Dr. Choi is an internationally recognized researcher in nanotechnology and has conducted pioneering research on nanomaterials and applications in rechargeable batteries and electronic devices. He is a Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow since 2009 and has received MRS Medal Award in 2006. He is a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of North Texas, and a founder of a rechargeable battery start-up company to make a commercial Li-S battery based on licensed patents. He is the author/co-author of over 80 patents, 1 book (GRAPHENE CRC Press 2011), 10 book chapters, over 260 publications, which includes 160 peer-reviewed journal articles and 80 conference proceedings. His research articles have been cited ~16,000 times with an H-index of 65 (Google Scholar).

Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen was President of the Engineering Institute of Canada. A registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of several journals and was a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 60 research grants and contracts and 900 publications, Dr. Rosen is active in sustainable energy, environmental impact, and energy technology (including renewable energy and efficiency). Much of his research has been carried out for industry, and he has written numerous books. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors and is a fellow of several societies and organizations.

Professor Yusuke Yamauchi received his Bachelor's degree (2003), Master's degree (2004), and Ph.D. degree (2007) from Waseda University, Japan. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, to start his own research group. At the same time, he started to serve as a professor to supervise Ph.D. students at the Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Waseda University. After being granted the ARC Future Fellowship, in May 2016, he joined the Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM), Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM), The University of Wollongong (UOW) as a full professor. In 2018, he moved to The University of Queensland (UQ). Presently, he is a senior group leader at AIBN (on secondment from the School of Chemical Engineering until 2022) and a full professor at the School of Chemical Engineering. He concurrently serves as an ERATO Research Director at JST-ERATO Yamauchi Materials Space-Tectonics, a Group Leader at Mesoscale Materials Chemistry Group, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a visiting professor at Waseda University, an advisory board member of prestigious journals (Small, Small Structures, ChemCatChem, J. Inorg. Organomet. Polym. Mater., etc.) and an associate editor of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Chemical Engineering Journal (Elsevier). He has published more than 850 papers in international refereed journals (>10 Nature's and Science's sister journals, >20 J Am Chem Soc, >10 ACS Nano, >10 Chem Sci, >30 Angew Chem Int Ed, >25 Chem Mater, >10 Mater Hor, etc.) with > 50,000 citations (h-index > 115, Google Scholar; h-index > 100 Web-of-Science). He is selected as one of the Highly-Cited Researchers in Chemistry in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 and in Materials Science in 2020. He has received many outstanding awards, such as the NISTEP Award by the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (2016), the Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Young Chemists (2014), the Young Scientists' Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT (2013), the PCCP Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013), the Tsukuba Encouragement Prize (2012), the Ceramic Society of Japan (CerSJ) Award (2010), and the Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists (2010). Recently, he was selected as one of Australia's Top 40 Researchers of Research Report published by The Australian in 2019 and 2020.

Jiazhao Wang is a Professor at the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Australia. Her research activities are focused on electrochemical energy storage in batteries, including Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries, metal-air batteries (Li-air, Na-ion Zn-air batteries), and Li/Na-sulfur batteries. She has won more than 30 research grants including 20 Australian Research Council (ARC) grants as a chief investigator (CI). She has published more than 240 papers in international journals (Citations>21600, H index = 81, Google Scholar). She is an associate editor of Energy Material. She has supervised more than 30 Ph.D. students to completion.

Dr. Chua Kian Jon is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has been conducting research on renewable energy systems and heat recovery systems since 1997. He has conducted both modeling and experimental works for specific thermal energy systems. He is highly skilled in designing; fabricating; commissioning and testing many sustainable energy systems to provide for heating, cooling, and humidity control for both small and large scale applications. He has more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters, and two recent monographs on advances in air conditioning (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811584763 and https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030808426). He was highlighted among the top 1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and the top 0.5% in the Stanford list of energy researchers. His works have garnered more than 10,600 citations with a current h‐index of 55. Further, he owns more than 10 patents related to several innovative cooling and dehumidification systems. On a regular basis, he has been invited to deliver many plenary and keynote talks on his research findings. He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million competitive research grants. Additionally, he has been awarded multiple local, regional, and international awards for his breakthrough research endeavors.

Dr. Dongsheng Li is a distinguished professor at Shantou University and director of Guangdong Engineering Center for Structure Safety and Health Monitoring. Before joining Shantou University in 2018, he served as an engineer in the industry for five years and worked at Dalian University of Technology as a lecture/associated professor for 16 years. Dongsheng Li received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, in 1994; his M.S. degree from the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, majoring in engineering mechanics; and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Siegen, Germany in 2012. His research interests include structural health monitoring of large-span bridges and wind turbines, including fiber Bragg grating sensing, damage. identification under varying environments, optimal sensor placement, and random loading identification. He conjectured the existence of the mode localization phenomenon in wind turbine blades and afterward proved it. He developed a novel loading-dependent sensor placement theory that depends on both. structural characteristics and actual loading conditions. His contributions also include the strain transferring mechanism in optical fiber sensors. He is the recipient of the 2008 Dominick J. DeMichele Scholarship Award by the Society of Experimental Mechanics, and China National Award for Technological Invention(2ndPrize). He is currently the Editor of Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Frontiers Research of Architecture and Engineering, and Advances in Civil Engineering (Indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded). He has published more than 80 technical papers in international refereed journals and conferences. His paper was cited more than 1000 times.

Professor Hahn is a Regents Professor of Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), Fellow of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACERS), and Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). He joined JBNU in 1991, prior to which he worked for LG Metals Research Center for 1988-1991 after he received his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Utah in 1988. His research interest is the synthesis of metal and metal oxide nanostructures and their applications for optoelectronic devices and chemical and biological sensors, resulting in over 320 SCI papers (over 13580 citations, h-index over 60 in Google scholar) and 17 patents. He co-authored 6 books including Metal Oxide Nanostructures and Their Applications (5 volume sets) published by American Scientific Publishers in 2010. He received Woo SeongIl Materials Awards 2018 by KIChE, the Asian Energy Technology Award 2017 by the International Association of Advanced Materials, the Rudolf A. Marcus Award for outstanding research in the area of chemical science in 2016, the American Ceramic Society Global Ambassador Award 2016, the Scientist of the Month Award in 2011 by Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the CBNU'S Best Research Professor Award consecutively in 2008-2010, and Top 100 Scientists Award four times in 2005, 2011, 2014 and 2015 accredited by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, UK.

Hyoyoung Lee is a fellow Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University. He served as a director of the National Creative Research Initiatives program for nine years. Currently, he has served as an Associate Director of Centre for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP), Institute of Basic Science (IBS) at Sungkyunkwan University. His research interest is a chiral induction of the racemic mixture by the light, 0-2D semiconductors including holey graph-yne/-ene, graphene quantum dots, transition metal dichalcogenides and transition metal oxide including Hyoyung Lee blue TiO2, and their applications for energy conversion including water splitting, CO2, and N2 reduction reactions, electro- and photo-catalysis, and energy storage. He has written about 200 journal articles in top-tier journals. He has achieved numerous technology transfers to industrial companies, including reduced graphene oxide, transparent electrode, and blue TiO2 materials.

Professor Rajan Jose supervises the Nanostructured Renewable Energy Materials Laboratory in the University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) and is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Nature journal Materials Circular Economy and Editor-in-Chief of Current Science & Technology. He has served as the Dean of Research of UMP during Feb 2016-Aug 2019 and is a member of various committees of UMP and the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. He has investigated nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics during doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India and has received Ph.D. degree in the year 2002. He has contributed to the science and engineering of a diverse range of materials including metals and alloys, luminescent quantum dots for biological and energy applications, glass and glass ceramics for quantum electronics, and electrochemical materials for energy conversion and storage. He was employed as a scientist at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore) before joining UMP. He has published over 230 papers in Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) indexed journals which are cited over12750 times with an h-index of 60 according to the Google Scholar database. He holds 25patents. He has supervised 6 Postdoctoral, 23 Doctoral, and 10 Master's researchers. Stanford University places him as one of the top 2% of materials scientists in the world. His current research interests include sustainable materials, textile electronics, circular economy, data science, renewable energy devices; most of his research is on the structure-property relationship in materials for the desired device functionality.

Dr. Shafieezadeh is the Lichtenstein Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering and is the director of the Risk Assessment and Management of Structural and Infrastructure Systems(RAMSIS) lab at Ohio State University at The Ohio State University. His research interests include multi-hazard reliability and risk-based life-cycle analysis of the built environment; resilience assessment and improvement of civil infrastructure systems; aging and deterioration modeling; uncertainty quantification; and decision making in uncertain environments. His research on resilience of the power grid in the face of climatic extremes and dynamic risk quantification and communication of risks to critical infrastructure systems have been supported by US federal and state agencies, the industry, and international research institutions. He is a recipient of the Sam Nunn Security Fellowship on the role of technology in public policy from Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology (2011), an M.S. from Utah State University (2008), and both M.S. (2006) and B.S. (2003) from the University of Tehran. He has authored/co-authored over 200 journal and conference proceedings and presentations. His research related to power grid resilience has been published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Applied Energy, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, IEEE Access, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, and Structural Safety, among others.

Senior Research Associate, Unit of Environmental Science and Technology Dept of Chemical Engin., National Technical University of Athens Associate Professor, University of Western Macedonia - 2016 Dept of Mechanical Engineering / PPC Chair, Renewable Energy and Management of Energy Sources Visiting Professor, National Technical University of Athens Graduate Program "Environment and Development" 2004- 2016 Research Associate / Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University, New York (USA) http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/EECAssociates.html Associate Professor (Non-tenured), Dept of Chemical Eng., Columbia University in the City of New York (USA) 1991-1998 Chairman and Vice-Chairman and National Representative 2000-2013 European Cooperation in Science and Technology, COST: TU1104 Smart Energy Regions, COST Action C24: Analysis and Design of Innovative Systems for Low- EXergy in the Built Environment: COSTeXergy.

Moustafa Adly is a senior automotive development engineer and vice requirements manager with Volkswagen AG and a senior IEEE member. He received the Ph. D. degree from the Technical University of Berlin TU-Berlin in Jan. 2018, the M. Sci. degree from the German University in Cairo GUC in Jun. 2011, and the B. Sc. degree from Cairo University, Egypt, in Jul. 2004. He served as Photovoltaic Energy Consultant with Kisun Solar and Research Scientist and Lecturer with the TU-Berlin. Currently, Dr. Adly is actively contributing to the development of the high voltage charging and body control management for electric vehicles and the smart integration of renewable energy sources. He is an Associate Editor with the Institution of Engineering and Technology IET and has several publications about Photovoltaic Systems and Optimization, Power Electronics and Control, Electric Vehicles, and DC Microgrids.

Yang Han(S'08-M'10-SM'17) received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, in 2010. In 2010, he joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, where he has been an Associate Professor in 2013, and a Full professor in 2021. From March 2014 to March 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He is currently with the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, UESTC. His research interests include the ac/dc microgrids, active distribution networks, power quality, grid-connected converters for renewable energy systems, active power filters, multilevel converters, and static synchronous compensators (STATCOMs). Dr. Han has received several national and provincial projects, and more than 20 industrial projects in the area of power electronics, smart grid, microgrid, and power quality analysis and compensation. He holds more than 30 issued and pending patents. Dr. Han was listed as "World Top 2% Scientist 2020" by Stanford University in 2020, and the recipient of the Young Scientist Award in CPESE 2021, the Provincial Science and Technology Award in 2020, Science and Technology Award from Sichuan Electric Power Company in 2019, Academic Talent Award by UESTC, in 2017, Baekhyun Award by the Korean Institute of Power Electronics, in 2016. He has published a book "Modeling and Control of Power Electronic Converters for Microgrid Applications", ISBN: 978-3-030-74512-7, Springer. He served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Power Electronics (2019.01-2020.12) and IEEE Access.

Jingqiang Tan joined Central South University (CSU) as a professor in January 2017. He received his bachelor degree in Geological Engineering from CSU in 2006, master degree in Structural Geology from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009, and PhD degree in Petroleum Geology from Tehcnical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin,Germany) and German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ-Potsdam, Germany) in 2014. Afterwards, he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Petroleum Geochemistry at the University of Houston in the United States.His primary research interests are geological and geochemical analysis of shale gas and oil systems and characterization and stimulation of unconventional reservoirs.

Shenghao Wang received his Ph.D from University of Tsukuba, Japan. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar in Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan, from 2013 to 2016. Then, he joined the University of Tsukuba. From 2018, he has appointed as a full professor in Shanghai University, China. He is also currently a visiting scholar in OIST. His research interests include surface and interface sciences, thin film growth and solar cells. He has published more than 40 papers, such as Nature Energy, Energy & Environmental Science, etc. He was awarded the "Top Peer Reviewer" by Publons in 2019. He is an associate editor for Frontiers in Physics and is listed on editorial board members of Energies.

SAEED PEYGHAMI (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2010, 2012, and 2017, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting Ph.D. Scholar with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aalborg University from 2017 to 2021. In 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher with Intelligent Electric Power Grids, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. He is currently an Assistant Professor in electrical energy engineering with Aalborg University. His research interests include reliability, control, and stability of power electronic-based power systems, and renewable energies .

Dr. Hany A. Abdelsalam received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt, an M.Sc. degree in electrical power engineering from Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, USA, in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of the Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Kafr el-sheikh University, Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt. He is also the Co-ordinator of the international relations office with Kafr el-sheikh University. His research interests include power system control, distribution system resiliency analysis, renewable energy, and utilizing blockchain in smart grids.

Sevda Jafarzadeh received the BSc degree in electrical engineering from Tabriz State University in Tabriz, Iran in 2015 and MSc degree in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2017. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Candidate at the same department and provides engineering supports to the "Tansel EnerjiSistemleri" company. She has worked on the security assessment of large power systems with machine-learning approaches during her MSc program. Her Ph.D. thesis is about the Risk constrained optimal power flow solution with Reinforcement learning-based corrective control actions. Her research interest is dynamic security of large power systems, optimal power flow, and optimal design of hybrid power plants.

Dr. Taoufik Brahim has a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering. He is currently an Assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology of Sousse (ISSATS), University of Sousse, Tunisia. He is a Researcher at the LESTE laboratory, National School of Engineering of Monastir (ENIM-Tunisia). His research interests are related to these topics: Phase change heat transfer, Heat Pipes, Thermal management, Solar energy, Energy storage, CFD, Numerical modeling, and simulation. He is a reviewer in many peer-review International journals and has four years of Industrial experience as an Energy Engineer.

Edoardo Corsetti is a computer scientist. He has 30-years of experience in power system control and automation. He's currently a senior researcher at RSE SPA in Milan in the Power Generation Technologies and Materials Department. His research interests are mainly in the areas of smart grid control, distributed power generation, and multi-energy systems. His experience in recent years is mainly related to the control and optimization of multi-energy systems, like microgrids, industrial plants (e.g., district-heating systems, biogas production plants) which include renewables and storage devices. On these subjects, he is the author of more than thirty conference and magazine papers.

Hydrothermal liquefaction is recognized as one of the most interesting processes to convert lignocellulosic biomass into renewable liquid fuels. However, the produced bio-crude owns poor quality has high oxygen content and expensive up-grading processes are needed to transform it into anend-use fuels. The design of a continuous process should take into consideration the hydrothermal process and the bio-crude up-grading. In this last decade, many studies have been made for the scale-up of the process from small-batch reactors to continuous pilot-scale ones. The goal is to produce liquid transportation fuel from waste, biomass, and sludge. One of the main problems related to the scale-up of this process is the high cost of the end products which is mainly due to the expensive up-grading process which is fundamental to obtaining the desired product. The presentation will focus on the scale-up of the HTL process and on the up-grading of the bio-crude. In particular, the different up-grading solutions and their associated costs will be analyzed.

Elizabeth Teresita Romero-Guzmán is a Chemist with, Master's Degree in Ecology and a Ph.D. in Engineering with an emphasis in water science at the Autonomous University of Mexico State. She has experience in analytical chemistry using conventional and radiochemical techniques, currently, she works in the structural characterization of Alli alloys to produce clean hydrogen such as alternative energy to reduce the greenhouse gases released into the environment.

Luigi Vesce is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer of Nanoelectronics at CHOSE (Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy), Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he received a Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering and Microelectronics in 2011. In the last few years, he developed a pilot line for a public/private consortium (Dye power) to produce 10000 m2/year of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) panels for BIPVs (Building Integrated Photovoltaics). He collaborates with research institutes and startup companies on PV devices and machines, and on quality control optimization. He collaborates with research institutes and startup/spin-off companies on third-generation PV devices and process engineering, and quality control optimization. Recently, he was the technology transfer responsible for DSSC modules with Start-up G+Lyte (Amiens, France). His research activity deals with the discovery, development, and fabrication of coating/printing techniques, and the scaling-up of efficient and stable dye-sensitized and perovskite solar technologies for outdoor and indoor applications. He is involved in national and international PV-related projects, author of several contributions to international journals and conferences, and committee member/chairman of conferences about renewable energies.

Paul Grunow completed his Ph.D. at the age of 30 years from Technical University Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and postdoctoral studies at the COPPE/UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the general manager of Trinity Solarbeteiligungen GmbH, an investment company in renewable energies. Before, he co-founded three companies in the area of photovoltaics based in Berlin, i.e. Solon, Q-Cells, PI Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin. He has published more than 12 papers in reputed journals.