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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