Dr. Bimal K. Bose (Life Fellow, IEEE) is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. He was Endowed Chair Professor (Condra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics) at the University of Tennessee from 1987 until 2003, where he was responsible to organize power electronics education and research program. Concurrently, he was the Distinguished Scientist (1990-1992) and the Chief Scientist (1987-1989) of EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) Power Electronics Applications Center (PEAC) in Knoxville, TN, USA. Prior to that, he was a Research Engineer in General Electric Corporate Research and Development (GE-CRD) (now GE Global Research Center), Schenectady, NY, USA for 11 years (1976 -1987). From 1971 to 1976, he was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. He is a pioneer in power electronics for his many research contributions that include high frequency link power conversion, advanced control techniques by microcomputers, invention of transistor ac power switch for matrix converters, adaptive hysteresis-band current control, artificial intelligence applications in power electronics, etc. He has authored/edited eight books in Power Electronics: Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Systems and Smart Grid (Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Press/Wiley, 2019), Power Electronics and Motor Drives – Advances and Trends (New York, NY, USA: Academic Press, 2006), Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA: Prentice-Hall, 2001), Power Electronics and Variable Frequency Drives (Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Press/Wiley,1997), Modern Power Electronics (Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE Press, 1992), Microcomputer Control of Power Electronics and Drives (Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Press, 1987), Power Electronics and AC Drives (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA: Prentice-Hall, 1986) Power Electronics and AC Drive Systems (Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Press, 1982). He holds 21 U. S. Patents. Dr. Bose received the IEEE Power Electronics Society Newell Award (2005), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education (1997), the IEEE Lamme Gold Medal (1996), the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Dr. Eugene Mittellmann Achievement Award (for lifetime achievement) (1994), the IEEE Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award (1994), the Industry Applications Society Outstanding Achievement Award (1993), the GE Silver Patent Medal (1986), the GE Publication Award (1985), Calcutta University Mouat Gold Medal (1970), and Honoray Professorship of Shanghai University, China; University of Mining and Technology, X’an Mining Institute, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He also received the IIEST Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2018), the IIEST Distinguished Alumnus Award (2006), the D. Sc. Degree (Honoris Causa) from IIEST (2013), Distinguished Lecturership of IAS and IES, and a number of prize paper awards. He is an elected member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering. The IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine published a special issue (June 2009) “Honoring Bimal Bose and celebrating His Contributions in Power Electronics”. The IES Dr. Bimal Bose Energy Systems Award was established in 2014, which was funded by the IEEE Foundation and the IEEE IE Society.

Prof. Friedrich Grimm was born in Stuttgart in 1954. He studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1980. After having finished his studies in 1981, he worked as an employed architect and later on temporarily joined the scientific staff of the Institute for Building Construction at the University of Stuttgart. During his practice as a freelanced architect, since 1989 he took part in competitions and completed several multifamily houses in southern Germany. Due to a series of books, which he has written in the field of steel construction, edited by Ernst & Sohn in Berlin (2003), and one the subject of one family homes, edited by Callwey in Munich (2006), he was nominated a professor honorary in 2009 by the faculty one, for architecture and urban design at the university of Stuttgart. In 2016, he founded the RES- Institute as a completely independent think tank in the field of renewable energies. Since then he works with passion and endurance on projects matching the RES-Institutes obligation to provide blueprints for a friendly climate on earth. Several patents in the field of concentrated solar thermal systems led him into the field of optics where he invented a wide angel sensor, recording light signals with infinite depth of field in real time. Among his inventions there is also a new achromatic lens focusing light of different wave lengths, even x-rays. His latest invention relates to a quantum mechanical device which, making use of the electronic spin of quantum particles with spin number 1/2, to create a fluid dynamic equilibrium within an electromagnetically enclosed plasma of a fusion reactor, by a regular change of the spin's angular momentum.

Nuri Azbar has completed his PhD from the Department of Civil &Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, USA. He has been working as a Professor of Bioengineering Department, Ege University (EGE) in Turkey since 2002. He has published more than 74 papers in reputed journals and has many book chapters.

Chamil Abeykoon is an Associate Professor at the Department of Materials at the University of Manchester and his work is affiliated with the Aerospace Research Institute, the Northwest Composites Centre, Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials, and the National Graphene Institute. Chamil received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2007, with the award of best performance in mechanical engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Queens University Belfast, U.K., in 2011, with several publications, in which one of his publications received the Young Author Best Paper Award from the IEEE in 2011. So far, he has authored 100+ peer-reviewed journals/conference papers. Moreover, he has authored a monograph, “Polymer Extrusion: A Study on Thermal Monitoring Techniques and Melting Issues.” His current research interests include: process monitoring, modeling, and control; soft sensors and soft sensing; process instrumentation; renewable energy technologies; 3D printing, phase change materials; and heat transfer. He is a Chartered Engineer and an Associate Member of the professional bodies, including IESL, IMechE, IOM3 and ICPM; and also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, U.K. Moreover, he is currently serving as an Associate Editor of 8 academic journals including Composites Communications and Journal of Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer. Also, he has been serving as a visiting professor of Southwest University, China, and He has been served on scientific committees, and he has also been invited for keynote speeches at several international conferences.

Rami Ahmad El-Nabulsi holds a PhD in Particle Physics, Mathematical Physics and Modeling from Provence University (currently Aix-Marseille University), France and a diploma of advanced studies in Plasma Physics and Radiation Astrophysics from the same institution. He worked with different worldwide research departments in UK, South Korea, China, Greece, Thailand, India, etc. and he is currently affiliated to the Czech Academy of Sciences and to Chiang Mai University. He is the author of more than 365 peer-reviewed papers in peer-refereed reputed journals and a reviewer for more than 200 scientific journals. He has been selected as the World's Top 2% Scientists 2021 and 2022 (by Stanford University). His research ranges from applied mathematics to theoretical physics.

Amela Ajanovic is Associated Professor in Energy Economics at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). She is a lecture and faculty member of the postgraduate MSc Program “Renewable Energy Systems”. She holds a master degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in energy economics at TU Wien. Her main research interests are alternative fuels and alternative automotive technologies as well as sustainable energy system and long-term energy scenarios. She has been guest researcher at the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) in Amsterdam and at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris working on the World Energy Outlook, as well as a guest lecturer at the Technical University of Prague. She has been involved in many national and international research projects, and her work has been published in the leading scientific peer- reviewed international journals. She has also served as a guest editor on several occasions and is an associate editor of different scientific journals. She is an active member of various academic and scientific committees and associations.