Dr Terence Goh is a Deputy Director at Singapore Power, Singapore’s electrical transmission and distribution network with more than two decades of experience in energy systems related to microgrid and mobile applications. He holds a PhD, DIC from Imperial College London, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester and a Physics degree from the National University of Singapore.Previously with DNVGL, he was the Energy Storage Lead for APAC and the Centre of Excellence Leader for Energy Storage and Smart Grid for Singapore as well. He had managed several projects in rural electrifications, microgrid and on-grid energy storage projects across the Asia Pacific countries. He is an authority and thought leader on Energy Storage and has been both panel chairman and speaker at several international conferences

Microgrid, Photovoltaic

Meng N I received his PhD from The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Young Scientist Award in 2007. He joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in July 2009 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to an Associate Professor in 2012 and a Full Professor in July 2016. His research focuses on solid oxide fuel cells. He is a Humboldt Fellow. He is an Associate Editor for Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, Frontiers in Environmental Science, and Sustainable Buildings. He is also an Editorial Board member for 7 journals including International Journal of Energy Research.

Fuel cells and electrolyzers for power generation or fuel conversion, Rechargeable batteries for energy storage, Numerical heat and mass transfer, ie. Microfluidics, Energy recovery from waste treatment, Sustainable building technologies

Dr. Liang An received his Bachelor degree in Thermal and Power Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology and PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). After graduation, he worked as a visiting scholar and a postdoctoral fellow in the same research group. His research interests are in the area of clean energy-conversion technologies and renewable energy-storage technologies. He has particular research interests in fuel cells, lithium-based batteries, flow batteries, and water electrolysis.

Thermofluid; Energy conversion and storage technologies; Advanced materials

He is a lecturer of Hydrology and Hydro-technical Structures at undergraduate study programme of Environmental Engineering. Course lecturer of Hydrology of River Basins, Water Supply and Drainage and Hydro-technical structures II at graduate study programme of Environmental Engineering.Member of the committees and working groups on the faculty, member of the technical board of journal "Inženjerstvo okoliša".

Hydrology,Applied Hydrology,Environmental Hydrology

Dr Terence Goh is a Deputy Director at Singapore Power, Singapore’s electrical transmission and distribution network with more than two decades of experience in energy systems related to microgrid and mobile applications. He holds a PhD, DIC from Imperial College London, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester and a Physics degree from the National University of Singapore.Previously with DNVGL, he was the Energy Storage Lead for APAC and the Centre of Excellence Leader for Energy Storage and Smart Grid for Singapore as well. He had managed several projects in rural electrifications, microgrid and on-grid energy storage projects across the Asia Pacific countries. He is an authority and thought leader on Energy Storage and has been both panel chairman and speaker at several international conferences

Microgrid, Photovoltaic

Professor Sayma obtained BSc in Mechanical Engineering with Distinction from Birzeit University in Palestine in 1987, MSc in Energy Technology from Salford University in 1990 and PhD from UMIST in 1994. His thesis topic was Finite Element model for dense gas dispersion in the atmosphere. He joined the Aeronautics department at Imperial College London in 1994 on EPSRC funded project as a research assistant where he worked on the development of an external aerodynamic compressible flow model introducing boundary layer grids and viscous effects in the Euler solver. In 1996, he joined the Rolls Royce Vibration University Technology Centre (VUTC) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, where he stayed for about 9 years. He progressed to a Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow and then Principal Research Fellow. In 2001, he was awarded the title RolIs Royce reaserch fellow at Imperial College and in 2003 he was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow co-funded by Rolls-Royce Plc. During his spell at the VUTC, he was one of two main developers for the unsteady aerodynamics and aeroelatisity code AU3D which has been the main aeroelasticity system at Rolls Royce. He also contributed to several major aero-engine projects including analysis of compressors, fans, turbines, rotating cavities, intake and bypass ducts and downstream nozzles. In 2005 he became a Senior Lecturer in Computational Mechanics at Brunel University. A year later, he was given a Chair in Computational Fluid Dynamics at the University of Sussex where he worked at the Thermo-Fluid Mechanics Research Centre (TFMRC) at the Department of Engineering and Design. He continued to lead research in unsteady compressible flow in turbomacinery, where he focused on industrial gas turbines and micro-gas turbines. He held several senior administrative positions, the last of which was the Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange for the School of Engineering and Informatics. He also introduced a new MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology. In January 2013, he joined City University London as a Professor of Energy Engineering. He is currently leading EU FP7 consortium for conducting research and demonstration of a concentrated solar power system powering a small-scale micro-gas turbine. He is also conducting research in waste heat recovery using small scale Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) in addition to continued activity in turbomachinery CFD and aeroelasticity.He has been an active member of the European Turbine Network (ETN), based in Brussels, which coordinates European industrial gas turbine activities across the whole value chain. He has been the chairman of the Cycle Efficiency Technical Committee and he is currently a member of the ETN project board.

Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelaticity, Gas Turbines for jet propulsion, Industrial gas Turbines, Micro-gas turbines, Energy systems including solar power and waste heat recovery

BSc in Chemistry & Physics in 1995 and MSc in Catalysis in 1996 at the University of Bucharest (UB), Romania. PhD in Catalysis in 2002 at the Institute of Catalysis – University Lyon 1, France. CNRS post-doctoral researcher at the Institute Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, France, from October 2006 to September 2007. Habilitation in Catalysis in 2013 at UB. Associate Professor at UB from 2005, currently in charge of Chemical Technology and Catalytic Materials courses. Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Catalysts and Catalytic Processes of UB from 2007. Research interests cover the field of catalysis by metal oxides. More than 70 publications including a book chapter.

Research interests cover the field of catalysis by metal oxides.

Dr. Liang An received his Bachelor degree in Thermal and Power Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology and PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). After graduation, he worked as a visiting scholar and a postdoctoral fellow in the same research group. His research interests are in the area of clean energy-conversion technologies and renewable energy-storage technologies. He has particular research interests in fuel cells, lithium-based batteries, flow batteries, and water electrolysis.

Thermofluid; Energy conversion and storage technologies; Advanced materials

Dr. Obed Majeed Ali obtained Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (1st Class) in 2000 and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering / College of Engineering at Mosul University, Iraq. Dr. Obed Majeed Ali obtained his DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Mechanical Engineering (Internal Combustion Engine and Alternative Fuels) in 2014 from University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. After finishing his PhD., he worked as a senior lecturer at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering-University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. While working as a senior lecturer, he supervised two PhD students. He has published many technical papers in very reputable journals and international conferences in the area of internal combustion engine, energy efficiency, engine performance, exhaust emissions and alternative green fuels. In addition, Dr. Obed Majeed Ali worked as a lecturer at the Technical Institute of Hawija-Foundation of Technical Education, Iraq from year 2003 to 2012, and currently lecturer at the Northern Technical University, Iraq. His present research interests are Biofuel, combustion and emissions of Spark-Ignition (SI) and Compressed-Ignition (CI) engines, combustion strategies, fuel injection strategies, alternative future green fuels, fuel spray behaviour, modelling air flow and thermal stress analysis on Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF). Dr. Obed Majeed Ali is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) of UK and also registered with American Association for Science and Technology (AASCIT), USA and the Iraqi Engineers Society, Iraq.

Renewable Energy, Internal Combustion Engines, Fuel Property Analysis, Fluidized Bed.

Retired senior public officer with the responsibility of a Green Leader being an integral component of my portfolio within the Ministry of Health, The Elderly and Community Services (Malta). [The Green Initiative was launched on 1st January 2005 by the then Prime Minister Dr Lawrence Gonzi LL.D with the appointment of the first Ministry Green Leaders, I being among these 15 Leaders and continued assuming this role till retirement date. The main aim of this Initiative was to create a green network within government in order to enable it to better meet its corporate responsibilities with regard to the environment through environmentally-friendly practices]. Participated as representative of the Health Ministry (Malta) in several high profile international and European Conferences, Fora and Fairs: Developing Public Procurement Policies for Sustainable Development and Innovation – Hamar, Norway (2006) 2nd European Conference & Fair : Education for Sustainable Development – Hamburg (2006*) Implementing Sustainable Public Sector Procurement – London (2007) COHAB 2 (Conference on Health and Biodiversity) – Galway (2008) Working together on Education for Sustainable Development – Bordeaux (2008) 3rd European Conference & Fair : Education for Sustainable Development – Hamburg (2009) CONCERTO Forum : Energy & Climate Change Policy Solutions ….studies on experiences of 58 European cities implementing the Concerto concept - Brussels (2010)

Green Energy

Wassila Issaadi is a Doctor of science (PhD) in Department of Automatics, Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Bejaia, Algeria and received her PhD degree in September, 2016 at the age of 25 years. Her current research interests include Robotics, Automatics, adaptives and robust control, Photovoltaics and its Controls, Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Theory. She is author of many research papers published at both International and National journals (Elsevier and IEEE), Conference proceedings. Now she work as Editor for Nova Science Publisher and InTech Open Science for two collections of Book in Robotics and Renewable Energy, and also Guest Editor for upcoming collection for the journal Advances in Mechanical Engineering for publisher Sage. She is an Editorial Board Member for repute in international Journals.

Electrical Engineering, Power and Energy Engineering

Mingming Zhang is Director for Key Lab of Wind Energy Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Aerodynamics of wind turbine blade; Optimal blade design; Flow control; Smart blade; Wind farm micro-sitting; Wind turbine aerodynamics and optimization in wind farm; Wind energy thermal utilization.

Paresh C. Sen was born in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He received the B.Sc. (with honors in physics) and M.Sc. (Tech.) degrees in applied physics from the University of Calcutta, India in 1958 and 1962, respectively, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1965 and 1967, respectively. Dr. Sen is currently Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University, Canada. He has worked for industries in India and Canada and was a consultant to electrical industries in Canada. He has authored about 240 high quality technical papers in the general area of electric motor drives and power electronics, five of which have been published in three IEEE press books. He is the author of two internationally acclaimed textbooks: Principles of Electric Machines and Power Electronics (Wiley 1989, 1997, 2014) and Thyristor DC Drives (Wiley 1981). He has taught electric machines, power electronics and electric drive systems for over 50 years. His fields of interest include power electronics, electric drive systems, switching power supplies, renewable energy systems, digital control, fuzzy logic control and modern control techniques for power electronics and motor drive systems. Dr. Sen has served IEEE in various capacities: as an associate editor, distinguished lecturer, chairman of the technical committees on power electronics and energy systems, session organizer, session chairperson and paper reviewer. He served as an NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Scientific Liaison Officer evaluating university-industry coordinated projects. Dr. Sen is globally recognized as an authority in power electronics and motor drive systems. He received the IEEE-IAS (Industry Application Society) Outstanding Achievement Award in 2008, and the IEEE-Canada Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2006 for his outstanding contributions over five decades as a researcher, supervisor, teacher, author and consultant. He was the recipient of the IAS-IDC Prize Paper Award in 1986. He is a fellow of IEEE and a fellow of EIC. As an Emeritus Professor, Dr. Sen continues to be active in research, supervision of graduate students, revision of his book on electric machines and serving in several IEEE societies.

Power Electronics, Electric Motor Drives, Renewable Energy, Modern Control Techniques.

Huamin Li received the BS degree from the College of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China, in 2007, the MS degree from the College of Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Korea, in 2010, and the PhD degree in the Department of Nano Science and Technology, SKKU, Suwon, Korea, in 2013. His PhD research focused on 2D electronics and optoelectronics. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame. His postdoctoral work included the development of low-voltage and steep subthreshold swing (SS) components for beyond-CMOS electronic systems using low-dimensional materials. To date, his research results have been included in one book chapter (2013), published in Nature Communications (2015), Scientific Reports (2014), IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices (2009–2012) etc., presented in IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM, 2009, 2011–2013), and filed five US and Korean patents with the collaboration of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. In 2012, he received Chinese Government Award for outstanding self-financed students abroad by China Scholarship Council.

Nano-scale electronics and optoelectronics based on low-dimensional materials

BK Sharma joined the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) in 2009 and is a Senior Research Engineer in the Applied Research on Industrial Environmental Systems Program (ARIES) Group at ISTC. BK's research areas are biofuels, biolubricants, and alternative fuels. In February 2016, BK was elected as fellow of Society of Tribology & Lubrication Engineers

Biofuels, Green Energy, Renewable Energy

Ximing Cai’s current research areas include coupled human-natural system analysis with an emphasis on human interferences in hydrological processes, water-energy-food system modeling especially in dry areas, and sustainable water resources management particularly in developing countries. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 peer-reviewed journal papers, three books and several monographs. He currently serves as Editor for Water Resources Research the flagship journal of water resources, published by the American Geophysical Union, and on the editorial board of other major water journals. He has received several awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award and best paper awards from Water International and the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. He has worked as a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations and other international agencies.

Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems

Dr. Sebastian Helgenberger leads the “Multiple Benefits of Renewables” project at IASS Potsdam. In their research activities and international science-policy dialogues Sebastian and his team are giving particular emphasis on the social and economic benefits of renewable energies as drivers of accelerated transitions towards sustainable energy for all. Sebastian graduated in Environmental Sciences at Leuphana University Lüneburg and conducted his master thesis at ETH Zurich on knowledge co-creation among science and society in sustainability transformations. He also holds a PhD in socio-economics. Throughout his career Sebastian Helgenberger has been committed to advancing and experimenting with the transformative potential of science and research to accompany societal change.

Transdisciplinary Panel on Energy (TPEC)

Aaron Praktiknjo has been an Assistant Professor of Energy Resource and Innovation Economics at RWTH Aachen University since 2015. Before joining RWTH Aachen, he was a team leader and lecturer at the Institute for Energy Engineering, TU Berlin, and served as a consultant for national and international agencies and companies. After studying industrial and civil engineering, he completed his PhD on the topic of energy supply security at the Chair of Energy Systems at TU Berlin, graduating in 2013 with highest honors. He has received awards for his research from the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and the European Energy Exchange (EEX).

Energy Systems Analysis, Safety of the power supply,Design and modeling of energy markets

Wolfram Sparber is currently working as chairman of the executive board of Alperia spa. Alperia spa is a company which arose from the merging of the two regional energy utilities SEL spa and AEW spa. From November 2011 till December 2015 Wolfram Sparber was chairman of the board of administration of SEL spa and of several daughter companies. Since 2011 he is Vice President of the Board of the European Technology Platform Renewable Heating and Cooling.

Sustainable energy systems for regions and cities, Integrated renewable energy concpets for buildings

Peter NOVAK completed his Ph.D. degree in Technical Sciences, University of Belgrade in 1975. Peter NOVAK was professor for HVAC, Renewable energy and Environment and dean at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. Hi is professor emeritus of Faculty for technology and systems, Novo mesto. Hi is owner of consultant company Energotech. At present is involved in preparation of energy concept of Slovenia for Slovenian government. He is associated with ASHRAE (Fellow and Life member). In the International Institute of Refrigeration served eight years as president of Commission E1 for Air Conditioning (now Honorary Member of IIR) and past Vice chairman of Scientific Committee at European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen (2012-2016). Hi is also honorary member of REHVA, SLOSE, and SITHOK. More than twelve years hi was served as member of Environmental Council of Slovenia.

Sustainable Energy, Biomass, Renewable energy resources

Dr Dansoh is a Chartered PhD qualified engineer with over 30 years’ experience in multi discipline industrial environments. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in renewable energy technologies at Kingston University in London.

Biomass and Biofuels, fuel cells and Hydrogen, wind and Solar power and ocean energy systems, such as wave and tidal power

Professor Buxing Han received Ph.D. degree at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1988, and did postdoctoral research from 1989 to 1991 at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been a professor at Institute of Chemistry, CAS since 1993

physicochemical properties of green solvent systems, green solvents in green chemistry, green energy