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Masahiro YOSHIMURA graduated for B.S. in 1965, M.S. at 1967 and D. Sc. in Engineering at 1970 from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Then 1970, Research Assoc.,1978 Assoc. Prof. ,1985 Full Prof. in Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. During those periods, 1973-1975 Post Doc. in 3 CNRS Labs.(Odeillo, Orleans and Paris) in France, and 1975-1977 in Mass. Inst. Tech., USA. His researches started High-Temp. Mater. like Zirconia, Rare Earth Oxides, then moved Solution Processes including Hydrothermal/Solvothermal areas. After retired at 2008, Professor Emeritus, Visiting/Guest Profs. In Tohoku Univ., Japan, Univ. Limerick, Ireland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Inst. Metal. Res., CAS, China, . then National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan since Feb. 2010 as a Visiting Distinguished Chair Prof. He received ,Academic Award (1993) from The Ceramic Soc. Japan, 10th Fulrath Pacific Award(1987) Fellow(1995),Distinguished Life Award(2017) from The Amer. Ceram. Soc., and Honorary Fellow(2017) from European Ceramic Soc.,He is nominated from Thomson-Reuter as ISI Highly-Cited Researcher(2001).Now he has >730 peer-reviewed Papers, 84 Reviews,7 Books (49 Book Chapters) & 30 Patents, and >25,000 International. Citations with h-index >77 by Scopus, >37,500 >92 by Google, #1 in Solution Processing, #5 in Ceramics in the World Ranking. He has organized 25 Internl Confs.: IUMRS-ICA,Chiba,1997, IUMRS-ICAM,Yokohama,2003, and , 6th ISHA,2016, Tainan,Taiwan. etc. >50 Plenary/Keynote & >250 invited Lectures in Intnl Meetings. He is Founding President(2006-2008) of ISHA, President of the Advisory Board (2010-2014) in The World Academy of Ceramics (WAC), An Advisory Officer of IUMRS(Audit Elect 2007,Former President of MRS-Japan). Advisory Board CIMTEC,2022,Italy, Editor-in-Chief of Handbook of Advanced Ceramics, Elsevier.2023.

Dr. Lee is a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech. He is a member of the U.S.National Academy of Engineering, and U.S. National Academy of Inventors, an academician of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, China. Dr. Lee founded the Center for power electronics and led a program that encompasses research, technology development, educational outreach, industry collaboration, and technology transfer. To date, more than 240 companies worldwide have benefited from this industry partnership program. Dr. Lee has supervised to completion 89 Ph.D. and 94 M.S. students. He holds over 100 US patents, and has published over 330 journal articles and more than 760 refereed technical papers. His research interests include high-frequency power conversion, magnetics and EMI, distributed power systems, renewable energy, power quality, high-density electronics packaging and integration, and modeling and control. Dr. Lee is a recipient of the 2015 IEEE Medal in Power Engineering “for contributions to power electronics, especially high-frequency power conversion."

Dr. Yuping Wu is a full professor at Southeast University and a Fellow of RSC. He got Ph. D. degree from the Institute of Chemistry, CAS in 1997, and then worked at Tsinghua University, Waseda University, and Chemnitz University of Technology (AvH Fellowship), separately. In 2003 he became a full professor of Fudan University. His research is focused on energy storage systems and their key materials. He published over 410 papers with H-index over 96 (WoS) and 9 books. His research led to some edge-cutting technologies such as pore-free separators for lithium batteries, and aqueous rechargeable lithium batteries. He achieved quite some awards including One of the Most Influential Minds over the World in 2015 from the Most Cited Researchers by Thomson Reuters.

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.

Fotis Sotiropoulos serves as the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to that he was Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and State University of New York (SUNY) Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Stony Brook University (2015-2021). Before joining Stony Brook University, he was the James L. Record Professor of Civil Engineering; Director of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory; and Director of the EOLOS wind energy research consortium at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2006-2015). Prior to that, he was on the faculty of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a joint appointment in the G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (1995-2005). His research focuses on simulation-based engineering science for tackling complex, societally relevant fluid mechanics problems in renewable energy, environmental and human health applications. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed journal papersand book chapters, his Google Scholar H-index is 72, and his research results have been featured on the cover of several prestigious journals. He is the 2019 recipient of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Borland Lecture award, the 2017 recipient of the Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a recipient of a Career Award from the National Science Foundation. He has twice won the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Gallery of Fluid Motion (2009, 2011), is a 2014 distinguished lecturer of the Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies at Tel Aviv University and has served on the editorial boards of several journals.

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 been elected to several fellowships including Fellow of Royal Society, Fellow of Energy Institute and Fellow of IMechE.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 56. 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.

Michael Burt, BA. Architecture &Amp; T.P. – 1963; D.Sc. -1967. Teaching and research at the Technion, 1963- 2006. 8 years Dean of the Architecture. &Amp; T.P. Faculty. Research: Structural Morphology; Marine Development. Books (Technion Publications) ‘Spatial Arrangements and Polyhedra with Curved Surfaces’…. (D.Sc.Thesis) -1966. ‘Infinite Polyhedra’ - 1974; 2005 ‘The Periodic Table of the Polyhedral Universe’ – 1996. ‘The Israeli Marine Option’….-2012 Dozens of Exhibitions in Israel & Amp; abroad. MUAR –Moscow – 2003 Arch. Biennale – Paris, 1969; representing Israel. AWARDS: Minerva Grant (1985). Japan Foundation Fellowship (1992). Pioneers Award, IASS, G.B. (2002). Israeli Architects Association Honorary Fellowship (2014), Synergy Collaborative Honors, USA – RISD, (2016)

Dr. Habil. Denis SPITZER received his PHD in physical chemistry in 1993 at the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg. He is the founding and current Director of the NS3E Research Laboratory UMR 3208 ISL/CNRS/UNISTRA. He conducts research in continuous formulation and synthesis processes of organic, inorganic and organic/inorganic nano- and submicron sized materialssuch as pharmaceutics and materials for the energy transition. He is the inventor of the SFE and SFF processes. He is the author of more than 160 publications. He received in 2013 the award of strategic thinking given by the French Homeland Minister, in 2015, the « Grand Prix Lazare Carnot » award of the French Academy of Science, and more recently, in 2022, the CNRS Innovation Medal for his work on conceiving and investigating the SFE and SFS processes.

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.

Professor Ji Wang is the founding director of the Piezoelectric Device Laboratory, Ningbo University. Professor Ji Wang also held visiting positions at Chiba University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Argonne National Laboratory. He received his PhD and Master degrees from Princeton University in 1996 and 1993 and bachelor from the Gansu University of Technology in 1983. Professor Wang has been working on acoustic waves and high frequency vibrations of elastic and piezoelectric solids for resonator design and analysis with the several US and Chinese patents, over 200 journal papers, and frequent invited, keynote, and plenary presentations in major conferences around the world.

Yosef Jabareen is a Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion (Israel). This academic year (2022-2023), he is a visiting professor at the Department of Real Estate and Planning, University of Reading. Yosef graduated from Harvard University and previously was a lecturer and visiting scholar at MIT. He is a theorist in urban planning, where he focuses on city planning practices and their critical impact on sustainability, climate change, and social justice. Yosef is interested in the relations between the state and social, ethnic, and racial groups in planning and space production. He has published articles and books on the role of state planning in Israel and how it has been forging different spatial statuses among ethnic groups. In the climate change context, his recent book, The Risk City: Cities Countering Climate Change-Emerging Planning Theories and Practices around the World, contributes to understanding how cities worldwide cope with climate change-related risks and uncertainties and how they should be planning to become adaptive and more resilient.

Robert F. Bordley is Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Director of their Systems Engineering and Design Program. Bob previously worked at General Motors (GM) in several roles: Manager, mission analysis integrating NASA systems engineering methods into vehicle design; Manager,R&D Portfolio; Manager, decision support systems Technical Director in Corporate Strategy, Technical Fellow in Engineering. Bob was the program director of Decision, Risk and Management Science at the National Science Foundationand also worked at Booz-Allen-Hamilton on major Army procurement trade studies. He has published almost a hundred publications on decision analysis involving targets, expectations, suspicion, time delays, problem framing, visual decision making.Bob is a Fellow of INFORMS, the American Statistical Association and the Society for Decision Professionals and is active in many professional societies (member, INCOSE Academic Council, former Member INFORMS Council, INFORMS Management Sciences Roundtable, former President, Michigan INCOSE, former President, ASA Risk Section, POMS Vice-President, etc) and received the Michigan INCOSE lifetime achievement award, and the Gold Award from the Engineering Society of Detroit. Bob has received many awards from GM (Chairman’s Award, President’s Council Award, GMResearch Award of Excellence, Outstanding Design Award) as well as academic societies (Decision Analysis Best Publication, IOEM Distinguished Educator, the University of Michigan Tom Sawyer Teaching Award, the INFORMS Ramsey Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Decision Analysis, ). Bob has an MS in Electrical and Systems Engineering from Michigan State and a PhD, MS and MBA from the Univ. of California, Berkeley.

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2001 (2001 CanadianBest Paper Prize and Patent #20030078074) • Masters in Telecommunications, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, 1994 (Topper of the graduating class of 27 Students; Nominated for Gold Medal) • B. Sc. Eng. (First Class Honours) in Electrical and Electronic Eng., University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 1992 (Placed Firstout of 250 Students)

Soshu Kirihara is a doctor of engineering and a professor of Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University, Japan. In his main investigation “Materials Tectonics as Sustainable Geoengineering” for environmental modifications and resource circulations, multi-dimensional structures were successfully fabricated to modulate energy and materials flows effectively. Ceramic and metal components were fabricated directly by smart additive manufacturing, design and evaluation (Smart MADE) using high power ultraviolet laser lithography. Original stereolithography systems were developed, and new start-up company “SK-Fine” was established through academic-industrial collaboration.

Dr. Yasser Mahmoudi Larimi is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Low Carbon Energy Systems with the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Civil Engineering at The University of Manchester. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at Queen’s University Belfast. He completed a 3-year postdoctoral appointment at the University of Cambridge working on combustion noise analysis in Rolls-Royce gas turbines. His current research focuses on clean energy development through experimental and modelling of thermal engineering systems with particular application to compressed air energy storage and solar photovoltaic-thermal systems as well as transport in porous media. He chairs the UK ‘Turbulent Heat Transfer’ Special Interest Group within the UK Fluids Network. Dr Larimi is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, and is an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Thermal Engineering- Advancements of Cooling and Heating, and Special Topics & Reviews in Porous Media: An International Journal. He is an invited author of a book on Convective Heat Transfer in Porous Media, and the author on over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications.

Matthias Preindl received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Padua, Italy, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and information technology from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and the Ph.D. degree in energy engineering from the University of Padua, in 2008, 2010, and 2014, respectively. He is currently Associate Professor of Power Electronic Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, USA. Prior to joining Columbia University in 2016, he was an R&D Engineer of Power Electronics and Drives at Leitwind AG, Italy (2010-2012), a Post Doctoral Research Associate with the McMaster Institute for Automotive Research and Technology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada (2014-2015), and a Sessional Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University (2015). He serves as Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Associate EiC of Springer Nature/China SAE Journal of Automotive Innovation, and as the general chair of the 2022 IEEE/AIAA ITEC+EATS. Dr. Preindl is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of IET. He received the Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards honorable mention (co-recipient, USA, 2022), Horiba Awards Honorable Mention (Japan, 2019), the Futura Foundation Award (Italy, 2017), the NSF CAREER Award (USA, 2017), as well as best paper and presentation recognitions including the 2019 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics best paper award. His research interests include the design and control of motor drives, power electronics, and batteries for transportation electrification and renewable energy.

Jun Xu is currently an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor with the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He serves as IEEE Senior Member, IEEE Power Electronics Society Technical Committee on Electrical Transportation Systems,the Division Chairman of Shaanxi Power Supply Society, Chairman of Youth Working Committee of SAE-Shaanxi.Dr. Xu’s research interests include design, modeling, and control of battery systems, electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and robots. Dr. Xu has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, including 3 ESI highly cited paper. He owns more than 20 granted invention patents, one of them had been industrially transformed. He has delivered several keynote/invited speeches in academicconferences.Dr. Xu serves as conference Chair, organizing committee Co-Chair, and conference committee for several academicconferences. Dr. Xu has been the Principal Investigator for over 30 research grants, including National Key Research and Development Plan Project topic, Ministry of Industry and Finance ProjectSub-topic, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Shaanxi Province Key Research and Development Plan Project. Dr. Xu is the recipient of the China Industry-University-ResearchCooperation Innovation Award, the second Prize of China Invention and Entrepreneurship Achievement Award, the First Prize of the Shaanxi Province University Science and Technology Award, the Second Prize of the Shaanxi Province Teaching Achievement Award, and the Special Award of University Teaching Achievement Award.

Ralph M. Kennel was born in 1955 at Kaiserslautern (Germany). In 1979 he got his diploma degree and in 1984 his Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Kaiserslautern. From 1983 to 1999 he worked on several positions with Robert BOSCH GmbH (Germany). Until 1997 he was responsible for the development of servo drives. Dr. Kennel was one of the main supporters of VECON and SERCOS interface, two multi-company development projects for a microcontroller and a digital interface especially dedicated to servo drives. Furthermore he took actively part in the definition and release of new standards with respect to CE marking for servo drives. Between 1997 and 1999 Dr. Kennel was responsible for "Advanced and Product Development of Fractional Horsepower Motors" in automotive applications. His main activity was preparing the introduction of brushless drive concepts to the automotive market. From 1994 to 1999 Dr. Kennel was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England, UK). From 1999 - 2008 he was Professor for Electrical Machines and Drives at Wuppertal University (Germany). Since 2008 until his retirement in 2022 he was Professor for Electrical Drive systems and Power Electronics at TechnischeUniversitaetMuenchen (Germany). His main interests are: Sensorless control of AC drives, predictive control of power electronics and contactless energy transmission. Dr. Kennel is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of IET (former IEE) and a Chartered Engineer in the UK. Within IEEE he was Treasurer of the Germany Section as well as Region 8 – furthermore he has been Distinguished Lecturer of the Power Electronics Society (IEEE-PELS) as well as Vice President Meetings of the same society. In 2018 Dr. Kennel received the Doctoral degree honoris causa from Universitatea Stefan cel Mare in Suceava (Romania). Dr. Kennel has received in 2013 the Harry Owen Distinguished Service Award from IEEE-PELS, the EPE Association Distinguished Service Award in 2015 as well as the EPE Outstanding Achievement Award in 2019. Dr. Kennel was appointed “Extraordinary Professor” by the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) from 2016 to 2019 and as “Visiting Professor” at the Haixi Institute by the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2016 to 2021. There he was appointed as "Jiaxi Lu Overseas Guest Professor" in 2017. In 2018 Dr. Kennel was appointed Guest Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China. In 2019 Dr. Kennel was appointed „Honorary Chair Professor“ ("distinguished visiting professor") at Shandong University in Jinan, China.

Akira Nishimura received the B.S. Eng., the M.S. Eng. And De. 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 and an assistant professor and promoted to associate professor from 2014. His current researches are smart city utilizing renewable energy, H2 production from biogas, clarification on heat and mass transfer characteristics of PEFC and CO2 reduction by photocatalyst. He has published 86 papers in reviewed journals.

Robert F. Bordley is a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Director of their Systems Engineering and Design Program. Bob previously worked at General Motors (GM) in several roles: Manager, mission analysis integrating NASA systems engineering methods into vehicle design; Manager, R&D Portfolio; Manager, decision support systems Technical Director in Corporate Strategy, Technical Fellow in Engineering. Bob was the program director of Decision, Risk, and Management Science at the National Science Foundation and also worked at Booz-Allen-Hamilton on major Army procurement trade studies. He has published almost a hundred publications on decision analysis involving targets, expectations, suspicion, time delays, problem framing, and visual decision-making. Bob is a Fellow of INFORMS, the American Statistical Association, and the Society for Decision Professionals and is active in many professional societies (member, of INCOSE Academic Council, former Member of INFORMS Council, INFORMS Management Sciences Roundtable, former President, of Michigan INCOSE, former President, ASA Risk Section, POMS Vice-President, etc) and received the Michigan INCOSE lifetime achievement award and the Gold Award from the Engineering Society of Detroit. Bob has received many awards from GM (Chairman’s Award, President’s Council Award, GMResearch Award of Excellence, Outstanding Design Award) as well as academic societies (Decision Analysis Best Publication, IOEM Distinguished Educator, the University of Michigan Tom Sawyer Teaching Award, the INFORMS Ramsey Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Decision Analysis, ). Bob has an MS in Electrical and Systems Engineering from Michigan State and a Ph.D., MS, and MBA from the Univ. of California, Berkeley.

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.

Ionel VECHIU is a Full Professor with ESTIA Institute of Technology, France. He received the Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Galati University, Romania, in 2001 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Le Havre University, France, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. In 2013, he received the Habilitation to Conduct Researches in Applied Power Electronics and Control from Grenoble INP, France. His research interests include design, modelling and control of distributed generation, power converters and associated control for renewable energy integration, power quality and weak grids stability, predictive optimal control, and storage systems management. One of the main objectives of his research is to use the MicroGrid concept for an optimal integration of renewable energy sources and storage systems for different applications.He co-authored more than 80 papers in leading international journals & conferences and works extensively on several projects.

Orlando R Baiocchi is a Professor in Electrical Engineering and former Director of the Institute of Technology at the University of Washington Tacoma, USA. He has a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University College London, England. He has held a number of teaching, research and administrative positions both in the United States and in Brazil. He has also led many activities of international cooperation, more recently with universities in Brazil, Spain and Portugal. His areas of expertise include Electromagnetics and Wave Propagation, Linear Systems, Technology and Society, Ethics, and Engineering Education. Current research also includes wireless network sensors for environmental monitoring, and energy harvesting. He has more than 100 publications in all these areas. He has been a reviewer for severalinstitutions including the IEEE, the American Board of Engineering and Technology,the American Society for Engineering Education, and Momentum Press.

Aug. 2008 – Aug. 2014 Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station, USA Apr. 2005 – Mar. 2007 MS, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Mar. 1995 – Feb. 2002 BE, Hanyang University, South Korea [PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE] 2018 – Present Associate Professor, Department of Architectural Engineering, University of Ulsan, South Korea 2015 –2018 Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, South Korea 2014 – 2015 Post-doctoral Researcher, Hanyang University, South Korea 2009 –2014 Graduate Assistant- Research, Energy Systems Laboratory, TX, USA

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.

Zeng Shihong is a professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Economics and Management of Beijing University of Technology. Served as editor and editorial board member of six international journals, including SSCI/SCI International Journal Special Issue, for example: A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601): Circular Economy and Green Environment https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/special_issues/Circular_Economy_Green_Environment He has published more than 100 papers in Energy Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy Policy, Renewable&Sustainable Energy Reviews, International Review of Economics and Finance, China Environmental Science, China Management Science, and other journals, among which, Four highly cited papers of ESI (1% of the total) and two hot papers of ESI (1% of the total) were included. The paper “The potential and cost of low carbon technology to reduce emissions in Chinese aluminum industry” be reported.

Hermann Kaindl is the head of the organizational unit entitled “Software-intensive Systems” of the Institute of Computer Technology and a Vice Chairman of the Senate at TU Wien. He joined this institute in early 2003 as a full professor. Prior to moving to academia, he was a senior consultant with the division of program and systems engineering at Siemens AG Austria. There he has gained more than 24 years of industrial experience in requirements and software engineering, human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Scientist member of the ACM.

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.

Paul Grunow has completed his Ph.D at the age of 30 years from Technical University Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and postdoctoral studies from the COPPE/UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the general manager of Trinity Solarbeteiligungen GmbH, an investment company in renewable energies. Before, he co-founded three companies in the area of photovoltaics based in Berlin, i.e. Solon, Q-Cells, PI Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin. He has published more than 12 papers in reputed journals.

Dr. Sotiris Lycourghiotis, (Msc, PhD) is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece. He also works in the Hellenic Open University. He has published several scientific papers (~ 50) in international journals, conferences and book chapters in the fields of geography, climate change and green energy. Ηe is the author of three books in the fields of geography and green energy.

Tony Roulstone established and teaches on the Nuclear Energy Masters program in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are the economics and safety of nuclear power with a focus on Small Modular Reactors. He is leading several SMR research projects in the UK. Also, he is involved with projects on the industrialisation and the economics of fusion. He was a visiting Professor of Nuclear Engineering at City University in Hong Kong 2012-2018. He writes for the technical press on nuclear economics and policy matters and he is leading a group on energy storage needs for the Royal Society Working Group on Energy Storage. He received his degree from the University of Cambridge and has spent much of his career in the nuclear and aerospace industries, starting with UKAEA working on fast reactor systems and including 20 years at Rolls-Royce where he became Managing Director of the Nuclear Group in 1992. He has held several corporate Rolls-Royce plc roles in both aero-space engineering and strategic transformation. He provides consultancy widely in the engineering, technology and services sectors and has completed several policy studies for Government on SMRs, and for politicians on business enterprise and on large-scale procurement. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, an Associate Member of the Nuclear Institute. He is an independent adviser on SMR design.

Monica Borunda holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the International School for Advanced Studies, SISSA, in Italy. She was graduated as a Physicist at the Faculty of Sciences of the UNAM with the Gabino Barreda medal. She conducted research stays at CINVESTAV, Mexico, Fermilab, USA, McGill University, Canada and Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy. She made postdoctoral stays at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and at the University of Granada in Spain. Later, she worked in R&D in renewable energy companies in Spain, Qatar and Germany. In 2014, she won a CONACYT research position and joined INEEL to work on projects in the energy sector. Nowadays she keeps as a National Researcher CONACYT at CENIDET. She is the author of several international scientific articles and has participated in several international workshops and conferences. Currently, she belongs to the Mexican National System of Researchers. Applications of Artificial Intelligence to renewable energy and energy efficiency and management are her main research fields.

Roselita Fragoudakis is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, USA. Her research is on materials. Dr. Fragoudakis has worked on a comparison of steel and Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) applicable in heavy duty vehicle suspension systems. She has conducted experimental and computational analysis on Lateral Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor (LDMOS) packages and the dielectric properties of polymers. Currently she directs computational analysis of fiber orientations around geometric discontinuities. Additionally, she investigates ethical dilemmas in the innovative technological advances in her field and has created a course exploring the ethics of innovation and matters of intellectual property. Dr. Fragoudakis has served as a reviewer on multiple journals and periodicals, including the International Journal of Fatigue and Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures. She is the author of a number of papers in her field and has conducted a number of student research projects.

Dr. Jianli Hu is a Chair Professor and the Director of Shale Gas Center at West Virginia University. He leads an interdisciplinary team carrying out cutting-edge research in natural gas conversion and renewable energy utilization. He has demonstrated strong leadership in partnering with U.S. national laboratories and industrial companies. His research interests span across the fields of reaction engineering, surface chemistry, plasma and microwave-enhanced catalytic reactions. Before joining WVU, Dr. Hu led innovation efforts at Koch Industries, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and BP Oil. He has been granted 38 U.S. patents and published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and 200 conference papers.

Dr. Mujib Rahman Ahmadzai is Associate Professor in Natural Resources Management in the Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Environment of, Kabul University, Kabul Afghanistan (e-mail: Mujib.ahmadzai@gmail.com). He holds a PhD. in Natural Resources from University Putra Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia (2022). He also worked with the government of Afghanistan as a civil servant in the ministries of Finance and Afghanistan Atomic Energy High Commissions. Dr. Ahmadzai teaches and researches on international development, Renewable energy, NGOs, community development, human conflicts, and adaptation to climate change).

Dr. Ernesto Enciso Contreras is a researcher and professor graduated from the Polytechnical National Institute (InstitutoPolitécnicoNacional) in Mexico in the Energetic and Mechanical design field. Currently is working at the High Education Technological of Ecatepec (Tecnológico de EstudiosSuperiores de Ecatepec) in the Master of Science in Mecatronics Engineering program.Dr.Enciso has publishedin several indexed and arbitrated journals, mainly in the Concentrating Solar Energy area.He has been participating in many national and international symposiums, congresses and conferences. His main research lines includes solar thermal energy, heat transfer, fluid mechanics in two phase flow, eolic energy and mechanical design. In these fields, he has developed functional prototypes such as: a parabolic dish solar concentrator with tracking system, a bank of solar photovoltaic cells with solar tracking system, an autonomous robot for sanitization using UVC lamps and the development of two computational tools for parabolic trough solar collector designing, the prototypes mentioned have been registered as patents and copyrights.

Dana Pousty is aPh.D. student in Environmental Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral studies are focused on UV-LEDs as a water disinfection method, especially for rural areas. The fundamental research includes calculation, optimization, and developing new methods for fluence measurements in UV-LED disinfection systems, researching the effect of wavelength and Intensity on microorganisms. Dana’s research aims to establish the foundations for developing proper off-grid systems for low-income settings. Dana earned her BSc in Environmental and earth since from Ben-Gurion University while investigating the Enhancement of chemical weathering of albite under seawater conditions, and MS in Environmental Engineering from Tel Aviv University while investigating improvement of the LED-system effectiveness through Average Intensity modeling optimization compared to Vapor lamps

Sepideh Akhbarifaris a research scientist at the Vitreous State Laboratory/Physics Department of ‘The Catholic University of America’ in Washington, DC, and teaches as adjunct professor in the School of Engineering. She holds a PhD in physic and two masters’ in chemical engineering and in nuclear environmental protection. Her research interests focus on environmental protection, including energy efficiency, reduction of CO2 emissions, and clean air. Her research comprises currently thermoelectric ceramics, low CO2-emitting cement (geopolymers) for construction and to fixate long-lived radionuclides, and cyclone de-dusters. Sepideh holds two patents and was honored as ‘Young Women Inventor 2010’ by the National Elites Foundation in Iran. She publishes widely and has contributed a chapter to a book on thermoelectricity. She presented her work worldwide at scientific conferences, many times as invited- and keynote speaker. Sepideh is actively engaged in several scientific societies and as a reviewer for several journals. Atthe MRS Fall meeting 2022 in Boston she was the lead organizer of Symposium EQ01 ‘Thermoelectricity’.

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.

Annie LE GAL LA SALLE is a researcher at Institut des Matériaux de Nantes (IMN) Jean Rouxel in France. She chairs the Fuel‐cell sub‐group of the Electrochemical Storage and Conversion of Energy team of IMN, is a member of the executive board of FRH2 French Research network (FR2044) devoted to Hydrogen, and manages the relations between IMN and the West Atlantic Marine Energy Community. She coordinates several collaborative programs devoted to solid oxide cells, with a special interest in enlarging the operating conditions of these devices (as fueling cells with gaseous mixtures issued from wastes and polluted air, or electrolyzing seawater). She also provides several courses in engineering schools and at university.

Zhaoming Yang focuses on the research of Oil & Gas transportation and storage for 7 years, especially on the areas of system resilience, multiphase flow and separation technology. He received bachelor and master degrees in China University of Petroleum (East China), and does Ph.D. research in City University of Hong Kong and China University of Petroleum (Beijing). Now he is in Aalborg University, Risk, Resilience, Safety, and Sustainability of Systems Research Group. He has published papers in Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Petroleum Science, Reliability Engineering System Safety, International Journal of Oil Gas and Coal Technology et al, and also has applied more than 10 patents in key areas of Oil & Gas industry. He is the session chair of CUE2022-Applied Energy Symposium: LOW CARBON CITIES & URBAN ENERGY SYSTEMS.

Talita Mariane Cristino is a Mechanical Engineering doctoral student in Management and Optimization at the State University of São Paulo "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP), under the guidance of Professors Dr. Otavio Jose de Oliveira and Dr. Antonio Faria Neto. The research carried out by Talita Mariane Cristino has received financial support from the Sao Paulo State Research Support Foundation, process nº 2021/01423-9. The student has research experience in the Energy Management System area, mainly in the building sector, applying multivariate statistical methods for data analysis, and has published scientific articles in international high-impact factor journals. Professor Dr. Otavio Jose de Oliveira is a full Professor and Head of the Production Department of FEG/UNESP. He works mainly with Integrated Management Systems, Lean Six Sigma, and Sustainability.. Professor Dr. Antonio Faria Neto is a researcher in Energy Efficiency at FEG/UNESP. He is curretly dedicated to research in Multivariate Statistics applied to Engineering and Energy Management Systems.

Amalia J. Moutsopoulou is Ass. Professor in Mediterranean University of Greece, in the department of the Mechanical Engineering and she teaches Constructions and Mechanics, from 1997 until today. She was graduated Civil Engineer in Democritus University of Thrace in 1995. She received his Diploma (M.Sc.) in Construction management and his Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Mechanical and Control engineering, in 1999 and 2009, respectively, both from the Technical University of Crete in the Department of Production Engineering and Management. She has written four books for Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering she has many publications in international journals and conferences, her research interests include mechanical and control engineering. She speaks three languages, French, German and English.

Born in Bad Berleburg/Germany. Medical studies in Munich and Giessen, exams and doctorate in 1971. Scientific assistant at the clinical centre of the Justus Liebig University at Giessenuntil 1978. Senior physician for nuclearmedicine at theclinicalcentre in Hanau until 1985. Head doctorforexperientialmedicine at the "HG Naturklinik" in Marktheidenfeld-Michelriethuntil 1995. Founder ofthe "International Institute forExperiential Medicine" www.iifeh.de; Founder ofthe "DiagnosticCentrefor Mineral Analysis and SpectroscopyDCMS.Energymedicinepractice in Salzburg (until 1999). HolisticDiagCenter in Irschenberg (until 2007). HolisticCenter in Prien (www.holisticcenter.de,until 2010). From 2011 to 2018 Head PhysicianoftheQuantisana Health CentreforHolisticDiagnostics and Therapy in CH9404 Rorschacherberg. Since 2018 Head oftheHolisticCenter in CH9030 Abtwil. Many oral and writtenpublications in thefieldofcomplementary and energymedicine. Many videos on Youtube, Google and complementaryportals. Reviewer of international journals. Co-founder and deputypresidentof DGEIM (German Society forEnergetic and Information Medicine, Stuttgart www.dgeim.de). Honorarymember of Triunity - International Academy for HolisticConsciousness www.triunity-akademie.com/. Book author: Harmonyis Life and Health ofthe Body, 1988; Medicine of the Sermon on the Mount, 1999 and 2009; Energy and Cosmos, 2008; Understanding Healing, 2014.

Dr.Marta Michalska-Domanskais Senior Assistant Professor at Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland. She graduated in Physical Chemistryat University of Warsaw, completed her PhD at Military University of Technology (MUT, Poland). She took part in COST project (Action MP 1302) in intership in University of Tybingen, Germany. She done her postdoc in corrosion science (AlMagic grant) at TU Delft, Netherlands. In 2021 Dr. take part in postdoctoral fellowship at Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain. She is an expert in the electrochemical synthesis of nanomaterials, especially in anodization of aluminium and titanium as well as influence of the materials state on its properties. She works in materials science field and focus especially on synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for photovoltaics, biomedical and spectroscopic application. She received two awards for her PhD thesis: MUT Rector's Award for distinguished PhD thesis and The Polish Prime Minister Award for the best PhD thesis from all the defended thesis in Poland last 2015. In 2016 she received Scholarship for Young, Outstanding Researchers from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the entire academic work. She was Principal Investigator in 6big projects. She is also Evaluator in Maria Skłodowska-Curie Action projects, funded by EU and in national funding Institutions. She was Invited or KeyNote Speaker at 10 International Scientific Conferences. She is reviewer for many high impacted journals, such as Electrochimica Acta, Langmuir, Corrosion Science etc. She is a member of International Electrochemical Society. Dr Michalska-Domanska is Co-Editor of 5 books, co-author of 48 scientific publications, 9 chapters and her H-index is 17 (according to Scopus).

Menelio Bardales is a leading researcher at the National University of Forestry Sciences (Its Spanish acronym is UNACIFOR) at Siguatepeque, Honduras. He is currently, a Doctoral Student from University of Granada, Spain. He also has a Master´s degree in Business Administration with focus in finance from The Technological Centro American University (Its Spanish acronym is UNITEC), Tegucigalpa, Honduras.He is a Forest Engineer graduated in 1995 from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. Mr.Bardales´workexperiencein research and work experience include:The publication entitled “A Tool for the Assessment of Forest Biomass as a Source of Rural Sustainable Energy in Natural Areas in Honduras”. He has also written various documents such as the development of a Country Initial Environmental Examination (C-IEE), EnvironmentalMonitoringandMitigation Plan(EMMP) and an Implementation Arrangement Plan (IAP) for the Central America Regional Initiative (CARI Program) in 2021.AUSAgencyforInternationalDevelopment (USAID)EnvironmentalMonitoringandMitigation(EMMP)AssociateConsultantfortheUSOffice ofTransitionInitiative/USAIDHondurasand the Nigeria Regional Transition Initiative (NRTI) Projects; providing Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of projects using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Zeel Maheshwari received her Master's and PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU) in December 2013 and December 2017 respectively. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University (NKU), USA. She received Dorothy Westerman Hermann Endowed Professorship in Science at NKU and is first from her department to receive it. She is the sectary of the IEEE Renewable Technology Subcommittee. She has more than 15 technical papers published in the field of sustainable development in rural communities.Her areas of interest are Smart Grids, Integration of Renewable Energy Systems, Microgrids, Neural Networks, Deep learning and Fuzzy Logic.

Dr Anna Starzewska-Sikorska received her Ph.D. in the field of land use planning tools in sustainable development. She has been for many years involved in projects concerning ecological aspects in urban development. She is experienced in management of international projects concerning application of nature based solutions in urban development. She is the author of many publications and an editor of the monography prepared by the whole Institute concerning integrated environmental management of land and soil in European urban areas. Moreover she is also a reviewer of articles for the Index Copernicus system. At present she is involved in the European project concerning creation of urban regenerative lighthouse especially regarding air quality and urban climate neutrality.

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.

Dr. Wang obtained his master’s degree in civil engineering from Tongji University in China in 2016. Later, he obtained his doctoral degree in civil engineering from the University of Tokyo in Japan in 2019. He was a project assistant professor in University of Tokyofor Laboratory of Joint Program for next generation of energy infrastructure funded by J-POWER, Shimizu Corporation, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind Japan, ClassNK. He is currently the Fellow of the Hundred Talents Program in Zhejiang University in China. He has interests in Wind Turbine Engineering, Marine Structural Engineering, and Marine Geotechnical Engineering, acting on the following topics:soil-structure interaction, integrated design of offshore wind turbines,s and smart control of offshore wind turbines.

Born in Caserta, 1988. She holds an MSc degree in hydraulics and transportation systems engineering (2014) and a PhD in civil system engineering (2018), both from Federico II University of Naples, Italy. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at Federico II University of Naples, Italy. She has authored more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Her research interests include sustainable mobility, MaaS systems, transportation and urban planning, rail system analysis and management, energy-saving strategies.

Prof. Marcello Ruberti University of Salento Italy

Gabriel Costa is a meteorologist (UFPA), with PhD in Sciences (applied ecology, USP) currently effetive professor at Universidade Federal do oeste do Pará (Ufopa, Pará State- Brazil). Is research group leader IBAMA (Interaction Biosphere-Atmosphere and Micrometeorology on Amazonia). Have interest in biosphere-atmosphere interactions, with special emphasis on the energy fluxes, Greenhouse gases emissions, renewable and sustainable energy, biogeochemistry cycles over tropical ecosystems. This includes the interaction between climate and health correlations, by air pollution.

Silvia Brunoro, is an architect, Associated Professor at the Department of Architecture of Ferrara. She is member of two researches Centres at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara: the LEM (Laboratory of research on Estate & environment Management) and the A>E Architettura Energia Centre. She carried out many teaching experiences in the subject Technology of Architecture at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara:, starting as assistant in 2000. Since 2007 to 2012 she is contract professor of buildings materials and design, module of the course Energetic efficiency of Buildings. Since 2012 until now she is professor of Environmental Design in the Final laboratory of Technology of Architecture. Since 2020 she is professor of the Design and construction-Laboratory. She has been involved in many national and European researches. Since 2003 to 2007 she has been involved in the ACTION COST C16 "Improving the quality of existing urban building envelopes" on the refurbishment of non traditional building envelopes in Europe. Since 2004 to 2006 she has been involved in the INTERREG II B project “Villas- stately homes and castles” on the sustainable valorisation of rural buildings in Emilia Romagna. Since 2008 to 2012 she is Management Committee member of the ACTION COST TU0701 “Improving the quality of Suburban building stock” on the refurbishment and valorisation of not historical suburban areas in Europe. Since 2012 to 2016 she is delegate member of the FP7 Project Proficient “SME network business model for collective self-organized processes in the construction and retrofit of energy-efficient residential districts” (EU 7th Framework program). Since 2015 to 2019 she is involved in the project - INCEPTION “Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling” (HORIZON 2020) She is author of several publication concerning energy efficiency and sustainable design, mainly related to the envelope of the building. In 2006 she published the text “Efficienza energetica delle facciate: standard, requisiti esempi per l’adeguamento e la riqualificazione architettonica”” (Maggioli Editor) Her main field of research are sustainable refurbishment, energy efficiency and innovation of technologies and materials.

Prof.Onkar Nath Tiwari is currently working as Professor and Principal Scientist in Division of Microbiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), New Delhi-110012 and has more than 25 Years of experience in Research, Teaching and Extension in the domains of Agriculture, Horticulture, Microbiology & Biotechnology. He completed his Ph.D. from University of Allahabad, U.P., Post- Doctoral work from USA and worked as visiting professor at Culture Collection of Algae, University of Texas at Austin during 2012-2013 under DBT overseas program. Prof. Tiwari has to his credit more than 100 publications in International Journals (including publications in high impact factor ranging from 10.72 to 16.78), 30 in Indian Journals and authored more than 30 book chapters. Prof. Tiwari had visited more than 15Countries, is onthe editorial board for more than 10 International journals, completed 11 major R&D projects worth more than 15 Crore and guided 17 Ph. D scholars. He is Member of Board of Directors of Algal biomass research and commercialization: Intelligent Biotechnologies, Austin, TX, USA and won several national and international accolades including best scientist award under middle aged group of scientists during sixth annual meeting of algal biomass summit held at Denver, Colorado, USA during September, 2012 and Life time achievement award awarded by Society of Life Sciences during March, 2018 in recognition for outstanding academic contribution and achievements in the field of Life Sciences. Prof. Tiwari is Life Member of 12 scientific societies, has 4 honorary fellowshipawards, recognized by 8 universities for guiding doctoral students and was National coordinator for DBTs Algal Biofuel Programme during 2009-2013. He has 2 ongoing research projects and current research interests include Polysaccharide based bioremediation ofheavy metals in soil and water, microbial fuel cells, microbial fuel cells for waste watertreatment, lipid biosynthesis, sustainable biodiesel production and sustainable livelihood development through S&T interventions.

Dr. Paresh Suryakant More is working as Associate Professor in Chemistry at K. E. T’S, V.G. Vaze College Autonomous, Mulund (E), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He did his M.Sc. in Inorganic Chemistry in 1995 from Institute of Science Mumbai, India and Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry from University Department of Chemistry (UDC), University of Mumbai, Kalina Campus, Santacruz, India. He had completed Bachelor degree in Education from Kapila Khandwala College of Education Santacruz, Mumbai, India. He is working in the K. E. T’S, Vinayak GaneshVaze College from 1999 till 2009 (Junior College) andin the Senior College from 2nd December 2009 till date. He had published 18 International research papers in ahighly reputedpublication houses such as RSC, Elsevier, Wiley, and Springerand witha very high impact factor. He had 45 oral presentations in the National and International conferences and was resource person in 10 conferences. One student has completed doctor of philosophy (PhD) and one Master of Science (MSc) by research under his supervision. At present eight (08) students are registered under him for PhD. His area of research is Material Sciences, Nanomaterials, Metal oxides, Mixed metal oxides, Ferrites, Metal Organic Framework and their application in Catalysis, Photodegradation of dyes, Conversion of Nitrophenol to Aminophenol, Reduction of Cr+6 to Cr+3, H2 generation, Organic transformation, Supercapacitor and energy storage devices. Further he had work in the green chemistry by synthesizing ionic liquids and studied their application in catalysis.

Annabelle’s experience comprises 40 years of technical experience in information technology system design and implementation, 15 years in operational technology cyber security for the electric sector, and 30 years of cyber security design, specification development, and testing. She has authored or co-authored many documents on cyber security, cryptography, and testing. Annabelle is the Chief Cyber Security Specialist at Nevermore Security. She is a consultant focusing on cyber security for the energy sector. Her areas of expertise include cyber security: • Strategy and risk management • Design and architecture • Specification, guidance, and requirements development • Assessments against standards • Training • Applied cryptography Annabelle provides cyber security technical guidance to utilities around the world, particularly in North America and the Black Sea and Balkan regions. Her work for the United States Energy Association (USEA) included the development of a Cyber Security Strategy and Roadmap template and a Risk Management and Assessment Methodology template. Annabelle has conducted several cyber security capability maturity model assessments to define the baseline and target cyber security profiles for utilities. She has led the assessment of cyber security technical controls, standards and guidelines, and procedures for utilities. Annabelle participates in applied research projects with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Both projects focus on cyber security and the deployment of distributed ledger technology (DLT). Annabelle has participated as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for several of the US Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories. Annabelle also serves on the Advisory Committee for the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) and she co-leads an IEEE task force on DLT and cyber security. She has provided technical guidance to the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). Annabelle is one of the authors of the current and proposed Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2). Annabelle has participated as a speaker at many conferences and universities and serves as a technical reviewer of journal articles.

From 1982-2005, Novi Sad cable factory at work director of the Metallurgy factory, head of quality control, head of chemical control Since 2005, Inspector for Environmental Protection, Gradska to the Administration for Inspection Affairs of the City of Novi Sad Since January 2023, I have been working as the chairman of the committee and advisor for environmental protection in the environmental protection sector in the City Hall, City of Novi Sad. I am finishing my thesis in the field of electronic waste recycling with green pyrolysis technology to improve the yield of REEs elements obtained from recycled PCBs (personal computers, laptops and mobile phones).

Hatem Rmili received a B.S. degree in general physics from the Science Faculty of Monastir, Tunisia in 1995, and the DEA diploma from the Science Faculty of Tunis, Tunisia, in quantum mechanics, in 1999. He received the Ph.D. degree in physics (electronics) from both the University of Tunis, Tunisia, and the University of Bordeaux 1, France, in 2004.Actually, he is Full Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Professor Rmili’s research interests concern applied electromagnetic applications involving antennas, metamaterials and métasurfaces. The main targeted applications are reconfigurable antennas for multi-standard wireless communications systems, security of chipless RFID systems with fractal tags, terahertz photoconductive antennas for infra-red energy harvesting, UWB nano rectennas for collection of solar energy, phase shifters for low-cost 5G communication systems, and microwave absorbing materials for stealth technologies.

Dr. Madhu Agarwal is Associate Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur. She received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from MNIT, Jaipur. She is the author/co-author of over 100 scientific papers with more than 2000 citations including communications in national and international conferences. Her research interests are in the areas of biodiesel, modeling & simulation, water treatment, adsorption.

Dr. Virendra Kumar Saharan is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering Department at MNIT Jaipur since July 01, 2013. His research interests include process intensification, wastewater treatment, advanced oxidation processes, hydrodynamic cavitation, sonochemistry, biofuels from waste biomass, and emulsification. Dr. Virendra Kumar Saharan has developed and demonstrated energy-efficient processes using hydrodynamic and acoustic cavitation techniques for different applications such as wastewater and drinking water treatment, formulation of emulsion system for drug encapsulation, and valorization of waste cooking oil, and these have been published in high impact factor journals. He has authored 52 journal publications indexed in SCI journals, 07 book chapters so far. His Citations are 2800 with H Index 28 and i10 index of 39.

Professor Suja Georgeworks in the Chemical Engineering Department at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. She has 26 years of teaching experience for B.Tech, M.Tech and PhD students in Chemical Engineering and has been actively involved in research for the past 20 years. Her current research interests include areas in Biofuels, Water & Wastewater Treatment, Defluoridation, Nanoparticle / Nano-adsorbent Synthesis, Microbial Fuel Cells and Process Modeling Simulation & Control. She has published over 50 research articles in SCI journals and around 50 papers in National & International conferences.

Dr. Rajeev Kumar Dohare holds B.Tech, from SVNIT Surat; M. Tech., from AMU Aligarh, and Ph.D, from MNIT Jaipur degrees in Chemical Engineering. He joined MNIT as an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering in 2008 and is serving as an Associate Professor since 2018. His assignments include teaching UG and PG courses, involved in various research activities and DST funded research projects. Along with academic’s responsibilities Dr. Dohare have various administrative responsibilities at department and institute label. The major areas of his research are Process modelling and simulation, Advanced Process control, Process integration and optimization, Artificial Intelligence in Process Control, Emulsion Liquid Membrane, Solid Waste Management. Dr. Dohare has published/presented over 85 papers in various international/national journals/conferences, guided more than 15 Masters and under graduate projects He has conducted several National and International Conferences, workshop, short term for faculty development under TEQIP as a coordinator/ Convenor/ Chairman. Dr. Dohare has delivered many keynote addresses and invited talks at International/national conferences and institutions.

Pr. Lingai LUO is Research Director of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She was a Direction member of LTEN and the director of LOCIE, both laboratories of CNRS. She was the co-founder and coordinator of the Sino-French Collaboratory for Environmental and Process Engineering and the director of its successor Sino-French Laboratory for Sustainable Energy of French CNRS and Chinese Academy of Sciences.She is mainly engaged in the intensification of heat and mass transfer and the efficiency optimization in different energy components, systems and processes. She has developed an original strategy on the optimization of energy systems by a multi-scale approach associated with an innovative method of optimized management of fluid distribution. She is the author of 2 books and over 130 journal articles. She is serving as subject editor of Energy Journal, and associate editor of three others Journals.

He holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Pará (2001), a master's degree in Zoology - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (2004) and a PhD in Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries from the Federal University of Pará (2011). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Pará and academic director of the Center for Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries in the Amazon (NEAP / UFPA). She works in the Graduate Programs in Tropical Fisheries Resources and Aquaculture at the Federal Rural University of Amazonia (UFRA) and Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries (PPGEAP) at the Federal University of Pará as a supervisor at the master's and doctoral levels. She has been a member of the Western Central Atlantic Fisher Commission-WECAF / FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization-United Nations) since November 2020, serving in the Working Group on Shrimp and Groundfish on the North Brazil-Guianas Shelf.

Dr. Kiran More， Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering department, D Y Patil University,Pune , India. He received M-Tech., in 2011 and PhD in 2018 from NIT Surat, India. Since 2018, Dr. Dr. kiran More associate professor /PhD supervisor in Dept of Mechanical Engineering. He received Outstanding Reviewer Award by Applied Thermal Engineering Journal of Elsevier publication. His research is used for optimizing the energy, economy and environmental aspect. He is an expert in programing the advanced optimization algorithms related to Mechanical devices.

Dr Tien Anh Tran is working as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at Department of Marine Engineering, Vietnam Maritime University, Haiphong City, Vietnam. He received B.Eng and M.Sc at Vietnam Maritime University, Vietnam in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He got Ph.D. Degree at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan City, People’s Republic of China in 2018. He is an Guest Editor for the reputation journals indexed in SCI/SCIE such as Environment, Development and Sustainability (SCIE, IF= 3.219), IET Intelligent Transport System (SCIE, IF = 2.496), International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (SCIE, IF = 1.640), Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SCIE, IF = 4.028). He was received the NEPTUNE prize for the outstanding researcher of Vietnam Maritime University in 2019 He is an IEEE Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA), IMarEST member (UK).