Maria Vicidomini graduated cum laude in Environmental Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy in 2013.
From 2013 to 2014, she was a fellow researcher at the University of Naples Federico II.
She obtained a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering in 2018.
In 2019, she was named Researcher at the University of Naples Federico II. Her
research activities have been mainly focused on the development of dynamic
simulation models for the energy, exergy, economic and environmental analysis
and impact of innovative systems for distributed polygeneration systems
supplied by renewable energy (geothermal, solar, and wind energy) and natural gas;
building integrated solar thermal systems and internal combustion engines for
the production of heat, cooling, and power; solar heating and cooling systems;
solar desalination systems; hybrid renewable systems based on wind, solar, and
geothermal energy; electrical storage; and electric vehicles. She was a supervisor
of several Bs.C., M.Sc. and Ph.D. students at the University of Naples Federico II.
She is a reviewer of about 15 international Journals. She has been a guest editor in
special issues of International Journals. She is a member of the scientific
committee of several international conferences and is also involved in the
organizing committee of the CEER 2020 Conferences. She was a conference chair
and presenter at several sessions of International Conferences.
Dr. Francesco Calise is a Professor of Industrial Technical Physics (ING-IND/10) at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Thermal Engineering in 2006. From 2006 to 2014, he was a Researcher and Assistant Professor of applied thermodynamics at the University of Naples Federico II. In 2014, he became an Associate Professor at the University of Naples Federico II. His research activities have been mainly focused on the following topics: fuel cells, advanced optimization techniques, solar thermal systems, concentrating photovoltaic/thermal photovoltaic systems, energy saving in buildings, solar heating and cooling, organic Rankine cycles, geothermal energy, dynamic simulations of energy systems, renewable polygeneration systems, and many others.
Dr. Neven Duić is currently Vice President of the Croatian Academy of Engineering and a Member of the presidency of the Adria Section of the Combustion Institute (ASCI). He is also a full professor at the Department of Energy, Power Engineering and Environment, FSB, University of Zagreb, and President of the Management Board of The Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES Centre). He completed his undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral studies at the University of Zagreb from 1984 to 1998. He has participated in many conferences as a member of a Conference scientific committee. He was awarded to the Medal Atanasije Stojković, Society of Thermal Engineers of Serbia, and The Great Medal from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture for outstanding contribution to improving the work, development, and promotion of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, in 2021 and 2018, respectively.
Dr. Poul Alborg Østergaard is a Professor at the Department of Sustainability and Planning, and the Sustainable Energy Planning Research Group, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, and is listed on the Stanford list of top 2% of scientists in the world. He has been working within the field of energy planning since 1995, with a focus on the simulation of energy systems based on high penetrations of renewable energy sources as well as on the design of renewable energy systems scenarios. He is the Head of the Study Board of Planning and Land Surveying with Aalborg University as well as the Program Director of the M.Sc. Programme in Sustainable Energy Planning and Management with Aalborg University.
Dr. Qiuwang Wang received a B.Sc. in Fluid Machinery from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 1991 and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Thermophysics from the same university in 1996. He then joined the faculty of the university. He is now a full professor at the School of Energy and Power Engineering, at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He was a visiting scholar at the City University of Hong Kong from May 1998 to March 1999, a guest professor at Kyushu University of Japan from September to December 2003, and a senior visiting scholar at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA from December 2012 to June 2013. He took associate professor and professor posts in 1998 and 2001, respectively, in the field of Engineering Thermophysics of the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University. His research interests include heat transfer enhancement and its applications to engineering problems, high-temperature/high-pressure heat transfer and fluid flow, transport phenomena in porous media, numerical simulation, prediction and optimization, etc.
Dr. Maria da Graça Carvalho is currently a member of the European Parliament. She is a full professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico (University of Lisbon). She was a senior advisor of the Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, Carlos Moedas, from November 2014 to December 2015. Previously, she was a member of the European Parliament, between July 2009 and May 2014. In that capacity, she was one of the rapporteurs of Horizon 2020. She was also Principal Adviser to President Barroso in the fields of Science, Higher Education, Innovation, Research Policy, Energy, Environment, and Climate Change from 2006 to 2009. She served as a Minister of Science and Higher Education of the XV Constitutional Government of Portugal and Minister of Science, Innovation, and Higher Education of the XVI Constitutional Government.
