PhD in “Commodity Sciences” (thesis on the electrification process in Italy). Interreg scholarship for research activities on “Energy Saving in the Industrial Sector”, with a final report published. Scientific responsible of several Ministerial research projects. Research activity and internship at the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering of the University of Patras (Greece). Research and internship activities at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Salento (Italy). Research activity by collaboration agreement with the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies of the University of Salento. Official expert Commodity Sciences since 2002. Currently, Aggregate Professor in Commodity Sciences at the University of Salento. The research carried out mainly focused on energy issues, alternative sources of energy, impact on the environment of production cycles, waste management and recovery of agricultural and industrial by-products, and quality systems and assurance. Author of about 120 publications, including papers and monographs.

Codina Movileanu, PhD, is senior researcher 2nd degree at Department of Chemical Kinetics at Ilie Murgulescu Institute of Physical Chemistry of Romanian Academy. Her research is focused on chemical kinetics in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, combustion and flames of gases, flammability of gaseous mixtures, safety recommendations, for closed and open systems where deflagrations may occur. The available expertise is on measuring and computing the ignition and propagation parameters characteristic for gaseous fuel-oxidant mixtures.

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 modelling and experimental works for specific thermal energy systems including the application of nanomaterials and nanotechnology. 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 230 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters and six recent monographs on advances in thermal energy and cooling systems (https:// www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811584763 and https://www.springer.com/ gp/book/9783030808426). He has been elected to several fellowships including Fellow of Royal Society, Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of Energy Institute and Fellow of IMechE. He was highlighted among the top 1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network, top 2% of energy researchers in Elsevier database, and top 0.3% in the Stanford list of energy researchers. His works has garnered more than 14,100 over citations with a current h‐index of 62. He is the Associate Editor of several reputable journals in Elsevier, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis. He is on the editorial boards of numerous journals in Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and MDPI. 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 endeavours.

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Adrian Ilinca is a professor in Mechanical Engineering at École de Technologie Supérieure. He was a professor, founder, and director of the Wind Energy Research Laboratory at Université du Québec à Rimouski. He completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal. His areas of interest are the aerodynamics and the aeroelasticity of wind turbines, icing effects on wind turbines with anti-icing and de-icing techniques, and wind-diesel systems with compressed air energy storage.

Frank Werner received a PhD degree (with summa cum laude) in Mathematics in 1984 and defended my habilitation thesis in 1989. From this time on, I worked at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany, since 1998 as an extraordinary professor. My research subjects are scheduling, discrete optimization, and mathematical problems of operations research. Since 2019, I am Editor-in-Chief of the journal Algorithms. I am also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Production Research, of Journal of Scheduling and of Operations Research and Decisions and a member of the Editorial/Advisory Board of 15 further journals. I was a guest editor of special issues in seven international journals and a member of the program committee of more than 110 international conferences. I am also the author of two Mathematics textbooks, an author/editor of 11 further books as well as about 300 published journal papers.

Annarita Paiano, a Ph.D. in Commodity Science, technology, innovation, and sustainable production, is Associate Professor at Department of Economics, Management and Law studies, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. She is the author of over 80 scientific papers and a member of many research projects. Paiano is a member of the Italian LCA network, AISME (Italian Society of Commodities Sciences), IGWT (International Society of Commodity Science and Technology) and a Former Member of SETAC (Society of Environmental Toxicology an Chemistry). The research of Paiano deals with energy systems and GHG emissions, end-of-life management, circular economy and sustainability. She is an Editorial Board Member of international journals and reviewer of journals edited by Elsevier, Wiley Online Library Publisher, Taylor and Francis, Springer and others.

Dr. Michael Opoku Agyeman is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the IET, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK) and, a Senior Member of the IEEE who is a Senior Lecturer and the Programme Leader of BEng, HND, MEng Computer Systems Engineering at the Department of Computing at the University of Northampton, UK. Michael is the 2018/19 Elected Senate representative for academic staff from the Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology (FAST) at the University of Northampton. He is an Associate member of the Chartered Management Institute (ACMI). Previously, he was with Intel Embedded System Research group of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as a Research Fellow, where he worked on reliable wireless Network-on-Chip solutions. He received the PhD in Embedded and Distributed Systems from Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, in and the MSc. degree in Embedded and Distributed Systems from London South Bank University, UK. Michael received the BSc. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Michael holds two teaching qualifications: Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) and Postgraduate Certificate in Research Degree Supervision (PGCert) from the University of Northampton. He is the author of 4 books, 2 book chapters and over 70 publications in major journals and conference proceedings. Michael’s research interest spans across 3 main strands and disciplines: 1. High Performance Computing and Embedded Systems (VLSI SoC design, computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, wired and wireless NoCs, smart rehabilitation solutions, embedded systems and Internet-of-Things (IoT)); 2. Business Administration (Neuromarketing, advertising and marketing research) and; 3. Pedagogy (student engagement in HE, problem-based learning and team-based learning ), all linked by his passion for emerging technologies and teaching. He has been a Guest Editor of the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems. He is a technical committee member of over 10 conferences such as IEEE ICCSN, IEEE ICBDA and IEEE ICCT. He is also a reviewer of several conferences and journals including IEEE TVLSI and TCAD. His work on wireless NoC has attracted 2 best paper awards in IEEE/IFIP 14th International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing in 2016 (EUC) and Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) 2016, respectively. His research contribution on smart rehabilitation systems for stroke patients won the best paper in the poster session award at the International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control (ISCSIC) in 2019. He is the first winner of the Diamond Early Career Research Award at the University of Northampton in 2019. He is also the winner of the University of Northampton’s 2018 International Changemaker of the year award.

Professor for Petroleum Engineering and Head of Department at Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES) - Brazil. Holds a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering (2008) and a master degree in Energy Engineering (2010) from the Federal University of Itajuba - Brazil. Holds also a bachelor and master degree in Petroleum Engineering (2012) from the Montanuniversität Leoben - Austria. Developed his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering (2016) by the State University of State University of Sao Paulo - Brazil in the interest of the petroleum sector (pre-salt drilling optimization). Worked as a Visiting Researcher for the Human Resources Training Program of the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), and worked also as Field Engineer in different positions (Supervisor / Manager) for Schlumberger Oilfield Services - Angola, in the Drilling and Measurement sector.