls, the infra-gravity long wave phenomena, the tsunami hazard mitigation and the storm surge prevention. His laboratory is located in the south part of Kyoto City (World Heritage) and it has a large tsunami basin 4m wide and 44m long. Hiraishi is a good operator of generator and has carried out many large size experiments concerning to tsunami. He started his career as a researcher at a governmental institute (the Port and Airport Research Institute) in 1982. For about 25 years, he engaged in the wave experimental and numerical modeling. During his working date, he studied in the National Research Council, Canada to test the directional random waves. He obtained Dr. Degree from Kyoto University by “the Application of Directional Random Waves” after coming back to Japan. He moved to the present position in 2010.

Jin-Jia WEI is a professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University and the dean of School of Chemical Engineering and Technology. He is national coordinator of China in Task II of Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems (Solar PACES) of International Energy Agency(IEA) and is also the editorial member of 5 international journals. He got degree of Dr. Eng. from Xi’an Jiaotogn University in 1998 and PhD from Kyushu University in 2002. His research interests include two-phase flow and heat transfer, solar thermal and chemical utilization. He published more than 200 international journal papers and 5 monographs or chapters, gave more than 20 invited talks in international conferences, got authorization of 30 national invention patents, and got two first-grade ministerial or provincial level science and technology awards. He is the winner of national natural science fund for distinguished scholars.

Associate Professor at the University of São Paulo – USP, Brazil. Graduated in Metallurgical Engineering, Master’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering with emphasis in Materials Science, Doctorate in Energy Planning and Post doctorate in Energy Systems Planning from the State University of Campinas – UNICAMP. Prof. André Simões teaches at the Bachelor Course in Environmental Management at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of the University of São Paulo – EACH/USP. Also acts as Prof. Dr. in three postgraduate Program of USP: (1) Energy at the Institute of Energy and Environment – IEE/USP, (2) Social Change and Political Participation at EACH / USP, and (3) Sustainability at EACH/USP. Until now, he has published 35 scientific manuscripts in national or international journals, 4 books and 8 book chapters. He has supervised, so far, 7 master's dissertations and 4 doctoral theses, in addition to more than 20 undergraduate studies at UFRJ, UNICAMP and, mainly, USP (all of them successfully defended). Prof. Simões, usually, acts as official member of the Brazilian Delegation in the Conferences of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), advising, by the scientific perspective, the Brazilian and G77+China diplomats on the climate international negotiations. Due to his expertise in 29 research and consulting projects, has experience in the area of Energy and Environmental Planning. Reviewer of the 5th IPCC Assessment Report (AR5). Reviewer of the journals "Climate and Development", "Regional Environmental Change" and "Journal of Environmental Management". In April 2015, Prof. André Simões won the Vale-CAPES Science and Sustainability Award. During COP 23, held in Bonn, Germany, in 2017, he gave a lecture at an official event supported by the United Nations. During COP 24, held in Katowice, Poland, in 2018, gave a lecture focused on the theme "Generation and consumption of energy in Brazil in the context of mitigation of climate change" in the context of an official event organized by the Brazilian Government and under the UNFCCC seal. Reviewer of the IPCC 6AR (current action). He is the current President of the Institute of Anthropology and Environment – IAMÁ –, an NGO that influenced public environmental and human rights policies in Brazil in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and was awarded internationally, by UNESCO, in 1998.