Green Energy

Dr Abhishek Asthana is the Director of Hallam Energy, the energy research group at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). In 2009, he co-founded Hallam Energy and has since led and delivered 67 projects of industrial energy research and consultancy. He has won £9.1 million external funding, co-authored 39 scientific papers and 1 book, invented 4 patents and developed 5 commercial software packages. He is the course director for BEng Energy Engineering and MEng and BEng Chemical Engineering programs at the university. In 2015, he established a Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) in Energy to train PhD students conducting energy research. The DTA has now grown to 120 PhD students and 180 Supervisors across 15 British Universities in the University Alliance, UK, and Abhishek is currently its Deputy Director. He also recently led the alliance to success in winning €6.5 Million funding from the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND to further expand the DTA program. Abhishek is a reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals and the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Industrial Energy

Dehua Zheng has completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China in 1982 and 1987, respectively. He has also graduated another M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 1995. His profesional experience includes the Manitoba Hydropower Company, University of Manitoba MB Canada (he involved in the PSCAD & RTDS development teams), Saskachewan Polytech Institute SK Canada, China Goldwind Science and Technology Co., Ltd., and others. Dehua Zheng is currently a Deputy Director of China Smart Distribution System & Decentralized Generation Committee, Deputy Director of China National Wind Power Engineering Technology Research Center, Chief Scientist of Goldwind Science and Technology Co., Ltd., IEC project leader for IEC/TS 62898-3-1: Microgrids – Technical Requirements – Protection and Dynamic Control, IEEE Senior Member, and registered senior electrical engineer, PhD. professor in many universities. He is also leading the Microgrid and Energy Internet Technology and Business in China, and devotes himself to research and development of Chinese and world microgrid and energy internet technology.

A comprehensive protection and dynamic control strategy for microgrids with high renewable energy penetration

Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen was President of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of several journals and as a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 60 research grants and contracts and 800 publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in sustainable energy, environmental impact, and energy technology (including renewable energy and efficiency improvement). Much of his research has been carried out for industry, and he has written numerous books. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors, and is a fellow of several societies and organizations.

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Dr. Hossam Gaber is leading research in the area of waste-to-energy with advanced plasma technologies. He worked in international research projects related to biomass/biofuel (Japan), plastic production chain with recycling (Japan), and leading research group to plasma-based plastic-to-oil pyrolysis and MSW gasification process technology. He the founding chair of the IEEE technical committee on Intelligent Green Production Systems (IGPS) and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Process Systems Engineering (IJPSE). He is expert in intelligent safety and control systems and their applications on clean energy technologies. This research facility will extend the research capabilities in the research group within UOIT and will allow ROI for energy from waste. It will support the research activities in plasma generation, diagnostics, and control, and their applications on high performance waste-to-energy process technology.

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Margarita V. Alario, PhD is Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI., USA. She is the author of multiple peer-reviewed articles in multidisciplinary journals. She is a Fulbright Scholar, and has been the recipient of several national and international awards and grants

Uses of Nuclear Technology & Atoms for Peace

Loai Aljerf is a Prof in the Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Dental Medicine/Damascus University. He is a specialist in analytical and industrial chemistry. He obtained many awards and published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers (two of them in French) in Environmental Sciences, Green Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Synthesis Chemistry, Concrete, Ceramics, Paper Industry, Petrochemical, Extraction, Separation, Lithium-Ion-Batteries, and Oral Chemistry. He is a partner in Advances in Cleaner Production Network, and a member of the German Chemical Society e.V. (GDCh) and the American University of Beirut. He is a member of the higher committee of the 6th International Workshop-Advance in Cleaner Production (São Paulo, Brazil (May 24th to 26th - 2017). Loai Aljerf is in the Cambridge Scholars Publishing-Life Science Advisory Board and an editor of more than 50 journals and a reviewer for Top journals in Industry, Chemical Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

Industrial Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Cement Industry, Ceramics, Paper Industry, Advances in Cleaner Production, Climate Change.

Born on 13 th October, 1968 in Ludhiana, Dr V P Sethi joined B Tech in Agricultural Engineering at College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, PAU in the year 1985. He graduated in 1989 and gained industrial experience for two years before joining M Tech in the year 1991 in Mechanical Engineering department (Thermal Environmental Engg.,) at PAU. He received Jindal Irrigation scholarship during B Tech and PAU merit Scholarship during M Tech programme. He joined as Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering in July 1993 and taught many subjects of Mechanical Engineering for about 11 years before joining Ph D (in Solar Thermal Engineering) at Energy Research Centre, Panjab University Chandigarh in 2004. His PhD thesis was nominated amongst the top 10 best thesis at the National level by Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) for innovative students project award-2007. He was promoted as Associate Professor in May 2007 and as Professor from July 2010. Apart from teaching UG and PG courses, he has handled four research projects as PI funded by (i) Punjab Govt. (on Solar Energy Utilization), (ii) ICAR (AICRP, Solar Energy component) and (iii) RKVY (Indigenous Hydroponics, Aeroponics and NFT Technology) & one Project as Associated Scientist (AICRP Wind Energy component) iv) Apart from this, one extramural research project sponsored by ICAR on Paddy straw management is in progress.He has been 4 nominated by Punjab Agricultural University for the most prestigious Shri Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-2013 in Engineering by CSIR, New Delhi. He was invited as guest faculty by University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada to deliver seminar on “New Hydroponics Technologies and Future Research Collaboration" from 16 to 23 Aug 2015. In recognition of his contributions at international level, he was awarded with Albert Nelson Marquis Life time achievement award 2017 by the Marquis Publishing Board, USA. The institution of engineers India(IEI), Chandigarh chapter has awarded him outstanding Professional Achievement Award in August 2017.

Solar Energy & Greenhouse Effect.

Nabeel Al-Rawahi is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department at Sultan Qaboos University. He had his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2002. He had been the Head of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department from 2011 to 2017. His research work covers areas of multiphase flow, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and renewable energy. He published more than 40 reviewed papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase flow, Renewable Energy, and Water Desalination.

Senior Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and recognized researcher in Solar Thermal Engineering. Senior Tutor in Heat Transfer, Design of heat exchangers, Solar thermal energy. Has recently led major studies of mathematical modelling and experimentation of solar thermal systems. Has a proven track record of course development, teaching and examining at all levels in technical education.

Solar energy, Energy conservation & Management, Applied energy

Farrokh joined ERL as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2014 after working as geomechanic engineer in Itasca Houston and completing his PhD, and he is now a Research Scientist. He received his PhD in civil engineering, with a minor in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. His PhD focused on the application of 3D boundary element modeling on natural and hydraulic fracture development. Farrokh's experience and interests include natural fracture development and behavior, hydraulic fracturing, fracture mechanics and propagation modeling and constitutive modeling of fractured rocks. He also does numerical geomechanical modeling using the discrete element, finite element, boundary element and displacement discontinuity methods. Farrokh is currently working on the modeling of hydraulic fracture propagation in naturally fractured reservoirs, fault reactivation and HF induced seismicity.

Hydraulic Fracturing, Geo-mechanics, Homogenization, Natural Fractures Network

Sunita Mahavar is working as Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan, India since 2013. She is actively engaged in the Solar Thermal Energy research area since her Ph.D. duration; she has guided graduate, post-graduate and M.Tech. projects. She has also supervised projects funded by national scientific organizations and presently working on project “solar paraboloid collector systems” funded by Department of Science and Technology, India. Her research is recognized with more than 35 research papers in reputed national and international journals and conferences. She also has international participations supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of India, DST. She was awarded Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Physics in the year 2013 from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. She completed her B.Sc. degree in 2006 from Maharani’s college, Jaipur, India and M.Sc. degree (2008) in Physics from Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.

Modelling, Design development and Testing of Solar Thermal Appliances viz. solar water heater, solar cooker, solar still, solar concentrator etc.; Synthesis of nanoparticles and their use in solar absorber materials.

Mahmood has completed his PhD at the age of 38 years from Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) / Malaysia. He is a Faculty member of Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Basrah. He has published more than 6 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Renewable Energy, Solar thermal technologies, Power plants, Hybrid solar-fossil power plants.

Dr. Abu Yousuf has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from University Naples Federico II, Italy in 2010 and postdoctoral studies from University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed ISI journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Bioenergy and Biofuels, Frontier, Switzerland and Peertechz Journal of Biological Research and Development, India. He won UNESCO Prize on Energy for sustainable development in Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2011. He attended the BIOVISION.Next Fellowship Programme at BIOVISION 2013 - the World Life Sciences Forum, Lyon, France, after a selection based on scientific excellence, mobility, involvement in civil society.

Biorefinery, Bioenergy, Waste-to-Energy, Bioremediation

Dr. Muhammad Rashed Al Mamun successfully completed B.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering and MS in Farm Power and Machinery from the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh which was established with academic support from the Texas A&M University during 1961. He received his PhD on advanced technology from Kumamoto University, Japan. Dr. Al Mamun is an Associate Professor, Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh. Prior to this position, he has working as Assistant Professor and Lecturer for the same University and Agricultural Engineer in Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh. He also worked as Research Scientist in Groundwater Leadership Program (GelK), and Guest Lecturer in Kumamoto University, Japan, Visiting Professor at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Forestry Science and Technology School, Agricultural Training Institute, Bangladesh. Dr. Al Mamun’s research concentrate on renewable energy, agricultural machinery, precision agriculture, remote sensing, groundwater hydrology, solid wastes management and GIS based agricultural policy management. He is working simultaneously in different research projects such as agricultural mechanization, tea processing technology, bioenergy, and solid waste management. Dr. Al Mamun teaches Heat Engines, Agricultural Power, Agricultural Machinery, Agricultural Mechanization, Heat and Mass Transfer, Precision Agriculture, Bio-Materials and Systems, Project Planning and Evaluation, Engineering Management, and Farm Mechanics in the undergraduate course of studies. In the graduate program, he teaches Farm Machinery, Agricultural Research Methodology, Farm Power, and Bioresources Engineering. Besides teaching activities, he performs research and supervises graduate students in the field of renewable energy, farm machinery, solid waste management, hatching and house management of poultry, and farm mechanization. His research articles have published in the many reputed journals and written a book on Renewable Energy. He chaired many technical sessions at International Conference. He has achieved Kumamoto University President Award, Sylhet Agricultural University Best Publication Award, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia award for Environmental Management in the Islamic World and Venus International Research Award for Outstanding Scientist in Farm Power and Machinery.

Renewable Energy, Solid Waste Management, Farm Machinery, Agricultural Mechanization, Precision Agriculture, Groundwater Hydrology, GIS based Agricultural Policy Management

Srikanth Reddy K received B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada (JNTUK), India, in 2012, M.Tech. degree in renewable energy from MNIT, Jaipur, India, in 2015 (recipient of POSOCO Power System award from FITT (Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer) for best thesis) and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India. His research interests include resource scheduling in smart grids, energy storage and electric vehicle applications in power systems, clean energy technologies, and deregulated electricity markets. He is also working in the areas of artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, heuristic approaches, fuzzy inference systems, decision making systems with application to power system operation and planning. He serves as review board member for various Journals from IEEE, IET and Elsevier publishers. He has been awarded with “Outstanding Reviewer” for journals “Electric Power System Research” and “Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence” and “Renewable Energy (Elsevier)” for the year 2017.

Energy storage, Electric vehicle applications in power systems, Clean energy technologies, and deregulated electricity markets.

Jim Witham’s career has focused on bringing new technology, like GaN Systems’ world’s best performing power transistors, to the Electronics market. Witham joined GaN Systems from Neoconix, a manufacturer of high density, miniature connectors. As CEO of Neoconix, he successfully implemented strategic changes which dramatically increased revenue and resulted in the company’s acquisition by Unimicron Technology. Prior to Neoconix, Witham was CEO of Fultec Semiconductor, where his team made circuit protection devices using high voltage silicon, silicon carbide and gallium nitride (GaN) transistors. Fultec was acquired by circuit protection market leader Bourns. Witham has also held VP Sales & Marketing positions at Aegis Semiconductor, a tunable filter semiconductor manufacturer and Genoa, a semiconductor optical amplifier manufacturer. Other notable career highlights include senior executive positions at Raychem, including General Manager of the Raychem Interconnect Division and Director of Asia Sales & Marketing, based in Japan, for the Raychem Circuit Protection Division. As an Engineering Specialist at General Dynamics’ Space System Division during the eighties, Witham designed fluid systems for the Space Shuttle and was on Mission Control for interplanetary missions. Witham holds an MBA from Harvard and both M.S. and B.S. with distinction in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford.

renewable energy storage

Dr. Gabbar is a Professor in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in the Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science, and cross appointed in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. He is the recipient of the Senior Research Excellence Aware for 2016, UOIT, for his scholarly research in the areas of smart energy grids, gas-power systems, resilient transportation infrastructures, and plasma-based waste-to-energy technologies. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1988 with first class of honor from Alexandria University. In 2001, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from Okayama University. In 2001, he joined Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan), and from 2004, he joined Okayama University. He has been successful in attracting national and international funds where his research is widely recognized and reflected to more than 220 publications, including patents, books, chapters, and journal and conference papers. He is the founder and chair of Smart Energy Grid Engineering Annual Conference (SEGE).

Micro Energy Grids, Gas-Power Grids, Waste-to-Energy, Transportation Infrastructures, Hybrid Fuel, Flywheel-Based Energy Storage

Zhang Dao Hua received his MSc degree from Shandong University, and PhD degree from the University of New South Wales. He joined the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technology, Singapore in 1991 and is currently a professor, Deputy Director of Centre of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays, Program Director of Photonic Nano-Structures and Applications. Professor Zhang’s main research interests include semiconductor materials, devices and technology, photonic metamaterials and applications. He has successfully completed over 20 research projects including the first $10M Competitive Research Program (CRP) of NTU as Lead PI. He has published over 470 papers in international journals (including Nature Communications, Light: Science and Application, Advanced Materials, Small, Advanced Optical Materials, ACS Photonics, Nanoscale and Scientific Reports) and international conferences, 6 books/proceedings, and 3 book chapters. He is Fellow of Institute of Physics, and Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Plasmonic structures, enhanced absorption, photocurrent.

Terry Cooke is founder of the China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia (CPGP), a 501(c)3 non-profit platform fostering collaboration between the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and China in sustainable city infrastructure. Terry Cooke is a seasoned practitioner of Asian cross-border business and investment in clean energy and related high-tech fields. For the cleantech frontier in China, Terry brings broad context, unique insight, and an unparalleled range of contacts. Across the spectrum of technology innovation, Terry has decades of Asian in-country engagement at the ministerial level of government, with the private sector’s C-suite, and with the world’s premiere multi-stakeholder organization at Davos.

Clean Energy

Majid Ghassemi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at the K. N. Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. Professor Ghassemi has over 20 years of academic and industrial experience and served as the President of the K. N. Toosi University of Technology from 2010 through 2013. Professor Ghassemi has also served in several public and private boards and panels and supervised several undergraduate, masters and PhD students, published several books and many journal and conference papers. He is currently an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Prevention and Treatment and Managing Editor of the American Journal of Mechanical Engineering (AJME) as well as Editorial Board member for many international journals. He also serves as member in several international conferences. Professor Ghassemi received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1993.

Proton conducting SOFC, CFD, Micro, Planar, Fuel Cell, Clean Energy.

Dr. Hector M. Guevara is the founder, chairman of the board, and president of various corporations, including NuEnergy Group, Inc., previously a public company trading on the OTC in OTC and now being held inactive (operations/trading stopped). Dr. Guevara has devoted the past 35 years to the research and development of renewable energy systems. Dr. Guevara’s companies designed and or produced many of the most notable solar, wind, and hydroelectric systems deployed throughout the world. The results of his research and development have been assigned to his new Florida Corporation; NuEnergy Technologies Corp. Dr. Guevara is a patent and co-patent holder in various sustainable energy and propulsion technologies. Dr. Guevara has also been the recipient of various grants from Federal Govt. Agencies, e.g., NASA/SATOP, DOE (SBIR), United Nation’s UNICEF, and others.

Sustainable Energy

Dr. Joseph graduated from IIT/Kanpur with B. Tech (Silver Medalist) in ChE and obtained his MS and Ph.D. in ChE from Case Western Reserve University. He then joined the Energy Lab at MIT where he worked on the development of ASPEN Simulator. He joined the faculty of Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 1978 where he became the Edward C. Dicke Professor in 2000. In 2002 he moved to become Chair of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at USF. He is the author of two books ( Real Time Personal Computing,1989 and Techniques of Model Based Control, 2002), one edited volume (Wavelet Applications,1996) and over 200 technical publications. During the year 1985-86 he was visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He is founder and VP for Research at T2C-Energy, LLC., a small business working on commercializing technology for converting landfill gas to diesel and jet fuel

Biomass, Solar Energy

Dr. Jagannadh Satyavolu works as Theme Leader, Biomass conversion and Biofuels, Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. Dr. Satyavolu earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and has 30 years of experience in commercial business leadership roles, operations and capital project management, intellectual asset development and management, product and process technology development, industrial application research, and academia. He holds 20 US and international patents and has steered multiple projects from concept to commercialization. Prior to joining Conn Center, he worked at Cargill, Georgia Institute of Technology, Battelle Labs, and the Ohio State University.

Biomass and Biofuels

Yulin Deng is a Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science, a member of ACS, AIChE and TAPPI. He is also an editorial board member for three journals.

Yulin Deng’s research interests are nanomaterial synthesis and self-assembling, biofuel and biomass materials, colloid and interface science and engineering, polymer synthesis, and papermaking and paper recycling.

Constantinos S. Psomopoulos is a Professor, Electrical Engineering Dept of TEI Piraeus,Greece. He also holds the position of Director of Electric Power Division and Vice President of WTERT – Greece & Research Associate in Earth Engineering Center Columbia University NY since 2011.

His research interests include Eco Design of EuPs and Energy Efficiency, RES, Materials & Energy Recovery from wastes, Electromechanical Installations and Apparatus, Electrical Measurements & High Field Effects, High Voltage Engineering & Power Systems.

Hong Sun has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He is the director of School of Transportation Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, China. He has published more than 160 papers in reputed journals.

Renewable Energy

Seoyong Shin received B.S. degree in 1987 from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in Control and Instrumentation Engineering. He received M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989 from Florida Institute of Technology, Florida, USA. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1992 from Texas A&M University, Texas, USA. In 1994 he joined the faculty of the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Myongji University, where he became a full professor in 2003. His research areas include solar daylighting system, photovoltaic system, and optical communication functional modules

solar daylighting system, photovoltaic system, and optical communication functional modules.

Mr. Garvin is the former Technology Transfer Specialist for the University of Iowa. He designed entrepreneurial studies courses in that position. He has developed seven start-up companies in the state of Iowa, Wisconsin and Texas. True to both definition of a paradigm shift specialist, Garvin has spent the last 20 years helping to effect changes in complex systems in the economy. In the 1990s, while working with the University of Wisconsin (Madison) and later at the University of Iowa, he helped research, design and introduce technical developments to the medical industry that resulted in an overhaul of safety practices and safety equipment used in hospitals and medical facilities nationwide. He has directed a number of research projects around electric transportation and fuel cells at Iowa State University and continues to direct technology and financial analysis projects for the energy sector with student groups at the University of Iowa.

Energy

Xinlei Wang is a professor in Bioenvironmental Engineering department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Air quality and environmental control; diesel engine emission control; renewable energy systems and applications; building energy efficiency.

Gleb Yushin is a Professor of the School of Materials and Engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined MSE in July 2007 and has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Roland B. Snow Award from the American Ceramic Society, NASA Nano 50 Award, various best poster awards from the Electrochemical Society, Materials Research Society, and North American Membrane Society meetings, and multiple awards at ceramographic competitions. His recent work was featured on the cover of Nano Letters and was covered by Nature, Science, Advanced Functional Materials, Innovation Philadelphia Newsletter, Philadelphia Business Journal, and Frost & Sullivan, among others.

Gleb Yushin's research interests include nanoporous carbide derived carbon - based materials and devices for energy, environment and bio-related applications.

Reza Nekovei is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

Reza Nekovei has been conducting research in the field of Micro/Nano scale integrated circuit design for over 15 years, including modeling of circuits for nano-electronic devices.

Dr. T.T. Chow received his PhD from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He is currently the Associated Professor and Director of the Building Energy and Environmental Technology Research Unit at the City University of Hong Kong. He has 400 academic publications, including over 130 SCI journal articles and with over 3,000 Scopus citations. He has been serving as members of many journal editorial boards, such as the Journal of Building Performance Simulation. He also contributes to many reputable international conferences as committee members and invited speakers. He holds fellow membership in many professional institutions, such as FASHRAE and FCIBSE.

Building Energy and Environment

Meilin Liu is a professor at the School of Materials Science & Engineering and Co-director for Center for Innovative Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Meilin Liu's research interests include developing novel materials for energy storage and conversion, for chemical sensing, and for hydrogen production and separation. In addition, he is also interested in microscopic modeling of mass and charge transport in solid electrochemical systems and polarization at interfaces.

He has extended his valuable service as a Professor at the Amar Telidji University of Laghouat- Algeria and has been a recipient of many award and grants. His international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study. His research interests as a Professor reflect in his wide range of publications in various national and international journals. He has published many papers in various journals and conference proceedings on renewable energy and has served as an editorial board for several journals and committee member for international conferences. He is a reviewer of many journals such as: Solar Energy, Conversion Energy and Management Journal, Electronics Journal, International Journal of Engineering Innovations and Research, Measurement, International Journal of Electronics, Energy and Buildings and Journal of Applied Electrochemistry I was the President of the Scientific Committee at the Electrical Engineering Department- Amar Telidji University of Laghouat, Algeria.

Photovoltaic Solar Energy

Sven Erik Jørgensen is professor emeritus in environmental chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He has published 370 papers of which 256 were published in peer-reviewed international journals and he has edited or authored 79 books, of which several have been translated to other languages (Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese). He has authored a successful textbook in ecological modelling “Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling”, which was published as a fourth edition together with Brian Fath in 2011. He is the editorial board member of 20 international journals in the fields of ecology and environmental management. He is the president of ISEM and he has been elected member of the European Academy of Science’s, for which he is the chairman of the Section for Environmental Sciences. He has received the Einstein Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Science. He has in 1975 founded the journal Ecological Modelling and in 1978 ISEM (International Society of Ecological Modelling). He has received several awards, The Ruder Boskovic Medal, The Prigogine Prize, The Pascal Medal, The Einstein professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, The Santa Chiara Prize for multidisciplinary teaching and the very prestigious Stockholm Water Prize. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, edited by Sven Erik Jørgensen, received in 2013 the outstanding publishing achievement, “this year’s Outstanding Academic Title”.

His expertise is in hydrology, biogeography and remote sensing.He has taught courses in ecological modelling and systems ecology in 33 different countries.