Organization: University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Organization: Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany

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Organization: University of Cagliari, Italy

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Organization: Linnaeus University, Sweden

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Organization: Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy

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Organization: Ontario Tech University, Canada

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Organization: Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

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Organization: National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Organization: University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Organization: University of Naples Federico II, Italy

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Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States

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Philip W. T. Pong received a B.Eng. from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2002 with 1st class honours. Then he obtained a PhD in engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2005. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Magnetic Materials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for three years. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research interest focuses on the fault detection, predictive maintenance, and anomaly detection of power grid. He is the Founding Director of the Green Technology Research and Training Laboratory, leading the research and education activities of offshore wind energy at NJIT. Philip Pong is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), a Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), a Fellow of the NANOSMAT Society (FNS), a chartered physicist (CPhys), a chartered engineer (CEng), a chartered energy engineer, a registered professional engineer (R.P.E. in Electrical, Electronics, Energy), and a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE). He serves on the editorial boards for several IEEE and SCI journals.

Organization: Columbia University, United States

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Prof. Stephany Griffith-Jones is an economist researching and providing policy advice on capital flows; macro-economic management of capital flows in developing and transition countries and reform of international financial architecture from a development perspective. She has led several major international research projects on international financial and macro-economic issues with networks of senior academics, policy-makers and bankers from developed and developing countries. Published widely, having written or edited eighteen books and numerous journal and other articles. Has advised many international organisations (the European Commission, the World Bank, various UN agencies (UNDP, UNICEF, DESA, ECLAC), IADB and several governments and Central Banks, including the UK, Chilean, Swedish, Tanzanian, Brazilian and Czech. Organised and directed several major international conferences and workshops (in collaboration with IMF, World Bank, the United Nations, Commonwealth Secretariat and others).

Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

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Dr. Simmons is the Director of the Biological Systems and Engineering Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (biosciences.lbl.gov). He also serves as the Chief Science and Technology Officer and Vice-President of the Deconstruction Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (www.jbei.org), a DOE Office of Science funded project tasked with the development and realization of next-generation “drop-in” biofuels and bioproducts produced from sustainable, non-food lignocellulosic biomass. He is also the Project Management Lead for the DOE Agile BioFoundry (https://agilebiofoundry.org/).

Organization: Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China

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Dr. Jieshan Qiu, Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering, and Dean of Chemical Engineering College, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. 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 800⁺ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule, Matter, Chem, Sci. Adv., etc., with citations 55900⁺ times and h-index of 119 (Google Scholar), and his work has been featured on 70 covers of high profile journals. He has been invited to give 160⁺ plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and at universities and research institutes. He has filed 160⁺ Chinese and International patents, of which some have been successfully commercialized in China. He has been awarded 20⁺ prestigious prizes and awards including the 1^st class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies awarded by the Education Ministry of China. Currently, he is the Associate Editor of Chemical Engineering Science (Elsevier) and Battery Energy (Wiley), and is also on the advisory boards of 20⁺ high profile journals, including Science China Materials, Energy Technology, Carbon Energy, etc. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher from 2018 to 2022 in a row, and an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers from 2019 to 2022 in the field of chemical engineering, and Top 1% highly cited Chinese authors in the field of energy & sustainability in 2019 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has served as Associate Editor of the international journals for years, including: Carbon, FlatChem and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Organization: University of Houston Texas, United States

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Organization: Hokkaido University, Japan

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Vasudevanpillai Biju is a Professor and the Director of the Promotion Office of International Alliance at the Research Institute for Electronic Science and Graduate School of Environmental Science at Hokkaido University. He assumed this position after a research career as a scientist and a senior scientist at AIST, Japan (2004-2015), a PRESTO researcher at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, 2010-2014), a visiting Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, USA (2007), a postdoctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA (2003-2004), a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at AIST, Japan (2002-2003), and a research scientist at Angstrom Technology Partnership, Japan (2000-2002). He has been a visiting faculty at many universities in Japan, the US, and India. He has been a member of the board of studies/faculty evaluation/faculty screening/project screening committees of academic and government bodies in Japan, India, New Zealand, Chili, Taiwan, the European Union, Singapore, Belgium, etc. He has been a SPARC fellow at IIT Hyderabad, India, and an Erudite Fellow of the Bard of Higher Education, Kerala, India. His research interests include semiconductor nanocrystals and quantum dots, photo-functional molecules, nanobiotechnogy, and single-molecule techniques. His research activities are recognized with various awards by the Ozaki Foundation (Gen-nai Prize and Gen-nai Award), the Japanese Photochemistry Association, the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association, and the Chemical Society of Japan. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011. He has been an associate editor of J. Photochem. Photobiol. C, and NPG Asia Materials.

Organization: University of Nantes, France

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Lingai LUO is Research Director of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the laboratory of thermo-kinetics, Nantes (LTN), France.

Dr. Luo’s research covers a wide range of topics in thermal, process and energy engineering: combustion and fluidized bed; energy balance analysis; solar refrigeration machines; separation processes; energy for buildings, etc. More recently, her research activities focus on a fundamental strategy based on thermodynamic analysis and centered on the transfer intensification and energy systems optimization. Dr. Luo is mainly engaged in the intensification of heat and mass transfer and shape optimization in different energy components, systems and processes. She proposed a multi-scale approach for process intensification. To improve the global performance (productivity) of a process, intensification should necessarily be implemented at three scales: local scale, component scale and system scale.

Organization: University of Houston Texas, United States

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Prof. Zhu Han received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was an R&D Engineer of JDSU, Germantown, Maryland. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Associate at the University of Maryland. From 2006 to 2008, he was an assistant professor in Boise State University, Idaho. Currently, he is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as well as Computer Science Department at University of Houston, Texas. His research interests include security, wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communication and networking, game theory, and wireless multimedia. Dr. Han is an NSF CAREER award recipient of 2010. Dr. Han has several IEEE conference best paper awards, and winner of 2011 IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Prize, 2015 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and 2016 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the field of Communication Systems (Best Paper Award for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications). Dr. Han is the winner 2021 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. He has been an IEEE fellow since 2014, AAAS fellow since 2020 and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Han is a 1% highly cited researcher according to Web of Science since 2017.

Organization: Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

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Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. In addition to his Ph.D., he holds the title of D.Sc. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts.

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

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

Organization: VP - Sustainability, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

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Dr. Chirico is the Vice President of Sustainability at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In this role, she oversees the integration of climate and sustainability initiatives for the Institute. Previously, she was one of Hawai’i’s foremost experts on clean energy and won multiple awards as the best sustainability consultant in Hawaii. She worked with some of the largest companies in the world, government agencies, and universities, leading clean energy initiatives, and served as the Executive Director of the first sustainability institute at the University of Hawaii, directing the first clean energy and water programs in the state. Dr. Chirico holds a PhD in Environmental Policy, a Master's in Public Health (MPH), and a Bachelor's of Science (BS). She was the founder of the Maui Chapter of Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE) and holds certifications in LEED, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), WaterSense, Climate Action Planning, and Home Energy Survey Professional (HESP).

Organization: Beijing University of Technology, China

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Jiahua Pan, member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), vice chair of National Expert Panel on Climate Change, lead author of IPCC Working Group III Assessment Reports, member of the Independent Group of Scientists (IGS) of the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) appointed by Secretary-in-General of UN.

Organization: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Professor Michael Kelly is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology in the University of Cambridge since 2002, and a Professorial Fellow at Trinity Hall.  Since 2006 he has been a Non-executive Director of the Laird plc.

He studied Mathematics and Physics to MSc (1971) level at Victoria University of Wellington, and completed a PhD (1974) in solid state physics at the University of Cambridge where he continued post-doctoral work until 1981 when he joined the GEC Hirst Research Centre.  While there he and his team developed, from concept to product, two new generation families of microwave devices that went, and one is still, in production with E2V Technologies in Lincoln.  From 1992-2002 he was Professor of Physics and Electronics at the University of Surrey, including a term as Head of the School of Electronics and Physical Sciences.  His research since 1990 has concentrated on the technology issues germane to the practical large-volume low-cost manufacture of the most advanced electronic devices.  During 2003-5, we was the Executive Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, an £80M project which brought together academics from Cambridge and MIT to work on research, education and industrial outreach for the benefit of the UK economy.  He has also served as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department for Communities and Local Government during 2006-9 where he focused on energy demand reduction in the built environment.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Academy of Engineering and Honorary Fellow the Royal Society of New Zealand.  He is also a member of Europaea Academia.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and Senior Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering in the USA.  He has won prizes for his work from GEC, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.  He has an honorary DSc from Victoria University of Wellington.

Organization: University of Thessaly, Greece

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Dr. George Halkos is Professor in Economics of Natural Resources. He is an economist who has graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Piraeus (Greece). He holds a Master of Sciences (M.Sc) in Project Analysis, Finance and Investment and a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil) in Cost-Benefit Analysis with the use of Mathematical Models and Game Theory and with application to Environmental Economics from the Economics Department of the University of York (England).

He is the Director of the Operations Research Laboratory and Associate Editor in the journal Environment and Development Economics (Cambridge University Press). He was the Director of Postgraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at the University of Thessaly entitled "Applied Economics" for 4 academic years (2007-2011) and the Deputy Head of the Department of Economics for 4 academic years (2009-2013). His research interests are in the fields of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, Simulations of Economic Modelling, Environmental Economics, Applied Micro-economic with emphasis in Welfare Economics, Air Pollution, Game Theory, Mathematical Models (Non-Linear Programming).

Organization: Meijo University, Japan

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Soocheol Lee is a Professor of Faculty of Economics, Meijo University in Japan. He graduated from Seoul National University in Korea and received his PhD at the Graduate School of Kyoto University in Japan. He had worked for the Federation of Korean Industry as a team leader of Economic Research Department for about 10 years before he came to Japan. He has leaded Research Group of East Asia Environmental Policy Studies since 2002 and has written many books and papers on energy and environmental policy design and cooperation for sustainable low-carbon economy in East Asia.

He had served as a Director and Vice president of the Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics(AAERE). He also has served as a Director of the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (SEEPS,Japan) since 2016 and also served as a Direct of Korea Environmental Economics Association(KEEA) since 2012. He is currently an Adviser of KEEA.

Organization: PROGIS, Germany

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DI Walter H. Mayer is founder and CEO of PROGIS Software GmbH. From 1994 Mr. Mayer started as one of the very few European GIS (= Geographical Information Systems) supplier the development of PC-based GIS-products (WinGIS…) that are successfully sold world-wide via a distributor network. Further he could initiate the set up of an Advanced Technical College for Geoinformatics nearby the PROGIS location in Villach/Austria.

He has a long lasting experience as consultant for ecology, agriculture and forestry – Mr. MAYER studied agro-science (BSc/Ing.-Raumberg) and forestry (MSc/Dipl.Ing., University of Bodenkultur, Vienna) and is still running his own agro/forest enterprises as well as heading a consulting office in this field. He introduced with WinGIS-AGROffice a new model of integrated GIS based agro-/forest-/environment-/natural-risks software and managed also enterprises up to 30.000 ha. IT enables today to handle private farmer´s/forest enterprises´ & government EDP needs, including traceability, precise farming, ecology, risk management and horizontal and vertical market needs closing the gap between stakeholders, consumers and farmers.

Organization: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

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Organization: University of Malaya, Malaysia

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Prof. Jeyraj Selvaraj is with the Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), with focus on Solar PV/T Systems. He is highly knowledgeable in the university with expertise on power engineering, electronics, renewable energy, solar energy, and energy and sustainable development.

Organization: Universidad FLACSO, Ecuador

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Organization: Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

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Organization: University of New South Wales, Australia

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The research objectives of Ashraf Uddin is to develop the fundamental science and new technology in solar cells. He has contributed significantly to the rapidly growing research capability in organic and perovskite solar cells. His research strengths are in the areas of electrical and optical characterisations of materials, mathematical modelling, and design of new OPV and perovskite devices and development of process technology for the fabrication of high efficiency and stable PV devices for commercial applications. He has world class research lab facilities for the device fabrication and characterisation in UNSW. He has supervised over 25 PhD and 100 master’s and UG thesis students. He has published over 230 research papers and produced 12 patents in UNSW.

Organization: American University, United States

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Daniel J. Fiorino is the founding Director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Distinguished Executive in Residence in the School of Public Affairs at American University. A faculty member in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, he teaches environmental policy, energy and climate change, environmental sustainability, and public management. Dan is the author or co-author of seven books and some 60 articles and book chapters. According to Google Scholar, his work is cited some 5.300 times in the professional literature.

His recent books are A Good Life on a Finite Earth: The Political Economy of Green Growth (Oxford University Press, 2018), Can Democracy Handle Climate Change? (Polity Books, 2018), and Conceptual Innovation in Environmental Policy (with James Meadowcroft, MIT Press, 2017). MIT Press also published the second edition of Environmental Governance Reconsidered (with Robert F. Durant and Rosemary O’Leary) in 2017.

Organization: University of Minnesota, United States

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Massoud Amin is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States. He holds the Honeywell/H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership, and is the Director of the Technological Leadership Institute in Twin Cities. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for leadership in smart grids and security of critical infrastructures. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Dr. Amin is known as the "father of the smart grid" due to his research and teaching on power grid theory. Amin has published a number of academic papers on improving the reliability, self healing, and cybersecurity of the electric grid. He has worked with government officials to drive policy around making the electric grid more resilient.

Organization: At Clave, Spain

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Organization: Macquarie University, Australia

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Professor Aman Oo is currently Dean of Engineering at Macquarie University. Previously he was the Dean and Head of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at Auckland University of Technology. He was also the Dean and Head of School of Engineering at Deakin University Australia. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and has made significant research contributions in the area of electrical power engineering and renewable energy, engineering education and published more than 300 scholarly articles in the peer reviewed high impact journals, books, and conference proceedings.

Aman has research interests and expertise in Microgrid & energy storage system integration, hydrogen, smart grid communication, power system stability and control, energy management and efficiency, protection and security of smart grids, sustainable operation and control of microgrids as well as in Engineering Education.

Organization: Wuhan University of Technology, China

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Organization: Chief Executive Officer, Q Hydrogen, United States

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Mr. Irvin, CEO of Q Hydrogen since 2013, concurrently serves as COO of QuasarWave Corporation since 2010. Renowned for commercialization strategies, he leverages deep ties in commercial and equity spheres. Previously, he drove technology deployment at Raytheon and boasts financial sector experience. A Babson College alumnus, he holds a BS in Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and Global Business Management, alongside PMP certification.

Organization: The George Washington University, United States

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Professor Ekundayo Shittu conducts basic and applied research that take a systems engineering approach to aid decision making under uncertainty on investments into energy technology portfolios and the economics of climate change response policies. Pivotal to his research is the examination of how key stakeholders deal with climate change risk and uncertainty. He examines ways of integrating formal decision tools and microeconomics to develop climate policies that aid the adoption of renewable energy technologies. Current projects include understanding the effects of uncertainty in technological learning on energy capacity additions, investigating how energy firms' investments are shaped by competitive and regulatory pressures, studying how to adequately value renewable energy given the evolution of storage technologies to mitigate intermittency, investigating the role of incumbent inertia in the strategic decision on the adoption of renewable energy, studying the impacts of modularity on firms' outsourcing and investment decisions, and studying the platforms for an effective and efficient disaster response system. He also applies his research tools to supply chain issues in healthcare logistics.

Organization: National University, United States

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Starting from March 2010, Ben D Radhakrishnan, has been a full time teaching Faculty at National University. He is currently active teaching more than one program and is the Academic Program Director for the MS Engineering Management program. He develops and teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses including capstone courses. He was the Academic Program Director for MS Sustainability Management program. In the recent past, he had the pleasure of being a nominee for NU’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

He is active in research areas relating sustainability and is focused on data center energy efficiency and the use of modern technology tools such as, Blockchain technology and Tableau for sustainability. He is also researching the application of Artificial Intelligence for Project Management.

He is a remote Affiliate Researcher for Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories (Berkeley, CA) and is on the board of energy efficiency tool development for data center IT equipment. He did is sabbatical research on data center energy efficiency. Other research topics include student-centric teaching and learning, globalization and Leadership. He has participated and presented research papers in conferences in the US, Japan, UK, India, Brazil, India and Dubai.

Prior to coming to National University, Ben was in private industry for over thirty years focused on telecommunication software development. He was the Technology Program Director in Qualcomm and a senior R&D Manager in Lucent Technologies.

Organization: University of Delaware, United States

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Organization: Northeastern University, China

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Dr. Prof. Rudai Shan graduated from the University of Michigan and received a PhD in Architecture. Since 2022, Prof. Shan worked as an associate professor of the Department of Architecture in Northeastern University (China). Her research has been involved with areas related to building optimization algorithm and high performance building.

Organization: Turkcell İletisim Hizmetleri A.S., Turkey

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Since joining the Turkcell group at the year 2007 after university graduation, Ayşegül has been experienced an integrated perspective by working in different areas; sales support, finance, procurement and contract management. In the light of this rich experience and project management expertise, she has been successfully managing the strategic technical projects and programs of Turkey's leading telecom operator Turkcell for the last 7 years and reporting to the senior management.

Organization: Griffith University, Australia

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Organization: University of Casablanca, Morocco

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Organization: Cyprus International University, Cyprus

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Organization: Institute of Control Systems Ministry of Science, Azerbaijan

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Corresponding Member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and Foreign member of Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and  Financial Sciences. Honorary member of European Superior Council of Doctors, Doctor of Economics, Professor.  He received PhD degree in 1968 and Doctorate in 1975 from Central Economic Mathematics Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Moscow). Laureate Azerbaijan State Prize in the field of science in 1984. Laureate Academician  N. Fedorenko International  Scientific Foundation of Economic Research (2015). 

Organization: University Larbi Tebessi of Tebessa Algeria, Algeria

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DIB Djalel is currently working as a Research teacher with the rank of full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Larbi tebessi University of Tebessa in Algeria. He received his PhD diploma in Power Systems from University of Annaba in Algeria in 2007. He participated in several international conferences, and he has published more than 100 papers in various international journals. Currently, he is a senior research team in Laboratory of Mine LM and leading two projects approved and funded by the Algerian state, he is also designated as a reviewer in several journals. His research interests‘fields are the power grid, the green Hydrogen and renewable energy. 

Organization: University of Jaén, Spain

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Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany

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Core Scientist, Chair of Energy Systems, Technical University of Munich, Germany

With a Ph.D. from Curtin University, Lydia specializes in technology acceptance and societal impacts. Leveraging her expertise in public attitudes, she explores actor and acceptance dynamics in hydrogen technologies. Rooted in sustainability, her research aims to foster broad hydrogen adoption, integrating innovation seamlessly into societal frameworks.

Organization: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

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Ying Zhang, director of natural resource asset accounting research department of Research Center of Sustainable Development, CASS, a research member of the Joint Laboratory of climate change economics simulation of CASS and China Meteorological Administration. Her main research fields include sustainable development and climate change model research, quantitative economics, etc.

Organization: Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales, Ecuador

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Lorena Herrera Vinelli has a PhD in International Studies, a Master's degree in International Relations with a mention in Security and Human Rights and a Higher Diploma in International Relations from FLACSO - Ecuador. She is an engineer in Foreign Trade and Integration from the Equinoccial Technological University. She is the coordinator of the Master's Degree in International Relations and Diplomacy with a mention in Foreign Policy at the Institute of Higher National Studies (IAEN-Ecuador) from August 2018 to the present. His master's thesis was published in the Migratory Profile of Ecuador of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and selected in the “Academics” category by the IV MOST - UNESCO Regional School in Argentina in 2011.

Her academic publications in high-impact journals address topics related to the subdisciplines of study in international relations. Likewise, she has represented Ecuador in various international spaces such as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Andean Community (CAN) and the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). Her complementary training covers various countries in Latin America, the United States and Europe. In the public service of Ecuador, she has served as Institutional Advisor, National Director and Project Coordinator. She was elected as a representative of the country's universities on the Foreign Policy Advisory Board of Ecuador.

Organization: Royal Commission for Jubail & Yanbu, Saudi Arabia

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Prof. Yassir Alamri received the B.Sc. degree in Mechanical engineering from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical engineering from Portland State University, United States, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical engineering from the University of Birmingham, in 2022.

He is currently an Assistant Professor with Jubail Technical Institute, Saudi Arabia. He is the Chairman, Mechanical Skills Department -Jubail Technical Institute. He is a renowned expert in renewable energy technologies, concentrated Photovoltaic and Heat transfer.

Organization: Aston Business School, United Kingdom

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Dr. Alcino Azevedo is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Aston Business School and a former Research Director of the Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship Department. He has a Ph.D. in Finance from Alliance Manchester Business School, an MSc in Finance from Portuguese Catholic University, gained with a First, and a degree in Engineering from University of Minho, gained with a Distinction.

Before joining Aston Business School, he worked at the Hull University, where he was involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and taught in MBA Programs in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bahrain. Prior to his Ph.D. in Finance, he worked for about seven years in the manufacturing sector in several management positions.

Organization: University of Warwick, United Kingdom

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Dr. Anup Barai's current research focuses on Battery Safety, with a particular interest in Aerospace application. Building on his expertise in energy storage technologies for the Automotive industry, He is working to develop safe battery system for Electric Aircraft, capable of vertical/conventional take-off and landing (eVTOL / eCTOL). Since joining WMG in 2011, He has secured funding for and delivered low-to-mid TRL research for multiple national and international collaborative programmes. He has developed novel characterisation techniques and enhanced existing tools for use within the automotive, rail, marine and aerospace sectors. To date, Dr. Anup has published more than twenty-five high impact journal articles.

Organization: Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania

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Diana Cursaru studied Petroleum Processing and Petrochemistry at the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti (Romania) between 1995-2000. In 2006, she received a PhD degree in chemical engineering at the Technische Universität Clausthal (Germany). Diana Cursaru is currently professor in the Petroleum Processing and Environmental Protection Department at the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti and PhD coordinator. Her research interests were focused on biodiesel and biofuels, lubricating oils, mesoporous materials for catalytic studies and nanomaterials. Prof. Cursaru has authored and co-authored more than 45 ISI scientific papers.

Organization: Kyung Hee University, Korea, Republic of

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Organization: CEDER-CIEMAT Intelligent Networks, Spain

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Organization: Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

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Vriti Sharma, a Ph.D. student at the University of Economics and Business in Prague, focuses on green finance and human resource management's impact on organizational performance. Besides her academic pursuits, she serves as a project manager, shaping policies for employee welfare and overseeing budgets and timelines for diverse projects, bridging theoretical insights with practical applications.

Organization: EPRA Energy, Turkey

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Dr. Tör received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Türkiye, in 1998, 2001, and 2008, respectively. He currently serves as the CEO of EPRA, of which he has been a founding partner since 2012. He is the author of several high-level journal papers in the power system area and served as the editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Journal during 2011-2013, specializing in power system planning area. Dr. Tör has also been involved in several international projects, specializing in market modeling, grid modeling, and analysis, integrating renewable energy sources into grids, the flexibility of power systems, and stability and dynamics of power systems.

Organization: Beijing University of Technology, China

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Since joining this institute, Chen Mengmei has been engaged in research on climate change, sustainable development and carbon neutrality.  At present, her main research focuses on ZEPS, and she believes that the integration of production, storage and consumption of renewable energy will be an important way to reach carbon neutrality.

Organization: Research Center on Semiconductors Technology for Energetics, Algeria

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Samir Meziani, Doctor in semiconductors physics and materials components. Working to deliver solar cells with greatly improved efficiencies. Where he focused on laser doping selective emitter and copper electrodeposition to metallization solar cells. He joined the Research Center on Semiconductors Technology CRTSE in 2009 as a Permanent Researcher to work on antireflection coating solar cells. In 2017 he had his PHD degrees. He is currently a Senior Researcher in CRTSE. He participated and initiated numerous National projects.

Organization: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana

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Jerome Dela Lavie works as a graduate assistant and is a doctoral candidate at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and is also a patent drafter at a private law firm. His doctoral research is on the conversion of waste into into sustainable fuel sources through cutting-edge techniques.

Organization: University of Córdoba, Spain

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Organization: Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia, Indonesia

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Kusdarmawan Nur Ilham is interested in the field of renewable energy, sustainable energy, geophysics, and geology. His research mainly focuses on Renewable Energy technologies and becoming a green energy aspirator has always been his dream.

Organization: Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia

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Dr. Ramlee Mustapha is a Professor of Technical and Vocational Education at the Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, Universiti Pendididikan Sultan Idris (UPSI). He was the former Dean of Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (2010-2011) and the Dean of the Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education (2011-2013). Now he is the Director of UniversityCommunity Transformation Centre. His research interests lie in leadership, curriculum and pedagogical development, inventive thinking, experiential learning, technical-vocational education (curriculum and comparative study), gender studies, indigenous learning of minority groups (special needs students and Orang Asli) and multi-cultural human resources development.

He has written more than 100 articles and 7 books in Technical-Vocational Education and Human Resource Development. His books include Skills Training and Vocational Education (2017) [published by Springer], Technical and Vocational Education (2015) [published by UPSI Press], Diversity in Higher Education (2013) [published by SAGE], Digital Design for Instructional Applications (2016) [published by UKM Press], Education for Diverse Learners (2009) [published by Universiti Putra Malaysia Press], Identify Career Potentials (2008) [published by Oxford], Competence Development as Workplace Learning (2007) [published by Innsbruck University Press, Austria], and Workforce Development in East Asia and the Pacific (2004) [published by Information Age Publishing, USA]. He is the Chief Editor for the Journal of Asian Vocational Education and Training (JAVET). He also serves as International Editorial Board Member for International Journal for Vocational Education and Training (United States) ─ a journal in the field of vocational education and training. He also an Associate Editor for International Journal Learning (Australia). He is the Secretary-General of Asian Academic Society of Vocational Educational and Training (AASVET). He is also an active member in professional associations such as International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA), ACTE (American Career and Technical Education), Pi Delta Kappa (USA), and Malaysian Vocational Association.

Organization: ADM Electricity Distribution Co, Turkey

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Yahya Atilgan has graduated from Pamukkale University in 2022. He is a mechatronics engineer and Technology Developer Engineer at ADM Electrical Distribution Co. He is an expert in embedded design and software systems. In addition, he is designing several 3D CAD materials and developing hardware and embedded software of drone and UAV’s hardware in electricity distribution system.  He is also working in the fields of energy efficiency, storage and solar energy system in the R&D Center of ADM Electrical Distribution System. He is working on international R&D projects. He is a partner of Era-Net project “Reliability of Long-Term Renewable Energy Production based on PV Technologies”.

Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

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Ana Cristina Horta Corvo Dias Pego, PhD in Geography and Territorial Planning ( 2019), Master in Business Management ( 2014) and Bsc in Economics ( 1994). Invited Lecturer at Universidade do Algarve, Invited Lecturer at Universidade Aberta, Integrated Researcher at CICS Nova, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Collaborative Researcher at CinTurs, Universidade do Algarve. Author of more than 20 articles and 5 books on sustainability and energy, circular economy and ecosystems, and tourism development. 

Organization: Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

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