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.