Professor Yusuke Yamauchi received his Bachelor's degree (2003), Master's degree (2004), and Ph.D. degree (2007) from the Waseda University, Japan. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, to start his own research group. At the same time, he started to serve as an adjunct professor to supervise Ph.D. students at the Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Waseda University. After being granted the ARC Future Fellowship, in May 2016, he joined the Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM), the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM), the University of Wollongong (UOW) as a Professor. In 2018, he moved to the University of Queensland (UQ). Presently, he is a Senior Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) (on secondment from the School of Chemical Engineering until 2026), a Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, and a Director at the Australian Materials nanoTectonic Centre. He concurrently serves as an ERATO Research Director at the JST-ERATO Yamauchi Materials Space-Tectonics, a Group Leader at the Mesoscale Materials Chemistry Group, the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a Visiting Professor at the Waseda University, an Advisory Board Member of prestigious journals (Small, Small Structures, ChemCatChem, J. Inorg. Organomet. Polym. Mater., etc.), and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier). He has published more than 850 papers in international refereed journals (>10 Nature's and Science's sister journals, >20 J Am Chem Soc, >10 ACS Nano, >10 Chem Sci, >30 Angew Chem Int Ed, >25 Chem Mater, >10 Mater Hor, etc.) with > 50,000 citations (h-index > 115, Google Scholar; h-index > 100 Web-of-Science). He is selected as one of the Highly-Cited Researchers in Chemistry in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 and in Materials Science in 2020. He has received many outstanding awards, such as the NISTEP Award by the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (2016), the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Young Chemists (2014), the Young Scientists' Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT (2013), the PCCP Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013), the Tsukuba Encouragement Prize (2012), the Ceramic Society of Japan (CerSJ) Award (2010), and the Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists (2010). Recently, he was selected as one of Australia's Top 40 Researchers of Research Report published by The Australian in 2019 and 2020

Dr. Ramjee Prasad is a Professor of Future Technologies for Business Ecosystem Innovation in the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the Founder President of the CTIF Global Capsule (CGC). He is also the Founder Chairman of the Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India, established in 2009. GISFI has the purpose of increasing of the collaboration between European, Indian, Japanese, North-American and other worldwide standardization activities in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related application areas. He has been honored by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy as a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine on March 15, 2016. He is Honorary Professor of University of Cape Town, South Africa, and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has received RidderkorsetafDannebrogordenen (Knight of the Dannebrog) in 2010 from the Danish Queen for the internationalization of top-class telecommunication research and education. He has received several international awards such as: IEEE Communications Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2003 for making contribution in the field of “Personal, Wireless and Mobile Systems and Networks”, Telenor's Research Award in 2005 for impressive merits, both academic and organizational within the field of wireless and personal communication, 2014 IEEE AESS Outstanding Organizational Leadership Award for: “Organizational Leadership in developing and globalizing the CTIF (Center for TeleInFrastruktur) Research Network”, and so on.He has been Project Coordinator of several EC projects namely, MAGNET, MAGNET Beyond, eWALL and so on.He has published more than 30 books, 1000 plus journal and conference publications, more than 15 patents, over 140 PhD Graduates and larger number of Masters (over 250). Several of his students are today worldwide telecommunication leadersthemselves.

Zita Vale is Full Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of the of the Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP). She received her diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1986, her PhD in 1993, and her Habilitation in 2003, from University of Porto. She works in the area of Power and Energy Systems, with special interest in the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques. She has been involved in more than 60 funded projects related to the development and use of Knowledge-Based systems, Multi-Agent systems, Neural networks, Particle Swarm Intelligence, and Data Mining. The main application fields of these projects comprise: - Smart Grids, accommodating an intensive use of Renewable Energy Sources, Distributed Energy Resources (DER), namely Distributed Generation (DG), storage, electrical vehicles, including the ones with gridable capability (V2G), and demand flexibility. Real-time management and simulation of energy resources, considering electrical networks, buildings, and diverse Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) approaches are relevant aspects of her work in this field; - Electricity markets, addressing decision-support for market participants, prices and tariffs, ancillary services, energy transactions, service provision, and market simulation in the scope of wholesale and local markets. The integration of DER, demand response, and EVs in electricity markets, Transactive Energy (TE), and Peer-to-Peer approaches are important aspects of her work. Her work also focuses on the conception, development and test of new business models for market participants and aggregation models for energy resources and the respective management and operation methods. She published over 900 works, including more than 140 papers in international scientific journals, and more than 600 papers in international scientific conferences. Professor Zita Vale actively participates in several technical working groups and committee, namely from IEEE. She also has regular activity as reviewer and evaluator for papers and for project proposals and monitoring, from different funding agencies around the world.

After having gained his BSc and PhD degrees from Imperial College (London) and performing post-doctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin, Barron spent eight years as a Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University before moving to Rice University in 1995 where he is the Welch Chair of Chemistry and Professor of Nanoengineering and Materials Science. In 2014 he was appointed the Sêr Cymru Chair of Low Carbon Energy and Environment at Swansea University, and founded the Energy Safety Research Institute, where he is the Director. He is a visiting professor at both the University of Arizona and Universiti Technology Brunei. He is the author of over 550 publications, 40 Patents, 15 books, and has graduated 30 PhD students. His early research focused on the chemistry of aluminum and related elements and spanned catalysis, electronic materials and nanotechnology. His current research involves the application of chemistry, nanotechnology and materials science to fundamental problems in energy, the environment and decarbonization. Prof. Barron is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the recipient of several awards, including: Star of Asia International Award, the Hümboldt Senior Scientist Research Award, the Corday Morgan Medal, the Meldola Medal, and the first Welch Foundation Norman Hackerman Award. In 2009 Barron was appointed as the Prince of Wales Visiting Innovator. In 2011 he won both the Lifetime Achievement Award in Nanotechnology and the World Technology Award (in Materials). Barron is the co-founder of several companies over a diverse range of industries. His latest commercialization ventures are technologies for water purification of produced water and an anti-viral mask for the COVID crisis. In addition to teaching in chemistry and materials science, Prof. Barron created the first educational programs at Rice University to span the schools of Science, Engineering and Management. For relaxation Barron races cars, as both an amateur and professional, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Prof Vladimir Terzija has a broad range of experiences in the field of electrical power and energy systems. He has been working in academia since 1990 and by now he has published more than 500 papers. He has contributed to several book chapters and led a number of industry and government funded national and international projects. Prof Terzija was born in DonjiBaraci, in former Yugoslavia. He received the Dipl-Ing., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, in 1988, 1993, and 1997, respectively. He is a Full Professor at Skoltech, Moscow, Russian Federation. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the Shandong University, Jinan, China, where he has been since 2013. From 1997 to 1999, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. From 2000 to 2006, he was a senior specialist for switchgear and distribution automation with ABB, Ratingen, Germany. From 2006 to 2020 he was the EPSRC Chair Professor in Power System Engineering with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K. His current research interests include smart grid applications; wide-area monitoring, protection, and control; multi-energy systems; switchgear and transient processes; ICT, data analytics and digital signal processing applications in power systems. Prof. Terzija is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (ELSEVIER). He is Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Fellow of IEEE, as well as a DAAD and Taishan Scholar. He is the recipient of the National Friendship Award, China (2019). Since 2018, he is the National Thousand Talents at the Shandong University, China. In December 2020 he was awarded with the prestigious Megagrant project supported by The Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. He is the Director of the Distinguished hardware in the loop laboratory at Skoltech, Moscow, Russian Federation.

RAFIQUL GANI, PhD,is currently the CEO of the PSE for SPEED Company and an adjunct professor at KAIST (South Korea). After working for 32 years, he retired in 2017 as Professor in Systems Design, from the Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). At DTU, he co-founded and established the Computer Aided Product-Process Engineering Center together with an industrial consortium. Prof Gani obtained his BSc-Chem Eng from BUET (in Bangladesh) and his MSc, DIC and PhD from Imperial College, with Prof Sargent as the supervisor for his MSc and PhD projects. Prof Gani served as an editor-in-chief of Computers and Chemical Engineering journal (2009-2015) and currently serves as editor for the Sustainable Production & Consumption journal. He is also a member of the editorial advisory boards of several international journals, including Computers and Chemical Engineering and Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering. Prof Gani has been awarded Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from University Politehnica Bucharest, University of Pannonia and Babes-Bolyai University. Prof Gani is the ex-president of the EFCE (2015-2018), a member of the Danish Academy of Science, a Fellow of the AIChE and a Fellow of IChemE. He received the AIChE Computers in Chemical Engineering award in 2015, the EFCE Jacques Villermaux Medal in 2019, the AIChE Sustainability Engineering Forum award in 2020 and is the winner of the IChemE Sargent Medal in 2021. In 2018, Prof Gani founded the PSE for SPEED Company, that develops, implements and employs state of the art PSE methods and tools to solve a wide range of problems of industrial and research significance, reliably, efficiently and very rapidly. He has published 529 articles in peer reviewed international journals and proceedings plus 5 edited books and 1 text-book. His publications have given him a H-index of 70 in GoogleScholar, 59 in SCOPUS and 52 in Web of Science (May, 2021). Prof Gani’s current research interests continue with the development and application of computer aided methods and tools for modelling; property estimation; process-product synthesis, design & intensification; and process-tools integration with emphasis on energy, sustainability and application of a systems.

Peter Novak Full professor and Chief Laboratory for HVAC and Solar Energy at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ljubljana, (1975-1998) and Novo mesto (2001-2019;President of the University Council, University of Ljubljana, (1990-1991); Dean of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, 1991 - 95;Dean of Faculty for Technologies and Systems, Slovenia and Director of the Institute for High-technologies and Systems 2006 -2012. Honourable professor at Faculty for Technologies and Systems, University of Novo Mesto, Slovenia; member and Vice-chairman of Scientific Committee at European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark (1999 -2016). Author and co-author of more than 430 scientific papers, studies, reviews, committee reports and other documents,owner of 10 patents, supervisor&mentor of 20 PhD students, more than 25 Master students and more than 300 engineering students. 1989 proposed the sustainable energy system, based on renewable electricity, methane and methanol. The system was renamed to Sustainable trans-active renewable energy system – STRES and was presented on different international conferences (Vancouver, New Delhi, Berlin –all in 2017).

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 and Fellow of Energy Institute.He has more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters and tworecent monographs on advances in air conditioning (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811584763 and https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030808426). He was highlighted among the top 1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and top 0.5% in the Stanford list of energy researchers. His works has garnered more than 11,000 over citations with a current h‐index of 55. Further, he owns more than 10 patents related to several innovative cooling and dehumidification systems. On a regular basis, he has been invited to deliver many plenary and keynote talks on his research findings. He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million competitive research grants. Additionally, he has been awarded multiple local, regional, and international awards for his breakthrough research endeavours.

Birgitte Bak-Jensen (Senior IEEE member 2012) received her M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and a Ph.D. degree in “Modelling of High Voltage Components” in 1992, both degrees from Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark. From 1986-1988, she was with Electrolux Elmotor A/S, Aalborg, Denmark as an Electrical Design Engineer. She is now Professor in Intelligent Control of the Power Distribution System at the Department of Energy, AAU Energy, Aalborg University, where she has worked since August 1988. She is also Vice Chair of AAU Energy, with responsibility for research. Her fields of interest are mainly related to the operation and control of the distribution network grid including multi-energy systems, demand response, power quality and stability in power systems taking integration of dispersed generation and smart grid issues into account. She is now PI of two European H2020 projects SERENE and SUSTENANCE.

Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino is Professor Emeritus at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan and from 2014 until 2020 he was Dean & CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University (United States) in 1979 where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters, economic adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Dr. Yoshino has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) and a visiting professor at various universities including the University of New South Wales (Australia), FondationNationale des Sciences Politiques (France), and University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He has also been an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an economics professor at Keio University (1990-2014). Dr. Yoshino's professional career includes membership in numerous government committees. He was named Director of the Japan Financial Services Agency's (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute) in 2004 and is now Chief Advisor. He was appointed as Chair of the Financial Planning Standards Board in 2007. He served as Chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance's Council on Foreign Exchange as well as its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section). Additionally, he was a Board Member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan and President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan. He was nominated for inclusion in Who's Who in the World for 2009, 2013 and 2020. He obtained honorary doctorates from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2004 and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) in 2013. He also received the Fukuzawa Award in 2013 for his contribution to research on economic policy. He served as the T20 Japan, Lead-chair during Japan's Presidency of the G20-2019 meetings. He was also the Lead Co-chair of the T20 Infrastructure and Financing Task Force and advising on the handover to Saudi Arabia's presidency in 2020 and Italy’s Presidency in 2021. He is nominated as Top 10 scholars in green finance based on recent publications by Energy Policy in 2021.He received the International Green Finance Lifetime Achievement ScientificAward from the Central Bank of Hungary which was held at Planet Budapest 2021 sustainability EXPO summit.

Dr Yihua Hu is the group head of electrical engineering at the University of York, and the Fellow of IET. He was awarded the Royal Society Industry Fellowship and EPSRC Power Electronics Centre Impact Acceleration Fellowship in 2020 and 2017 respectively. He has published 120 journal papers in IEEE Transactions journals (top journals in electrical engineering). According to Google Scholar, since 2016, citations are over 5400, with an h-index of 46. He is the author of 15 patents and serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Scientific Reports and IET Renewable Power Generation. His research interests include renewable generation, electric vehicles, smart energy conversion systems and non-destructive test technology. His research output was a finalist for the Technology transfer category of the IET Innovation Awards 2019. He and his student span out a company (青岛观芯科技有限公司) and attracted ¥10million venture capital investment. His supervised PhD student is awarded IET Postgraduate Award 2021.

Professor Phil Hart joined Cranfield as Director of Energy and Power in 2018. Prior to that he held a series of senior leadership roles within the energy and power sector in the UK, Asia and North America as engineering director, chief technology officer, chief operating officer, SVP and president. Phil's expertise surrounds the management and leadership of technology development companies, applied with a deep experience of the global energy sector. Phil now leads a large team of researchers pushing the limits of new energy science and engineering to enable the energy and net zero transitions, working extensively with SME’s and multi-national companies to assist with technology developments and strategies.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christof Wittwer is Director of the Division Power Electronics, Grids and Smart Systems at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, Germany and Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University Freiburg. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christof Wittwer studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern and joined Fraunhofer ISE in 1993. Between 1996 and 1999 he was research associate at the University of Karlsruhe, he obtained his PhD in 1999 with his thesis „ColSim – A Modular Simulation Environment for the Development of Control Algorithms for Embedded Systems in Energy Supply Systems“. Following years Christof Wittwer returned as “post-doc” to Fraunhofer ISE, where he coordinated projects in the area of networked control systems for decentralized fuel cell systems. In 2003 he was head of group „Operations Management and System Control“ with growing team. In 2010 he obtained the department “decentralized energy systems and grid integration”. In 2019 Christof Wittwer was appointed Director, Business Division „Power Electronics, Grids and Smart Systems" and is therefore responsible for around 80 scientific employers. Since 2008 Christof Wittwer has been a lecturer at the University of Freiburg, Department of Environment and Natural Resources. In 2014 the University of Freiburg appointed him Honorary Professor. In teaching he is responsible for the Master’s degree program „Renewable Energy Engineering and Management“.

Celso C. Ribeiro is a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and of the National Order of the Scientific Merit in Brazil. He is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil. He chaired the Departments of Electrical Engineering (1983-1987) and Computer Science (1993-1995) of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was the Director of the Department of Modernization Programs of the Brazilian Ministry of Education (2005-2007) and acted as Subsecretary of Education of the State of Rio de Janeiro (2007–2008). He obtained his doctorate in Computer Science at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France, in 1983 and his Habilitation at Université Paris XIII, France, in 1990. He was a President of the Brazilian Operations Research Society (1989-1990), a President of the Latin-American Association of Operations Research Societies (1992-1994), and a Vice-President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (1998-2000). His research is funded by the Brazilian Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and by the Rio de Janeiro State Foundation for Research Support (FAPERJ). He is the editor of six books and the author of more than 140 papers in international journals and 25 book chapters. He has supervised 29 doctorate dissertations and 37 master theses. Dr. Ribeiro is the General Editor of the journal International Transactions in Operational Research. He is also the coauthor of the book “Optimization by GRASP: Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures”, published by Springer in 2016.

Dr. Dongsheng Li is distinguished professor at Shantou University and director of Guangdong Engineering Center for Structure Safety and Health Monitoring. Before joining Shantou University in 2018, he served as an engineer in industry for five years and worked at Dalian University of Technology as a lecture/associated professor for 16 years. Dongsheng Li received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, in 1994; his M.S. degree from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, majoring in engineering mechanics; and Ph.D. degree from the University of Siegen, Germany in 2012. His research interests include structural health monitoring of large-span bridges and wind turbines, including fiber Bragg grating sensing, damage identification under varying environment, optimal sensor placement, and random loading identification. He conjectured the existence of mode localization phenomenon in wind turbine blades and afterwards proved it. He developed a novel loading-dependent sensor placement theory that depends on both structural characteristics and actual loading conditions. His contributions also include the strain transferring mechanism in optical fiber sensors. He is the recipient of the 2008 Dominick J. DeMichele Scholarship Award by the Society of Experimental Mechanics, and China National Award for Technological Invention(2ndPrize). He is currently the Editor of Structural Durability & Health Monitoring，Frontiers Research of Architecture and Engineering, and Advances in Civil Engineering (Indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded).He has published more than 80 technical papers in international refereed journals and conferences. His paper was cited more than 1000 times.

Dr. Reazul Ahsan joined the City and Metropolitan Planning Department as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in August 2019. Since then, he is working as an academic leader and coordinator of the Urban Ecology Program at the University of Utah Asia Campus, Songdo, South Korea. Dr. Ahsan received his Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of South Australia in 2013. He joined as a research fellow under the “Malaysian Sustainable City Program” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015-2016) under the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. In 2017, Dr. Reazul joinedas a lecturer at the Department of Environmental Humanities at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Before joining the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning, Reazul worked as a research fellow at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, and Kyoto University, Japan. His main research area of interest is Smart Urbanism and ecological planning, Climate Change and urban resilience.Teachnological advancement in urban planning and ecological sustainability. He has over 12 years of higher education experience in countries such as Australia, Bangladesh, Japan, Malaysia, Oman, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.Dr. Reazul received an Asian Development Bank Scholarship (2001-2003), an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (2006-2008), and a University President Scholarship (2009-2013) for his Masters and Ph.D.

Dr. Qingyu Zhang is a full professor and director of the Research Institute of Business Analytics and Supply Chain Management at Shenzhen University, China. He earned his PhD in Manufacturing Management and Engineering from the University of Toledo, USA, and M.E. (Management Engineering), B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) & B.A. (Economics) from Tsinghua University, China. His research interests are sustainable operations.

Professor Dr. Akihiko TANIOKA, Emeritus Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology. Appointed Professor of Carbon Science Institute in Shinshu University, Visiting Professor of The Open University of Japan CTO of Zetta Ltd. I have completed my Education in 1975 D.S. in Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1975 Dr. of Engineering Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, March. 2010-2014 Leader of Pressure Retarded Osmosis(PRO) Research in “Megaton Water System” by First Program of Cabinet Office 2012-2015 Appointed Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology 2012-Emeritus Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology 2014-Appointed Professor of Carbon Science Institute in Shinshu University 2015-CTO of Zetta Ltd.(Nanofiber Company) 2016-Visiting Professor of The Open University of Japan Published More than 500 publications(including scientific papers, review articles and books). My Research activities are Production of polymeric, carbon and inorganic nanofibersfor water and energy production.

Prof. Yannis Maniatis f. Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (2009-2015) Dr. Eng. Yannis Maniatis is a Rural and Surveying Engineer (National Technical University of Athens). He was an Assoc. Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and since 2002 is Assoc. Professor at the University of Piraeus. Visiting Professor at the Institute of Economic Geography, University of Bonn. Director of the MSc “Climate Crisis and Information and Communication Technologies” Director of the “Environmental and Energy Policies and Systems” Laboratory.

Tullio Tucciarelli was born in Palermo, in July 1958. He got a master degree in Hydraulic Engineering in March 1922 and a second master degree in Geological Sciences in June 1986 at the University of Palermo. He got the Phylosophy Doctor Degree in the Civil Engineering and Operation Research program in 1994 at the Princeton University (U.S.A.). He has been Researcher and Associate Professor of Hydraulics at the University of Reggio Calabria (Italy ) from November 1989 to November 2001. He is Professor of Hydraulics at the University of Palermo since November 2003. From 2004 to 2007 he has been Coordinator of the Doctorate courses in Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering and from March 2011 to December 2013 he has been coordinator of the master degree courses in Civil and Structural Engineering. He has been tutor of 10 doctorate students and four post-doc students. In 2006, 2008 and 2011 he has been principal investigator of three national research programs, joined respectively by 3, 4 and 9 local research units, as well as coordinator of local research units in many other national and regional research programs. His expertise is in the field of shallow water and groundwater numerical modelling and, from 2013, in the field of mini-hydro turbine design and of 3D Navier-Stokes numerical solvers.

Prof. Juan Bautista Carda Castelló. PhD in Chemistry. Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry atUniversitatJaume I of Castellon (Spain) and leader of Solid State Group at Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry. Professor Juan Bautista CardaCastelló was born in Vila-real (Castellón, Spain)in 1958 and completed aBSc (1983) and PhD (1990) in Chemistry at University of Valencia. He is professor since 1991 to present in Jaume I University (Castellón, Spain).He stayed several times at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK), University Paris VI-CNRS, University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy of Sofia (Bulgaria) and different Universities of Soulthamerica (Colombia, Venezuela, Brasil, Perú) and others researches international centers, as a visiting scientist/professor. In 2012 he was awarded for his research career at UniversitatJaume I of Castellon.In 2013 he was awarded as Professor Emeritus of the University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy of Sofia (Bulgaria), and “ProfesorHonorífico” in Universidad Nacional de Colombia Publications: more than 200 papersin the national and international journals,co-autor of a ceramic encyclopedia and he has8 industrialpatents.He is Director of the Cathedra of Ceramic Innovation in Vila-real (Spain) since 2012, and he has large experience in Congress organization and responsible of “Destaca” fair for Innovation and Scientific transfer.

Professor J. Aurelio Medina‐Rios Obtained his BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH), México in 1983 and his PhD In Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (1992; Thesis: Power Systems Modelling in the Harmonic Domain). He has worked as a Post‐Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1992‐1993; at the Universidad de Cantabria, Spain, 1993 and at the University of Toronto, Canada, 1993‐1995. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Uberlandia, Brasil, June‐ August 1998 and has spent a sabbatical research leave at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, from September 01, 2014 to August 31, 2015. He joined the UMSNH in September 1995, as a full time Professor‐Researcher of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he was the Head of the Division for Postgraduate Studies from September 1999 to August 2014. He has published over 200 research papers, mainly in the fields of Harmonics and Quality of Power, Stability and Application of Numerical and Computational Techniques in Power System Analysis, 79 in indexed journals, 4 book chapters, 2030 cites (Google Scholar; h=21) and has led 27 research projects. He has directed 18 BEng, 22 MSc and 16 PhD theses. He is member (since 1996) of the IEEE Task Force on Harmonics Modeling and Simulation, and referee of several indexed journals. He initiated the PhD Program in Electrical Engineering in 2001. Under his leadership the Masters in Electrical Engineering Program received a national recognition of academic quality by SEP‐CONACYT (Public Education Secretariat‐National Council of Science and Technology) in 2002 and the Doctorate Program in Electrical Engineering in 2004. The Masters and Doctorate programs were reformed in 2003 and 2004 to Masters in Science in Electrical Engineering and Doctorate in Science in Electrical Engineering, respectively, to further increase their competence and academic level. Both Graduate Programs were distinguished in 2006, 2008 and 2011 as High Academic Level (twice), and Consolidated, respectively, Postgraduate Programs by the National Program for Postgraduate Quality of SEP‐CONACYT. In merit to his academic and research trajectory, he has been awarded with the distinctions of National Researcher, Grade II (SNI II) from the National Research System in México and Member of the Mexican Academy of Science (AMC). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was acknowledged, in May 2012, as the advisor who directed the best doctoral thesis in the field of Engineering and Technology in México. The thesis, developed by Juan Segundo‐Ramírez, won the Weizmman Prize 2011 in Engineering and Technology. His research interests are centered on the harmonics modeling and simulation, quality of power issues, stability analysis and modeling, state estimation assessment, modeling and analysis of nonlinear and time‐varying power components, nonlinear oscillations assessment, real time simulation, parallel processing applications to power system digital simulation, advanced numerical techniques in power system analysis, modeling and analysis of renewable sources of energy, FACTS and CUSTOM POWER components.

PROF. DR. VOLKAN Ş. EDİGER Director of CESD-Center for Energy and Sustainable Development and Head of Energy Systems Engineering Department at the Kadir Has University, Istanbul Upon gaining his BS and MS degrees from the Geological Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University, Volkan Ş. Ediger went on to receive his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in State College, USA. Prof. Ediger’s professional career has been shaped by research, teaching, and consultancy simultaneously carried out at the Research Center of the Turkish Petroleum Corporation, the Middle East technical University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Office of the President of the Republic of Turkey. Between 1998 and 2010, he was the first person to hold the position of the Energy Advisor to the President, where he had the chance to work with three successive presidents. In 2010, Prof. Ediger received his professorship at İzmir University of Economics, where he also served as Founding Director of Research and Graduate Policies. He is currently the Founding Director of CESD-Center for Energy and Sustainable Development and Head of Energy Systems Engineering Department at the Kadir Has University in Istanbul. His current research interest includes history of energy, sustainable energy development, energy transition, energy security and geopolitics.

Jordi Roviras graduated as anArchitect in 2002 fromtheSchool of Architecture of the International University of Catalonia (UIC Barcelona). Thatsameyear he founded ROVIRAS CASTELAO associatedarchitectsSCPtogetherwiththearchitect Cristina Garcia Castelao. In thecourse of hiscareer he has combinedhisprofessionalworkwithuniversityacademicactivity. In 2004 he joinedtheteaching staff of theSchool of Architecture of the International University of Cartalunya (UIC Barcelona) as a lecturer in theDepartment of ArchitecturalConstructions and the Barcelona CeramicsChair (ASCER) respectively. In 2008 and until 2013, he heldthe position of AcademicDeputy Director and Faculty of thesameSchool of Architecture. In July 2013 he defended his doctoral thesiscalled"ArchitecturalIntegration of CeramicThermal Solar Collectors" obtainingthehighest rating "Excellent Cum Laude". In 2014 he joinedthe LITEIS researchgroup as a researchmember (LaboratoryforTechnologicalInnovation in Industrialized and SustainableBuilding), recognizedbythe AGAUR (Agency forthe Management of University and ResearchAid) as a consolidatedresearchgroup. In 2016 he receivedthe Lector accreditationfromthe AQU (Agency fortheUniversityQuality of Catalonia) and successfully defended his position as AdjunctProfessor. Dr. Roviras has participated in numerousresearchprojects and writtenarticles in impactjournalsassociatedwiththeinnovation of new products and constructionsystemswithceramicmaterials.

Lara Perrin is Associate Professor at University Savoie Mont Blanc (France) since 2006, in the GUIDE team (Genesis, Usage of Durable Interfaces for Energy) of the LEPMI laboratory (Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Physical chemistry of Materials and Interfaces). This team is part of the National Institute of Solar Energy and is located at Le Bourget du Lac. She is a specialist in the chemistry of materials with specific properties, and her work combines chemistry, physical chemistry and physics. Her current research activities are mainly focused on materials for energy (third generation solar cells: organic and perovskite, electric cables, fuel cells ...). Her work focuses on both the Genesis and the Sustainability of these different systems.

Education: Paul Allaire obtained BS, MS from Yale University, 1963/4 in Mechanical Engineering. Then Ph. D. from Northwestern University in Mechanical Engineering, 1971 in Mechanical Engineering. Early Academic Positions: He has been an Assistant Professor at Communications College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1964-66, teaching mathematics and English. Next, he was an Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1971-2, where he taught Engineering. Long Term Academic Position: He was an Assistant, Associate, Full and Chaired Professor at the University of Virginia in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from 1972-2012. He was the founder and long time Director of the Rotating Machinery and Controls Industrial Laboratory, from 1980 to 2012, with an average of 30 companies as members including such companies as Exxon Mobil, Boeing, General Electric, Siemens, Dresser Rand, Duke Power, Rolls Royce, and many others. He was also Department Chairman and Assistant Dean. He is the founder and owner of Rotor Bearing Solutions International, an engineering consulting firm, founded in 2012. Also, he was one of the three founders of the International Society of Magnetic Bearings and received the year’s Outstanding Researcher Award twice.He is a Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Since 2019, he has been an Engineering Professor, Part Time at Wake Forest University, where he teaches renewable energy and capstone design courses. Also, he does research in the Nanotechnology Lab, in the Physics Department, with Prof. David Carroll, on highly advanced solar collectors He has published over 500 papers, including ones on wind turbines and solar energy.

Professor Nathwani is the founding Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) and held the prestigious Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy (2007-2020)). Professor Nathwani is a Fellow and currently leads the Research Cluster ‘STEM for Global Resilience’ at the Balsillie School for International Affairs, (BSIA), https://www.balsillieschool.ca/research/clusters/stem/ He is the Co-Director, with Prof Joachim Knebel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), of Affordable Energy for Humanity (AE4H)- A Global Change Initiative. The consortium comprises 150+ leading STEM and social science researchers, energy access thought leaders and practitioners from 50 institutions in 30 countries committed to eradicating energy poverty by 2030. Prior to his appointment at the University in 2007, Professor Nathwani worked in a leadership capacity in the Canadian energy sector over a 30-year period. He brings a unique combination of academic perspectives with extensive experience in the business sector that includes corporate planning and strategy, energy sector policy developments, integration of environmental sustainability within power system planning, regulatory affairs, and research program management. Professor Nathwani serves on several Boards at the provincial and national levels, has appeared frequently in the media (print, TV, radio), and has over 200 publications related to energy policy, environment and risk management, including seven books. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (PEO) in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Lucjan Pawłowski, was born in Poland, 1946. He studied chemistry at the Maria Curie- Skłodowska University. He got his Ph.D. in 1976, and D.Sc. (habilitation) in 1980 both at the Wrocław University of Technology. In 1986 the President of Poland nominated L. Pawłowski to a full professor. He started research on application of ion exchange for water and wastewater treatment. As a result he together witch B. Bolto from CSIRO Australia, has published book “Wastewater Treatment by Ion Exchange” in which they summarised their own results and experience of ion exchange area. In 1980 L. Pawłowski was elected President of International Committee “Chemistry for Protection Environment”. He was Chairman of the Environmental Chemistry Division of the Polish Chemical Society in 1980- 1984. In 1994 he was elected the Deputy President of the Polish Chemical Society and in the same year, the Deputy President of the Presidium Polish Academy of Science Committee “Men and Biosphere”. In 1999 he was elected as a President of the Committee “Environmental Engineering” of Polish Academy of Science. He is member of editorial board of international journals: “Reactive Polymers”, “The Science of the Total Environmental”, “Environment International”, and “Journal of Ecological Chemistry”. In 1991 he was elected as the Deputy Rector of the Lublin University of Technology, and this post he has hold for two terms (1991-1996). Currently he is Director of Environmental Engineering Institute. He has published 19 books, over 128 papers, and authored 68 patents.

Dr. Tao Guo received his doctorate from the University of Tokyo and has been working as a research scientist in the geospatial information industry for more than 25 years. He has published more than 40 academic papers and is the inventor of about 20 international patents. Dr. Tao Guo is an active advocate for applying geospatial technologies for ecological environment protection and has been long engaged in many eco-environment related projects across China, Thailand, Japan, EU and others countries. Dr. Tao Guo joined PIESAT Information Technology Co,Ltd. as a vice president from ETH Zurich in November 2017 and now dedicates his efforts to bridge the industrial community with the society for environmental protection and sustainable development with a special focus on decision-making supports, he has been an invited speaker at many international conferences, as well as a member of the IEEE GRSS Industry Distinguished Lecturer Program 2021.

Dr. Akira Nishimura is an associate professor in Division of Mechanical Engineering at Mie University, Japan. He received the B.S. Eng., the M.S. Eng. and Dr. Eng. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan in 1995, 1997 and 2000, respectively. He worked at Center for Integrated Research in Science and Engineering, Nagoya University as research associate from 2000 to 2002. He moved to Mie University in 2002 as an assistant professor and promoted to associate professor from 2014. He has published 79 journal papers which are reviewed. His current researches are H2 production from biogas, smart city utilizing renewable energy actively, clarification on heat and mass transfer mechanism of polymer electrolyte fuel cell andCO2 reduction by photocatalyst.

Dr. McCoy is Director of the Virginia Center for Housing Research (VCHR), Professor in the Department of Building Construction, and Associate Director of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction (MLSoC) at Virginia Tech. He currently holds the Beliveau Professorship in the Department of Building Construction, thanks to the generous support of George Clarke. He previously held the Preston and Catharine White Fellowship, thanks to their generous support. Dr. McCoy has authored more than 100 articles and has been a primary investigator on millions of dollars in funded projects, including ‘green’ residential construction practices, building technologies, affordable housing and safety practices in the construction supply chain. Notable funded endeavors include: 1) The Commonwealth of Virginia's Executive Order 32 study "Addressing the Impact of Housing Affordability for Virginia’s Economy"; 2) HUD's " Impact of Market Behavior on the Adoption and Diffusion of Innovative Green Building Technologies," A Sustainable Communities Research grant; 3) HUD's "Strategies for Promoting Innovation in Housing"; 4) NIOSH's “The Case for a Whole Industry Approach to Safety,” a grant on safety across cultures and sectors of the construction industry; 5) Housing Virginia's "The Impact of Energy Efficient Construction for LIHTC Housing in Virginia" and 6) Virginia Housing's "Printing for Affordable Concrete housing and Training (PACT)" which will develop the first affordable house in Virginia using 3D concrete printing. Dr. McCoy’s research won the 2015 Game Changer Award for the State of Virginia and Engineering News Record's 2014 "Top 20 under 40" for the Mid-Atlantic. Dr. McCoy's work also won ASCE's Journal of Architectural Engineering "Top Paper Award 2015" and the American Real Estate Societyconference’s "best paper prize for the topic of Sustainable Real Estate."

He graduated the University of Tokyo in 1982 and Joined Nippon Mining Co.Ltd. (currently ENEOS) for 3 years as a mining engineer. In 1985 he joined the Department of Resources Development Engineering at the University of Tokyo as a research associate. He was a guest researcher at the Luleå University of Technology during 1992-1993. He is professor at the Institute for Innovation in International Engineering Education and the Department of Technology Management for Innovation from 2019 and jointly runs three endowed chairs including the Mohammed bin Salman Center for Future Science and Technology for Saudi-Japan Vision 2030 at The University of Tokyo (MbSC2030). He has more than 100 academic publications and is also author of 8 books.

Senior Scientist, Ph.D. in the field of basic technical sciences. She works at the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Department for Resource Economics, Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Croatia. She is an expert in the field of water treatment and zeolite nanomaterial and she is involved in applied research related to material science for energy technologies, desalination systems, and water treatment technologies. She has published extensively and presented numerous papers on these topics. She is an inventor of Seawater Steam Engine technology that could stop climate change and the original concept for solving the problem of sustainability of all cities worldwide.

Full Professorwith the University of Zagreb (retired),Croatia, independent scientist, received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Zagreb, the M.Eng. degree from University of Belgrade, and Ph.D. degree from University of Zagreb. He worked as leading designer in the area of electrical engineering, i.e. power supply systems in many industrial structures throughout the world. He is involved in applied research related to the application of integrated RES systems. He has published numerous papers on these topics and he has four patents (WIPO, EU) in this field. He is an inventor of Seawater Steam Engine technology that could stop climate change and the original concept for solving the problem of sustainability of all cities worldwide.

Elisa Sani, PhD. (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9854-2892), is Researcher at National Institute of Optics, National Research Council of Italy (INO-CNR), where is Principal Investigator of the Solar Energy & Smart Materials Laboratory in Florence. Her research activity is characterized by contributions in different fields with the common keyword of the focus on optical properties of materials: from optically active media e.g. solid-state crystals and scintillators during PhD, to solid-state lasers and finally to solids, liquids and nanostructures for innovative solar energy materials, a field in which she is working from more than a decade. Her main research interests span from solids for high-temperature solar thermodynamic plants, colloidal suspensions for mid-temperature solar thermal plants, optical property tailoring of surfaces, fundamental optical constants of liquids, as well as nonlinear optical phenomena in liquids and colloids and solar-enabled hybrid power generation in different materials and by different effects. Dr. Sani is co-author of 110 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 2 book chapters and holds 3 patents. She serves as member of Editorial Board of the journals Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Energies and Applied Sciences (MDPI Publishing Group), as well as Special Issue Editor for the journal Nanomaterials (MDPI Publishing Group).

Graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1995. PhD in Thermomechanical Systems Engineering in 1998. Researcher since 1999, currently he is Associate Professor of “Systems for Energy and Environment” at University “Federico II” of Naples (ITALY), where teaches the courses of FLUID MACHINES and THERMAL PLANTS. Author of several papers on well quoted scientific journals about Combustion, Renewable Energies, Power plant energy efficiency, Combustion Engines Emissions. In particular, he made research activity about sea scrubber desulfurization applied to ship engines. A further research activity was about multiphase flow, applied to evaporation in water tubes, fuel atomization, and transport phenomena of solid particles within liquid flows. Currently he is mainly engaged in research activities on thermodynamic solar plants and on the environmental impact of energy production systems.

Lorenzo Talluriis a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Industrial Engineering of University of Florence. He’s also adjunct professorof the courses “Energy, sustainability and the environment”, “Models for the Analysis of Energy Systems” and “Industrial Technical Physics”. His main research topics involve Thermodynamics, sustainable energy conversion systems with low environmental impact (low CO2 emissions, binary cycles), renewables, refrigeration cycles and heat pumps, LCA.

Kristina Berzina Doctor of Science in Power and Electrical Engineering, Riga Technical University, Latvia. 2018-Present Head of the Certification Center of Latvian Association of Power Engineers and Energy Constructors, Riga (Latvia) 2017-Present Associate Professor, Faculty of Electrical and Environmental Engineering/Riga Technical University, Total number of publications: more than 45, from which 43 are in Scopus. Hirsh index in SCOPUS: h-index 5. From 2015 till 2018, performed duties of the head of Department of Power Supply in RTU Faculty of Power and Electrical Engineering. • During the period from 2012, she has been a scientific supervisor for 32 Bachelor and Qualification papers, as well as 10 Master's theses, 20 Engineer's work in the field of energy and electrical engineering. At present, I am the scientific supervisor of 2 Ph.D. students. Lecturer for several study courses, including Electric Lighting, Power Supply, Electrical Installation of Residential Buildings. An experience in reading lectures at foreign universities. Practical experience and the qualitative approach is confirmed by certificates in designing- power supply systems and construction supervision up to 35 kV in areas 6, 7, 8, 10, 17, 18, 19, 23, 27 (http://www.bleea.lv/?catid=66 ); practical experience gained in the period from 2005 – now in which more than 100 electrical installation practical projects are implemented. The external expert on Climate Change Financial Instrument (CCFI) "greenhouse gas emissions of public area lighting infrastructure" for nearly 30 projects implemented in the period from 2013-2015.y.• Conducting and participation of seminars in cooperation with JSC Latvenergo Energy Efficiency Centre in public consultations, as well as experience speaking in Latvian Radio and Television. A work experience in international editorial boards activities, including the reviewer's work in 6 international conferences, as well as a reviewer in the magazine Scientific Proceedings of Riga Technical University, Power and Electrical Engineering, Riga.23 From 2012 – Expert of the Latvian Council of Science (LCS), Riga (Latvia).

Haixin Guoearned her Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Environmental studies) at the Tohoku University under the supervision of Prof Richard Lee Smith Jr working in the production of biodiesel and functional biocarbon using the green chemical process. Since 2018, she has been an assistant professor at Tohoku University. She scientific researcher interests are focused on the hydrothermal/solvothermal/mechanochemicaltreatment of rawbiomass into valuable chemicals and fuels.

Dr. Iroshani Jayawardene (M '21) received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA. She received her B.Sc degree with first class honors specializing in Computer Science from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2011. After working as a Software Engineer for three years, she joined the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory as a Research Assistant. She was a Collaborative Researcher at US DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory from October 2019 - March 2020. She was nominated as a finalist for best student paper award competition at IEEE 43rd PVSC, 2016. She was a recipient of the INNS Conference on Big Data student travel grant in 2015 and IEEE SSCI student travel grant in 2017. She is currently a Machine Learning Product Developer at Adigo Mechatronics, Langhus, Norway. Her current research interests include computer vision, smart grid, real-time power system data analytics and machine learning

Qinlong Ren, Associate Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He received the Ph. D degree from The University of Arizona, U.S. at 2016 for Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include multiscale heat and mass transfer, renewable energy conversion, energy storage, and electrokinetic phenomena. He has published 37 SCI Journal papers, including 24 papers as first or corresponding author. He has received research grants from NSF of China and several companies.

"Pengfei Wang, Associate Professor, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He received the Ph. D degree from the Xi'an Jiaotong University at 2016 for Nuclear Science and Technology. His research interests include the dynamic modeling, simulation, and control of advanced nuclear energy systems, intelligent fault diagnosis and autonomous control of nuclear power plants, structure optimization and cooperative control of nuclear-renewable hybrid energy system. He has published more than 30 SCI Journal papers, including 17 papers as first or corresponding author. He has received research grants from the NSF and NKRDP of China and several companies."

Prof. Tong Zhu is a full professor at Lab of Laser Micro/Nano Fabrication,School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology. She also serves as the associate chair of Manufacturing Engineering Department at BIT. Her research focused on imaging charge carrier dynamics and transport by high spatial-temporal resolution imaging techniques as well as manipulating electron dynamics duringultrafast laser micro/nano fabrication. She earned her Ph.D. at Purdue University, United States in 2017, followed with postdoctoral experience before joining the BIT faculty. She won the High-level Overseas Talent Program in 2019. Prof. Zhu authored (first author/corresponding author)high quality academic articles such as Science Advances, Advanced Materials, ACS Energy Letters, Accounts of Chemical Research, Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, JPCL, etc. She is now serving as reviewer of science and technology project ofWinter Olympic Organizing Committee, as well as guest editor of the journal Materials.

Sérgio António Neves Lousada holds an International Ph.D. in Civil Engineering - Hydraulics. He teaches at the University of Madeira, field of Hydraulics, Environment and Water Resources and Construction. Furthermore, he collaborates with the Environmental Resources Analysis Research Group (ARAM) - University of Extremadura (UEx); VALORIZA - Research Center for the Enhancement of Endogenous Resources, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), Portugal; CITUR - Madeira - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation, Madeira, Portugal; and Institute of Research on Territorial Governance and Inter-Organizational Cooperation, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland. Moreover, he holds an International Master's Degree in Ports and Coasts Engineering.

"Cristina Córdova Arias is a professor and researcher of civil and environmental engineering at the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Peru. Her expertise includes disaster risk management and climate change. She has led seismic risk projects of public infrastructure within multidisciplinary environments. Her research papers on seismic risk reduction, post-disaster damage, processing and use of risk and climate data, recovery planning, and life-cycle assessment have been published in peer-reviewed journals. Pursuing this research agenda, she has participated as a speaker at international conferences and in the Learning from Earthquakes Travel Study Program 2019 in New Zealand. She received her Master Degree in Civil Engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru."

M. Socorro García-Cascales received the M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University of Cartagena, Murcia, Spain in 2009. She received the Technical University of Cartagena's doctorate award in 2010. Project Management Professional certified by IPMA-AEIPRO (International Project Management Association - Spanish National Association of Project Engineering and Management). Actually she is president of the Spanish National Association of Project Management and Engineering . She is full-time Associate Professor in Project Management Area of the Technical University of Cartagena, and a member of the Models of Decision and Optimization (MODO) Research Group of the University of Granada (Spain), and member of the Advanced Materials for Energy Production and Storage Research Group of the Technical University of Cartagena. She has published more than 30 papers in scientific journals of impact; more than twenty five chapters of books. She has more than 90 publications in national and international congresses. He has completed a research stay during the courses (2018/2019 and 2019/2020) at the University of Maine (USA). Her current scientific interests are Soft Computing, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Decision Support Systems, Applications in Engineering Projects Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Project Management.

Katinka Johansen holds an MSc in social anthropology and a PhD in social psychology. Her interdisciplinary research straddles various topics within the social science of energy transitions research, comprisingenergy history, energy policy and energy planning. More specifically, Katinka has studied wind power related social controversy, the social psychology of place, and renewable energy technology related changeto place, and socio-technical perspectives of energy flexibility challenges and potentials within the Danish district heating sector. Katinka has also conducted work on, environmental governance and land rights.Katinka currently works as a post-doctoral scholar at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, and she recently won an internationalization stipend from the Carlsberg Foundation. She has conducted fieldwork in Bolivia, Northern Uganda and Denmark.

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

Paola Ammendola received her degree and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University Federico II of Naples (Italy) in 2003 and 2006, respectively. She is a researcher at the Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS – CNR). Her main research topics are the sound-assisted fluidization of cohesive powders, the set-up of innovative catalytic systems and the use of fluidized bed reactors for clean energy production and the study of renewable energy sources (solar energy and biomass).

Federica Raganati received her degree and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University Federico II of Naples (Italy) in 2010 and 2014, respectively. She is a researcher at the Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS – CNR). Her main research topics are the set-up of innovative fluidized bed reactor configurations (e.g. sound-assisted fluidized beds), the reduction of CO2 emissions through post-combustion capture processes and the energy storage through thermochemical processes.

Sofia Agostinelli, construction engineer expert in the filed of technology in the built environment. Since 2019 she’s a research and development coordinator in Sapienza University of Rome - CITERA Research Centre, dealing with the development, promotion and education of emerging technologies around the world, participating in national and international research projects, managing project and research teams, and being an author of several publications on peer-reviewed scientific journals, volumes and conference proceedings. Sofia obtained her Masters from Sapienza University of Rome, specialising in Project Management and BIM technologies and processes which bring the construction sector towards his digital growth. Since 2019 she is adjunct Professor of Project Management at the Faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University of Rome. She served as Project Manager in Architectural, Engineering and Real Estate organizations, shaping the enthusiast ambition to strategically innovate and optimise the construction industry through digitisation and energy efficiency. In 2020 she joined the PhD program in Energy and Environment at Sapienza University of Rome, focusing her research activities on Digital Twins and digital workflow automation for the AEC sector, combining BIM, IoT, AI and Machine Learning processes for sustainable development. In 2021 she co-founded BEST DESIGN, a startup of Sapienza University of Rome, supporting complex organizations in their digital transition, and she’s a Digital Innovation Advisor for the Presidency of the Italian Republic.

Yanping Du is currently an associate professor and PhD supervisor at Shanghai Jiao tong University. Prior to this, I was appointed as an acting project leader/ postdoctoral fellow (2014-2017) in CSIRO in Australia and obtained my PhD at University of Leeds in UK (2014). I am independent PIs for several national and industrial projects. My current research concerns in low carbon energy involving advanced energy storage, CO2 based hydrocaron synthesis , superhigh flux thermal transportation, etc.

My name is Jen-Hsin Teng, and I am a researcher at the Central Meteorological Bureau of Taiwan. With more than 20 years of experience in meteorological technology research, I mainly focus on the development of meteorological information application technology, especially in the application of wind. At present, I am leading the relevant research projects on the application of meteorological information in the field of renewable energy.

Chao-chen Chung is currently a Research Professor in Wuhan University, China. Before she has served in National Cheng-Kung University in Taiwan. Her research interests lie in the fields of research, technology, development, and innovation (RTDI) policies with focuses on renewable energy innovation, especially bioenergy technologies. She has published articles in the journals such as Research Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Journal of Cleaner Production. She has also served as reviewers for several journals, including Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management and so on.

"Associate Professor at the University of Siena and Associate Researcher at CSGI consortium and ICCOM-CNR. She is a specialist of computational chemistry and her recognized research activity comprises the design and characterization by means of computational methods and life cycle analysis of innovative materials for the production of new generation photovoltaics characterized by high efficiency, stability and with high environmental added value. More specifically, she acquired a robust experience in the research of structural patterns to impart specific optical characteristics to chromophores for the optimization of solar cells properties and the life cycle environmental impact analysis of materials and their reuse/recycling potential."

Dr Feng is a river scientist who has been working on freshwater ecology and river hydrology for many years. She was obtained Joint PhD in River Science at the University of Trento and FreieUniversität Berlin, under the Erasmus Mundus SMART programme. She has been in academia since 2017 and devoted herself to hydropower impacts and river ecology studies. She is undertaking research projects supported by the National Science Foundation China as the principle investigator and joint other projects as CIs. My special interests are focused on the hydropower impacts on river systems, including the connectivity fragmentation induced by impoundment, the loss of freshwater habitat below hydropower dams, especially on the influence from the hydropeaking and thermopeaking, and also water quality studies in rivers and lakes.

I have professional training in Philosophical Engineering Graduated with honorable mention from the Institut National Politechnique de Toulouse (France) and Biotechnology Master Degree from CINVESTAV-IPN (Mexico); with 29 years of experience as a professor and researcher in renowned institutions in the country. In other side, I am member of National Researchers System, level 1. I have recognition as Desirable Profile from PRODEP-TecNM. During my stay in the Tecnológico Nacional de México/ITS de Perote, I participated with the creation of Investigation area and the opening of 3 research laboratories.I have coordinated and participated in more than 25 research projects. I transferred technology for the public and private sector. I have mentored at least 80 engineering, masters, and doctoral students. I have published more than 17 research articles in international journals, more than 10 research articles in national journals, 10 books and chapter books. I am a member of the Nanotechnology Editorial Committee of the Environmental Engineering Journal and I am the Editor-in-Chief of the REVICYT Journal (Innovation scientific and technology journal) of the InstitutoTecnológico Superior de Perote. I received scholarships for research stays in Spain (Carolina Foundation and University of Castilla-La Mancha), Canada (Quebéc Fund for Natural Resources Research), Italy (ICGEB) and Mexico (Secreary of Foreign Relations and CONACYT). I have participations in oral conferences in Colombia, Canada and Mexico in topics as bioenergy production, biomass transformation, biofuels productions and relationed.

Economist from Universidade Federal Fluminense. Master and PhD in Energy Planning from the Energy Planning Program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro PPE/COPPE/UFRJ. Specialist in the regulation of the electricity sector, natural gas distribution, in the management of R&D programs, renewable energy sources, tariff readjustments and revisions, and energy efficiency programs. Experience with economic feasibility analysis of projects, assessment models for public policies and assessment of government projects, construction of energy demand scenarios through bottom-up models and studies related to the themes: smart grids, energy poverty, energy saving, regulation of the electricity sector, economic impacts of renewable sources in Brazil and climate change.

Jasna Potočnik Topler obtained her PhD at the University of Ljubljana. Currently, she holds the position of an Associate Professor at the University of Maribor. Her field of research includes communication skills, communication in tourism and communication of sustainability, the role of languages in tourism, English for Specific Purposes (English in Tourism), cultural tourism with its subtypes (especially heritage and literary tourism), tourism and media discourse, and communication. She is the author of several monographs, scientific articles, conference lectures, and an editorial board member of many journals. She has been engaged in several international projects and projects with the local community and students. Occasionally she works as an external evaluator of European projects and as an external evaluator of tourism projects with the Slovene Ministry of Economic Development and Technology.

Chiara Farinea is an Italian architect, urbanist and designer whose research focuses on design, ecology and new technologies. She is currently Head of European Projects and Head of Building with Nature Based Solutions Research at the Advanced Architecture Group Department at IAAC. Her position includes being a coordinator and scientific personnel in several EU projects targeted at education, research, development and implementation and being faculty in IAAC educational programs. She has been a contracted professor of Urban Planning at the Faculty of Architecture of Genoa. Her previous work experience includes developing International Cooperation Projects, Smart Cities Initiatives and EU financed Research Projects targeted at Sustainable Development at D’Appolonia (Genoa). Furthermore she has been working as architect at Open Building Research architectural office in Genoa and at KSP Engel und Zimmermann architectural office in Berlin.

Dr. XU Yingying is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management, Harbin University of Science and Technology,China. She is also a director of the Heilongjiang Institute of Management and the Chinese Marketing Association of Universities. She has been awarded as one of Young Innovative Talents in Universities in Heilongjiang Province, China. Her early research area was low carbon innovation and diffusion in manufacturing firms, and now she mainly focuses on business ecosystem in the context of low carbon economy. She has published four books and hosted six research projects including the Provincial Natural Science Foundation and the Provincial Youth Fund for Philosophy and Social Science. She has published nearly 20 academic papers in areas of carbon reduction in firms and value co-creation in low carbon business ecosystem.

Dr. Zhenye Kang is a professor at Hainan University, China. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), U.S. at 2018 (Supervisor: Dr. Feng-Yuan Zhang), and did his postdoc at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) U.S. from 2018-2021 (Supervisor: Dr. Guido Bender). He joined Hainan University as an associate professor since Apr. 2021 and has been promoted to professor position in Oct. 2021. His research interests are (1) electrochemical energy storage and conversions, including electrolyzers and fuel cells, (2) micro/nano-scale fluidics, two-phase transport, and heat transfer, (3) additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies and applications.He has published more than 40 papers in high impact journals, including Energy & Environmental Science, Science Advances, Nano Energy, Applied Energy, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Advanced Energy Materials, Journal of Power Sources, Electrochimica Acta, etc. He has joined several projects from Department of Energy (DOE), U.S., and has received research grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund, Start-up Research Foundation of Hainan University, and Scientific Research and Cultivation Project for Young Teachers of Hainan University.

FlorinaScarlatacheis Lecturer in the Department of Power Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering at “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi. She received theB.Sc.in electric power engineering (2009) and M.Sc. (2010) inenergy systems managementfrom “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania. In 2012, she finished the Ph.D. at the same university, which was on advanced techniques in modeling and optimal control of power systems in presence of renewable energy sources.Hercurrent research activities focus on the power systems, operation, planning and optimal control of distributed generation in micro-grids associated with decision making methodologiesin optimal planning and operation of hybrid energy systems (HES).She has published more than 70 refereed scientific and technical papers in international journals and conferences and 6books chapters which addresses on micro-grid planning and integration of renewable energy sources.

Interested in application of geophysical techniques coupled with geological implications for understanding subsurface geology (shallow and deep earth) and natural resources. It also includes the practical implications of multisource and multidisciplinary geoscience datasets in natural resource assessments (e.g., groundwater, petroleum, copper and gold) using integrated conventional, geostatistical and advanced machine learning methods. I have published several articles which are mainly focuses on 3D structural modeling integrated with seismic attribute and petrophysical evaluation for hydrocarbon prospecting, integrating a GIS-based multi-Influence factors model with hydro-geophysical exploration for groundwater potential and hydrogeological assessment, machine learning strategies for lithostratigraphic classification based on geochemical sampling data.

Yang Han(S’08-M’10-SM’17) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, in 2010. In 2010, he joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, where he has been an Associate Professor in 2013, and Full professor in 2021. From March 2014 to March 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He is currently with the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, UESTC. His research interests include the ac/dc microgrids, active distribution networks, power quality, grid-connected converters for renewable energy systems, active power filters, multilevel converters, and static synchronous compensators (STATCOMs). Dr. Han has received several national and provincial projects, and more than 20 industrial projects in the area of power electronics, smart grid, microgrid, and power quality analysis and compensation. He holds more than 30 issued and pending patents.Dr. Han was listed as “World Top 2% Scientist 2020” by Stanford University in 2020, and the recipient of the Young Scientist Award in CPESE 2021, the Provincial Science and Technology Award in 2020, Science and Technology Award from Sichuan Electric Power Company in 2019, Academic Talent Award by UESTC, in 2017, Baekhyun Award by the Korean Institute of Power Electronics, in 2016. He has published a book “Modeling and Control of Power Electronic Converters for Microgrid Applications”, ISBN: 978-3-030-74512-7, Springer. He served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Power Electronics (2019.01-2020.12) and IEEE ACCESS.

Dr. Caizhi Liao obtained Ph.D. from The University of Queensland, Australia. His research has been focused on the development of novel nanomaterials for various applications, including the renewable energy conversions. Since 2011, he has completed over 4 projects granted by University Grants Committee (Hong Kong) and ARC Discovery Foundation (Australia), as a leading researcher. To now, he published over 25 SCI papers, including those in Advanced Materials (IF>30, Times cited >300，ESI Highly-cited Paper). During the last 5 years, hehave orally presented the work in several international for over 15 times.

Dr. Songkai WANG comes from the School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology. His work has been in renewable energy generation and integration, power market, power system dispatch and control. He has published more than 10 academic papers, including 4 SCI indexes. As a key researcher, he participated in many key projects such as the National Nature Fund of China. In recent years, he has achieved many new achievements and ideas in the integrated utilization of large-scale renewable energy, multi energy complementary and coordinated control, and the participation of renewable energy in the power market.

Darfizzi Derawi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He is a research expert inoleochemistry, advanced biofuels, biolubricant, and catalysis for bioenergy. He is currently holding an administrative position as the Head of Occupational Safety and Health FST and the Head of Cluster (Oleochemical Technology). He is recognized as a Professional Technologist(Chemical Technology) by the MBOT and registered chemist of IKM.He was appointed as Post-Doctoral Researcher in 2016-2017 at the School of Chemical Engineering, the University of Birmingham, in bioenergy research. He was awarded a Newton Advanced Fellowship from the Royal Society United Kingdom in 2016. He has received the Best Green Technology Award from the Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA), a gold and bronze medal at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2017, PWTC KL.He will continue to serve the industry, Government agencies, community and foster interest in STEM among students and youth.

Hassan Ait Haddou is the Director of the Laboratoire Innovation Formes Architectures Milieux (LIFAM), France, and Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Montpellier (ENSAM), France, where he teaches mathematics and computer science. Hassan obtained his PhD in Mathematics in 2005, writing his thesis on the Lichnerowicz cohomology, a deformation of the de Rham cohomology which has very interesting applications in several domains of global differential geometry. His research interests include distributed and cooperative decision support systems for various applications, sustainable development and architecture, building information model(ing), geographical information system symplectic and contact geometry, foliations, and algebraic topology.

Eneko J. Uranga is architect from the ETS d’Arquitectura del Vallès - UPC (2000). In 2017 he received thePhD at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) : Energy Intervention in Residential Built Heritage - Analysis of the Gros district of Donostia/San Sebastián. He is a Master in Research on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Industry, Transportation, Building and Urban Planning (UPV/EHU). He is Master also in Sustainable Construction and Energy Efficiency (UPV / EHU). He is professor in the Department of Architecture since 2008 and has taught in the Degree in Architecture (2008-2021) and in the University Master's Degree in Architecture (2016-2021). He has also taught in the Master in Rehabilitation, Restoration and Comprehensive Management of Built Heritage and Existing Constructions (UPV/EHU); Master in Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Industry, Transportation, Building and Urban Planning (UPV/EHU); and Master in Construction Sustainable and Energy Efficiency (UPV/EHU). He has participated in more than 20 International Congresses on architecture, heritage and energy. He is reviewer of CEA (Civil Engineering and Architecture) magazine. He has participated as a speaker in various international courses, among others: XXXIX UPV/EHU Summer Course (San Sebastian,2020); 3rd Symposium sur la Réhabilitation Énergetique des Constructions Anciennes - ENERPAT(Cahors, 2019); Symposium Positionnement de la recherche en Architecture - HITLAB (Montpellier, 2019); 1st Edition of the Biennale Européenne du Patrimoine Urbain - Unesco (Carcassonne, 2016); 47ème Congres National des Architectes. (Biarritz, 2016). His works follow several lines of research: Energy Efficiency and architecture heritage; Collective housing in the 20th century; Historical heritage and construction history; Economics of renovation and rehabilitation.

Aitor Ciarreta received his Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2000 and is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of the Basque Country. He has taught mainly at the University of the Basque Country but also at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Univeristy of Alicante and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona including Microeconomics, Business Economics, Antitrust and Regulation Economics and Energy Markets. His research interests are in the fields of regulation and competition in markets of goods and services. His research has been published in journals such as the Energy Economics, Energy Journal, Energy Policy, Journal of Forecasting, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics and Journal of Regulatory Economics.

Professor Zulfiqar A Khan has been leading NanoCorr, Energy & Modelling (NCEM) research group at Bournemouth University, UK. He has developed multidisciplinary research in wear-corrosion synergy, nano-coating incorporating tribo-corrosion issues and low to zero carbon energy technologies. In addition to a significant volume of journal publications, he has been granted several commercial patents and prestigious awards including the Albert Nelson’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Engineering.

Nihal Kularatna is an electronics engineer with over 44 years of contribution to profession and research. He has authored ten books for practicing electronic engineers including the two consecutive IET Electrical Measurement Series books titled Modern electronic test & measuring instruments (1996) and Digital and analogue instrumentation- testing and measurement (2003/2008) and five Elsevier (USA) titles. His latest research monograph on sustainable energy and energy storage systems, titled Energy Storage Devices for Renewable Energy Systems:Rechargeable Batteries and Supercapacitors, will be published by Elsevier in 2020, summarizing his applications oriented research during the last five years, supervising many PhD students at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He was the winner of New Zealand Innovator of the Year 2013 Award. From 1976 to 1985 he worked as an electronics engineer at airports and digital telephone exchange systems. From 1985, he had a 16+ years of a successful engineering career at the Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, where he was promoted to the CEO in 1999. In the 1990s, he was an active consultant for a few US companies, including the Gartner Group, Technology Dynamics, NJ and many other organizations in his home country. From 2002 to 2005 he was a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland. He moved to University of Waikato in 2006. He acts as a member of the on-demand expert reviewer panel of the Ministry of Business Innovation and Enterprise, New Zealand (from 2005) and in 2014 he was appointed the Vice Chair of the DC Energy Efficiency Committee by the IEEE Power Electronics Society. A Fellow of the IET (London), Fellow of Engineering NZ and a Senior Member of IEEE (USA) and a graduate from the University of Ceylon, during his long career at ACCIMT he was a winner of Presidential Awards for Inventions-1995, the Most Outstanding Citizens Awards-1999 and a TOYP Award in 1993. In 2011 he was elected as an affiliated member of the Power Sources Manufacturers Association, USA. He is currently active in research in non-traditional supercapacitor applications, power supply topologies, transient propagation and renewable energy. He has contributed over 160 papers to learned journals and international conferences. His work on supercapacitor assisted (SCA) circuit topologies/techniques such as SCALDO, SCASA and SCATMA culminated numerous US, NZ and PCT patents and several more are pending. He is presently employed as an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, the University of Waikato, New Zealand. At international IEEE conferences and industry trade shows he frequently delivers invited tutorials, workshops and lectures on subjects he is passionate about, including the area of innovation and commercialization. His hobbies are gardening and car-grooming.

Pr. Lingai LUO is Research Director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She was Direction member of LTEN and the director of LOCIE, bothLaboratories of CNRS. She was the cofounder and coordinator of 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. Shi is the author of 2 books and over 125 journal articles.She is serving as subject editor of Energy Journal, and associate editor of three others Journals.

Dr. FarshidAram is a lecturer and researcher in Sustainability and Urban Regeneration at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He has invented special software (Aram Mental Map Analyzer) to measure the citizens' mental cognition from urban spaces through mental maps. His research works concerning Madrid's urban parks have been published in prestigious journals. In addition, he is the reviewer and guest editor of the ISI journals.

Sanjukta Subudhi is a microbiologist and working as a senior fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. She leads the advanced microbial biofuel & biochemical research group at TERI. Research explorations of her group span the domain of; microbial production of clean fuel (bio-hydrogen bio-methane, bio-butanol from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation feed stocks) and green chemicals (2,3 Butane Diol, lactic acid, lipase, bioflucculant). She had the opportunity to work in several bilateral and multilateral collaborative research projects. She has over 100 research publications, conference papers, and proceedings to her name, which includes 51 high impact factor peer-reviewed international publications (with RG score of 29.39 and 1061citations, h-index, 18, I10 index, 23), four patents, and three book chapters. Major research achievements include biohydrogen and bioethanol production from 1st and next generation feed, biomethane from organic matter, microbial production of 2,3 Butane Diol and its downstream purification, algal production of value added biopigments. She is the member of several professional bodies.

Francesca Ceglia graduated cum laude in Energy Engineering at the University of Sannio in 2017 with a thesis on “Innovative geothermal technologies”. In 2018year she won an annual fellowship for research activities in “Geothermal low-medium temperature plants”. On October 2018 she won a fellowship for the XXXIV Ph.D. course in “Information Engineering” for Energy and Environmental curricula. She is now a Ph.dstudent at last year of course. She works at University of Sannio investigating on different topics as: polygeneration systems, geothermal-based devices, sustainability of power system; renewable-based systems, energy communities etc. She is co-author of 6 papers published in International Journals and 1 paper published in the Proceedings of International Conference.

"Yassmine Rghif received her Ph.D. in Heat transfer and Energetic from Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (Morocco). Her research interest areas are in the fields of heat and mass transfers and solar energy storage. She published several articles in peer-reviewed journals related to salt gradient solar ponds. In addition, she participated in several conferences relating to renewable energy."

A.Y. Klimenko has his major engineering research interests in energy area, covering combustion and use of hydrogen and other fuels in conjunction with effective utilisation of solar energy. His scientific research is focused on advanced multiscale modelling with applications ranging fromthermodynamics,combustion,fluidand quantum mechanics to complex evolutionary systems and networks. He has introduced conditional methods (e.g. CMC MMC) that are recognised and used worldwide as veryeffective combustion modelling tools. Modelling of differential diffusion, which is especially important for hydrogen transport and combustion, is one of principal topics investigated byA.Y. Klimenko and the CMM group --- the group that he has led over many years in the University of Queensland. He also has special interest in technological progress and its uneven, leaping character, as well as the profound effect of technological change on engineering profession, engineering education and the society in general.He has around 200 publications including 2 books, 7 book chapters and more than 100 journal papers, which are cited more than 3500 times. He has held senior visiting positions in Stanford, Cornell, Wyoming, Karlsruhe and Tsinghua universities. A.Y. Klimenko holds high Doctorate in Engineering and in 2018 has been elected as Fellow of the Combustion Insitute.

Silvio Simani was born in Ferrara in 1971. He received his Laurea degree (cum laude) in Electronic Engineering from the Department of Engineering at the University of Ferrara, Italy, in 1996, and was awarded the Ph.D. in Information Science (Automatic Control) at the Department of Engineering of the University of Ferrara and Modena, Italy, in 2000. Since February 2002 he was Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering of the University of Ferrara, and since December 2018 he has been Professor at the same Department. Since 1999 he is member of the IFAC Technical Committee 6.4 on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS); since 1998 he is member of the IEEE Society, and since 2016 he is Senior Member IEEE. Prof. Simani has published more than 260 refereed journal and conference papers, several book’s chapters, and four monographs. His research interests include fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of linear and nonlinear dynamic processes, system modelling, identification and data analysis, linear and nonlinear filtering techniques, fuzzy logic and neural networks for modelling and control, as well as the interaction issues among identification, fault diagnosis, fault tolerant and sustainable control. These techniques have been applied to power plants, renewable energy conversion systems, aircraft and spacecraft processes.

I am a Peruvian mechanical engineer who has been involved in renewable energy for more than 30 years, mainly related to rural electrification with wind and solar power, currently in the final stage of the PhD program at the University Polytécnica of Catalunya doing research on Hybrid Rural Microgrids. I teach the subject the Sustainable Energy at the Universidad Científica del Perú since 2015, being part of the research staff of the University.

JeyrajSelvaraj received the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from Multimedia University, Malaysia, in 2002, the M.Sc. degree in power electronics and drives jointly from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K., and the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2009. He is currently an associate professor and deputy director of University Malaya Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya.He has involved in the field of solar energy for 15 years. He has done more than 75 onsite inverter test under the FiT, LSS and NEM scheme in Malaysia. He is also a member of IEEE, IEM and a member of working group committee on Photovoltaic Standards of Department of Standards Malaysia. He is one of the recipient of NAM research training fellowship for young scientist and Royal Academy Engineering UK’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowship in 2016 and 2017 respectively. In 2019 he was awarded the Erasmus+ Mobility Programme Fellowship followed by Asian Universities Alliance Scholarship in 2020.

Dr GM Shafiullah is currently a Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Murdoch University, Australia. After completing PhD in 2013 from Central Queensland University, Australia, GM joined as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Electrical and Renewable Energy Engineering, Deakin University, Australia. GM’s research interests include power systems stability, energy efficiency, renewable energy and its enabling technologies, microgrid and smart gird. He has coauthored of more than 140 refereed published book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers including IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, IET, Wiley, MDPI and AIP Journals. He has an h-index of 25 and over 2100 citations. He has a field-weighted citation impact of 2.51 in the field of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. GM is currently supervising eight HDR students and extensively involved in a number of projects that include integration of PV systems in remote diesel network; high penetration of distributed energy resources into the grid and off-grid networks; innovative control strategies development for microgrid; microgrid-based power systems for the rural community and renewable energy for developing countries. GM has also been involved in industrial/consultancy projects on microgrid, and renewable energy integration in the grid-connected and off-grid systems and attracted about $4.5M research funding. GM is a senior member of IEEE and IEEE PES. He is currently editing special issues for Energies- MDPI, Sustainability- MDPI and Smart Grid -Frontiers in Energy Research. He is also the Associate Editor for Smart Grid-Frontiers in Energy Research. He is the General Co-Chair for the 2019 ICPES to be held in Perth in addition to actively involved in few other reputed conferences.

Dr. Sungwoo Yang, an assistant professor, joined in the Civil and Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) in the Fall of 2017. He received his PhD (2011) at Duke University, then joined MIT as a postdoctoral fellow to conduct research within the Device Research Laboratory (with Prof. Evelyn Wang). Later, he became a research scientist at MIT in 2014. Research interest: The focus of his research is on porous materials which intersect the multidisciplinary fields of solar energy harvesting and thermal energy storage. He aims to bring about transformational efficiency enhancements in energy conversion and storage, buildings, water, and transportation by manipulating optical, thermal, and adsorptive properties of porous materials with device level considerations. The focus of his research efforts will be directed towards both: 1) fundamental research on developing new class of hybrid materials for efficient energy conversions and storages, and 2) applied research on devices and systems including for full spectrum solar energy conversion, thermal energy storage, water harvesting, and energy efficient buildings.

Dr. Krishna Kanta Panthi is a Professor in Rock and Tunnel Engineering at the Department of Geoscience and Petroleum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 2008. He holds the degrees; PhD in Rock and Tunnel Engineering, MSc in Hydropower Engineering and MSc in Tunnel Engineering. He has over 30 years of experience in design, construction management and management of academic research within rock and tunnel engineering, hydropower engineering, rock slope stability and mining engineering. He is the member and activist of the International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (ISRM) and International Tunneling Association (ITA). He is the council member of ISRM and also serves as a commission member on Earthquake Impact on Underground Structures at the ITA. Professor Panthi initiated efforts to start MSc education in “Rock and Tunnel Engineering” at the Paschimanchal Campus (WRC) of the Institute of Engineering (IoE) in Nepal. He is the project manager for NORHED II Project 70141 6; Capacity Building in Higher Education within Rock and Tunnel Engineering at IoE- WRC and is actively involved in strengthening of education in Nepal in this sector. Professor Panthi is a Project manager for work Package WP1.1. Tunnels under HydroCen Research Project and HydroCen labs. It is Professor Panthi who has coordinated with ITA and ISRM to establish Nepal Tunneling Association (NTA) and Nepal Society for Rock Mechanics (NSRM) in Nepal. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers and book chapters published in renowned international journals and conferences. He sits in the Editorial Board of the Springer Journal “Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment”.

Dr. Kuljeet S. Grewal is currently working as Instructor and Postdoctoral Associate at School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (SAPL), University of Calgary, Canada. Prior to joining UCalgary in Aug 2018 as Postdoc, he earned his Doctorate degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India in Mechanical Engineering. His areas of expertise include energy modeling, experimental analysis, clean energy resources, thermal systems, energy efficient urban design, and optimization/inverse optimization. Currently, his research focus is sustainable neighborhood design that also involves planning of clean energy resources. Along with successful accomplishment of various industry and government funded research projects, he is presentlyworking on several projects as well. In 2019, he was awarded with Peak Scholar Award in Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Knowledge Engagement by UCalgary for his exceptional contribution. Till date, he published 23 high-quality journal articles along with reputed conference publications. Apart from above roles, since Jan 2019 he is contributing as Design Expert in Task 63: Solar Neighborhood Planning of International Energy Agency (IEA). Dr. Kuljeet is also acting as Guest Editor for a special issue on Advances in Energy-Efficient Buildings in Energies Journal. He also worked for two years in heavy industry in India with exposures to manufacturing, supply chain management and data analysis.

Dr Qiyao Han is a research fellow at the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast. She holds a doctoral degree in architecture and a master’s degree in landscape architecture. Her research interests lie in nature-based solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation, multi-scale urban resilience to climate change, ecosystem services and benefits delivered by green infrastructure, afforestation and reforestation for carbon neutral cities, and biodiversity conservation in cities. Her work has been published in many journals such as Landscape and Urban Planning, npj Urban Sustainability, Urban Planning, and Smart and Sustainable Built Environment.

Mario Tovar is a PhD candidate at the Renewable Energy Institute (IER) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In the research group where he participates, they try to understand the complex dynamics between renewable intermittent sources and energy consumption. His research focuses on time series predictions with novel machine learning approaches, some of his published work is in this field. These predictions are related to renewable generation and electric demand, in order to use them to build optimal and intelligent itineraries of charge and discharge for energy storage systems. He has a telecommunications engineering degree in the faculty of engineering at the UNAM and a Master’s degree in energy at the same university. He is a certified Jetson Ambassador member from the NVIDIA program (https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/04/01/jetson-ai-ambassadors/) and assistant professor at the Renewable Energy Institute of the UNAM. He is also a developer and an enthusiast of free software and hardware platforms. His interests are: electronics, ioT, microgrids, energy transactions, machine learning, neural networks, neural ODE’s, solar PV energy, wind energy and general purpose GPU’s.

Thamraa is an associate professor in physics department, Princess Norah University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She is a solar energy specialist. Focusing to improve the solar cells efficiency and stability. As a scientist she also applying project management and leadership strategy in her projects to gain both solutions and best practices. Her Ph.D from Bangor university, united kingdom in organic solar cells 2016 and also, Master degree in nanotechnology and microfabrication in 2010. She did her postdoctoral research in PV Lab at Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) in Boston 2017-2018, and she conduct a research with the MIT PV lab group in topic relating to her country (Perovskite Si Tandem Solar Cells for Hot/Arid Climates) and the result was presented in MRS 2018 spring conference in Arizona. Also, she was a visiting researcher in civil structure and environmental engineering department at Trinity college of Dublin in summer 2019. Her research interest areas include but not limit to photovoltaics, LED, transistor, energy storage, hydrogen fuel cells, semiconductor materials, Nanomaterials. She published several articles in peer reviewed journals some of them related to solar energy application. Also, she participated in several conferences and committee relating to the solar energy.

Hao Chen is currently a researcher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway majoring in machine learning and renewable energy. His research interests are developing and applying data science in energy systems. Especially wind energy. Renewable energy from wind energy is natural varying with the local weather conditions at the production site, and the intermitted power generation influence both power grid stability, energy system operators, and the power marked economics. Accurate wind power predictions may reduce the cost impact of wind energy, and several forecasting techniques and methods have been proposed to solve this problem. His work is on investigating and propose new techniques for resource mapping of renewable electricity production from wind in complex terrain in the Arctic based on numerical models from meteorology, as e.g. the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) and CFD modeling, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and statistical signal processing.

Muhammad Amin is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Environmental Design Department, Kanazawa University. He holds a bachelor's degree in the Environmental Engineering Andalas University, Indonesia, and Master's degree in the Environmental Design Kanazawa University, Japan in the air pollution especially Ultrafine particles emitted from biomass burning. His research interests lie in the ultrafine particle emitted from biomass burning, vehicles emission, industries activities, etc. He will graduate from the doctoral program in March 2022 and will continue as a Post-doctoral student for at least 5 years at the Atmospheric Environment and Pollution Control Engineering Laboratory, Kanazawa University at the beginning of April 2022"

Toochukwu Ogbonna is a first year doctoral student in the environmental studies department, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is interested in renewable energy technology for developing countries. And his current research is focusing on solar energy resource assessment and the consumers’ perception in Nigeria. In his master’s degree at the same University (2020), he investigated the effect of moisture content and nano-bubble water on biomethane production from anaerobic co-digestion of Cowpea hull and waste activated sludge. His research findings were shared in several conferences. He is excited to meet and exchange ideas with other participants.

My name is David Alemzero. A Ph.D. student at Jiangsu University. Before pursuing my Ph.D., I graduated with MSC Economics specializing in Energy and natural resources economics at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology-Kumasi, Ghana. I will be pleased to attend this conference. My research area is focused on a low carbon economy that includes Renewable Energy- Wind energy, Energy efficiency(EE), Energy security, and efficiency consumption, to mention but a few. The damning ramifications of climate change make it imperative to transition to a low carbon economy to protect the planet and humanity. RETs are one of the surest ways to leapfrog to a sustainable pathway. I will delve more into these issues during my presentation. I have written and published several scientific papers on these areas. The topic of my paper is on the prospects of wind energy deployment in Africa: Technical and Economic Analysis.

Davide Bertino graduated in Chemical and Sustainable Processes Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy in March 2021. His main focus on renewable energies regards solar technologies such as CSP and Dish-Stirling systems. He carried out a project regarding a case-study CFD performance analysis of a small-scale generation system at Politecnico di Torino. His main research interests are: solar technologies power generation, materials used in solar systems heat exchangers,3D modelling and CFD analysis.

Andrew Adewale Alola (PhD) Building on his Bachelor of Science (BSc) program in Mathematics, Dr. Andrew completed his Master of Science (MSc) program in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus before successfully completing his Ph.D. degree in Economics in the same university. Dr. Andrew is currently affiliated with Istanbul Gelisim University as Assistant Professor as a lecturer in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs. He is also currently a Senior Research Fellow both with South Ural State University (Russia) in the Department of Financial Technologies and Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment of University of Johannesburg (South Africa). Dr Andrew’s areas of interest include Applied Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Environmental Economics, Sustainable Development, and other evolving economic‐related interests. In November 2020, Dr Andrew was named in the Standard University’s Top 2% Global Scientists list and emerged globally as the 704th and 1972th scientist in the field of Energy and Environment respectively.