Sustainability — Section Editors

Section Editor-in-Chief
Faculty of Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, 1 Senbaru Nishihara-cho Nakagami Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
Tel. 098-895-8686
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Interests: renewable energy, power system analysis, power system optimization, distribution system control and optimization, power system control, power electronics in power systems
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Renewable Energy
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Photovoltaic Generation
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Electric Power Systems Research
Special Issue in Energies: Emerging Power Electronics Technologies for Power Systems and Machine Drives
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Renewable Energy 2018
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Emerging Power Electronics Technologies
Special Issue in Energies: Advanced Techniques for Electronic Power and Energy Systems
Topical Collection in Sustainability: Sustainable Electric Power Systems Research

Dipartimento di Energia, Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Modelli Matematici (DEIM), Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Tel. Tel. +39 320 4328205
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Interests: renewable energy, sea wave energy; tidal energy; offshore wind energy; resource assessment; wave and tidal energy arrays modelling; environmental impact assessment; energy saving; numerical and physical model testing of offshore marine energy converters; power generation
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Renewable Energy from the Sea
Special Issue in Energies: High-Efficiency Energy Harvesting and Saving
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Saving in Public Transport

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA
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Interests: Renewable Energy especially Wind Energy and Wave Energy; Active Disassembly; Simulation; Optimization and Engineering Education
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Saving Design for Manufacturing Process, Product, and System
Special Issue in Energies: Wave Energy Potential, Behavior and Extraction

Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transportation Engineering - University of Genoa, Via Opera Pia, 15/A, 16145 Genoa, Italy
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Interests: energy policy, carbon strategy, energy economics, sustainable economy, energy planning, energy efficiency financing, energy strategy
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Entropy: Entropy Production in Turbulent Flow

Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering (DIMEG), University of Calabria, P. Bucci 46/C, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy
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Interests: phase change materials; green roofs; solar-wind hybrid systems; dynamic behavior of building envelopes; nZEB; heat pumps; air conditioning systems; indoor thermal comfort; electric vehicles; solar and wind source modeling; thermal storage; multi-objective optimization
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Advanced Innovative Solutions for Final Design in Terms of Energy Sustainability of Nearly/Net Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB)
Special Issue in Sustainability: Smart Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems and Near Zero Energy Districts for Sustainable Urban Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: New Evidences of Indoor Thermal Comfort in Residential and Tertiary Buildings: Design and Evaluation Methods

Department of Energy, Information Engineering and Mathematical Models – University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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Interests: Power Systems design; dynamics and stability; Smart Grids; Demand Response and Transactive Energy; Electric Energy Storage Systems (EESS); Impacts on power systems of renewable energy sources; Electricity Markets
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Topical Collection in Sustainability: Power System and Sustainability
Special Issue in Energies: Operation and Control of Power Distribution Systems

The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Interests: urban governance and urban planning processes; local and regional policy processes; socio-technical systems; energy systems; end-users and energy consumption; smart grid; prosumers; energy communities
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Energy Policy and Policy Implications—Good Examples and Critical Reflections
Special Issue in Energies: Achieving the Circular Economy: Exploring the Role of Local Governments, Business, and Civic Society in an Urban Context

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electric Power Division, Photometry Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Street, 15780, Athens, Greece
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Interests: Engineering, Environment, Energy, Renewable Energy Sources, Waste Management from Organic Pollutants, Properties of Polymer Materials, Business Administration, Education, Culture, Human Resource Management, Psychology, Urban and Regional Development, Forest Resources Management, Extroversion and Internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Development Economics, Environmental Systems, Circular Economy, Behavioral Ecology
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainable Development of Electrical Energy Storage Technologies in Energy Production
Special Issue in Sustainability: Technologies and Strategies of the Development of the Low Carbon Economy

University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA
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Interests: renewable energy; feasibility; LEED; higher education for sustainability; sustainable infrastructure design
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Economic Feasibility for Sustainability

Politecnico di Milano - Department of architecture built environment and construction engineering - ABC
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Interests: energy efficiency in buildings; zero energy building design; passive heating and cooling systems; innovative materials for buildings; building energy simulation and monitoring

Faculty of Applied Engineering, Director of Sustainability / Fuel Cell Laboratory, College of Aeronautics & Engineering (CAE), Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
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Interests: solid oxide fuel cells; clean energy; additive manufacturing; sustainability

Department of Environmental Engineering, Karabuk University, Karabuk, 78050, Turkey
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Interests: Energy and Environment, Renewable Energy, Biomass Conversion, Hydrothermal carbon, Pyrolysis, Hydrothermal Treatment, Biomass Energy, Biofuel Production

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, CO 80401, USA
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Interests: clean energy; renewable energy; power systems; natural gas; the intersection of science; public policy
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Energy Security and Sustainability

School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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Interests: low carbon futures; energy and economic modelling; climate policy; resource efficiency
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Ecological Footprint Indicator
Special Issue in Energies: Low Carbon Economy

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3J 2X4, Canada
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Interests: biomass energy conversion, clean coal technology, gasification, torrefaction, combustion, fluidized bed conversion, boiler design, carbon capture, circulating fluidized bed

Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Tel. +1-416-979-5000 (ext. 3263)
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Interests: integration of energy saving technologies (green roofs, double skin facades) in buildings; architectural acoustics (sound propagation, energy decay, shape optimization) and building acoustics (noise insulation, new natural materials); building simulation; sustainability assessment at building, community and city level
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Buildings: Selected Papers on Building and Architectural Acoustics from ICSV22
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability Assessments of Buildings

University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Interests: power system operations and planning; hydrothermal scheduling and wind/price forecasting; power system economics and electricity markets; risk analysis, uncertainty, and stochastic programming; renewable energies and demand-side management
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Energies: Distributed Renewable Generation
Special Issue in Sustainability: Wind Energy, Load and Price Forecasting towards Sustainability
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Smart Home and Energy Management Systems
Special Issue in Energies: Distributed Renewable Generation 2018
Special Issue in Smart Cities: Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technologies, Models and Applications
Special Issue in Applied Sciences: Smart Home and Energy Management Systems 2019
Special Issue in Sustainability: Wind Energy, Load and Price Forecasting towards Sustainability 2019
Special Issue in Electronics: Active Regional Energy Systems and Microgrids

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 5A9
Tel. +1306-9664771
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Interests: hydro-deoxygenation; hydrogenolysis; hydrogenation; biomass; esterification and transesterification; pyrolysis; gasification; hydrothermal treatment; Fischer-Tropsch synthesis; hydroprocessing
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Catalysts: Catalysis for the Production of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals

Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Constructions Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Interests: applied thermodynamics; heat transfer; renewable energy; solar energy; geothermal energy; energy efficiency; energy systems optimization

Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis, Energy Divisions, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Fax: +41 56 310 4411
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Interests: energy systems; mobility systems; life cycle assessment; cost assessment; externalities; risk assessment; resilience; sustainability assessment; scenario modeling; decision support
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Assessment of Energy Accident Risks

Marine Renewable Energy, MaREI Centre, Environmental Research Institute, School of Engineering, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; School of Engineering, Faculty of Science & Engineering, University of Plymouth, Room 306, Marine Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK
Tel. +44 1752 586131
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Interests: wave energy; tidal stream energy; coastal structures; estuarine hydrodynamics; coastal morphology; artificial intelligence applied to coastal engineering

Lab of Soft Energy Applications & Environmental Protection, TEI of Piraeus, P.O. Box 41046, Athens 12201, Greece
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Interests: Feasibility Analysis of Energy Sector Applications; Certification, Auditing, Monitoring and Assessment of RES-based Power Plants; Renewable Energy Sources, Technological, Financial and Social Implications, and Implementation; Social Attitude towards Renewable Energy Applications; Technological Progress in Wind, Hydro and Solar Energy Market; Stand Alone Wind Energy and Photovoltaic Systems; Wind-Hydro Energy Production Systems; Evaluation of Energy Storage Systems; RES Based Desalination; Waste Management and Recycling Techniques; Environmental Technology-Atmospheric Pollution; Aero-thermodynamic Analysis of High Speed Turbomachines

INSA-Lyon, CETHIL, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France
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Interests: energy efficient buildings / districts; energy management in buildings; heat storage

Facutly of Constrcution and Environment, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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Interests: renewable energy applications and technology development, green building nanomaterial development, and fluid mechanics and heat/mass transfer related to building studies
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Renewable Energy Applications and Energy Saving in Buildings

School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, KY16 9AL, UK
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Interests: sustainable energy systems; energy; energy justice; environmental justice; climate justice; environmental impact; nuclear energy; energy recovery from waste; renewable energy

Graduate Program in Environmental and Energy Policy, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University, 1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, MI 49931-1295, USA
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Interests: biofuels; bioenergy; energy policy; nuclear power; renewable energy
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability and Nuclear Power

Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58108, USA
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Interests: solar thermal technologies - refrigeration; water heating; water pumps; concentrating systems; photovoltaic thermal systems; dye-sensitized solar cell; integrated renewable energy systems (solar, wind & biomass)

Department of Civil Engineering, Design, Building and Environment (DICDEA), Seconda Università di Napoli (SUN), Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa (CE), Italy
Tel. +393284820770
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Interests: wave energy converters; wave energy assessment; coastal engineering; maritime structures; coastal hydrodynamic; coastal morphodynamic
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Wave Energy Converters

Section of Grassland Science and Renewable Plant Resources, Universität Kassel, Steinstraße 19, 37213 Witzenhausen, Germany
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Interests: crop production; grassland ecosystems; remote sensing; bioenergy
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Biomass Energy Conversion
Special Issue in Energies: Energy Conversion of Rural and Urban Residual Biomass
Special Issue in Agronomy: Remote Sensing Application for Monitoring Grassland and Forage Production

Department of Engineering, Roma Tre University, Via Vito Volterra, 62, 00146 Roma, Italy
Tel. 0657336487
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Interests: energy in buildings; energy saving; renewable and alternative energies; Life Cycle Assessment
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: 14th CIRIAF National Congress - Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: 15th CIRIAF National Congress – Environmental Footprint and Sustainable Development
Special Issue in Sustainability: 16th CIRIAF National Congress – Sustainable Development, Environment and Human Health Protection
Special Issue in Energies: 16th CIRIAF National Congress – Sustainable Development, Environment and Human Health Protection

School of Computing and Engineering, University Of West London
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Interests: Sustainable engineering; Building simulation; Building design; Building Engineering; Building envelope; Carbon dioxide (Co2)
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Building Simulation and Resilience of Buildings to Extreme Weather Events

Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Enna Kore, Cittadella Universitaria - 94100 Enna, Italy
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Interests: renewable energies; energy efficiency; energy planning; environmental impact; sustainable engineering

1. Department of Values, Technology and Innovation, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands
2. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Interests: responsible innovation; ethics of sustainability; multilateral risk governance; engineering ethics
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability and Ethics: Reflections on the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Special Issue in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: Responsible Risk Governance in Hazardous Industries