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"If there are to be problems, may they come during my life-time so that I can resolve them and give my children the chance of a good life."

Kenyan proverb

"Then I say the Earth belongs to each generation during its course, fully and in its right no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its existence"

Thomas Jefferson, September 6, 1789

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

The Report of the U.N. Brundtland Commission, Our Common Future, 1987

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International scientific committee

Prof. Henrik Lund
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark
Chair
Henrik Lund (born 2 July 1960) is a Danish engineer (M.Sc.Eng.1985) and Professor in Energy Planning at Aalborg University in Denmark. He holds a Ph.D. in Implementation... Henrik Lund (born 2 July 1960) is a Danish engineer (M.Sc.Eng.1985) and Professor in Energy Planning at Aalborg University in Denmark. He holds a Ph.D. in Implementation of Sustainable Energy Systems (1990), and a Dr. Techn. in Choice Awareness and Renewable Energy Systems (2009).

Henrik Lund is a highly ranked world-leading researcher. He is listed among ISI Highly Cited researchers ranking him among the top 1% researchers in the world within engineering and on the Stanford list of top 2% scientists.

Henrik Lund has many years of management experience as head of department for approx. 200 staff persons (1996-2002), head of section for approx. 50 persons (2014 – 2016) and head of research group of 20-30 persons (2002 – present). During his time the Sustainable Energy Planning research group at Aalborg University has now grown to approx. 30 staff members including 4 professors.

Henrik Lund is Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s high-impact journal Energy with annual 10000+ submissions.

Henrik Lund is the author of more than 400 books and articles including the book ''Renewable Energy Systems”. He is the architect behind the advanced energy system analysis software EnergyPLAN, which is a freeware used worldwide that have form the basis of more than 200 peer reviewed journal papers around the world. more...
Prof. Neven Duić
University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
Co-chair
Neven Duic is a Professor in Energy Planning, Policy and Economics since 2001, at Power Engineering and Energy Management Chair, Department of Energy, Power Engineering... Neven Duic is a Professor in Energy Planning, Policy and Economics since 2001, at Power Engineering and Energy Management Chair, Department of Energy, Power Engineering and Environment, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb. He is vice-president of Croatian Academy of Engineering and Chair of organising Committee of CAETS 2023. He is member of International Scientific Committee of Dubrovnik Conference on Energy, Water and Environment Systems since 2003 and chair of its Local Organising Committee since 2007. He is co-Editor of Energy Conversion and Management, subject Editor of Energy, Editorial Board member of Applied Energy, member of regional editorial board of Thermal Science Journal and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems. His research covers areas of energy planning of energy systems with high penetration of renewables, sustainable communities, energy policy, energy economics, mitigation of climate change, energy efficiency and combustion engineering. more...
Prof. Ingo Stadler
TH Köln
Cologne, Germany
Co-Chair for Western Europe
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ingo Stadler researches and teaches at the TH Köln, where he is responsible for renewable energy and energy economics and is involved in the... Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ingo Stadler researches and teaches at the TH Köln, where he is responsible for renewable energy and energy economics and is involved in the Cologne Renewable Energy Institute (CIRE), which he co-founded.
He completed his doctorate and habilitation at the University of Kassel. His work covers grid integration of renewables and renewable energy systems and focuses on non-electric storage and load management beyond electricity.
He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Conference on Renewable Energy Storage IRES and the International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environmental Systems SDEWES. For more than a decade he represented Germany in the Photovoltaic Systems Programme of the International Energy Agency IEA.
He is also the editor, together with Prof. Dr. Michael Sterner from OTH Regensburg, of the standard work on energy storage - demand, technologies, integration, published by Springer-Verlag.
In addition, he has been involved in various projects in Brazil for over twenty years, including with the University in Fortaleza and projects with the Society for Cooperation and the regulatory authority ANEEL. more...
Prof. Poul Alberg Østergaard
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark
Poul Alberg Østergaard is professor in energy planning at the Department of Sustainability and Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark. Poul Østergaard holds... Poul Alberg Østergaard is professor in energy planning at the Department of Sustainability and Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Poul Østergaard holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in energy planning – the latter with particular focus on integrated resource planning and the organisational structure of the energy sector.
He has conducted research and authored publications on energy planning since 1995 and has been project manager, work package leader or participants in a series of research projects mostly centred around large scale integration of renewable energy sources and the development of renewable energy scenarios.
He is the programme director of the M.Sc. programme in Sustainable Energy Planning and Management at Aalborg University and has been involved in various other teaching and training activities notably energy systems analyses work-shops in Denmark, Nicaragua, Jordan and Malaysia.

He is also the editor-in-chief of the Int Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management more...
Prof. Ofelia Araujo
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1981), MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at... Holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1981), MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1984 and 1987, respectively). Worked for OXITENO S.A. from 1989 to 1993, in process modeling and control. In 1993, joined the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where she develops research in process systems engineering, Her interest focuses are Natural Gas Monetization, CO2 Management Technologies and Sustainability Analysis. more...
Prof. Davide Astiaso Garcia
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome, Italy
Davide Astiaso Garcia is Associate Professor of Thermal Sciences, Energy Technology and Building Physics at Sapienza University of Rome and General Secretary at... Davide Astiaso Garcia is Associate Professor of Thermal Sciences, Energy Technology and Building Physics at Sapienza University of Rome and General Secretary at Italian Wind Energy Association (ANEV). He is currently the Project Coordinator of the EU Interreg Med project PRISMI PLUS “Transferring a toolkit for RES Integration in Smart Mediterranean Islands and rural areas”, and is currently involved as Principal Investigator for Sapienza University of research team in two H2020 projects (GIFT - Geographical Islands FlexibiliTy - and ILIAD - INTEGRATED DigitaL Framework FOR Comprehensive MARITIME DATA AND INFORMATION SERVICES), and one EEA project ( YENESIS - Youth Employment Network for Energy Sustainability in ISlands).
His full operating skills include, among others: Renewable energies, smart energy systems, energy efficiency in buildings, energy modelling, energy forecasting, environmental impact assessments, pollution risk management, indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring and mitigation measures.
He is contracted by the European Commission Research Executive Agency (REA) as expert for the evaluation of the project proposal under H2020 calls “FET OPEN (Future Emerging Technologies)”. He is Editor at Journal of Energy Research and Reviews and Guest Editor at Applied Science and Frontiers in Energy Research. He is author of more than 100 scientific publications mainly concerning energy themes (H index 30 in Scopus database). more...
Prof. Susana Boeykens
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Susana Boeykens is the director of the Engineering Scholl Chemical Department, Member of the Commission for Transfer and Protection of Intellectual Property and... Susana Boeykens is the director of the Engineering Scholl Chemical Department, Member of the Commission for
Transfer and Protection of Intellectual Property and Member of the Technical Advisory Commission on Design for
Human Habitat in the Buenos Aires University. She is Full Professor coordinating the Analytical Chemistry grade
courses and the post-graduate courses on Adsorptive Processes. Head of the Heterogeneous Systems Chemical
Laboratory since 2000, his research focuses in the development of new alternative technologies in water treatment
and biota remediation. She is responsible of several scientific agreements and research projects with Latin American
and European universities and research institutes on collaborative research and teaching activities covering different
environmental issues. Within the production of her work team are several patents and books, more than 100 of
refereed full papers in Scientific Journals and more than 400 refereed papers in Conference Proceedings. more...
Prof. Annamaria Buonomano
University of Naples Federico II
Napoli, Italy
Annamaria Buonomano obtained a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Engineering Management summa cum laude in 2004 and 2006 from University of Naples Federico II and a Ph.D. in... Annamaria Buonomano obtained a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Engineering Management summa cum laude in 2004 and 2006 from University of Naples Federico II and a Ph.D. in Energetics from University of Palermo in 2010. She was visiting scholar at the Energy Performance of Buildings Group of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, USA) in 2009, researcher at the Ben Gurion National Solar Energy Center of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research of University of Ben-Gurion (Sde Boqer, Israel) in 2011, and several times visiting scientist at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), where she was appointed as Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2017. She is actively involved in research topics regarding building energy efficiency, with a particular focus on the development of performance simulation models and investigation of innovative building-plant solutions, based on integrated construction techniques, innovative HVAC systems and novel renewable energy technologies including solar heating and cooling systems, concentrating photovoltaic solar thermal systems, polygeneration, vehicle-to-grid, vehicle-to-buildig and related advances concepts (B2V2B or V2B2). She is also involved in collaborative research activities relative to the design of net zero energy buildings and communities through the integration of passive solar thermal systems in buildings and the use of electric vehicles to add flexibility to buildings. more...
Prof. Francesco Calise
University of Naples Federico II
Naples, Italy
Francesco Calise was born in 1978 and graduated cum laude in mechanical engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy in 2002. He obtained the Ph... Francesco Calise was born in 1978 and graduated cum laude in mechanical engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy in 2002. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Thermal Engineering in 2006. From 2006 to 2014, he is a Researcher and Assistant Professor of applied thermodynamics at the University of Naples Federico II. In 2014 he has been entitled as Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II. His research activity has been mainly focused on the following topics: fuel cells, advanced optimization techniques, solar thermal systems, concentrating photovoltaic/thermal photovoltaic systems, energy saving in buildings, solar heating and cooling, Organic Rankine Cycles, geothermal energy, dynamic simulations of energy systems, renewable Polygeneration systems and many others. He was invited lecturer for some courses or Conferences (UK and Finland). He teaches several courses of energy management and applied thermodynamics at the University of Naples Federico II for BsC, MS and PhD students. He was a supervisor of several Ph.D. degree theses. He is a reviewer of about 30 international Journals. He was involved in several Research Projects funded by EU and Italian Government. He is Member of the Editorial Board of 10 International Journals. He was a Conference Chair and/or member of Scientific Committee in several session of International Conferences. He is Vice-Chair Cross Reader for the FET OPEN Projects funded by EU more...
Prof. Maria da Graça Carvalho
Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisbon, Portugal
Maria da Graça Carvalho is currently member of the European Parliament (2019-2024). In the European Parliament she is a full Member of the Committee on Industry... Maria da Graça Carvalho is currently member of the European Parliament (2019-2024).
In the European Parliament she is a full Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and a substitute Member on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and substitute member on Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM).
She follows as well the parliamentary Delegations for relations with the United States, for relations with the countries of Central America and Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.
In the past, Maria da Graça Carvalho has also served as member of the European Parliament in the EPP group from 2009-2014. She sat on the Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) Committee as a full member and was a substitute member of the Committee on Budgets. In the Budget Committee, she acted during the 5 years as permanent EPP shadow rapporteur for the science and innovation budget and as rapporteur for the space budget.
As a MEP, she was appointed rapporteur of the Specific Programme Implementing HORIZON 2020 and of the report on Simplification of the Rules of Participation in the European Programs for Research and Innovation. In 2011, she was awarded the Prize for the best MEP in the area of Research and Innovation.
Maria da Graça Carvalho has been a Member of the Scientific Advice Mechanism Unit of the Directorate-General Research and Innovation of the European Commission from 2016 until 2019. She was a senior advisor of Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation from November 2014 to December 2015. She was Principal Adviser of President of the European Commission in the areas of Science, Innovation, Energy, Environment and Climate Change from 2006 to 2009. She was Minister of Science and Higher Education of the XV Constitutional Government and Minister of Science, Innovation and Higher Education of the XVI Constitutional Government of Portugal.
She is a Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) and she has acquired 30 years of experience in research in the areas of energy, climate change and science, technology and innovation policy. She has published 130 articles in international scientific journals and more than 300 articles in books and conference proceedings. She is, herself, the author of two books and the editor of 17 books and special editions of international scientific journals in the field of energy.
She is a member of 22 scientific associations and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) and has been a Deputy President of the Portuguese Institute of Engineers and remains a fellow of the Portuguese Institute of Engineers, of the Portuguese Academy of Science, of the Royal Academy of Engineers of Spain, a founder of the Portuguese Academy of Engineers and an Honorary Member of Academy Europaea. She has been an active collaborator of EASAC-European Academies Science Advisory Council and the Euro CASE-European Council of Applied Sciences Technologies and Engineering since the outset. She has been awarded the title of “Great Official of the Order of Public Instruction” by the President of Republic of Portugal and she was honoured with the “Great Cross of the International Order of Merit of the Discoverer of Brazil”. She is member of the Chancellery of the Orders of Merit of the Portuguese Republic. more...
Prof. Raf Dewil
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Raf Dewil is a full professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of KU Leuven. Since June 2022, he is a visiting professor in Engineering Science at the University... Raf Dewil is a full professor at the Chemical Engineering Department of KU Leuven. Since June 2022, he is a visiting professor in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. His main research interests focus on the field of resource recovery from side and waste streams. In (waste)water treatment, most emphasis in his research is on the application of photochemical and electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), including the design and application of novel photo- and electrocatalytic materials. He is also working on the recovery of valuable components from organic waste streams. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Management and is on the editorial board of various international journals, such as Chemical Engineering Journal and Renewable Energy more...
Dr. Felipe Feijoo
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Valparaíso, Chile
Felipe Feijoo is an associate professor at the school of Industrial Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. Dr. Feijoo has worked... Felipe Feijoo is an associate professor at the school of Industrial Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. Dr. Feijoo has worked in world-renowned institutions including the Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Zagreb, and at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s national laboratories. Dr. Feijoo is an expert in modeling and optimization of complex systems, particularly in energy system modeling using game theory, optimization, data driven techniques, and Integrated Assessment Models (IAM), such as the GCAM IAM, leading to the analysis of regional and global energy transition pathways. Dr Feijoo has led and participated in several national and international projects including the Fondecyt Regular grant (2022-present), Fondecyt Iniciación grant (2018-2021), INTERENERGY project (2020-2021), and the CONICYT MEC Project (2018-2020). Dr Feijoo also serves as board member of the Journal “Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy”. more...
Prof. Zvonimir Guzović
University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
Prof.dr.sc. Zvonimir Guzović, a Full Professor at Turbomachinery Chair, Department of Energy, Power Engineering and Environment, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering... Prof.dr.sc. Zvonimir Guzović, a Full Professor at Turbomachinery Chair, Department of Energy, Power Engineering and Environment, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, was born on May 20, 1958. Graduated (1982), M.Sc. (1988) and Ph.D. (1998) from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb. In November 1982 he joined the Turbomachinery Chair of Power Engineering Department of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zagreb, as assistant. In September 1988 he was promoted to research assistant, to senior assistant in April 1998, to assistant professor in March 2001, to associate professor in February 2006 and to full professor in April 2011, where he works today, doing his academic, scholarly and professional activities. He gives courses related to turbomachines (steam and gas turbines, turbo compressors, jet engines, wind and water turbines). His areas of interest are aerodynamics, thermodynamics, heat and mass transport phenomena and design of turbomachines. Recently he has aimed his investigations and scientific work to the renewable energy sources, especially to geothermal power plants and small hydro power plants. Prof. Zvonimir Guzović is Active Member of The New York Academy of Sciences and Secretary of Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems since 2003. He has more than 60 publications in scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. He worked on about 50 projects and technical reports which were related on turbomachines and power engineering generally. He was work package leader in Intelligent energy for Europe project and project leader of two projects financed by Ministry of science, education and sports of The Republic of Croatia. Since October 2014 he performs duty of the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture. more...
Prof. Şiir KILKIŞ
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
Ankara, Turkey
Şiir Kılkış is alumna of KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Georgetown University, where she graduated magna cum laude with honors as the gold medalist in... Şiir Kılkış is alumna of KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Georgetown University, where she graduated magna cum laude with honors as the gold medalist in Science, Technology, and International Affairs. She served as a Lead Author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change with a focus on urban systems and sustainable development, engaging in cross-Working Group collaborations. For the Seventh Assessment Cycle, she serves in the IPCC Bureau as Vice-Chair of WGIII. She is Senior Researcher and Science Advisor to the President at The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. She is double affiliated in the Earth System Science program of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences at Middle East Technical University as a Professor in energy systems engineering, climate change, and sustainable development. She takes place among the world’s top 2% scientists in the areas of energy, environmental science, and emerging/strategic technologies and is an International Scientific Committee member of the SDEWES Center. Her research work includes urban emissions and land use efficiency scenarios for 465 urban areas, the multi-dimensional SDEWES Index benchmarking 120 cities, novel net-zero district concepts, and the Rational Exergy Management Model to curb CO₂ emissions. She is an Editor of Energy Conversion and Management and editorial board member of The Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water & Environment Systems, Smart Energy, and Energy Storage and Saving. She is a member of the Earth Commission on earth system boundaries, Steering Committee of Future Earth Urban Knowledge Action Network, Board of Governors of the Joint Research Centre, and the Mission Board for Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities. more...
Prof. Soteris Kalogirou
Cyprus University of Technology
Limassol, Cyprus
Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol... Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He is currently the Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology. In addition to his Ph.D., he holds the title of D.Sc. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts.

For more than 35 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination, photovoltaics, and absorption cooling.

He has a large number of publications as books, book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another seventeen journals. He is the editor of the book Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Nova Science Inc., co-editor of the book Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Springer, editor of the book McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics, published by Academic Press of Elsevier and author of the books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier.

He is a member of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN), American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Institute of Refrigeration (IoR) and International Solar Energy Society (ISES). more...
Prof. Tarik Kupusovic
University of Sarajevo
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
BORN: 05.12.1952, Ph. D. Civil Engineering (M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering) Full Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics and Water Management of the University... BORN: 05.12.1952, Ph. D. Civil Engineering (M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering)
Full Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics and Water Management of the University of Sarajevo,
Director of Hydro-Engineering Institute Sarajevo (HEIS), Founder and President of the Center for Environmentally Sustainable Development '“ CESD, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina more...
Prof. Christos N. Markides
Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom
Christos N. Markides is Professor of Clean Energy Technologies in Department of Chemical Engineering of Imperial College London, where he heads the Clean Energy... Christos N. Markides is Professor of Clean Energy Technologies in Department of Chemical Engineering of Imperial College London, where he heads the Clean Energy Processes (CEP) Laboratory. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Thermal Engineering, on the Editorial Board of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee, the Scientific Board of the UK Energy Storage SUPERGEN Hub, and is a member of the Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, the Global Energy Association, and the International Energy Storage Alliance. His current research interests focus on high-performance processes, technologies and systems for the recovery, utilisation, conversion or storage of energy for heating, cooling and power, with emphasis on renewable, solar and waste heat, thermodynamics of and heat/mass transfer effects in heating/cooling devices and heat-to-power conversion technologies, and advanced experimental techniques for detailed flow, heat/mass transfer in turbulent, multiphase and interfacial flows. more...
Prof. Natasha Markovska
Research Center for Energy and Sustainable Development - Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Skopje, North Macedonia
Natasa Markovska holds DSc degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Skopje, with thesis on solar energy technologies. At present she is a Senior Researcher... Natasa Markovska holds DSc degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Skopje, with thesis on solar energy technologies. At present she is a Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Energy and Sustainable Development of MANU and Professor of the subject Energy and Climate Change at two master programs and a doctoral program of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, UKIM. Also, she serves as a National Focal Point of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Conferences on Sustainable Development of Energy Water and Environmental Systems (SDEWES Conferences). She has been participating in 111 international and national projects related to climate change mitigation, sustainable development, renewable energy sources and energy efficiency and energy strategic planning, for clients such as UNDP, USAID, WB, European Commission, GIZ, Macedonian and other governments. In these fields, Dr Markovska co-authored 191 published contributions (49 in high impact journals, Scopus h-index = 20). She serves as a Subject Editor – Elsevier’s Energy, (EGY), Section Chief Editor (Environment, Energy Economics, Policies) – Elsevier’s Energy Reports (EGYR) and Associate Editor – Elsevier’s Smart Energy (SEGY). She served as an editor of the Second National Communication under UNFCCC and as a guest editor of 22 special issues of international journals (incl. 11 of Energy and 8 of Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews) dedicated to SDEWES Conferences. more...
Prof. Brian Vad Mathiesen
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark
Brian Vad Mathiesen, Professor in Energy Planning and Renewable Energy Systems at Aalborg University, holds a PhD in fuel cells and electrolysers in future energy... Brian Vad Mathiesen, Professor in Energy Planning and Renewable Energy Systems at Aalborg University, holds a PhD in fuel cells and electrolysers in future energy systems (2008). His research focuses on technological and socio-economic transitions to renewables, energy storage, large-scale renewable energy integration and the design of 100% renewable energy systems. He is one of the leading researchers behind the concepts of Smart Energy Systems and electrofuels. He is on the Clarivate, Web of Science Highly Cited list (2015-2020), thus among the top 1% most cited researchers globally. Among other positions, he is member of the EU Commission expert group on electricity interconnection targets in the EU as well as Research Coordinator of the Sustainable Energy Planning Research group, Principal Investigator (PI) of the RE-INVEST and sEEnergies projects, and Programme Director for the MSc in Sustainable Cities. He has been PI, work package leader and participant in more than 60 research projects as well as editorial board member of The Journal of Energy Storage (Elsevier) and The Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water & Environment Systems; Associate Editor of Energy, Ecology and Environment (Springer) and Editor of the International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management. Furthermore, he is a member of The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) and a board member at The Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP). more...
Prof. Henning Meschede
Paderborn University
Paderborn, Germany
Henning Meschede is Professor of Energy Systems Technologies at Paderborn University. The focus of his professorship is on the research and application of methods... Henning Meschede is Professor of Energy Systems Technologies at Paderborn University. The focus of his professorship is on the research and application of methods for the design and construction of decentralised, intelligent, renewable energy systems, in particular on the integration of the various sectors of electricity, heat and mobility. In particular, he analysis conceptualisation of sector coupling, flexible energy demands and the role of industry and commerce in renewable energy systems as well as the sensitivity of energy modelling through probabilistic input time series and future energy data-based business models.
Previously, he worked at the University of Kassel in the field of commercial sector coupling concepts as a component of regional energy systems. In particular, he analysed island energy systems and energy efficiency as well as load management potentials in the tourism industry. He was a visiting researcher at the School for Solar Economy at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, analysing transition pathways for 100% renewable energy systems on islands. After his work at the University of Kassel, he moved to an energy utility in Dortmund, where he continued to work as a Data Scientist on the introduction of digital, data-based value-added services in the energy industry.
The results of his work have been published in several papers and at scientific and business conferences. more...
Prof. Mousa Mohsen
Commission for Academic Accreditation
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Mousa Mohsen is professor of Mechanical Engineering and President at the American International University in Kuwait, before he was the founding dean of the school... Mousa Mohsen is professor of Mechanical Engineering and President at the American International University in Kuwait, before he was the founding dean of the school of engineering at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the International Journal of Sustainable Water and Environmental Systems. Also he is on the editorial board of different international journals. He held many administrative positions such as the dean of scientific research and graduate studies, Vice dean of College of engineering, chairman of mechanical engineering department. Prof. Mohsen holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (1991) from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA. His area of expertise has for more than 25 years been energy system analysis, energy planning, renewable energy, desalination and water treatment and the integration of renewable energy and water systems. In 2009 he was awarded the National Research Leader Award by Elsevier Scopus. He has been involved in a number of international, regional and national research projects. He is on the directors board of the International Association of Sharing Knowledge and Sustainability, Canada and on the Scientific board of the Sharing Knowledge Foundation, Geneva. He is a member of International Scientific Committee of many International conferences. more...
Prof. Carla Montagud Montalvá
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
Valencia, Spain
Carla Montagud Montalvá holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the UPV, is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Thermodynamics (DTRA) at Universitat... Carla Montagud Montalvá holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the UPV, is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Thermodynamics (DTRA) at Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), is the deputy director of sustainable development of the school of industrial engineering (ETSII) at UPV, and is a member of the Board of the University Institute for Research in Energy Engineering (IUIIE), where she has been developing her research activity for the past 16 years.

She is director of the Chair of Urban Energy Transition (CATENERG) at the UPV. Her research activity, as a member of the thermal area of the Institute for Energy Engineering, focuses on the Design, Modeling, Energy Analysis and Techno-Economic Optimization of complex energy systems for the production of heating, cooling and domestic hot water with integration of renewable energies. She has participated in numerous competitive research projects and R&D and transfer contracts at national and international level. more...
Prof. Benedetto Nastasi
Tor Vergata University of Rome
Rome, Italy
Benedetto Nastasi is Assocciate Professor & Senior Energy Planner at Department of Industrial Engineering at Tor Vergata University of Rome. He got the PhD title... Benedetto Nastasi is Assocciate Professor & Senior Energy Planner at Department of Industrial Engineering at Tor Vergata University of Rome. He got the PhD title with Honors from Sapienza University of Rome with a dissertation in Energy Systems Planning and Design. The core of his thesis was published in Energy (Elsevier) and became one of the Most Cited Paper 2016. He was rewarded for the Best Poster at 2nd SEE SDEWES Conference 2016 and Best Senior Researcher at SES4DH Conference 2018. Previous affiliations include TU/e Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, International Solar Energy Society and Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy. He is Editor at Renewable Energy (Elsevier) and Energies (MDPI), Associate Editor of Sustainable Buildings (EDP Sciences), Guest Editor at Frontiers in Energy Research, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and Energies. His work is related to Power-to-What solutions for energy systems design with a specific focus on Built Environment. He authored more than 90 publications (H Index 37 in Scopus database). more...
Prof. Adolfo Palombo
University of Naples Federico II
Naples, Italy
Adolfo Palombo obtained a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering summa cum laude in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Thermo-Mechanical Systems in 1997 from University of Naples Federico... Adolfo Palombo obtained a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering summa cum laude in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Thermo-Mechanical Systems in 1997 from University of Naples Federico II. He was visiting scholar in the Energy and Analysis Program, Energy and Environment Division, at the LBNL, Berkeley, U.S.A. in 1995. He is actively involved in research fields concerning energy technologies for transportation systems as well as for civil, hospital and industrial applications, such as heating and cooling, thermo-fluid dynamic measurements, power systems, renewable energies, innovative HVAC systems for energy efficiency and NZEBs. He is also involved in the development of dynamic building energy simulation tools for the assessment of energy, economic, and environmental performances of the investigated innovative systems. He is responsible of several MoUs with European and USA universities and research institutes with the aim to further collaborative research and teaching activities on energy applications. He is also responsible of several funded research projects regarding the energy efficiency of systems. He is member of: Experts committee for reviewing and evaluating research projects funded by Italian Ministry for Industry (CSEA); Management Committee of the national technological cluster Blue Italian Growth (BIG); Management Committee of the IBPSA-Italy. He was member of: Board of experts in the permanent supervisory committee of the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (ARERA); Analysis committees at the direction for audits of Italian Energy Services Management (GSE SpA); Management Committee of Action TU1205 (Building Integration of Solar Thermal Systems, BISTS) of the European COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology). more...
Prof. Antonio Piacentino
University of Palermo
Palermo, Italy
Antonio Piacentino is Full Professor of Energy Systems and Thermal Sciences at the Dpt. of Engineering, University of Palermo. He is currently covering the roles... Antonio Piacentino is Full Professor of Energy Systems and Thermal Sciences at the Dpt. of Engineering, University of Palermo. He is currently covering the roles of President of the Territorial University of Trapani and Head of Master Course in Energy and Nuclear Engineering at University of Palermo. His teaching activities are in the field of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, Energy Management and Analysis and Thermoeconomics of Energy Systems. His research activities have covered a number of topics, being mainly focused on cogeneration and trigeneration applications in buildings, thermoeconomic cost accounting and diagnosis of energy systems (with a particular focus on refrigeration and air conditioning units), energy and exergy analysis of thermal desalination systems, process integration and pinch analysis.
Prof. Piacentino has been involved in several European projects, Research Projects of National Interest financed by Italian Ministry of University and projects in the framework of the National Operative Programme “Research and Competitiveness”.
He has authored or co-authored more than 120 papers, with more than 50 published on scientific and technical journals indexed by high-level databases. He served as associate editor for several scientific journals and as a Guest Editor for several Special Issues of top-level journals, serving also as a reviewer for many journals in the fields of thermodynamics, heat transfer, energetics and desalination. Also, Prof. Piacentino is member of several national and international associations, and since 2017 he has been serving as a member of the International Scientific Committee of SDEWES Centre. more...
Prof. Nikola Rajakovic
University of Belgrade
Belgrade, Serbia
University of Belgrade, Belgrade · School of Electrical Engineering, Chair of Power Systems Dr. Rajakovic is a full time teaching professor at the School of Electrical... University of Belgrade, Belgrade · School of Electrical Engineering, Chair of Power Systems
Dr. Rajakovic is a full time teaching professor at the School of Electrical engineering at the department of Power Systems. His research carrier has been combined with steering roles in government and power industry sector. He has been the leader in 40 projects, and the work package leader of many international project among which 2 FP6 and the participant in one FP7. Currently, he is the project leader in national "Smart grid" research project.
Areas of his work apart from teaching and research include power system optimization and smart grid applications.
His a co-author of 35 refereed full papers in Scientific Journals, 65 refereed papers appearing in Conference Proceedings, 39 Refereed full papers in Scientific Journals (in Serbian), 55 refereed papers appearing in Conference Proceedings (in Serbian), and 9 books (in Serbian). more...
Prof. Daniel Rolph Schneider
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture University of Zagreb
Zagreb, Croatia
Dr. sc. Daniel Rolph Schneider is full professor at the Department of Energy, Power Engineering and Environment at University of Zagreb-Faculty of Mechanical Engineering... Dr. sc. Daniel Rolph Schneider is full professor at the Department of Energy, Power Engineering and Environment at University of Zagreb-Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and naval Architecture where he has been working from 1993. Currently he is a Vice Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and naval Architecture. He was the Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the Republic of Croatia in the Directorate for Environmental Management, from 2007 to 2009. From 2004 to 2007 he worked at the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund of Republic of Croatia. His field of work includes energy conversion technologies, waste management and waste-to- energy systems, renewable energy, and climate change. In his present position as a university researcher he has more than 25 years of professional experience in the energy and environment sector. more...
Prof. Rodney Stewart
Griffith University
Gold Coast City, Australia
Rodney Stewart is a Professor and Deputy Head of School (Research) in the School of Engineering and Built Environment based at Griffith University, Gold Coast City... Rodney Stewart is a Professor and Deputy Head of School (Research) in the School of Engineering and Built Environment based at Griffith University, Gold Coast City, Queensland Australia. Professor Stewart is an expert in engineering, construction and environmental engineering and management research. His current particular area of research focus is on digital utility transformation. Professor Stewart is leading industry collaborative research projects that seek to integrate 'big data' metering and monitoring technologies and associated expert systems into infrastructure, particularly in the water and energy utility sector, in order to better manage these critical resources and better integrate contemporary solutions such as renewable energy and decentralised water supply. He has a rapidly growing citation trajectory with a H-Index of 43, i-10 index of 100 and over 5600 citations (September 2019; Scholar). He has received over USD $5M of external funding, including over 15 years of continuous prestigious significant Australian Research Council (ARC) funding to date. He has averaged over 15 refereed publications per year in his academic career. Professor Stewart has research peer esteem being ARC assessor for grant applications, as well as organising committee or invited/keynote speaker for a number of international specialist conferences. Rodney has supervised to successful completion over twenty PhD/MPhil graduates to date; many of which have received national or international accolades for their research outputs and all employed after completion. He has numerous visiting Fellow (funded) invitations including for example, 2012 and 2017 visits to the strong Urban Water Systems Group in Exeter (UK), 2013 visit to UC-Davis Centre for Watershed Sciences (USA), and 2017 visit to Cambridge University. more...
Prof. Krzysztof Urbaniec
Warsaw University of Technology
Plock, Poland
Professor emeritus at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Mechanics and Petrochemistry, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) in Poland; founder and former head (2004-2019)... Professor emeritus at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Mechanics and Petrochemistry, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) in Poland; founder and former head (2004-2019) of the Faculty’s Centre of Excellence in the Reduction of Environmental Impact of Process Industries. Before joining WUT in 1989, he has gained industrial experience as head of R&D with engineering company CHEMADEX, Poland, and has also served as a lecturer at Lund University, Sweden. In the period 1989-2021 he has been active at WUT Department of Process Equipment, teaching and conducting research on equipment units for various processes of chemical and food-processing industries and environment protection systems, as well as contributing to, or coordinating international projects on university-level education, technological research and technology transfer. Author or co-author of 16 monographs and handbooks published by a.o. Bartens, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Woodhead and of more than 200 papers including ones published in high-impact journals Applied Energy, Applied Thermal Engineering, Energy Conversion & Management, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, J. Cleaner Production, J. Environmental Management, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews. He has presented papers at major international conference series including PRES, SDEWES and World Hydrogen Energy Conference. He is a member of the International Scientific Committees of conference series PRES and SDEWES. more...
Prof. Petar Sabev Varbanov
Szechenyi Istvan University
Gyor, Hungary
Prof Dr Habil Petar Varbanov is a Senior Researcher at the Szechenyi Istvan University in Gyor, Hungary. He obtained his PhD in Process Integration at a prestigious... Prof Dr Habil Petar Varbanov is a Senior Researcher at the Szechenyi Istvan University in Gyor, Hungary. He obtained his PhD in Process Integration at a prestigious British University – UMIST, Manchester, with distinction. For performing research on minimising and mitigating Climate Change he was awarded a scholarship from the UK Tyndall Centre. Later he was awarded a prestigious Marie Curie EIF Fellowship and successfully performed research on Optimising the Start-up of Distillation Columns at the Technische Universität Berlin. This was followed by a Marie Curie ERG Fellowship for assisting his integration into the University of Pannonia – Hungary, where he is a Deputy Head of the Centre for Process Integration and Intensification CPI2. His experience covers energy saving, optimisation of energy supply networks, Process Synthesis and Process Operation. His research has been successfully implemented in collaboration with industrial partners: e.g. BP (UK) and MOL (Hungary). He has been contributing to 25 research and consultancy projects (most within the EC funding schemes) and has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is a co-author of four books and several chapters in books.
He has been the Editor for “Energy – The International Journal” published by Elsevier. more...
Prof. Qiuwang Wang
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Prof Dr. Qiuwang Wang. School of Energy & Power Engineering, Dean of Department for Undergraduate Education, Director of Students Admission Office, Executive Director... Prof Dr. Qiuwang Wang. School of Energy & Power Engineering, Dean of Department for Undergraduate Education, Director of Students Admission Office, Executive Director of Intl Joint Research Lab of Thermal Sci and Eng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He is a Fellow of ASME, the China Delegate of Assembly for Intl Heat Transfer Conference (AIHTC), a member of Scientific Council of Intl Centre for Heat & Mass Transfer (ICHMT), a Vice President of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics in Heat & Mass Transfer, the Editor-in-Chief of Energy Storage and Saving, 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, etc. more...
Prof. Kledi Xhaxhiu
Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tirana
Tirana, Albania
https://unitir.academia.edu/KlediXhaxhiu/CurriculumVitae https://unitir.academia.edu/KlediXhaxhiu/CurriculumVitae more...
Prof. Aleksander Zidanšek
Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Aleksander Zidansek is Professor of Physics at University of Maribor, researcher at Jozef Stefan Institute, and Secretary General of the Jozef Stefan International... Aleksander Zidansek is Professor of Physics at University of Maribor, researcher at Jozef Stefan Institute, and Secretary General of the Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School. Dr. Zidansek holds Ph.D. in Physics and Master Degrees in Physics and Business Administration, with specialization in sustainable development management. Prof. Zidansek is active in both solid state experimental physics and in research of renewable energy. He has been involved in a number of national and international research and education projects in solid state physics, security and in sustainable development. He received a Fulbright Grant for research at Montana State University with Prof. V. H. Schmidt in 1995/1996. He became associate member of tt30 in 2001 and associate member of the Club of Rome in 2005 (www.clubofrome.org). He is Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science since 2012 and Trustee since 2021. more...


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