Prof. Dr. Maria Founti Appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of “Energy and Combustion Science” in Energies

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Maria Founti has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Energy and Combustion Science” Section in Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).

Maria Founti is Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and director of the Laboratory of Heterogeneous Mixtures and Combustion Systems. Her research fields include heterogeneous mixtures, powder technology, spray and combustion systems, sustainability and energy efficiency. She has been working in the gypsum field since 1992 on processing techniques, grinding and pulverization, added value product development and energy efficiency solutions in processing plants and buildings. She has 200 publications in International Journals and Conferences and has supervised more than 50 M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses. She has organized and managed more than 40 E.C. and national funded projects. She has acted as external expert for project and Framework Programme monitoring (DG RTD and TREN). She has been a member of the External Advisory Group (1998-2002) of FP5 – KA1 “Innovative products, processes and organization” and chairperson of the Advisory Group of Priority 3 – NMP for FP6 (2002 -2006). She is member of the organizing committee of the “Greek Construction Technology Platform”, member of the European Construction Technology platform and of the Public Private Partnership in Energy Efficiency in Buildings. In last five years, she has co-authored more than 40 publications, and has more than 3000 citations (h = 30) in total according to the GS database.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Maria Founti in taking up her role as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to her leading Energies to achieve many more milestones.

Name: Prof. Dr. Maria Founti
Email: mfou@central.ntua.gr
Affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Heroon Polytechniou 9, 15780 Athens, Greece
Interests: combustion and heterogeneous systems and processes; compartment fires; energy efficiency; savings and storage in buildings combined with advanced energy systems and materials; multicriteria assessment and life cycle analysis for techno-economic, social and environmental impact analysis of energy systems
Homepage:
http://www.mech.ntua.gr/en/founti
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