Organization: Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany

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Frank Werner has published more than 220 papers in international journals and several book contributions in applied mathematics, operations research and scheduling. He is the first author of the textbook ‘Mathematics of Economics and Business’ (Routledge, UK/USA, 2006) and an author of the monograph ‘Scheduling Under Uncertainty: Theory and Algorithms’ (Belarusian Science, 2010). He was also one of the two editors of the book ‘Sequencing and Scheduling with Inaccurate Data’ (Nova Science Publishers, 2014). He was also a guest editor of special issues in the journals Annals of Operations Research, Computers & Operations Research, International Journal of Production Research and Automation and Remote Control. Since 2012, he is an Associate Editor in International Journal of Production Research responsible for the area ‘Scheduling and Discrete Optimization’ and since 2014, he is also an Associate Editor for ‘Journal of Scheduling’ and ‘Operations Research and Decisions’. He is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (since 2009), of International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (since 2012), of Journal of Applied Mathematics (since 2012), of World Journal of Methodology (since 2012), of Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (since 2013) and of Operations Research Perspectives (since 2013). Frank Werner is also a member of the Advisory Board of International Journal of Operational Research/ Nepal (since 2011), and he was a member of the program committee of several conferences, e.g. the 14th IFAC Symposium of Information Control Problems in Manufacturing in Bucharest / Romania. Frank Werner acted as a referee for more than 35 international journals (e.g. Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Annals of Operations Research). In addition, he was a supervisor of several Ph.D. and post-doc students (e.g. a supervisor of Dr. Svetlana Kravchenko who had several stays in Magdeburg within the period 2007 - 2014 supported by a grant from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation). Since 2015, I am a member of the IFAC Committee ‘Manufacturing Modeling for Management and Control’ (TC 5.2).

Organization: Linnaeus University, Sweden

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Prof. Basim Al-najjar is Professor of Terotechnology, founder/CEO of E-maintenance Sweden AB and Head of the Centre: Cost-effective Industrial Asset Management (CeIAM). He also was Head of department of Terotechnology in about 13 years, Linnaeus University, Sweden. He obtained his Ph.D. in Production Management, Lund University, Sweden. His specialties fit also in Industrial Engineering, Maintenance Technology and System Engineering.Terotechnology is a combination of engineering, management, financial and other practices applied to physical assets in pursuit of economic life cycle costs.He has several years´ industrial experiences from Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Sweden.

Organization: Rzeszów University of Technology, Poland

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Organization: University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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Alessio Ishizaka is a Distinguished Professor in Decision Analysis. He was Head of the Information Systems, Supply Chain and Decision making Department from 2019 to 2022. He was also research lead and Deputy Director of the Centre of Operational Research and Logistics at the University of Portsmouth. Alessio received his PhD from the University of Basel (Switzerland). He worked successively for the University of Exeter (UK), University of York (UK) and Audencia Grande Ecole de Management Nantes (France). He has been visiting professor in several universities in Italy, France and Germany. His research is in the area of decision analysis, where he has published more than 120 papers. He is regularly involved in large European funded projects. He has been the chair, co-organizer and guest speaker of several conferences on this topic. He wrote the indispensable textbook Multicriteria Decision Analysis: methods and software.

Organization: United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates

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Organization: University of Palermo, Italy

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Organization: Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

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Prof. Adrian Ioinovici is a chair professor in HIT, Israel, where he served as a Dean of Electrical Engineering. He is also a professor in NUAA, Nanjing, within the P R China plan” One thousand foreign experts”. He served in the period 2012-2016 as the Director of the Center of Power Electronics at the Sun Yat Sen University, Guangzhou.He is the author of the book Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Systems, Wiley@Sons Ltd., 2013, translated to Chinese in 2017. He authorized about 200 papers published in IEEE Transactions and IEEE conferences Proceedings, with a Scopus H-factor of 37 and a Google H-index of 47. He pioneered the research in switched-capacitor converters, large dc gain hybrid converters, and switched-capacitor multilevel inverters. He has served IEEE in different qualities, including Associate Editor of TCAS, TIE, TPEL, member of the Fellow Committee, chairman of the CAS Technical Committee on Power Electronics and Systems, guest editor-in-chief of special issues of IEEE Transactions.

Organization: University of Naples Federico II, Italy

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Organization: National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Dr Chua Kian Jon, Ernest is currently an Associate Professor with the department of Mechanical Engineering, NUS. He has been working on air-conditioning systems since 1997. He conducts modeling and experimental works for HVAC applications. He has more than 120 international peer-reviewed journal publications related to building energy efficiency. He has won many awards for his research work on air-conditioning and dehumidification including a recent global award - WSSET (World Society for Sustainable Energy Technology) Innovation Awards 2016.

Organization: University of Thessaly, Greece

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Dr. Georgios Halkos is Professor of Natural Resource Economics. He is an economist graduated from the Department of Economics of the University of Piraeus and holds a Master of Science (M.Sc) in Finance and Investment Evaluation and a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil) in Cost-Benefit Analysis using Mathematical Models and Game Theory and applied to Economics of the Environment from the Economics Department of the University of York (England).He is Director of the Business Research Laboratory and Associate Editor of the scientific journal Environment and Development Economics (Cambridge University Press).

Organization: Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus, RMI, United States, United States

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Physicist Amory B. Lovins (1947– ) is cofounder and Chairman Emeritus and until September 2019 was Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute (www.rmi.org), continuing as an independent contractor and Trustee. He has been an energy advisor to major firms and governments in 70+ countries for 45+ years; author of 31 books and 650+ papers; and an integrative designer of superefficient buildings, factories, and vehicles. He has received the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, the Happold, Benjamin Franklin, and Spencer Hutchens Medals, 12 honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood (“alternative Nobel”), National Design, and World Technology Awards. In 2016, the President of Germany awarded him the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse). A Harvard and Oxford dropout, former Oxford don, honorary US architect, and Swedish engineering academician, he has taught at ten universities, most recently Stanford’s Engineering School and the Naval Postgraduate School (but only on topics he’s never formally studied, so as to retain beginner’s mind). He served on the U.S. National Petroleum Council 2011–18 and on the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations’ Advisory Board 2013–14. Time has named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers. His latest books include Natural Capitalism (1999, www.natcap.org), Small Is Profitable (2002, www.smallisprofitable.org), Winning the Oil Endgame (2004, www.oilendgame.com), The Essential Amory Lovins (2011), and Reinventing Fire (2011, www.reinventingfire.com). His main recent efforts include supporting RMI’s collaborative synthesis, for China’s National Development and Reform Commission, of an ambitious efficiency-and-renewables trajectory that informed the 13th Five Year Plan; helping the Government of India transform mobility; and exploring how to make integrative design the new normal, so investments in energy efficiency are severalfold larger, often with increasing returns. The Wall Street Journal’s Centennial Issue named Mr. Lovins among 39 people in the world most likely to change the course of business in the 1990s; Newsweek, “one of the western world’s most influential energy thinkers”; Dr. Alvin Weinberg, former Director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “surely the most articulate writer on energy in the whole world today”; and Car magazine, the 22nd most powerful person in the global automotive industry. Dr. John Ahearne, then Vice President of Resources for the Future, remarked that “Amory Lovins has done more to assemble and advance understanding of [energy] efficiency opportunities than any other single person.” The Economist wrote in 2008 that “history has proved him right.” The Editor of The Electricity Journal wrote in 1994 that “No advocate has had a greater influence on the changing orientation of U.S. utilities toward energy efficiency….” The Editor of Public Utilities Fortnightly ranked him first among molders of the modern electricity industry, and the Editor of Power Engineering International, first among 16 experts in 20-year electricity prescience. He has been profiled in The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, Time, New Yorker, and Harvard Magazine.

Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

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Dr. Blake Simmons is the Director of the Biological Systems and Engineering Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Tulane University in 2001. Prior to joining Berkeley Lab in 2016 he was at Sandia National Laboratories for 15 years. He currently serves as the Chief Science and Technology Officer and Vice-President of the Deconstruction Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, a DOE Office of Science funded project tasked with the development and realization of next-generation “drop-in” biofuels and bioadvantaged bioproducts produced from the conversion of sustainable, non-food lignocellulosic biomass.

Organization: University of Maryland, United States

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Prof. W. D. Zhu currently works at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He does research in Dynamics, Vibration, Control, Applied Mechanics, Structural Health Monitoring, Renewable Energy, Wave Propagation, and Metamaterials. Much of the current research can be divided into three areas: 1) vibration and stability of distributed structural systems; 2) finite element modeling, modal testing, model updating, and structural damage detection; and 3) infinitely variable transmission and wind energy. In the first area, we have developed new methodologies for analyzing and controlling the vibration of linear and nonlinear, time-invariant and time-varying, distributed-parameter systems. In the second area, we have addressed some major challenges in model-based damage detection: accurate modeling of structures and inverse analysis for damage detection. In the third area, we are developing novel all-geared infinitely variable transmission and variable electromotive-force generators.

Organization: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

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Prof. Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 313 journal papers, more than 662 Conference presentations, and 116patents and patent applications including 35 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012.He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22Feb 2014. He is a Member of EUA academy of Sciences (EUAS)since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018. He is 2019 Distinguished Fellow of IETI (International Engineering and Technology Institute). 

Organization: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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Prof. Dr. Tao Ma is an assistant professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr Ma's research is mainly related to 1) renewable energy technologies, specialized in system modelling, simulation, integration, and techno-economic optimization; 2) energy-efficient and sustainable energy technologies for buildings and cities; and 3) energy storage for remote renewables. He has already published 20+ peer-reviewed papers with high impact. In particular, his 2 papers have been indexed in Essential Science Indicators (ESI) as hot papers and 6 papers indexed as highly cited papers. Dr Ma has also secured funding from China and Hong Kong as Principal Investigator, and received a number of awards, including Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, Applied Energy Highly Cited Research Paper award, Outstanding PhD Thesis award, Best Paper award, and Outstanding Reviewer award. Now he is an assistant editor for Applied Energy, and editorial member of several journals. He is also the invited reviewer for 20+ journals.

Organization: University of Louisville, United States

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Prof. Dr. Vaclav Vetvicka, Ph.D. is a Professor at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Louisville. He is also the President of The International Society for Glucan Research (ISGR). He graduated in 1978 from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic with a doctorate degree in biology and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1983 from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Microbiology, Prague. He is a member of the Czech Immunological Society, American Association of Immunologists, International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology, and American Association for Cancer Research. In 1984 he was awarded the Distinguished Young Scientist Award of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. During 1984 to 1985 and 1988 he spent 18 months as a Research Associate in Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is author or co-author of more than 150 original scientific papers, several review articles, and three patents. He is a co-author of the books Evolution of Immune Reactions, Immunology of Annelids, Aspartic Proteinases, Methods in Cellular Immunology, and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Defense Reactions, and co-editor of books Immunological Disorders in Mice and Immune System Accessory Cells.

Organization: Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

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Prof. Jaroslaw Milewski is a doctor of engineering, associate professor at Power Engineering Division of Institute of Heat Engineering – Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering.He has an experience in research of fuel cell modelling (especially Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Hybrid Systems and Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Hybrid Systems), advanced power systems (hydrogen fuelled power generation cycles) and classic power generation systems (based on steam and gas turbines). He has definite experience with cooperation with power engineering industry. He is an author and a co-author of 200+ publications and holds 4 patents. He teaches students in the fields of: turbomachinery, theory of fluid flow machinery, environment protection, numerical tools in power plant simulations, hybrid systems, and others.

Organization: University of Glasgow, Australia

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Prof. Ruth Irwin is working on climate change in the public sector and is an Adjunct Professor with the Faculty of Education at RMIT University. Her research engages with indigenous thought, feminism, new materialism, and Continental philosophy. She is the author of four books, including Heidegger, Politics and Climate Change (2008), Climate Change and Philosophy (2010) and Beyond the Free Market (2014), amongst others. Currently she is writing a new monograph called Economic Futures, Climate Change and Modernity coming out with Routledge next year. With another on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Blanchot on Nihilism and Social Change to follow.

Organization: University of Leicester, United Kingdom

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Karl Ryder is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leicester. Dr Ryder is a professional member of the institute of Metal Finishing and is currently theme leader for materials and nano-materials research for the College of Science and Engineering. Professor Ryder specializes in the applied study of electrodynamics and nucleation/growth processes at electrified interfaces of metals and other polymer based materials in novel ionic liquid solvents.   Dr Ryder has active interests in both knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer activities and sits on several University committees dealing with third stream engagement. He has strong collaborations with many chemistry and chemical engineering / surface finishing sectors including aerospace, through a network of SME's and larger scale electrochemical and surface science based manufacturers and commercial R&D companies. His research interests include electrochemical deposition and dissolution processes, surfaces and interfacial structure. Characterization of surfaces and interfaces using probe microscopy, acoustic impedance spectroscopy, neutron reflectivity and X-ray techniques.

Organization: Southwest University of Science and Technology, China

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Shunli Wang is a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Academic Dean, Academic Leader of the National Electrical Safety and Quality Testing Center, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Provincial Senior Overseas Talent, Academic and Technical Leader of China Science and Technology City, who is an authoritative expert in renewable energy research. His research interests include modeling, state estimation, and safety management for energy storage systems.As the head of NELab and the new energy measurement & control research team, he closely focuses on the construction of control science and engineering disciplines, conducting the new energy measurement and control research with the collaborative battery state estimation. He has carried out the exploration and industrialization application of life cycle state measurement and control theory. 56 projects have been undertaken, including the projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Provincial Science and Technology Department. 

Organization: Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christof Wittwer is head of the “Power Electronics, Networks and Intelligent Systems” division at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and holds an honorary professorship at the Faculty for Environmental and Natural Resources at the University of Freiburg. He was a research assistant at the Technical University of Karlsruhe from 1995 and received his doctorate with distinction in 1999. Since 1994, he has been working in various functions at Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg. In 2003, he became the group leader “Operations Management and Control Engineering” and from 2012 he is department head of “Intelligent Energy Systems”. In 2014, he received the honorary professorship from the University of Freiburg. He is responsible for teaching the “Smart Grids” module in the “REM Renewable Energy “Engineering Systems” master’s course. Wittwer’s research focuses on intelligent power grids and energy management systems, as well as modelling and simulation. He supervises numerous master and doctoral students as part of his professorship.

Organization: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

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Prof. Dr. Manuela Tvaronavičienė holds position of professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and The General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania. She is a joint editor-in-chief of Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues, member of editorial boards of Journal of Business Economics and Management (Web of Sciences), International Journal of Trade and Global Markets (Elsevier, Cabell’s directory), Journal of Women's Entrepreneurship and Education (Akamai University, USA) etc. She is expert at Lithuanian Council of Science and expert at National Centre of Science and Technology Evaluation, Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan for evaluation scientific projects submitted for the EU funding.; permanent Member of Doctoral Study Committee at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University; opponent and participant of 30 dissertation defense committees; Head of scientific project, financed by the EU : “Energetically secure and sustainable restructuring of Lithuanian industry sectors in the context of world economy development tendencies” (The Research Council of Lithuania IEP-01/2012); author of more than 50 research papers , 20 of which are listed in Web of Sciences of Thomson Reuters; co-author of monograph “Innovations, Fixed Investment and Economic Growth: the EU context“. She is alumnus of IESE Business School (year 2002), raised qualifications at EFER programs held at Harvard Business School (2007), Maastricht (2010), IESE Business School 2011, and University of Cambridge (2012); has participated in conferences held in Europe, Asia, USA, Middle East and Japan.

Organization: King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

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Professor Ali is a well-known researcher with more than two decades of experience in innovation, sustainability, and smart technology. Throughout her career, she has proven a strong dedication to addressing global concerns by combining cutting-edge technologies with environmentally friendly practises.Dr. Ali has a Ph.D. in Operations Research with an emphasis on sustainability, so she understands how innovation can create sustainable development. Her study focuses on interdisciplinary topics such as sustainability, circular economy, warehousing, and transportation. Dr. Ali's expertise lies in designing and implementing new solutions that enhance sustainability. Her research has focused on integrating smart technologies into urban environments, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, in order to improve resource efficiency, improve energy management, and optimize transportation systems.

Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States

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Prof. Dr. Reza Ghorbani  completed his B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering, Sharif University of Technology 2000; M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering, Sharif University of Technology 2002; Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba 2008. NSERC research fellow, JSPS research fellow. He is an assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Hawaii. He is interested in sustainability, human mind, curiosity, and problem-solving. His research interests include renewable energy device and marine hydrokinetic power systems, intelligent control of smart grid, modern electric grid architecture, system optimization, high performance elastic actuators, system dynamics, and robotics. Over 60 reviewed papers, couple of patents pending. He holds 5 international awards in robotics.

Organization: Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia

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Prof. M. S. BHASKAR (M’15-SM’20) received the bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India in 2011 and a master’s degree in power electronics and drives from the Vellore Institute of Technology, VIT University, India in 2014, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Johannesburg, South Africa in 2019. He is with Renewable Energy Lab, Department of Communications and Networks Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was a Post-Doctoral researcher with his Ph.D. tutor in the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark in 2019. He worked as a Researcher Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar in 2018-2019. He worked as a Research Student with Power Quality Research Group, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in Aug/Sept 2017. He has authored 150 plus scientific papers with particular reference to DC/DC and DC/AC converter, and high gain converter, and received the Best Research Paper Awards from IEEE-GPECOM’20, IEEE-CENCON’19, IEEE-ICCPCT’14, IET-CEAT’16. He is a senior member of IEEE, IEEE Industrial Electronics, Power Electronics, Industrial Application, Robotics and Automation, Vehicular Technology Societies, Young Professionals, various IEEE Councils, and Technical Communities. He is a reviewer member of various international journals and conferences, including IEEE and IET.

Organization: National School of Engineers of Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia

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Prof. Houda Chihi was recently featured in the Nsesa Foundation’s ongoing STEM WOW series, where she shared her career highlights, her greatest achievements and the challenges she has faced as a woman in her field. Houda is a chief engineer at Tunisie Telecom and a senior researcher at Innov’COM Laboratory.When asked about her greatest achievement, Houda spoke about her TechWomen experience, her mentorship at Qualcomm and her exposure to leading companies in the Bay Area’s tech ecosystem: “I knew that with all my achievements, the TechWomen program was my key to build new contacts over the world and to get the opportunity to visit and get training in leadership and soft skills from great companies such as Linkedin, Facebook, Salesforce, Twitter, and Symantec,” she said. Houda also shared advice for other women and girls who are curious about entering STEM careers: “My advice for women is to join the STEM field, as they will always feel excited and curious about new technologies. It is also a great opportunity to build strong networks,” she said.

Organization: The University of New South Wales, Australia

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Prof. Vijayakumar Varadarajan is currently an Adjunct Professor in School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is also a Data Science Advisor for Brite Yellow Pvt. Ltd United Kingdom, He is also a President and Founder of Global Students Nest. He was a Professor and Associate Dean for School of Computing Science and Engineering at VIT University, Chennai, India. He has more than 18 years of experience including industrial and institutional. He also served as a Team Lead in industries like Satyam, Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra for several years. He has completed Diploma with First Class Honors. He has completed BE CSE and MBA HRD with First Class. He has also completed ME CSE with First Rank Award. He has completed his PhD from Anna University in 2012. He has published many articles in national and international level journals/conferences/books. He is a reviewer in IEEE Transactions, Inderscience and Springer Journals. He has initiated a number of international research collaborations with universities in Europe, Australia, Africa, Malaysia, Singapore and North & South America. He had also initiated joint research collaboration between VIT University and various industries. He is also the Lead Guest Editor for few journals in Inderscience, Springer, Elsevier, IOS, UM and IGI Global. He also organized several international conferences and special sessions in USA, Vietnam, Africa, Malaysia and India including ARCI, IEEE, ACSAT, ISRC, ISBCC, ICBCC etc. His research interests include computational areas covering grid computing, cloud computing, computer networks, cyber security and big data. He received his university-level Best Faculty Award for 2015–2016. He is also a member of several national and international professional bodies including IFSA, EAI, BIS, ISTE, IAENG, CSTA, IEA etc.

Organization: University of Brighton, United States

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Dr. Haar is a Senior Lecturer in Finance with the University of Brighton School of Business and Law. Prior to academia, Dr. Haar has been a Director and MD for Commodity Risk with major banks, Head of Valuation for the energy company RWE. He has also worked for the UK Financial Regulator as a Commodity Risk Specialist. He began his career with British Petroleum. He holds degrees from Brown University, New York University and the University of Surrey where he completed his PhD in 2000.His research interests concern the application of Financial-Economic theory to the energy, petroleum and natural resource sectors. Adopting innovative approaches to perennial issues, he is interested in how regulatory policies impact the behaviour of market participants and the resulting impact on allocative efficiency. He relies exclusively upon public data as published by markets and their regulators. While some of his research involves advanced analytic methods and econometrics, he also utilizes casual empiricism and theoretical insights to address contemporary policy matters, such as competition in retail electricity markets, the fiscal incidence of Renewable Energy support and the economic rationale for risk management activities.

Organization: Selcuk University, Turkey

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Dr. Vakur Sumer is the Director of the Eurasian Research Institute (Akhmet Yassawi University), Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is a faculty member at Department of International Relations, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey. He has received his Ph.D. on International Relations, from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Sumer He has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Global Research Institute at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC, USA, and as a visiting scholar at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California-Davis, CA, USA. He has been a researcher at Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany in 2012. Sumer has published articles in journals such as Uluslararası İlişkiler, Water International, and Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. He has recently coedited a volume, Sustainable Water use and Management, published by Springer in 2015. He has also published a book from I.B. Tauris in 2016: Water and Politics in Turkey: Structural Change and EU Accession. He also has attended a number of international and national academic conferences. He served as a referee/expert for the European Commission in evaluation of numerous projects. His areas of research include water issues, transboundary rivers, environmental politics, and Turkey’s accession to the European Union. Sumer is a member of ISA (International Studies Association), Environmental Studies Section of ISA, and the International Water Association (IWA).

Organization: Polytechnic of Turin, Italy

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Organization: Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

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Prof. Rory Shand is a Senior Lecturer in Public Services at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests focus on governance networks, regeneration initiatives and social justice. He is author of Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action (Routledge, 2013) and The Governance of Sustainable Rural Renewal: A Global Comparative Perspective (Routledge, 2016); he also has monographs forthcoming with both Routledge and Palgrave. He has published in journals such as International Labor Review and Policy Studies and has worked on projects for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE), the Department for Communities and Local Government and various think tanks. He is currently Vice-Chair (Teaching and Learning) of the UK Public Administration Committee.

Organization: East China University of Political Science and Law, China

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Organization: Stockholm Environment Institute, United States

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Dr. Miquel Muñoz Cabré is a Senior Research Scholar at the Global Economic Governance Initiative. He specializes on sustainable energy policy and finance, as well as climate change policies. His recent work includes a renewable energy market and policy analysis in Latin America. Miquel was a program officer at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). He holds a PhD on public policy, a master’s degree in international relations and environmental policy and a master’s degree in environmental management and ecological economics, as well as a bachelor’s degree in physics. He has published in Energy Policy, Climate Policy and Global Environmental Politics among other academic journals. Miquel has worked for research institutions and think tanks including the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future, the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN), the Worldwatch Institute, and the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT).

Organization: Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey

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Prof. Kamil Kaygusuz currently a research professor of chemical engineering at the Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey. In 1984, after graduation from the Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey, he accepted a research assistant position at the Karadeniz Technical University, where he developed a renewable energy laboratory and conducted research on renewable energy and energy storage. He received his MS in chemical and mechanical engineering in 1988 from the Karadeniz Technical University at the Department of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1993 from the Karadeniz Technical University. In 2000, he was awarded a professor in physical chemistry from the Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Chemistry. During his 20 years of tenure at that University, he did research on thermodynamics, energy storage, and renewable energy. He published 200 scientific papers related to energy storage and renewable energy sources. He is also a member of the Turkish Academy of Science.

Organization: University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom

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Prof. Victor C Azubike is investigating the international environmental laws, policies, and regulations related to the present energy transition, energy security, net-zero goals, and what it means for National Oil Companies, and specifically petroleum-rich developing countries. He has always had strong interests in international Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, and Contract Law as he has previous experience in a commercial role where he analysed contracts at an energy company. Victor also has experience teaching Business Law at Robert Gordon University where he obtained his Doctorate in the area of energy and natural resource law with a specific interest in National Oil Companies (NOCs) roles. Victor has been a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN) since 2013. Also, a Member of the Energy Institute (EI).  

Organization: Center of Researches and Technologies of Energy of Borj Cedr, Tunisia

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Mourad Talbi is an Associate Professor of Signal and Image Processing at the Center of Researches and Technologies of Energy of Borj Cedria, Tunis, Tunisia. He obtained a master’s degree in Automatics and Signal Processing from the National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT) in 2004. He obtained a Ph.D. and HDR in Electronics from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis in 2010 and 2015, respectively. Dr. Talbi is a research member of the Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Systems for Renewable Energies (LaNSER), CRTEn, Tunisia.

Organization: Lingaya's Vidhyapeeth, India

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Prof. Vijay Vir Singh received his MSc, degree (1989), MPhil degree (1992) & Ph.D. (2010) from Chaudhary Charan Singh University campus Meerut, India. After received educational degree Dr. Singh join in VMK PG college Khetri Rajasthan affiliated to Rajasthan University Jaipur and worked as Assistant Professor from 1993 till 2013. Dr. Singh has worked as Professor in various positions different countries. Prof. Singh’s research filed is in Operation Research specialized in Reliability Theory with copula linguistic approach. He has supervised four Ph.D., SIX MSc, and more than 40 students for BSc in Reliability and other Applied Mathematics area, Complex Analysis (Weierstrass p functions).Dr. Singh has participated in many international conferences in India, Thailand, and Nigeria as a Presenters, Technical advisory board member, and session chairperson. Prof. V. V. Singh is a member of the editorial boards several Journals in India and abroad. He has reviewed many research articles from Springer, Elsevier, Inderscience, and other SCI journals in Reliability and Applied Mathematics areas.Dr. Singh has published approx. 85 research papers in his specialized area Reliability and Statistics which are available at Research Gate.

Organization: Beijing Normal University, China

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Prof. Liting has been a Ph.D. student at BNU since 2021, focusing on applying Bayesian theory and machine learning to sustainability issues, particularly in water systems and renewable energy. She earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Engineering from BJTU and BNU, respectively. To date, Liting has published three SCI papers and participated in several research projects.

Organization: Turkcell, Turkey

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Organization: National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Prof. Ira Martina Drupady is an energy, climate and gender specialist with more than 15 years of work and research experience across Asia. She is the Co-Founder of Stavenhagen Drupady (SD) Consulting, a Singapore-registered consulting firm established in 2012. She assumed the position of Managing Partner in 2022. SD Consulting specialises in the delivery of policy advisory, technical assistance and capacity building on sustainable development issues. She is concurrently completing her PhD at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.

Organization: Soonchunhyang University, Korea, Republic of

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Prof. Joosung Lee at Enterprise School, Soonchunhyang University in Korea. The research interests are sustainable technological innovation and socio-economic-technical analysis for emerging industries with international publications in Energy Policy and Transportation Research Part D: Energy and Resources.

Organization: Helwan University, Egypt

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Prof. Mohsen A. M. Mohamed EI-Bendary received his BS in 1998, MSc in 2008, all in communication engineering, from Menoufia University, Faculty of electronic Engineering. He is now a lecturer assistant and PhD student. His research interests cover wireless networks, wireless technology, channel coding, QoS over Bluetooth systems, and security systems which use wireless technology, such as fire alarm and access control systems.

Organization: Beijing Jiaotong University, China

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Organization: Government City College, Bangladesh

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Professor Mehdi is a renowned physicist specializing in Energy Technology. He developed a passion for science at an early age, leading her to earn a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from Chittagong University. He has become known for her engaging teaching style and innovative research on energy technology and its implications on environment. With over 6 published papers, his work bridges theoretical concepts and practical applications, particularly in Biomass energy conversion.