Wonyong Choi received B.S. from Seoul National University (Korea) in 1988, M.S. from POSTECH (Korea), and Ph.D. from CALTECH(USA) in 1996.He then worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1996 to 1998 as a postdoctoral scholar. He joined POSTECH in 1998 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2008. His research interests are mainly focused on semiconductor photo(electro)catalysis and photochemistry for solar energy conversion and environmental applications, advanced oxidation processes, and environmental chemistry. Dr. Choi has published more than 315 articles which have been cited more than 42,000 times in scientific journals to date (H-index 89). He was appointed as Namgo Chair professor (POSTECH) in 2012, elected as Academician of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2014.He received Young Scientist Award (KAST) in 2005,KAST Science and Technology Award in 2015,Korea Engineering Award in 2018, Doosan Yonkang Environment Award in 2020, and was selected as Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2019 and 2020. He is currently serving as an editor-in-chief of ACS ES&T Engineering since Jan. 2020 and has served as an associate editor of Environmental Science & Technology (2017-2019) and an editor of Journal of Hazardous Materials (2008-2017).He has been also on the advisory board of Nature Sustainability (since 2020),Energy and Environmental Science (since 2008)and ACS Earth and Space Chemistry (since 2017).

Dr. JieshanQiu is Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT), and Dean of Chemical Engineering Collegeat BUCT. He is an internationally-recognized research and thought leader in chemical engineering and carbon science. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis and environment protection. He has published 700+ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule,Matter, Nano Today, etc., with a citation 30400+ times and H-index of 86 (web of sci.). He has a strong record of innovation-with 140+ Chinese and International patents issued. Currently, he is the Vice President of Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, Associate Editor of CIESC Journal, and is on the advisory board of 22 high profile journals, including Chemical Engineering Science, and Science China Materials. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in 2018, 2019 and 2020, and Elsevier Highly Cited Researcher in the field of chemical engineering in China in 2019, and RSC top 1% Highly Cited Scholar in China in 2019. He has served as Associate Editor of three international journals for years, including: Carbon, FlatChemand ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Alberto Borghetti was born in Cesena Italy on May 29, 1967. He graduated (with honors) in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1992. Since then he has been working with the power system group of the same University, where is now a Professor of Electrical Power Systems. His research and teaching activities are in the areas of power system analysis, power system restoration after blackout, electromagnetic transients, optimal generation scheduling, and distribution system operation. He is the author or coauthor of over 150 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals or presented at international conferences. He has served as Technical Program Committee chairperson of the 2010 30th Int. Conf. on Lightning Protection, chair of the 2016 Bologna CIGRE Colloquium on Lightning and Power systems, and special reporter for CIGRE 2018. IEEE Fellow (class 2015) for contributions to modeling of power distribution systems under transients conditions, he received the ICLP Scientific Committee Award in 2016 and the 2018 CIGRE Technical Council Award for Study Committee C4. From 2010 to 2017 he served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Currently he is serving as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Associate Editor of MPCE and, since the beginning of 2019, as Editor-in-Chief of Electrical Engineering – Archiv fur Elektrotechnik.

Dr Chen received M.Phil. degree in Power Electronics from Staffordshire University, England, Ph.D. degree in Power and Control, from University of Durham, England. Dr Chen has been a full Professor with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark since 2002. He is the Danish Principle Investigator for Wind Energy of Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research (SDC), the leader of Wind Power System Research program at the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University. Professor Chen’s main current research interests are wind energy，power electronics, modern power system and energy systems. He has led many international and national research projects and has supervised many PhD, Postdoctoral research and visiting scholars. Dr Chen is a panel member for many research project evaluations, including European Research Council and other European national research funding organizations. He has served as an international evaluation expert for many research funding organisations, including Belgian, Canada, Finland, Italy, Ireland, Netherland and UK, etc. He has more than 700 technical publications. Google Scholar citation over 21000（H-index 66）. Dr Chen is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, a Subject Editor (wind turbine control) of IET Renewable Power Generation, an Associate Editor of IET Smart Grid, and a member of editor boards of many international journals, a Fellow of IET, a Chartered Engineer in the U.K., and a Fellow of IEEE, a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Marialaura Di Somma received the MSc Degree (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering for Energy and Environment and the Ph. D degree in Mechanical Systems Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in Italy, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. In 2014, she has been Visiting Research Assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Connecticut (CT, USA). Since December 2014, she is Research Engineer of the Smart Grid and Energy Networks Laboratory | Energy Technologies Department of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). Her main research interests include: design and operation optimization of distributed energy resources (DER) in the context of local energy communities through multi-objective approach, bidding strategies of DER aggregators for participation to the various market options, demand response, multi-carrier energy systems modeling and optimization, and power systems design and control. Since 2016, she is member of the Steering Committee and General Assembly of the European Energy Research Alliance – Joint Programme on Smart Grids, whereas since 2017, she is member of Mission Innovation – Innovation Challenge 1 on Smart Grids. She is scientific coordinator of a number of National and European projects on energy communities and smart grid topics, by also acting as Vice Project Coordinator and Work Package Leader. She has supervised several MSc theses, and international fellowship programmes. She also acts as guest editor for special issues associated to international scientific journals. She has been plenary speaker in several scientific conferences, chair in international conferences and member of scientific committees. She is author of many scientific papers published in international journals and proceedings of international conferences, most of them awarded as highly-cited papers.

Mohammad Dolatabadi was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1979. He received the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, in 2010. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Vali-e-Asr, Rafsanjan. His research interest is mainly Operations Research.

Nikos D. Hatziargyriou is since 1984 a faculty member and since 1995, full professor in Power Systems at the Electrical and Computer Engineering School of the National Technical University of Athens. He is Director of the Postgraduate Programme of “Energy Production and Management”. He is Director of the Energy Systems Laboratory and founder of the “SmartRue” research unit. From April 2015 to September 2019 he was Chairman and until June 2018, CEO of the Hellenic Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO). From February 2007 until September 2012 he was executive Vice-Chair and Deputy CEO of the Public Power Corporation (PPC), responsible for the Transmission and Distribution Divisions. He is Fellow Member of IEEE, past Chair of the Power System Dynamic Performance Committee (PSDPC) and currently Editor in Chief of the IEEE Trans on Power Systems. He is honorary member of CIGRE and past Chair of CIGRE SC C6 “Distribution Systems and Distributed Generation”. He was chair and currently vice-chair of the EU Technology and Innovation Platform on Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP-SNET) and former chair of the European Technology Platform on SmartGrids. He is member of the Energy Committee of the Athens Academy of Science. He has participated in more than 60 RD&D projects funded by the EU Commission, electric utilities and manufacturers for both fundamental research and practical applications. He is author of the book “Microgrids: Architectures and Control” and of more than 200 journal publications and 500 conference proceedings papers. In 2017 he received the IEEE PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award for “contributions in the dynamic performance and control of power systems with dispersed energy resources”. He is included in the 2016, 2017 and 2019 Thomson Reuters lists of the top 1% most cited researchers.

Pierluigi Mancarella is Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems at The University of Melbourne (Australia) and Professor of Smart Energy Systems at The University of Manchester (UK). He received his MSc and PhD in Power Systems from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy), before working as a post-doc researcher at Imperial College London (UK). Pierluigi has also held visiting positions at NREL (USA), Tsinghua University (China), Ecole Centrale de Lille (France), NTNU (Norway), and Universidad de Chile (Chile).

Prof Dr Catalina Spataru ‘ expertise is the in the field of global energy and resources, from theoretical investigations to implementation research and practice to support policy makers and sustainability agenda. She is the Founder and the Head of the UCL Islands Laboratory, a unique initiative that support sustainable solutions for island nations worldwide.

Dr. Evangelos I. Gkanas has completed his PhD in Advanced Energy Materials at the National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece. He continued his research endeavors as Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham (UK). He is the leader of the Hydrogen for Mobility Research Group at Coventry University (UK), where he is also an Assistant Professor in Thermodynamics. He has published more than 20 scientific outcomes at peer-reviewed journals and serving as an editorial board member in several journals.

Beatriz Ruiz Camacho has completed her PhD at the age of 30 years from National Polytechnic Institute. She also obtained an MSc in Science and Materials Engineering from Autonomous Metropolitan University. Actually, She is a Chemical Engineering professor at the Guanajuato University. She has published as the first author in more than 15 papers in reputed journals and she is Vice-president of the Mexican Hydrogen Society. She is author and coauthor of chapters book related with materials for fuel cells. She is expertise in nanomaterials synthesis and characterization, fuel cells, electrocatalysts and renewable energy. She has given lectures at various national and international conferences.

Dr Javier Fernandez-Garcia studied his bachelor (2002-2007) and master’s degree (2010-2011) in Spain. He worked in industry from 2007 to 2014 in companies such as Saint-Gobain, XSTRATA, Biogas Fuel Cell and HUNOSA. He completed his PhD at University of Oviedo (2011-2014). After that he worked as a Research Fellow at University of Warwick from 2014 to 2016. Then he developed research activities in Stoli Catalysts Ltd (Spin-out company) and he was finally appointed as Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at University of Leeds in 2017.

Muhammad Yusuf Abduh has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from the University of Groningen. He is the co-founder of Bio Proshafa Karya and Biorefinery Society, start-up companies in the valorization of renewable sources to produce bioproducts. He has published more than 10 papers and has been serving as a reviewer in reputed journals.

Helena Weingrill is a PhD student at the Chair of Materials Science and Testing of Polymers at Montanuniversitaet Leoben in Austria. She finished the bachelor’s and master’s programme of Polymer Science and Engineering also at the Montanuniveritaet Leoben.

Ipek Caglayan has completed her BSc. degree at Kocaeli University and she is continuing her MSc. studies at Kocaeli University. She has worked on renewable energy specializing in Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells (DBFC) during her MSc. studies.

Che-Fu Su is a PhD student of the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He received an M.S. from the West Texas A&M University in 2007 and James E. Moreland Safety Scholarship when he was pursuing his M.S. degree. Now, his research interests lie in the area of Phase Change Materials, especially for thermal conductivity enhancement. He mainly focuses on the design of the apparatus setup and sample fabrication for this research project, and this research is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Professor Musa Danjaji is the Academic Program Coordinator for the Nuclear Engineering (NE) program and also serves as the Director, for the Center of Energy Studies at South Carolina State (SC State) University. Prior to coming to SC State, Professor Danjaji held joint appointments as a research scientist/engineer at the Army Environmental Policy Institute and the United States Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. He obtained his Masters and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has also obtained his Bachelors and Masters in Physics from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria.