Organizing Committee
Biography
Aaron Praktiknjo has been an Assistant Professor of Energy Resource and Innovation Economics at RWTH Aachen University since 2015. Before joining RWTH Aachen, he was a team leader and lecturer at the Institute for Energy Engineering, TU Berlin, and served as a consultant for national and international agencies and companies. After studying industrial and civil engineering, he completed his PhD on the topic of energy supply security at the Chair of Energy Systems at TU Berlin, graduating in 2013 with highest honors. He has received awards for his research from the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and the European Energy Exchange (EEX).
Research Interest
Energy Systems Analysis, Safety of the power supply,Design and modeling of energy markets
Biography
Wolfram Sparber is currently working as chairman of the executive board of Alperia spa. Alperia spa is a company which arose from the merging of the two regional energy utilities SEL spa and AEW spa. From November 2011 till December 2015 Wolfram Sparber was chairman of the board of administration of SEL spa and of several daughter companies. Since 2011 he is Vice President of the Board of the European Technology Platform Renewable Heating and Cooling.
Research Interest
Sustainable energy systems for regions and cities, Integrated renewable energy concpets for buildings
Biography
Peter NOVAK completed his Ph.D. degree in Technical Sciences, University of Belgrade in 1975. Peter NOVAK was professor for HVAC, Renewable energy and Environment and dean at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. Hi is professor emeritus of Faculty for technology and systems, Novo mesto. Hi is owner of consultant company Energotech. At present is involved in preparation of energy concept of Slovenia for Slovenian government. He is associated with ASHRAE (Fellow and Life member). In the International Institute of Refrigeration served eight years as president of Commission E1 for Air Conditioning (now Honorary Member of IIR) and past Vice chairman of Scientific Committee at European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen (2012-2016). Hi is also honorary member of REHVA, SLOSE, and SITHOK. More than twelve years hi was served as member of Environmental Council of Slovenia.
Research Interest
Sustainable Energy, Biomass, Renewable energy resources
Biography
Dr Dansoh is a Chartered PhD qualified engineer with over 30 years’ experience in multi discipline industrial environments. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in renewable energy technologies at Kingston University in London.
Research Interest
Biomass and Biofuels, fuel cells and Hydrogen, wind and Solar power and ocean energy systems, such as wave and tidal power
Biography
Yousef M Alshammari is a postdoctoral researcher in energy systems analysis and also President of the International Association of Hydrogen Energy (IAHE),who recently won the World Energy Congress prize for top research papers. His research addresses the global transition scenarios into a low carbon economy using a range of innovative technologies including carbon capture, solar fuels, fuel cells and hydrogen technologies. He currently works at OPEC (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) on designing future scenarios for utilization of marine fuels under stringent international regulations.
Research Interest
sustainable transition to new technologies ,hydrogen economy, fuel design formulation.
Biography
Tin Tai CHOW am currently the Associate Professor and Director of the Building Energy and Environmental Technology Research Unit of the Division of Building Science and Technology, College of Science & Engineering. I served in many prestigious conferences as committee members and invited speakers, like as the Chairman of the 4thInternational Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings (IAQVEC 2001), and the General Co-Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE 2012). I have had guest professorship in a number of universities, such as the Hunan University and the University of Science and Technology of China. My publications are over 260 in books, journals and conference proceedings etc., including more than 130 international academic journal articles.
Research Interest
Building Energy and Enviroment
Biography
Tin Tai CHOW am currently the Associate Professor and Director of the Building Energy and Environmental Technology Research Unit of the Division of Building Science and Technology, College of Science & Engineering. I served in many prestigious conferences as committee members and invited speakers, like as the Chairman of the 4thInternational Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings (IAQVEC 2001), and the General Co-Chair of the 2nd International Conference on Remote Sensing, Environment and Transportation Engineering (RSETE 2012). I have had guest professorship in a number of universities, such as the Hunan University and the University of Science and Technology of China. My publications are over 260 in books, journals and conference proceedings etc., including more than 130 international academic journal articles.
Research Interest
Building Energy and Enviroment
Biography
Professor Buxing Han received Ph.D. degree at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1988, and did postdoctoral research from 1989 to 1991 at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been a professor at Institute of Chemistry, CAS since 1993
Research Interest
physicochemical properties of green solvent systems, green solvents in green chemistry, green energy