Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Energies, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Energies Travel Awards for 2019.

Travel Awards were granted to Ms. Patricia Royo Gutierrez, a PhD student in Engineering and Architecture School—University of Zaragoza; and to Dr. Federico Bella, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Applied Science and Technology, Polytechnic University of Turin.

Ms. Gutierrez’s research focuses on the design and sustainable integration of innovative systems for industrial and energy processes, thermal storage systems and waste heat recovery in energy-intensive industry, and phase change materials. Dr. Bella’s research focuses on materials chemistry for energy conversion and storage devices. Each Awardee will receive 800 Swiss Francs to attend an international conference in 2019.

Ms. Patricia Royo Gutierrez will present her work entitled “Thermal Performance Investigation on Latent Heat Thermal Storage for Waste Heat Recovery from a High Temperature Gas Flow in Energy-Intensive Industries” at the “The International Conference on Innovative Applied Energy”, which will be held on 14 March 2019 in Oxford, UK.

Dr. Federico Bella will present his work entitled “Aqueous Solar Cells: Challenges in Electrodes and Electrolytes Design” at the “70th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry” which will be held on 4 August 2019 in Durban, South Africa.

It was a very difficult decision with such high-quality applications for the awards, and we would like to thank all the applicants in various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent applications. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners for their accomplishments.

Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba
Editor-in-Chief of Energies
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Roma Sapienza