Essam Eldin Khalil Hassan Khalil is an Egyptian Mechanical Engineer. Khalil is a professor in the mechanical power department at Cairo University. He is the author and co-author of several international researches in HVAC field. He has many years of experience in delivering courses in air-conditioning to University, college students, to building managers and maintenance staff in both the industrial and commercial sectors in Egypt, the Arabian countries and worldwide. He has been selected by various universities and international organisations to lecture to graduate and post graduate level engineers, managers, supervisors and operating personnel on the subjects of HVAC design and optimisation, HVAC system management, energy utilization, waste heat recovery, plant management and other related subjects.

Thermal Power, Combustion, Environmental Engineering and Heat Transfer

Professor Niu obtained his BSc in HVAC (Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning) engineering in 1983, and MSc in Thermal Engineering in 1986 from Tsinghua University, and received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in 1994. From 1986 to 1989, he worked as an assistant professor and then lecturer at Tsinghua University, and in between also won the CBI overseas scholarship to work as an exchange R&D engineer for 6 months in UK. Since joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1994, he has been teaching subjects covering Thermofluids, Heat Transfer, Air-conditioning System Design and Analysis, and Indoor Air Quality Engineering. He has successfully supervised 7 PhD students and over 20 Master students. He has broad research interests in low-energy air-conditioning technologies and modeling of indoor air quality. He also provides consultancy services to the building management on diagnosis of indoor air quality and audit of building energy uses. He has obtained over 20 research grants from Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), the university and other funding bodies, authoring and co-authoring nearly 200 technical papers including over 80 internationally reviewed journal papers and giving many invited technical presentations.

Energy, Audit of Building Energy Uses

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

Dr. Wassila ISSAADI is a Doctor of Sciences in Department of Automatics, Electronics, and Electrical Engineering, University of Bejaia, Algeria and received her Doctorat (PhD) degree in September 2016 at the age of 25 years. She obtained Magister degree in 2013, and the diploma of state engineer in 2011. 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 (IEEE and Elsevier), Conference proceedings. Now she works as Editor for Nova Science Publisher and Springer Publisher for four collections of Books in Robotics and Renewable Energy, and also as Guest Editor for upcoming collection for the journal of Advances in Mechanical Engineering for publisher Sage. She is an Editorial Board Member for many reputed in International Journals She is also a reviewer in many renowned journals: Applied Energy APEN (Elsevier), Energy Strategy ES (Elsevier), Solar Energy SE (Elsevier), International Journal of Renewable Energy Research-IJRER Cited in SCOPUS, EBSCO and Thomson Reuters and International Journal of Energy Research (Wiley), International Journal of Management, Information Technology and Engineering and many others journals and serving as an Editorial Board Member of reputed conferences and both an Editorial Board Member and Reviewer in many conferences events. And potential speaker for many conferences events. Doctor Wassila ISSAADI teaches in University courses in programmation of automates (PLC programming), automatismes and robotics. Doctor Wassila ISSAADI worked as Chair Member in International Conference on Design and Prodution Engineering “DPE2016” at Berlin, Germany 2016, and Chair for session of her interest in International Conference on Design and Prodution Engineering “DPE2017” at Paris, France 2017. She is Chair and speaker for session in "2nd World Congress on Wind and Renewable Energy" June 14-15, 2018 at London, United Kingdom (UK).

Robotics, Automatics, adaptives and robust control, Photovoltaics and its Controls, Artificial Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Theory.

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

Dr Caroline Hachem-Vermette is an assistant professor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Environmental Design. An architect by training, she obtained a Master degree in architectural engineering, and a Master and PhD degrees in Building Engineering.

Her research area includes the investigations of solar potential and energy implications of building shapes and multifunctional neighbourhood patterns, to reach net zero energy status. Her research is multidisciplinary, it plays a bridging role between building engineering and architectural and urban design. She is an expert member in the International Energy Agency Task 51- Solar energy in urban planning. She is a researcher in the NSERC Smart Net Zero Energy Research Network, and leader of the project of new NZE community design. She has been involved in the feasibility studies of several solar community designs, in various areas of Canada.

Tin-Tai 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 at the Division of Building Science and Technology of the City University of Hong Kong. He has 400 academic publications, including over 130 SCI journal articles and with over 4,000 Scopus citations. His Scopus H-index reaches 35. 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

She is Head of Weather forecasting, natural and technogenic disaster modeling division of the Institute of Hydrometeorology of Georgian Technical University. She has published 76 scientific articles including high rated journals. She is the member of Scientific and Editorial Board of Institute of Hydrometeorology and Institute of Geophysics. Also she is the Scientific Committee Member of the International Scientific Conference on Environment and Renewable Energy (ICERE 2014, 15, 16.17). She collaborates with International Scientific Journals, as reviewer.

Geo-sciences and Renewable Energy

Volodymyr Bunetskyi (birth date and place 24th of May 1970, Ukraine) has Main activity in the field of biological polymers processing to solid biofuel. V. Bunetskyi is also expert in technological support and automation of manufactures, alternative energetics and author of the new technological approach to biochar producing. V. Bunetskyi has 12 publications in High Attestation Commission of Ukraine, 6 author's patents, 18 publications in different printings, 16 presentations in the field of pellet’s producing and alternative energetics. Took part in 2 AEBIOM Bioenergy Conferences, read course of lectures in Kiev, Kharkov, Lviv, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnojarsk, Kirov, Minsk, Haifa and other centers of alternative energetics.

biological polymers processing to solid biofuel

Kurt Rolf Papsdorf is the founder and C.E.O. of AEDC in South Africa, ( 2000 ) and founder of ZOLAIR Energy in Vancouver B.C. Canada, ( 2014).AEDC was voted a top 100 technology company in S.A. and was finalist ( 2005) in the category : social innovations, sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, ESKOM and Da Vinci.At present he is President of Zolair Energy Ltd. with main function in technical development and advisor to management partners. He was nominated as an ASHOKA fellow in South Africa in 2008. In 2014, he developed a new business model, patent pending, for a wireless activation of Zolair energy units and the sale of energy in watt hrs. including incremental payments on a pay as you go system.

Design of a fuel cell housing for zinc-air fuel cells, that are renewable and can receive new anodes, manually, through easy cartridge exchange

Bachir BOUCHEKIMA is Professor of Renewable Energies and Processes Engineering at the University of Ouargla, Algeria (Department of Renewable Energies). He has been teaching researcher for more than 30 years and has participated in several conferences and scientific seminars in Algeria or outside Algeria. He is the author of several scientific publications in the field of Processes Engineering and Renewable Energies. He is coordinator of several national and international scientific research projects. He is adviser at IFS International Foundation of Science (Stockholm, Sweden).

Processes Engineering and Renewable Energies

Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban (Member’12, Senior Member’15, IEEE) received bachelor, master (with distinction), and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of Madras (India), Pondicherry University (India), and University of Bologna (Italy), in 2002, 2006, and 2012 respectively. Dr.P.Sanjeevikumar biography has been included along with the world professional achievers in MarquisWho'sWho (33rd Edition, 2016), United State of America, November 2015. He was working as Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Johannesburg, South Africa from October 2016. He published 150 plus scientific papers in referred conference proceedings and international journals in the field of power electronics and circuit model¬ing, with particular reference to multiphase and multilevel converters. He has received the Best Paper cum Most Excellence Research Paper Award of IET-SEISCON 2013. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics, IEEE Power Electronics, and IEEE Power and Energy Societies. He serve as Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board of more than 150 refereed journal in particular IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, IET Renewable Energy, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, IEEE Access, etc. He was invited as honorary program committee/technical committee/steering committee member/chair for more than 3000 plus various international, national conferences in India and Abroad in particular IEEE.

power electronics and circuit modeling

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

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

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.

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.

Jagannadh Satyavolu, is the Theme Leader for Biomass and Biofuels focused on developing renewable feed streams for green fuel processing technology.

Jagannadh Satyavolu has 25 years of experience in commercial business leadership roles, operations and capital project management, product and process technology development, industrial application research, and academia. He has lead projects in lignocellulosic biomass conversion for energy, chemicals, paper and other industrial markets; waste to energy conversion technologies and implementation; process integration and economics; water treatment and recycle; and new product/process development for chemical, food, and biotechnology industries.

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.

Constantinos S. Psomopoulos is an Assistant 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.

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.

Dr. Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar, L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor, and Distinguished Univ. Professor at the Univ. of Cincinnati and is Founding Director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS www.imscenter.net) which is a multi-campus NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center which consists of the Univ. of Cincinnati (lead institution), the Univ.of Michigan, Missouri Univ. of S&T, and Univ. of Texas-Austin. The Center has developed partnerships with over 85 companies from 15 countries since its inception in 2001. In addition, he has mentored his students and developed a spin-off company Predictronics with support from NSF Innovation ICorps Award in 2012. He also serves as an invited committee member for White House Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Advisory Group in 2013.His current research focuses on Industrial Big Data Analytics, Cyber-Physical Systems.Currently, he also serves as advisor to a number of global organizations, including a member of the Manufacturing Executive Leadership Council, member of International S&T Committee of Alstom Transport, France, Scientific Advisory Board of Flanders\\\\\\\' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre (FMTC) in Leuven, Belgium, Scientific Advisor Board of SIMTech, Singapore, Member of Advisory Committee of MIRDC Taiwan, etc.Previously, he served as Director for Product Development and Manufacturing at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC),He is a frequently invited speaker and has delivered over 200 invited keynote speeches at major international conferences and has over 20 patents and 2 trademarks. He received a number of awards including the most recent NSF Alex Schwarzkopf Technological Innovation Prize in Jan. 2014, MFPT (Machinery Failure Prevention Technology Society) Jack Frarey Award in 2014, and the Prognostics Innovation Award from National Instruments in 2012. He mentored his students to participate in PHM Data Challenge Competition and won the 1st Prize 5 times since 2008.

Industrial Big Data Analytics & Cyber-Physical Systems

Philip Totaro is the Founder and CEO of Totaro & Associates, a market research and innovation strategy consulting firm based in Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Totaro is regarded worldwide as the foremost expert on wind industry technology and intellectual property matters. Mr. Totaro has a Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering and over 12 years of experience in strategic planning as well as creating and protecting intellectual capital. His strategic market analysis has led to the funding justification of over US$500M in R&D investment and the development of multimillion dollar product and service offerings. He has provided legal and technical due-diligence for over US$1.5B in M&A.

Wind Industry Technology and Intellectual Property matters.

Professor Pourkashanian is the Head of University Energy Research at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Pilot-scale Advanced Capture Technology (PACT) national facilities. He is a Professor of Energy Engineering and has completed numerous major research projects on clean energy technology and has received a substantial sum of grants from RCUK-EPSRC, EU, NATO, and industry. He has published over 446 refereed research papers and has co-authored books on coal combustion. He played a leading role in developing the NOx post-processing computer codes and subsequently soot/NOx models that were later employed in the commercial CFD software. He is a member of numerous international and national scientific bodies including a member of EERA Implementation Plan 2013-2015 (contribution to CCS-EII Team, SET-PLAN), a member of Coordinating Group of UKCCSRC, an invited member of the All Party Parliamentary Renewable Transport Fuels Group, member of technical working group for the Department of Energy & Climate Change (CCS Roadmap UK2050) and Expert-Member in EU-GCC Clean Gas Energy Network.

Wind Energy Technologies

Dr.S.Gomathinayagam is now Director General, National Institute of Wind Energy-NIWE (C-WET the old name), Chennai, India. He obtained his PhD in ocean Engineering, from IIT, Madras, 2004, MS in structures from IIT, Madras 1982, B.E from Regional Engineering College, Trichirapalli Madras University, Tamil Nadu, India, Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India) and Now since 2009 He is working as an institutional Head/CEO of NIWE (C-WET the old name). He worked as a Scientist-Dy.Director in Structural engineering Research Centre, CSIR, Chennai, 1983–2009 Structural Enegineering- Software development - offshore-onshore-power-navy-space-blast-impact-wind-wave-current- Wind turbine fatigue loads measurement and design - Towers - dynamic - static and fatigue designs. Research and technology management.

He has 36 years of research experience, consultancy, FEM Software devep.and static/dynamic/stochastic analysis of structures onshore/offshore space/navy/industrial/Wind Energy & Solar Energy renewables sector. Presently He is looking for Networking.

Prof. Dr. Ali Hamzeh obtained his PhD in Electrical Power Engineering from Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He is currently a full professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan. Prior to that, Prof. Hamzeh worked from 1984 to 2012 as full professor at the Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde in 2000, and at Erlangen-Nuernberg University, Germany many times during 1994-2014. His main research domains include electrical power systems and renewable energy systems. He published over 100 peer-reviwed article and conference papers. He authored/co-authored 17 books in the area of electric power systems, renewable energy, and computer programming.

He is member of IEEE, World Wind Energy Association (WWEA), Board of Arab Institute of Operation & Maintenance (Saudi Arabia), and Energy Committee of Arab Engineers Fedaration.

Prof. Beyene graduated with Ph.D. from Warsaw University of Tech., Warsaw. He is a Fellow member of ASME and currently serves as Director of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at SDSU. Dr. Beyene’s research integrates analytical, computational, and experimental techniques to address fundamental and practical problems of energy conversion. He has developed novel methods for wind and wave energy conversion. Over the years, Dr. Beyene has attracted several millions of dollars in funding from NSF, DOE, US Navy, CEC, and others. Professor Beyene is the recipient of many research and teaching awards. He has authored significant number of refereed journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports.

Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy

Ralph M. Kennel was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1955. He received the Diploma and Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D) degrees from the University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, in 1979 and 1984, respectively. The research activities of Prof. Kennel (b. 1955) cover the traditional field of electrical drive systems but also sensorless and encoderless control of electric drives, the predictive control of power converters and “hardware in the loop” power electronics systems. Through its wide range of teaching and lecturing topics, the Chair of Electrical Drive Systems and Power Electronics provides a solid base for forward-looking training in system engineering and drive technology. He held a number of positions at Robert Bosch GmbH up until 1999. From 1994 to 1999 he also held the position of visiting professor at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. After that, he held the Chair of Electric Machines and Drives at Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 2008, he was appointed full professor at TUM. Prof. Kennel is a senior member of the IEEE, an IET fellow, a chartered engineer in the UK and a member of the EPE Association and the VDE (Kurpfalz district), as well as Vice President for Meetings of the Power Electronics Society. Prof Ralph M.Kennel was awarded with these awards: Best Paper Award: 
3rd Power Electronics, Drive Systems & Technologies Conference (IEEE-PEDSTC 2012), Keynote Paper ACEMP 2011, \"Replacement of Electrical (Load) Drives by a Hardware-in-the-Loop System\" (2011), PELS Distinguished Lecturers - ECCE 2011, \"IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2011 Awards Ceremony\" (2011).

Electrical drive systems & Sensor less and Encoder less control of electric drives.

Dr.ing.ir. P. Bauer received his Masters in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Kosice (‘85), Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology (’95) and title prof. from the president of Czech Republic at the Brno University of Technology (2008). Since 1990 he is with Delft University of Technology, teaching Power electronics and Electrical Drives. From 2002 to 2003 he was working partially at KEMA (Arnhem) on different projects related to power electronics applications in power systems. P. Bauer published over 45 journal and 200 conference papers in his field, he is an author or co-author of 5 books, he holds international patent and organized several tutorials at the international conferences.

Power Electronics

Martin Jakubowski, CEO at Sea Wind Ocean Technology is one of the pioneers in the renewable energy industry having set up unit energy europe AG in Germany in 1995 out of which a number of pathbreaking companies have been set up in various countries in the EU, such as WRE Hellas with its wind farms in Greece, the Vila do Bispo I & II wind farms in Portugal, the hydro-power plant Ancinale in Southern Italy, the Tri Chalupky hydro power plant on the Elbe river, the wind farm Lastours in Southern France, the clean energy distribution companies unit energy Stromvertrieb in Germany and Good Energy Plc in the UK. In 2002 Martin Jakubowski filed a number of patents for floating foundations and in 2004 he set up Blue H Technologies with which he installed the first floating wind turbine in the world in 2008 in the Southern Adriatic Sea in 113m deep water. In 2010 he set up Condor Wind Energy, which is building a 6.1 MW two-bladed wind turbine with yaw control (no blade pitch mechanism) on a self-installing floating foundation. Martin Jakubowski holds a number of patents for two-bladed wind turbines with Silvestro Caruso his partner in Blue H and Condor. In 2015 Martin Jakubowski and Silvestro Caruso set up Seawind Ocean Technology in the Netherlands and filed for new patents for a hybrid mechanic-elastomeric teetering hinge for two-bladed wind turbines and for a self-installing 6.2 MW offshore wind energy system for shallow waters to bring the LCOE in offshore wind below $0.08. He was Founder and Director at Condor Wind Energy, Founder and Technology Architect at Blue H Technologies BV, Founder and Director at Good Energy.

Wind Energy

Dr. Ghida received a Master’s degree in energy engineering in 2010 from Lebanese university, Lebanon. In 2011 she started her Ph.D. work in Brussels school of Engineering at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. Her thesis focused on the contribution to the development of wind energy in Lebanon by analysis his potential, his environmental impact and his storage. Having been awarded her Ph.D. degree in August 2015, she joined the department of Aero-Thermo-Mechanics in Brussels school of engineering as postdoctoral research follow in October 2015 and is currently working on the techno-economic analysis of the hydro pumped storage system. She has published 3 papers in reputed journals.

Energy Engineering

Dr.PKC Bose, CEO & MANAGING DIRECTOR of SAERTEX INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED (a wholly owned subsidiary of SAERTEX Group, Germany) has completed his Ph.D. from Washington International University, USA. He is an alumnus of IIM-A, and also Wharton-SMU, USA, ISB, Hyderabad India and Kellogg Business School, USA. He has an M.Phil. in Business Management, MLM, Advance Management Diploma, in his credentials. He was conferred with the UDYOG RATNA Award by Institute of Economic Studies, India. He was conferred with the ASIA PACIFIC OUTSTANDING ENTREPRENUER AWARD by Enterprise Asia, Malaysia. He has been invited as a visiting/guest faculty in over 30 universities and business schools in the world. which includes International University in Germany, GISMA, ESMT in Germany, University of Hungary, Budapest, Adelphi University, New York, Rossevelt University, USA, Frankfurt University (Oder), Hamburg School of Business Administration, Germany and Symbiosis Institute of Management and many more. He was also an advisory Board Member of University of Denver, USA & Global Leadership School, Germany. Recently.Dr. Bose has been invited by one of the oldest universities of Italy Universita Bocconi, Milan, and German University in Cairo for their Executive MBA program. Dr.Bose was featured in FORBES INDIA Magazine in May 2011 and in June 2012 as well. Dr. PKC Bose has been bestowed with the CEO OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 by India Leadership Conclave in Mumbai on 18th July 2014.

Business Development & International Business

Marc Costa Ros is Senior Manager in the Carbon Trust´s Offshore Wind team, Present London, United Kingdom. focused in the delivery of the Offshore Wind Accelerator, a joint R&D program with 9 of the major offshore wind developers, which aims to reduce the LCOE by 10% for UK Round 3 sites through a wide R&D project portfolio, gaining a deep Offshore wind lifecycle understanding and focus in LCOE reduction. Chartered MSc Civil Engineer specialized in both “Structural Design and Analysis” and “Construction Engineering” and with knowledge in Naval Architecture and Finance, very motivated in developing my career in the Offshore Wind sector. Extensive work experience background in wind energy, with high knowledge of the offshore wind business and lifecycle; and structural civil engineering specialised consulting and construction companies. Besides, being fluent in different languages, with strong management and technical skills, problem-solving, multitasking, well-organised and hardworking (both in team work and on standalone basis) are some of the characteristics that describe me. Head of Offshore Wind Division - MSc Civil Engineer (Structural designer) ESTEYCO, July 2010 – February 2013 (2 years 8 months) Barcelona Area, Spain. Responsible of the development of self-buoyant and completely crane-less Gravity Base Structure, including the structural design, manufacturing, transport, installation and final operation. Management of a resource-pooling team, with up to 7 people working simultaneously in a multidisciplinary team (structural engineers, geotechnical experts, naval architects, draftsmen). Strong communication skills as a sales engineer, giving commercial speeches across the EU. Supervision and approval of both internal and subcontracted works, with strong attention to detail. Design of onshore concrete towers for multi-megawatt turbines.

Off Shore Wind Energy, Structural Design and Analysis, Construction Engineering.

Dr. J.P. Paredes-Sánchez is a lecturer in the Department of Energy at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He received his PhD in Energy Engineering in 2010, at the University of Oviedo (Spain), and has been associated with national and international research projects at the Oviedo Higher Technical School of Mining and Engineering since 2007. He is the author or co-author of tens of papers and conferences on renewable energy and energy efficiency. He has published books about university education and energy sources. He is also involved in European programs for updating renewable energy research and higher education.

Research focus has been on the theory and application in the combination of conventional and non-conventional energy and Modelling of Biomass Energy Systems (BES), with a background in bioenergy research and hybridization techniques using energy sources.

V. Venkitachalam is the Director- Business Development of EFENP Automation Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India, a Total Solution provider for Food and Pharmaceutical & Energy industry sectors. Completed the post graduation in Business management with specialization in International Marketing from Symbiosis Institute of Management, Pune and B.Tech from Regional Engineering College, Calicut. He is an Associate Member of The Institution of Engineers (India), the National organization of Engineers in India. He has been bestowed with the Vijay Shree Award and Certificate of Excellence by IIFS, India. He has worked in the capacity of Managing Director of CVC Technologies Inc and handled their Indian operations. He was a member of National Advisory Board Pharma WORLD EXPO 2005.

Business Development and Manufacturing

Dr. Mahmood Shafiee is a Lecturer in Engineering Risk Analysis at Cranfield University, UK. His expertise is in the fields of Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Optimisation, Inspection Planning, Structural Health Assessment, Aging and Degradation Modelling, Probabilistic Risk Analysis, Asset Management, and Warranty & Service Reliability. He has over ten years of experience in the area of Risk and Reliability Engineering within the Oil and Gas, Renewable Wind, Railway, and Manufacturing industry sectors. He has also published more than forty papers in top tier journals and conference proceedings. He has been plenary speaker and program committee member of more than twenty international Conferences.

Energy Asset Integrity Management

Padmanaban Sanjeevikumar (Member 2012, Senior Member 2015, IEEE) received Bachelor of Engineering (first class), Master of Technology (with distinction), and Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Madras (India), Pondicherry University (India), and University of Bologna (Italy), in 2002, 2006, and 2012 respectively. After completing his Ph.D degree he worked as Associate Professor with VIT University from August 2012 to May 2013. Furthermore he joined as Faculty with National Institute of Technology, Pondicherry, from July 2013 to December 2013. He was invited as visiting fellow at Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar from January 2014 to February 2014. He continued his research activities with Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland from April 2014 to November 2014. Presently, from September 2014, he is Project Head in Research & Development and Consultant with Ohm Technologies, Chennai, India. He has published scientific papers in the field of power elec¬tronics, with particular reference to multi¬phase and multilevel converters. He has received the Most Excellent Research Paper Award of IET-4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Intelligent System in 2013.Dr.Sanjeevikumar is a Senior Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics, IEEE Power Electronics, and IEEE Power and Energy Societies.

Power Electronics and drives

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.

Tobias Richards is a professor in energy recovery at University of Borås since 2010. He has a PhD in chemical engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and made his postdoctoral studies at University of Maine within the college of Engineering. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals and is the editor of a new book in the area of waste treatment (Resource Recovery to Approach Zero Municipal Waste). During the fall 2014 he was a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley.

His expertise is research related to resource recovery with primary interest on thermal treatment and techniques such as pyrolysis, gasification and combustion.

Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma, Ph.D. is a professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.S. degree in applied physics and the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1991, and the M.S. degree in nuclear science and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1997, and 2001, respectively. His doctoral research focused on the development of SiGe power heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) for high frequency microwave applications.

Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma's energy research focuses on energy conversions with emphases on direct conversions of nuclear energy and solar energy. He is also interested in applying wireless and microwave techniques in next-generation nuclear power plants and power conversion of solar modules. He has specialized in semiconductor devices, materials and circuits for many years. Fast flexible electronics and nanophotonics are also his current intensively focused areas. He currently serves on the Executive Steering Committee for the IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems. He is elected Conference Chair of 2008 IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems to be held in Orlando, FL. His inventions include PIN Diodes for Photodetection and High-Speed, High-Resolution Image Sensing, Method for Double-Sided Processing of Thin Film Transistors, High-Power-Gain, Bipolar Transistor Amplifier, and Solid-State High Frequency High Power Device.

Ana Rosu is a Graduate of the faculty of biology, University of Bucharest and scientific researcher in the field of cell biology and plant biotechnology at the Institute of Biology, Romanian Academy of Sciences. She completed her PhD in Biology in 1987. She is a scientific research coordinator and is responsible for professional formation of young specialists as professor of plant biology and biotechnology of the faculty of biotechnology at University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest. She has published more than 70 articles in scientific journals; 24 scientific presentations at international and national scientific events.

Her research interest lies in the field of cell biology and plant biotechnology.

Andra Pedral Sampaioin holds Phd in Industrial Engineering - Organizational Intelligence from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2008), Master in Industrial Engineering - Business Management from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2002), Computer Specialist at Educational Center for Education Graduate Olga Metting (1999), Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia (1986). He has extensive experience in the areas of Information Technology, Process Engineering, Hydrogen, Bioenergy, Energy Generated, Process Automation, Sustainable Development, Audit and Judicial Skill. Winner of the South Regional – Santander and Winner of 4th Prize Santander Science and Innovation with the project OPTIMUS: Creating a method for assessing the strategic management informed by MCDA-C; Coordinates of the APOLLO research group, developing research projects in the areas of technology, robotics, organizational strategies, clean energy and sustainable development. Creator, researcher and coordinator of the Engineering courses of the Faculty of Technology of Valença / Ba – FACTIVA. Founder of FACTIVA's Technology Center. Professor and researcher at the Federal University of Bahia – UFBA. Coordinator and researcher of the research groups: NDTA – FACTIVA: Advanced Technology Development Center Factiva; And GPAPOLLO – UFBA: Apollo Research Group – UFBA.

His research interest lies in the areas of technology, robotics, organizational strategies, clean energy and sustainable development.

André Luiz de Carvalho has completed his Ph.D in Energy and Nuclear Technologies at the age of 30 years from Federal University of Pernambuco and postdoctoral studies from Federal University of Alagoas, in Brazil. He has experience in agrometeorology, solar radiation and climate modeling and biogeochemistry and he has published some papers in journals about meteorology and climatology, including issues related to the impacts of climate changes on agriculture. -

His research interests include agrometeorology, solar radiation and climate modeling and biogeochemistry.