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Dr. Ashjaee is a full professor at School of Mechanical Engineering at University of Tehran, Iran. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He was a Research and Design Engineer, at Admiral Company-Galesburg–Illinois, Between 1987-1989, USA . He was also a lecturer at Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison(1985-1987), USA. He was also Vice-President for Research, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, between 1990-1993.

Kaveh Edalati obtained a Ph.D. degree in materials physics and chemistry from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 2010. He is currently an assistant professor at the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER), Kyushu University. He is the co-author of about hundred papers and his research interests are Hydrogen Storage, Energy Materials, Nanostructured Metallic Materials, Phase Transformations, and Severe Plastic Deformation.

Prof. Dr. Mostafa El-Sheekh is Professor of phycology. He has nearly 33 years of experience in the research and teaching in the field of algae and its applications. Dr. El-Sheekh served as the Dean Faculty of Science, Tanta University and Cultural counselor in Egyptian Embassy in Yemen and Uzbekistan. Dr. El-Sheekh holds a Ph.D. in Phycology from Tanta University and Göttingen University as Chanel system fellowship. Notably, Dr. El-Sheekh has authored more than 110 manuscripts, and 4 Book chapters 2 of them on Biodiesel production from microalgae. Dr. El-Sheekh is also faculty member at Tanta University, Egypt where he teaches "Algal uses and applications". He also serves as editorial member and reviewer for more than 50 peer reviewed Journals.

Dr. Adolfo Iulianelli, Master Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Calabria and Ph.D. in Chemical and Material Engineering at the same university. Nowadays, he works at the Institute on Membrane Technology of the Italian National Research Council. He published more than 120 papers in international scientific ISI journals and in proceedings of National and International Conferences, more than 20 chapters in international books, author and co-author of one patent and two books. He is reviewer of more than 20 scientific ISI journals, Associate Editor of International Journal of Membrane Science & Technology, Editor of Journal of Membrane Science and Technology, Advances in Chemical Engineering and Process Technology, Journal of Fuels and Scientific World Journal as well as serving as guest editor for International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. His H-index is today equal to 24 (www.scopus.com)

Dr. D.C. Lim is Principal researcher of Korea Institute of Materials Science which is one of the government research institutes. He has nearly 15 years of experience in material- and physical-chemistry. He got a Ph.D in Physics department, Konstanz university, Germany, and has authored more than 100 manuscript, 30 patents till now, which are related to the fabrication of various nanomaterials, thin film, beyond nanomaterials like size-selected metal cluster, and energy materials/device such as next generation solar cell, solar-to-fuel, water splitting/purification, etc.

Akbar Maleki is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in energy engineering at the Faculty of New Science and Technologies, University of Tehran. His research interests are in the fields of energy, renewable energy, and optimization methods. Dr. Maleki is an active teacher and researcher in energy, sustainability and energy optimization. He has received numerous awards and honours, including an Award of Outstanding Researcher from the University of Tehran.

Philippe Poggi is Professor at the University of Corsica. He is a researcher within the team "RES" in the Laboratory Science For Environment CNRS / University of Corsica, in the field of renewable energy systems (solar and wind resource forcasting, smart grids, photovoltaic systems, energy storage, stochastic processes, real-time management of storage units). He is responsible of a R&D platform in Ajaccio (Fr) on solar energy and energy storage, consisting of a smart-grid (Paglia Orba) in cooperation with CEA-INES, and a combining a photovoltaic plant with an hydrogen chain (PEM Fuel cells and electrolyser) – MYRTE - in cooperation with AREVA SE and the CEA.

Dr. Andreas Poullikkas holds a B.Eng. degree, an M.Phil. degree, a Ph.D. degree and a D.Tech. higher doctorate degree. He is the Chairman of the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority and the Chairman of the Cyprus Energy Strategy Council (appointments by the President of Cyprus). In his professional career he has worked for academic institutions and for the industry, such as, the Cyprus University of Technology (Professor of Power Systems and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering) and the Electricity Authority of Cyprus. He is the author of various peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, conference proceedings and author of eight books.

Prof. Ilenia Rossetti, born in 1974, obtained her Ph.D. degree (2001) in Industrial Chemistry from University of Milan, Italy. She is Associate Professor of Chemical Industrial Plants at the Dept. of Chemistry of the University of Milano. She received the Chiusoli medal award by the Industrial Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society for her efforts in the production and use of hydrogen. Her research interests are mainly focused on two main streams: the development of industrial heterogeneous catalytic and photocatalytic processes and process simulation and optimisation. Prof. Rossetti has authored/co-authored around 100 articles in various journals, having a significant number of total citations, i.e. over 2,260.

Mohd Azmuddin Abdullah obtained a Master of Engineering (M. Eng) in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (1994) from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), United Kingdom under PETRONAS scholarship, and a PhD in Bioprocess Engineering (1999) from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) under UPM scholarship. Since 2015, he is an Associate Professor and a researcher in the Bioprocess and Environmental Engineering Programme, Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT). He has published more than 170 articles in peer reviewed journals, conference proceedings, book chapters and technical reports. He has also reviewed more than 300 articles for the internationally and nationally reputable journals and conferences.

Dr. Pouria Ahmadi is a research associate at Fuel Cell Research Lab (FCReL) at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada. He has more than 10 years of experience in both academia and industry working on related topic on clean energy and thermal systems design. Prior to joining SFU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario where he worked on integrated renewable energy technologies for net zero energy community in London, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Ahmadi holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Clean Energy Lab (CEL) at University of Ontario, Canada. Dr. Ahmadi has authored more than 75 publications in both high ranked and peer-reviewed journals and international conferences as well as five book chapters and one book on Optimization of Energy Systems by John Wiley and.

Dr. Açıkkalp is Associate Professor in Mechanical in Manufacturing Engineering Dept. in Bilecik S.E. University, Turkey. His professional interests are thermodynamics, heat transfer energy and exergy analysis, renewable energy and alternative energy sources. He has published several papers in prestigious international journals and conferences. He is co-editor of book titled " Sustainable Aviation: Energy and Environmental Issues " and he serves in editorial board of international journals and conferences.

Dr. Abbas Behjat is the Professor of Physics, at Yazd University, Iran. He obtained his Ph.D. in x-ray lasers from the Essex University (UK) in 1996. Currently, he is head of the faculty of science and also group leader in the Photonics Research Group (PRG), Engineering Research Center, at Yazd University. Since 2007, he has been mainly involved in nanostructure-based optical devices including light emitting diodes, quantum dots and dye sensitized solar cells and perovskite and also polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells.

Francesco Calise was born in 1978 and graduated cum laude in mechanical engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy in 2002. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Thermal Engineering in 2006. He is Researcher and Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II.. He was invited lecturer for some courses or Conferences (UK and Finland). He teaches several courses of energy management and applied thermodynamics at the University of Naples Federico II for BsC, MS and PhD students. He is a reviewer of about 30 international Journals. He was involved in several Research Projects funded by EU and Italian Government. He is Associate Editor of several International Journals. He was a Conference Chair and/or member of Scientific Committee in several session of International Conferences. His Scopus indexes (April 2017) are: Documents: 82; Citations: 1606; H-Index:24

Jing-Pei Cao is head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at China University of Mining and Technology. Prof. Cao holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Gunma University. He is a member of ACS, CCS and SCEJ. His research interests are in the areas of thermochemical conversion of low-grade coals and biomass to H2-rich gases, chemicals and carbon materials. Prof. Cao has authored more than 80 papers in a number of international journals, 5 patents, and edited 1 book. He was awarded 3 prizes for science and technology progress in China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (CPCIF).

Dr. Nam Nguyen Dang is Senior Lecturer at the Petroleum Department and Manager of the Department of Science & Technology, PetroVietnam University. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University. He is becoming a materials scientist due to a record of creative innovation which helped him to be the best researcher for the Brain Korea 21, a diverse technical background, and research experience in corrosion inhibitor, advanced materials science. An immediate fellowship was appointed him to the Alfred Deakin postdoctoral research fellowship by Deakin University. He is currently a lecturer at the Petroleum Department in the PetroVietnam University.

Hanping Ding received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 2014. He has over 11 years’ experience in developing solid-state electrochemical devices for energy conversion and storage. His specific research interests are focused on advanced functional materials and microstructures for intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells, direct hydrocarbon fuel cells, proton ceramics, and fuel cell stack system. Currently, Dr. Ding is the postdoctoral fellow at the Colorado Fuel Cell Center in Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Ding has authored and co-authored 2 book chapters and over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles (>40). He served as reviewer for dozens of energy-related international journals. He received several awards by the University of Science and Technology of China, CoorsTek Company (USA), etc.

Ambrose Dodoo is Associate Professor in Building and Energy Technology at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has a PhD in Ecotechnology and Environmental Science from Mid Sweden University, a MSc in Environmental Policy and Management from University of Gloucestershire, UK, and a BSc in Building Technology from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. His research focus is on simulation of HVAC systems in building, and life-cycle modelling of energy, cost and environmental implications of building and infrastructure systems.

Nadjib Drouiche is a senior researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Semi-Conduceurs pour l’Energetique (ALgeria). He is also the director of the Crystal Growth and Metallurgical Processes (CCPM) and Head of the environmental team. His research interests include adsorption, membrane processes, electrochemical processes using sacrificial anodes, Advanced Oxidation Processes, and recovery of by-products from industrial waste. He has published more than 80 papers in ISI-ranked journals with more than 1000 citations and his h-index is 21. Dr. Drouiche was awarded TWAS-ARO YAS Prize 2012: "Sustainable Management of Water Resources in the Arab Region".

Moustafa M Eissa is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Helwan- Helwan-Egypt. He is a senior of the IEEE-PES and a recipient of Helwan University Research Award for 2005 and 2011. He also owns ETRERA 2020 Prize in the category of Smart Grids (2014) from Europe. In 2002 and 2012 a recipient of Research Excellence Prize from Ministry of Higher Education and State Encouragement prize in the advanced technology science from the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (Egypt).He has performed research and consulting and has authored many articles in IEEE transaction on Power Delivery, IEEE transaction on Smart Gird, IET, Elsevier and ETEP journals. He has many Large Scale Grants in the smart meters based GIS, Microgrid and Hybrid RES, Hybrid Energy Efficiency with optimization, WAMs based HVDC control/protection, Energy policy makers, DSM and EMS based Smart Grid.

Guillermo Escrivá-Escrivá received his PhD in Industrial Engineering in 2009 from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV). He is a professor at the Electrical Engineering Department in the UPV since 2005. From 2000 to 2005 he worked in a significance construction company as a facility manager. His research work is developed in the Institute for Energy Engineering and includes studies about renewable energy resources management, energy efficiency, power quality and power markets. He presents a high technical training in research and applied studies and great interest in the transfer of knowledge from the university to the industry and vice versa.

Mario L. Ferrari obtained his Degree in Mechanical Engineering with honours at the University of Genoa in 2003. He obtained the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Genoa in 2006. He has worked as an Associate Researcher in the Dipartimento di Macchine, Sistemi Energetici e Trasporti of the University of Genoa, and as a Researcher at Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems Ltd, under the Marie-Curie program. In the 2010-2015 years he was permanent Researcher in the Dipartimento di Ingegneria meccanica, energetica, gestionale e dei trasporti (DIME), where he had studied the transient behaviour of SOFC hybrid cycles and the optimization of smart grids based on both fossil fuel and renewable energy systems (the TPG laboratory of Savona). At the moment, he is Associate Professor in the DIME department of the University of Genoa devoting his activity on advanced energy systems.

Dr. Khaled Habib holds a Ph.D in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the Optical Science and Technological Center of University of Iowa, Iowa. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Chem. Engr. Dept., and Mat. sci. Dept., of the Technical University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany, 1991-1992. He specializes in “Laser optical interferometry as non-destructive testing methods of materials evaluation in corrosive media”. Mr. Habib has in his credit more than 129 articles in international refereed journals in his area of specialization. He is a fellow of the SPIE. Also, he is an elected member of the international Corrosion Council.

Chien-Te Hsieh received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering of National Cheng Kung University in 2001. He is currently a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. His research interests focues on carbon materials, electrochemistry, and energy storage devices including Li-ion battery, fuel cell, and supercapacitor.

Dr. Jiang received his BE (1995) and MS (1998) in in Thermal Science and Engineering from Chongqing University. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, CAS in 2001, he worked for IMM GmbH (2002-2004, Germany), University of Aveiro (Portugal, 2004-2006), University of New Brunswick (Canada, November 2005), and the Pennsylvania State University (USA, 2006-2012). In October 2010 he began to work for Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers, 22 invention patents, and 18 computational softwares.

Oscar Hui’s research is in the interdisciplinary field of heterogeneous catalysis, nanoscience and nanotechnology, materials chemistry and science, transport phenomena, and process modelling and optimization. We focus on preparation of functional nanomaterials for efficient energy harvest/storage/conversion and environmental remediation. As PI, he has been awarded a total funding of approximately USD 1.36 million. He has extensive research experience in material science, catalysis, air/water pollution control, and energy storage. 2 PhD and 13 master students graduated under his supervision. Currently, he has been supervising 7 PhD, 13 master students, and collaborating with colleagues in UK, USA, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia, China, Hong Kong and Macau. Thus far, his research has led to 1 USA patent, 5 Korea application patents, 119 journal paper publications, 30 invited lectures, and 55 international conference presentations.

Prof Dr Abd Elnaby Kabeel Ph.D. in Mechanical Power Engineering, University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 1997 is currently a Vice dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. He worked as a professor in Mechanical power engineering Department. Prof Kabeel published more than 200 Journal paper. He has nearly 23 years of experiences in research and teaching field. He is recipient State Award for Excellence in Engineering Sciences (Egypt) 2013. Abdul Hameed Shoman's Award for Arab Researchers (Jordan)2014, Tanta University Award for Excellence in Performance 2014, The Tanta University recognition award prize in Engineering Sciences 2001. His research interests include thermal renewable energy.

Abolfazl Khalkhali received his M.Sc. (Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from The University of Guilan. He was faculty at the Islamic Azad University (IAE) from 2007 to 2011. He came to the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 2011. He is currently associate professor at the School of Automotive Engineering in IUST. He has served as the Deputy of Chancellor in Research and Education of the School of Automotive Engineering in IUST. He is the head of Automotive Simulation and Optimal Design research laboratory in IUST.

Dr. Kumar has done Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, Two year Foreign Postdoc Fellowship, Qualified CSIR-JRF, ICAR NET, GATE2000, GATE2002, Fellowship received: Commonwealth, Canada; Claude Leon Foundation South Africa, National Research Foundation Fellowship South Africa, Rhodes, University Fellowship, South Africa. Shastri Mobility Grant for Canada-2018-2019, Supervised/Supervision: 1 Ph.D. completed, 2 ongoing: 4 Master thesis complete, 2 ongoing. Keynote speaker, Invited speaker and chaired session at International Conference, Convener and organised 2 international and two National Conference, Attended several trainings and workshops related to Instruments and Career development, Editorial board member of some journals, and reviewers of more than 45 journals, Life members of several Societies, Awarded GIAN program (July 22-26, 2019), Member of the Commission on Ecosystem Management, IUCN, Switzerland, Member of Admission Cell 2018, Member of Admission Counselling of UG and PG from 2013-onward, Member of University Placement Cell, External Expert of Several Students advisory committee.

Maurizio Lanfranch is professor of Economics and Agrifood Marketing, Rural and Sustainable development. Department of Economics - University of Messina (Sicily) Italy. His Scientific research activity has been disseminated in about 200 publications among articles published in international journals, monographs, edited and essays in books. His field of interest includes Economics and Agrifood Marketing; economics and tourism development policy of rural areas; use of agricultural waste for the production of renewable energy; role of multifunctional agriculture in the prevention of hydrogeological disaster, The social farm and sustainable development

Professor Chi-Wen Lin is a professor and Chair of Safety Health and Environmental Engineering Department, Taiwan. Dr. Lin has completed his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of California at Davis, USA. He served as Director of Taiwan Association for Green and Low-carbon Technology, and Committee on Environmental Protection Fund Management for several County Governments in Taiwan. He has received 5 times National awards in “Special Outstanding Talent Award”, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. Dr. Lin holds 4 patents and is the author of more than 60 scientific articles in the international journals which are related to bioenergy, waste water treatment, and bioremediation.

Prof. Mehrpooya is associate professor at Renewable Energies and Environmental Department, University of Tehran. He is head of hydrogen and fuel cell laboratory. In this laboratory they research on micro fuel cell manufacturing and nano-structured electrocatalysts. He has more than 10 years of experience in design and optimization of integrated renewable and non-renewable processes like fuel cell power plants, hydrogen production and liquefaction, high temperature solar thermal hybrid energy systems, CO2 capturing processes and cryogenic processes. Prior to joining Renewable Energies and Environment Department he worked on various kinds of production processes especially in energy systems and catalytic processes in oil gas industries. Dr. Mehrpooya holds a PhD in chemical engineering from chemical engineering department at University of Tehran, Iran.

Dr. Müller is a staff scientist at the Beckman Institute at the California Institute of Technology. She has more than 15 years of experience in the research of ultrafast light-matter interactions, spectroscopy of organic solar cell materials, and heterogeneous catalysts and photoelectrodes for sustainable energy applications. As of May 2017, Dr. Müller's h-index is 22 with over 1,800 citations of her more than 35 peer-reviewed journal publications and 1 patent; of particular note is her recent review article on earth-abundant heterogeneous water oxidation catalysts. She was recognized as Outstanding Reviewer for Chemical Communications in 2016. Dr. Müller's current research interests focus on the systematic characterization of laser-synthesized inorganic nanomaterials that serve as electrocatalysts or light absorbers for solar water-splitting devices.

Dr. Behzad Najafi is an adjunct professor at the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and the scientific responsible of this university’s Data Analytics and Optimization for Energy Applications Laboratory. His research interest include simulation and optimization of energy systems, with a particular focus on fuel cell based residential micro-CHP units, and the applications of data analytics in the energy sector, specifically aimed at building performance simulation. He has authored more than 20 articles in top-tier journals in the field of energy (Scopus h-index: 13) and has also served as a reviewer for several journals in this area.

Prof. Andrea Nicolini is Associate Professor in Industrial Applied Physics at the University of Perugia, Italy. PhD in Environmental Applied Physics in 2003, from 1999 he carried out his research activities at the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia, where is lecturer of “Applied Physics for Food Factories” and “Energy resources and alternative energies”. He is author of more than 150 scientific papers published on journals and conference proceedings (h-index = 15 in Scopus), in the fields of renewables, energy storage, energy efficiency in buildings, urban heat island mitigation, hydrogen and fuel cells, biomass, environmental impact of energy plants. Manager of the Acoustics Laboratory of the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia from 2015. Director of the Biomass Research Centre of the University of Perugia from 2016.

Jia Hong Pan received his PhD (2007) from Inha University, Korea. After postdoctoral trainings at Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, and Leibniz Universität Hannover, he joined School of Renewable Energy, North China Electric Power University, China as a Full Professor in Oct. 2015, where he is now leading a research group working on photochemical conversion and storage over semiconductors. He served as Editor of Journal of Photocatalysis and Frontiers in Chemistry, and Guest Editor of Catalysis Today and International Journal of Photoenergy. He is author of 60+ journal publications with citations of >2800.

Dr. Elif Alturk Parlak is a senior scientist at Material Institute of The Scientific and Technological Reasearch Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). She has received her Ph.D. in İstanbul Technical University of Polymer Science and Technology programme in 2006. She has been worked as postdoc in Cergy Pontoise University in France in 2007. Dr. Parlak has authored 25 scientific publications and in the field of conducting polymers its electrochromic and super capacitor applications, organic photovoltaics, stability of organic photovoltaics. Dr. Parlak has 264 times of citations, her h index is 10. Dr. Parlak RG Scores is 25.84 in researchgate.

F. Pourfayaz received the BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 2000, 2004 and 2010, respectively. He is currently an assistant professor in Department of Renewable Energies and Environment, University of Tehran. F. Pourfayaz has presently focused on research fields such as Design, Optimization and exergy/thermodynamic analysis of the energy systems (renewable energies-based hybrid systems, CHP systems and …) and nanotechnology application in energy systems especially renewable energy systems. He has authored more than 75 papers in international journals and conferences.

Daniela Proto received the MSc and Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples, Federico II (Italy), respectively in 2000 and 2004 and a Postgraduate Master’s degree in ‘Software Technologies’ from the University of Sannio (Italy) in 2001. She was fellow research at the University of Naples, Federico II until October 2012, lecturer of the Course on “Industrial Power Systems” at the University of Sannio from 2010 to 2012 and lecturer of the course on ‘Conventional and Renewable Energy Generation’ at the Second University of Naples (Italy) from 2012 to 2015. She is currently professor at the University of Naples, Federico II. Her research interests include Electrical Power Systems and Electrical Transport Systems. She co-authored more than 80 publications.

Mohammad Rasul obtained his PhD in the area of Energy from The University of Queensland (Australia). Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Australia. He has published over 400 research articles/papers in journals, conferences and book chapters. He has also edited four books including book on Clean Energy for Sustainable Development (Elsevier). His current h-index is 19 with over 1700 citations in Scopus. He has supervised 22 Research Higher Degree (RHD) students to completion. His external and internal grant funding has totaled about $3 million. Research interests include energy, thermodynamics and process industries; renewable and clean energy (solar, biomass, bio-fuel, wind, etc); energy, water and environmental sustainability and development. He is an Editor-in-Chief for Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering.

Carlo Renno is associate professor of Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer at University of Salerno (Italy). Author of about 50 technical-scientific papers which other papers published on international journals with referees and other papers presented to international congresses. He has been responsible or participating of different research projects. He develops his research activity in the field of Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, with a particular attention to the study of the vapour compression plants and solar cooling systems both from the experimental and theoretical point of view. At the moment the aim of the research study is the theoretical and experimental analysis of some technical solutions able to use thermal energy that can be obtained by concentrating photovoltaic systems.

Antonio Rosato is presently Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” – Italy (http://www.architettura.unina2.it/docenti.asp?ID=339).His main current research fields are related to smart renewable thermal grids using seasonal thermal energy storages, micro-polygeneration systems, as well as electrochromic windows.He is reviewer for several international scientific journals and he co-authored more than 70 scientific papers.He was scientific coordinator of several research agreements with private companies and he participated to a number of research projects.Currently he is member of the Italian regional affiliate of the International Building Performance Simulation Association.

Dr. Emad Sadeghinezhad is Assistant professor in Sharif University of Technology of Iran. He has nearly 10 years of experience in both the research and industrial fields related to the Heat transfer, Solar energy and Nano sciences. He has published several paper in the prestigious journal and international conference. Drawing on the fields of heat transfer and nanotechnology, he is researching new/novel working fluids and materials for solar systems. In essence, the main goal is to provide a more efficient or more economic coupling between solar energy and useful thermal energy.

Dr. Nobumitsu Shohoji obtained his degree of Doctor of Engineering (Dr. Eng.) in 1977 from Osaka University, Japan. Dr. Shohoji is currently working as Research Coordinator (Investigador Coordenador) at Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG), Lisbon, Portugal. His skills and expertise mainly lie in the subject areas/fields of Nanomaterials, Mechanical Properties, Metals, Metallurgical Engineering, Composites, Nanofabrication, Ceramics, Sintering, Amorphous Carbon, etc. Dr. Shohoji, as an author/co-author, has published more than 100 articles in various journals, having over 1,040 total citations.

Dr. V. N. Singh obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from I.I.T. Delhi (2005), M.Tech. from I.I.T. Delhi (1999), M.Sc. from BHU, Varanasi (1998) and B.Sc. from Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, (1996), all based in India. Since 2011, he has been associated as Scientist at N.P.L., New Delhi, India. In brief, he is working in the field of processing and characterization of various metal oxide and chalcogenide systems, composites and semiconductors. He is currently looking after electron microscopic facilities at CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, India. Dr. Singh has several publications in highly reputed journals, like Advanced Materials, Small, Nanoscale, Nanotechnology, etc. He has published nearly 160 articles in various journals and 4 book chapters.

Dr Wenxian Yang is a lecturer in offshore renewable energy at Newcastle University. His early research was focused on developing innovative condition monitoring and fault diagnosing techniques for rotating and reciprocating machinery. Small part of them was for developing new NDT & NDE techniques. Since 2007, his R&D activities were diverted to wind, wave and tidal renewable energy exploitation, particularly focused on the condition monitoring, fault diagnosis, operation and maintenance of onshore/offshore wind turbines. So far, he has published over 100 high quality research papers in this field in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Dr. Ye Yao is an associate professor at School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China. He was promoted as associate professor of SJTU in Dec. 2008. From Sep.1st, 2009 to Sep.1st, 2010, he performed his research work in Ray W. Herrick Lab at Purdue University (PU), USA. He was awarded as Excellent Reserve Youth Talent and SMC Excellent Young Faculty by SJTU, respectively, in the year 2009 and 2015, and got Shanghai Pujiang Scholars Talent Program in the year 2012. His current interests of research mainly include: (a). Heat and mass transfer enhancement technology; (b).HVAC modeling and optimal control for energy conservation. He has successfully published about 40 SCI publications (h-index=14) and 30 Chinese patents aa well as two academic books (First author). He is now the peer reviewer of many international academic journals, like ‘International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer’, ‘International Journal of Thermal Sciences’, ‘International Journal of Refrigeration’, ‘Energy’, ‘Building and Environment’，’Energy and Buildings’ and ‘Applied Energy’.

Dr. Halil Durak was born in Turkey in 1981. He graduated with a BSc in Chemical Education from the Yuzuncu Yil University 2004. He has joined the Yuzuncu Yil University in 2005 where he obtained an MSc (2007) in Chemical Education and a PhD (2012) in Physical Chemistry. His PhD focuses on the dissolution kinetics and determination of tincal in phosphoric acid solutions of high temperatures. Currently, Dr Halil Durak is an Assoc.Prof.Dr. in the Department of Chemistry, Yuzuncu Yil University, Zeve Campus. Dr. Durak’s current research focuses thermochemical conversion process such as pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, supercritical liquefaction.

Dr. Girish Kumar Padhy is currently working as a senior research associate in Case Western Reserve University, USA. After receiving doctorate in Chemistry from Homi Bhabha National Institute, India in 2013, he worked as a researcher at Osaka University, Japan and Shandong University, China. His research interests are hydrogen embrittlement, welding metallurgy, additive manufacturing, materials processing and characterization and structure –property relationship. He has published 30 peerreviewed papers and volunteered in the peer review for journals like Materials and Design, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Journal of Alloys and Compounds etc.

Dr. Samantara is a post-doctorate fellow in School of Chemical Sciences at National Institute of Science Education and Research, Khordha, Odisha, India. He has Doctorate in Science from CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, India. He obtained his Master of philosophy in chemistry from Utkal University and Master of Science in Advanced Organic Chemistry from Ravenshaw University, Odisha. Dr. Samantara’s has authored in 19 peer reviewed international journals, Six Books and four Book Chapters. Dr. Samantara has numerous honors and Awards to his credit.

Dr. Anshu Sharma is currently working as a Women Scientist and Principal Investigator at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She is also working as a Guest Scientist at Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany. In the past, she worked as a Research Associate at Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Division, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Govt. of India. Dr. Anshu has also worked as Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur. Dr. Sharma has published 30 peer reviewed papers.

Dr. Malek Hassanpour holds his M.Sc. degree in Environmental Health Engineering from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran, and is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Environmental Science at Osmania University, India. His particular research focus is on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), waste management and plasma technology. His skills and expertise are in Renewable Energy Technologies, Water Quality, Environment, Economic Development, Sustainable Development, Environmental Analysis, Environmental Impact Assessment, Management, Business and Sustainability.

Dr. Shahram Javadi is presently serving as an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Department in I.A.U central Tehran. He is a senior member of IEEE and he is also an active researcher in Renewable Energies, smart grid, Electric Vehicles, Power electronics and control systems. He has contributed more than 100 papers in international journals and conferences. He is also a member of International and technical committee of WSEAS,IEEE, CIGRE Academic board for International Power System Conference (PSC), Academic board for Power System Protection & Control conference (PSPC), Member of Iranian Association of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IAEEE), Member of the Scientific Committee of Iranian Wind Energy Society and Member of Iranian Fuzzy Systems Society.

Dr. Dengwei Jing is presently serving as a full time professor at the International Research Center for renewable Energy & National Laboratory of Multiphase flow in power engineering, Xi’an Jaitong University. He has been awarded a degree of PhD in Thermal Engineering from the same University in 2007. His field of expertise is in the Multiphase flow modelling and measurement, Solar Energy conversion, Hydrogen production and advanced nanotechnologies for enhanced heat and mass transfer. He has also been awarded as the Newton Advanced Fellowship from the Royal Society, UK. He has published more than 115 peer reviewed journal papers, including Nature Communications, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Physics Letters, Physics Fluids, AIChE J, Energy, Solar Energy, Inter J Heat Mass Transfer, etc.

Dr. Q. Li is currently serving as an Associate Researcher Professor in the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at Tsinghua University. He received his Doctoral, Master and Bachelor degree from the department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. He is a co-author of 180 peer reviewed articles and several book chapters and his H index is 20. His research interests include photothermic/voltaic hybrid solar energy utilization, industrial boiler design, biomass and waste combustion, environmental technology, et al.

Dr. E.A Parlak is presently serving as a senior scientist at TUBITAK Marmara Research Center Chemistry Institute. She completed her graduation from Middle East Technical University in 1997 and she further obtained M. Sc. Degree from the same institution. She has also been awarded a degree of PhD in 2006 from İstanbul Technical University (İTU) Polymer and Technology Programme. Her experience is mainly based on conducting polymers, organic photovoltaics, perovskite solar cells, and polymer technology. She has 30 publications in journal papers and participated in various national/international research projects on energy issues. She has participated in an international project that was COST 1307 International Project called ‘’ Stable next generation solar cells’’ In the project, we mostly motivated on stability protocols of organic and perovskite solar cells (ISOS stability protocols).