INVITED SPEAKER DETAILS AND THEIR ABSTRACT TITLES

Prof Marco Sala

Marco Sala graduated with honours from University of Florence in Architecture in 1972, fonder and Director of A.B.I.T.A. Inter-university Research Centre http://web.taed.unifi.it/abitaweb/ . Director of European Master ABITA in Sustainable Architecture, has extensive experience in European research projects and in many international Cooperation Projects (Perù, Ecuador, Indonesia). Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University, coordinator of Abitare Mediteraneo: research, database, TestCell and new benchmark for moderate climate condition www.abitaremediterraneo.eu funded by Tuscany Region. Professor Marco Sala authored some 70 scientific papers/conference reports, produced about 20 books, proceedings volumes, and in

2013 edited the Almanacco (handbook) of Sustainable Architecture with Renzo Piano, Massimo Mayoviecki and Federico Butera. Marco Sala organised and chaired many International Conferences and Exhibitions on renewable energy and sustainable architecture, as fonder member of TIA (Teaching in Architecture Energy and Environment World Network), member of Bioclimatic Committee of ISES Italia, WREC (World Renewable Energy Congress), Associate Member of PLEA (Passive Low Energy Architecture).

Amongst EU funded research, Marco Sala coordinated Italian participation in “Museums”,“Hospitals”,“PV in Schools” and “Teenergy” as buildings, “UniAid” “Dayliht” and “Euleb” as didactic tools for sustainable architecture. His role as full Professor of Architectural Technology in the University of Florence works in tandem with the office research base and practice, with many realised bioclimatic buildings and consultancies for private and public administrations. Marco Sala Associates, Architecture and Energy Consultants, http://www.msaassociati.it/ specialises in passive solar systems in architecture, environmental design, bioclimatic architecture: Among projects designed by Marco Sala: Natural Museum and Speed Train rail-station in Florence, Technology Park Offices in Lucca, Multiplex and Commercial Centre in Prato, Public Housings, Public Winter Gardens in Padua, Le Murate and Meyer Hospital in Florence, Multiplex and Commercial Centre in Prato. In the last years he took part in the “Dynamic Science Association” and in the “Dynamic Architecture Movement”, and designed in association with Arch. D.Fisher, Rotating Towers in Dubai and other locations.

Marco Sala is Italian citizen, speaks English, French, Spanish, married with two children and lives in Florence.

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Title: Urban Farming and Friendly City, a new alliance for a better green futureMarco Sala, ABITA, School of Architecture, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Dr. Lawrence L. Kazmerski

Dr. Lawrence L. Kazmerski is the Director of Science and Technology Cooperation at The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) up to 2015. He was at (Electrical Engineering) of the University of Maine before coming to SERI (NREL) in 1977. His research at Maine included the report of the first thin-film copper-indium-di-selenide (CIS) solar cell. He was SERI’s first staff member in photovoltaics, hired specifically to establish efforts in the characterization of photovoltaic materials and devices; he led NREL efforts in measurements and characterization for more than 20 years. He has held adjunct professorships at the University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, and

the University of Denver. Dr. Kazmerski has published over 300 journal papers and authored or edited four books, and currently serves on the editorial board of five journals—and he has more than 160 invited presentations at international conferences, workshops, and seminars. He was co-founder and editor of the journal SOLAR CELLS, published by Elsevier-Sequoia (1979-1991). Kazmerski is Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He has three R&D 100 Awards. Kazmerski was the recipient of the Peter Mark Memorial Award of the AVS in 1981 and IEEE William R. Cherry Award in 1993. In 2008, Kazmerski was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He is Vice Chairman of WREN since 1992.

Title: The World’s First Solar-Powered Satellite: Vanguard 1 Revisited on its 60th AnniversaryLawrence L. Kazmerski, National Renewable Energy Laboratory – NREL (Emeritus), Golden, Colorado, and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute – RASEI, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado USA

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Prof Dr Dorota Chwieduk

Dorota Chwieduk Prof., DSc. PhD., M.Sc, Mech..Eng. Deputy Director of the Heat Engineering Institute at Warsaw University of Technology. Research on Energy, Buildings and environment with focus on renewable energy, especially on solar energy, heat pumps and energy storage. Fellow Member of the Thermodynamics Section of Thermodynamics and Combustion Committee, Fellow Member of the Physics of Building Construction Section of the Civil Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Fellow Member of the Energy Problems Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.. President of the International Solar Energy Society – Europe 2009 – 2011 and the Past President 2012 – 2013. President of the Polish Solar Energy Society, since 1993. Editor in Chief of the “Polish Solar Energy” magazine. Since 1994 member of the

World Renewable Energy Network - WREN. Nominated member of the AGE – Advisory Group on Energy for the FP7 of the European Commission 2007 - 2013. Member of the International Management Committee of the Smart Cities EERA JP. Awarded by the annual title of the year 2006 as „Promoter of Renewable Energy” by the “Clean Energy” magazine. Awarded by the Ministry of Buildings in 2006 for a chapter Low energy buildings. Renewable energy. in: Physics of Buildings, publisher Arkady. Awarded in 2008 by the World Renewable Energy Network – WREN as Pioneer of Renewable Energy. Awarded in 2009 by The Ministry of Infrastructure for the Best DSc Dissertation (habilitation) in Buildings and Construction discipline in 2008 in Poland. Awarded in 2010 by the Division of Production Engineering of the Warsaw University of Live Science for achievements and support for the Division. Awarded in 2012 by the Rector of the Warsaw University of Technology for the Best Scientific Achievements in 2011. Author of 220 national and international papers and 9 books and different reports.

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Title: Accomplishment of low energy buildings in high latitude countries through passive

Solar systemsDorota Chwieduk Technical University of Warsaw, Institute of Heat Enginnering,

Ul. Nowoiejska 21/25, PL-00-655 Warsaw, Poland

Antonia Sônia Alves Cardoso Diniz

Antonia Sônia Alves Cardoso Diniz is currently Coordinator of the Grupo de Estudos em Energia (GREEN Solar Laboratory) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) in Belo Horizonte, Brasil. She is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Mechanical Engineering Program at PUC Minas. She received her Bachelor of Physics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in 1980, her Electrical Engineering degree from PUC Minas in 1981, and Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool in Material Science and Engineering in 1995. Before coming to PUC Minas, Dr. Diniz was a Specialist Engineer at the Energetic Company of Minas Gerais (CEMIG) in Belo Horizonte for 28 years, including initiating their

projects in PV rural electrification. Dr. Diniz was a visiting research professor at the Arizona State University Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory in 2013. Dr. Diniz’ current research is focused on solar thermal systems, PV module and system reliability, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resources. She has been active in WREN, IEEE, ISES, and ABSOLAR. Dr. Diniz is a consultant for CAPES (Brasil’s science and education agency), Associate Editor of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (Elsevier), and a member of the International Committee of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (IEEE PVSC).

Title: Evaluation of Performance Losses Caused by Degradation of Photovoltaic Crystalline-Si Modules Installed in Minas Gerais (Brasil)

+1Antonia Sônia A. Cardoso Diniz, 1Denio A. Cassini, 2Michele C. C. de Oliveira, 2Marcelo M. Viana, 2Vanessa de F. C. Lima, 3Lawrence L. Kazmerski

1GREEN PUCMINAS, Instituto Politécnico-IPUC, Pontificia Universidade Catolica

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Minas Gerais – PUCMinas, 2Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brasil 3Renewable and Sustainable Energy Instutute (RASEI), University of

Colorado Boulder and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA,

Dr Amina Batagarawa

Amina holds a B. Sc. in Architecture from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria; an M.Sc. in Environmental Design of Buildings from Cardiff University, Wales; and a PhD in Architecture from Newcastle University, England.

Currently, Amina is a lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her teaching and research are focused on sustainable energy use in the built environment. She is the author of articles including;

Benefit of conducting energy calculations in the built environment of Nigeria, in the 4th West Africa Built Environment Research (WABER) Conference, 24-26 July 2012, Abuja, Nigeria, 389-397;

Disaggregating primary electricity consumption for office buildings in Nigeria, in the 12th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association, Sydney, 14-16 November 2011; and

A comparison of lightweight and heavyweight construction incorporating Phase Change Materials for Office buildings in a composite hot climate, in the 6th Annual conference of the West African Built Environment Research Institute, Ghana which won Winner of best industry related paper.

She is a Global advisory board member for the Green Campus Institute (www.greenthecampus.org), a trustee in the Board of Sustainable Energy Practitioners

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Association of Nigeria where she heads the Research Support Services department of the association (www.sepan.org.ng), and a member of the Energy Institute, UK.

Title: OPTIMIZING BUILDING FABRIC FOR INTEGRATION OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC IN THE DESIGN OF A TEXTILE INDUSTRYAmina Batagarawa, Yusuf Ahmed Abdulkarim, Musa Lawal SagadaDepartment of Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Design, Ahmadu Bello University, Samaru, Zaria, Nigeria.

DR. SERGEY KARABANOVHe received his Ph.D. in electronics in 1984 in Ryazan State Radio Engineering University, Russia, since 1996 - Doctor of Science in micro- and nanoelectronics. Since 1986 he is dealing with photovoltaics.1996 - -2012 – CEO, Ryazan Metal Ceramics Instrumentation Plant JSC2006 – 2013 professor, head of the electronic engineering and technology department at the Ryazan State Radio Engineering University, RussiaIn 2012-2013 he was the deputy minister for industry, innovation and information technologies of Ryazan region

2013 ~present, Professor, Principal Researcher, Ryazan State Radio Engineering University.He is a member of international scientific societies and organizations: IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA), MRS (Material Research Society, USA), ISES (International Solar Energy Society), WREN (World Renewable Energy Network, UK) and the member of the Steering Committee of the World Renewable Energy Congress. He is author or co-author of eighty six patents and more than 200 publications on different aspects of solar energy and electronic in books, technical journals, conference papers, studies and reports in 12 countries.In 2007 Dr. Sergey Karabanov became the Laureate of Russian Federation Government Premium in the field of science and engineering.He has been the leader of the projects for PV module production, development of solar cells production technologies and new technologies for polycrystalline silicon production, MEMS switches production.

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His achievements include setting up production of solar cells and PV modules, electric double layer capacitors, reed switches, security and level sensors for automotive industry, relays, terminal switches.Title: Study of the effect of magnetohydrodynamic mixing of silicon melt on the processes of

silicon purification and crystallizationSergey M. Karabanov1, Dmitriy V. Suvorov1, Evgeny V. Slivkin1, Dmitriy Y.

Tarabrin1, Andrey S. Karabanov2

1- Ryazan State Radio Engineering University, 59/1 Gagarina St., Ryazan 390005, Russia 2- Helios Resource Ltd., 126 Proletarskaya St., Saransk 430001, Mordovia,

RussiaDevelopment of an algorithm for an automatic control system of a stand-alone

micro-grid for power supply of a settlement Sergey M. Karabanov1, Pavel Bezrukikh2, Dmitriy V. Suvorov1, Andrey S. Karabanov3

1 - Ryazan State Radio Engineering University, 59/1 Gagarina St., Ryazan 390005, Russia

2 - Krzhizhanovsky Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russia3 - Helios Resource Ltd., 126 Proletarskaya St., Saransk 430001, Mordovia, Russia

Ms Shreya Agarwal

Shreya Agarwal is an electrical engineer currently working on design, engineering andImplementation of decentralized renewable energy systems. She has also worked with Oil & Gas EPC and electricity consulting firms for design of distribution substations and other electrical sub-systems. Shreya has an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a focus on Power and Energy. Her professional interests include design of switchgear components, power system and innovation of distributed renewable energy systems.

Title: Role of Energy Storage systems to provide peak power support for state Utility in the Indian contextResearch Associate, the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India

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Professor Neil Hewitt

Research Director – Architecture, Built Environment & PlanningNeil J Hewitt was appointed Professor of Energy in 2008 and is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Technologies from 2008 until present. He is a Chartered Physicist and Chartered Engineer and is a member of the Institute of Physics, Institute of Refrigeration and the Energy Institute.Professor Hewitt has initiated and worked on numerous significant European and UK Research Council funded research projects that have engaged academia, public and private bodies.Professor Hewitt is an acknowledged expert in the field of heat pumps, both in their development and in their end-use, especially with energy storage in the emerging sector

of demand side management.  He has over 100 publications and is a regular invited conference speaker both nationally and abroad.Professor Hewitt, in addition to membership of a number of editorial boards, is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Energy and is a UK

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representative of the International Institute of Refrigeration Commission B2 Refrigerating Machinery

Title: Domestic Demand Side Response – the Challenge for Heat Pumps in a Future UK

Decarbonised Heating MarketNeil J HewittUlster University, Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Northern Ireland, UK.

Dr Haris Doukas

Dr. Haris Doukas is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He has a degree in mechanical engineering (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – AUTH, 2003) and a PhD degree in the area of decision support systems for the sustainable energy sector’s operation (ECE, NTUA, 2009). His scientific and research expertise includes the development of models and decision support systems for energy and environmental policy and management. He has participated, as a scientific coordinator / project manager/ main expert in the design of energy policies and programs

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promoting renewables, energy efficiency and rational use of energy in a local, national and European level. In addition, he has participated in respective initiatives beyond Europe, among which in the countries of the Mediterranean basin and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. In the abovementioned fields, he has more than 100 scientific publications in international scientific journals with reviewers, one Book titled “Decision Support Policy Models for Energy and Environmental Systems” as well as numerous presentations in international conferences, chapters, articles in technical books and magazines respectively. In addition, Dr. Doukas is an Associate Editor of the Operational Research International Journal (ORIJ) of Springer, and participates as member of the Editorial Board in Journals related with energy policy and operational research. For his work, Dr. Doukas has received awards by the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), the NTUA, the AUTH, the Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG) and the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS).

Title: Data-driven” decision support systems for Intelligent Energy Management in the Built Environment Haris Doukas: National Technical University of Athens, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Athens, Greece

Dr Arch. Ruxandra Crutescu

2013 - Trophy " Social & Economic Innovator" 2016 – Trofy „WREN Pioneer” (World Renewable Energy Network – Brighton, Great Britain)Ruxandra Crutescu is doctor arhitect and associate professor external collaborator at the Faculty of Architecture, “Spiru Haret” University, Bucharest, Romania. Her activity consists in architectural design based on energy efficiency of the buildings by the intelligent and efficient use of the energy from renewables sources, especially in the area of improving energy

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efficiency in buildings. Other interesting research areas are smart cities, innovative technologies in architecture, creativity for future sustainable development, management in architecture and marketing in architecture. Since 2009, Ruxandra Crutescu holds a PhD in Architecture from “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture, Bucharest, Romania. Between 2008-2013, manager of the Research-Development-Innovation Department at Passivhaus EcoArchitect, Bragadiru Ilfov, Romania. She have write and published more than 80 scientific articles and 6 books. The main subjects are the ecological architecture, the use of renewable energies in residential and public buildings, reducing of pollution in the context of climate change and global warming. With a continuous and sustained activity, also as professional architectural practice experience of more than 33 years in the architectural design of public buildings and research in the field of buildings and ecological architecture, in 2003, she designed the first passive solar house in Romania, certified by Passivhaus Institute Dr.W. Feisst from Darmstadt, Germany , located in Burlusi village, Ciofringeni – Arges County; and in 2007, the first passive solar office building in Romania, the headquarters of Amvic Company, in Bragadiru – Ilfov – 2500 sqm. She is also an authorized energy auditor for buildings, authorized designer for passive buildings, having planned and risen (together with her design team) more than 3.500 buildings (family houses, kindergartens – in Blejoi/ Prahova , schools in Covansa and Sfantu Gheorghe, city halls in Dragalina/Calarasi and Ciofringeni/Arges, office-buildings etc). She organizes annually symposiums and seminars like “Energy Days”, “Green Spot” ECO-ARCHITECT” and “Active Green Architects” on similar topics. Member of the Romanian Order of Architects, the Romanian Register of Urbanists and the Romanian Union of Architects. She is since 2012, council member of the World Renewable Energy Congress and World Renewable Energy Network (based in Brighton – Great Britain) and co-chair of the World Renewable Energy Congress Bucharest in 2015. Active member in steering committees of international scientific research organizations, like World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society and World Renewable Energy Network.

Titles: (1)-Climate Change requires Adaptation of the Architectural Design(2) Renewable Energy System Integration in Sustainable Floating

ArchitectureSchool of Architecture, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania

Dr Sarah McCormack

Dr Sarah McCormack is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at Trinity

College Dublin and lead PI in the Solar Energy Applications group. She graduated from Univiersity of Ulster with a PhD in Solar Engineering collaborating with Imperial College London, Saint Gobain and BP-Solar. She continued her research at the Dublin Institute of Technology as a Research Fellow where she was

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involved in the development of energy related sustainability research programmes. She has been working in the areas of solar energy and thermal energy research for over 15 years and has published over 100 publications. She has supervised 13 students to completion and her team currently consists of 3 post docs and 6 PhD researchers. She has been awarded funding of over 3M in national and EU funded projects such as the prestigious ERC Starter grant (PEDAL) to continue her work in LS devices for enhancing the efficiency of solar cells.

Title: Novel plasmonic luminescent solar devices for building integrated photovoltaic systems

Sarah J. McCormack*, Hind Ahmed, Arunima Sethi, Mehran Rafiee, Sarah Gilligan, Subhash Chandra

Dept of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineeering, School of engineering, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes

Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes is a renewable energy expert with more than 20 years of professional and honorary experience. He is actively working for and promoting enabling policy frameworks and fair market conditions for a fully Renewables based energy system.

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At present, he is a Vice-President of the European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF), after having served as the associations President from 2010 to 2014. He is representing EREF as a Steering Committee Member of the Global Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21).

Rainer is also a Board Member of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE) and the Chairman of BEE’s European and international affairs Committee. He is representing both EREF and BEE at the Global100%Renewables platform.

Representing EREF or BEE, or as a senior expert, Rainer is closely working with international institutions or association, such as the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), e.g. representing EREF in IRENA’s Coalition for Action, or with the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Rainer has been working with the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) for more than a decade, at present serving as the network’s Head of the Policy, Finance, Education and Sustainability Committee. In 2016, he was appointed as a member of WREN’s Advisory Council.

From 1998 to 2005, Rainer was a Director General in the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). On behalf of the Ministry, he was a co-chair of the International Steering Committee (ISC) preparing the 1st International Renewable Energy Conference (IREC), the renewables2004 conference in Bonn, Germany. The ISC was later transformed to become REN21.

Title: Energy Policies at Crossroads – Will Europe’s 2030 Targets and Framework be in Line with Paris Climate Agreement?

Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes, K.-Niederkirchner-Str. Berlin, GermanyVice-President, European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF), Brussels, Belgium,

Board Member, German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE), Berlin, Germany

Arch. Shaden Abusafieh

Arch. Shaden Abusafieh got her M.S from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, in cooperation with Argonne National Laboratory at Chicago, USA in 1999 with First Class Honors. She has twenty years of progressive experience in teaching and academic field, in different Collages at different countries. Currently, she is an Instructor at Collage of

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Architecture and Design, Department of Architecture Engineering, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan.

Arch. Shaden is an Architect-Chief Specialist since 2004. She received Award of Excellence after she became certified in VTI (Vocational Training In-services) from UNRWA/ UNESCO/ Jordan. She is a Quality Assurance Member at Al-Ahliyya Amman University/ Jordan. She is a member in Jordan Society of Engineering.

Arch. Shaden has published in many technical journals and conferences. Currently she is interested in many research areas: Human Behavior Psychology in a virtual world for better Architectural and Interior Design, Wayfinding and Signage, Sustainability at the confluence of its three constituent parts: Social, environmental and economic, Life safety and Human behavior during emergency cases.

Title: The Conflict between Aesthetics and Sustainability: Empowering Sustainable Architecture with Aesthetics to Enhance People's Lifestyle and Sustainable Behavior

Collage of Architecture and Design, Department of Architecture Engineering, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan

Prof. R.E. CRITOPH

Bob Critoph is a professor in the Division of Civil and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Warwick. His first degree was in Aeronautical Engineering, from Southampton University but he went on to do a PhD in energy analysis also at Southampton. As a result of this work he was awarded the Institute of Energy Bone-Wheeler Medal.He then worked in the Open University Energy Research Group as a Research Fellow, responsible for the design, construction

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and testing of a gas engine driven heat pump. From 1979 he has been at Warwick lecturing in Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Solar Energy.His research is in adsorption refrigeration and heat pump systems, with uses ranging from solar refrigeration and air conditioning to gas-fired heat pumps. At present, his research team consists of two post-doctoral RA’s and two PhD students and he has five active research projects worth £1.2.

Title: Contribution to Solar Thermal, Heat Pumps and Geothermal:Gas fired heat pumps as a replacement for the condensing boiler

Prof. R.E. Critoph, Dr. S.J. Metcalf, Dr. A Rivero Pacho: School of EngineeringCoventry, UK

Prof Riadh H. Al-Dabbagh

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Prof Al-Dabbagh obtained his first degree B Sc. in geology from Mosul University, Iraq in 1968, then his Diploma, MSc, PhD from University College, London in 1975. He has a very colourful courier prior to his present post in the UAE.President of 4 universities for 21 years, Faculty member for about 40 years in 7 universities Published Approximately 79 scientific papers in the field of water resources and hydrology, Environment, Pollution, Water management, Water Engineering 25 short papers in education and scientific contribution, Five textbooks in the field of hydrology, water management and engineering geology, Teaching graduate and

undergraduate courses in water resource management, hydrology, environmental hydrology, basic ecology, environment water& energy and general geology, hydrochemistry, ground water resources, water quality, pollution, and environment,Attended 65 international conferences and 42 national and regional conferences,Received approximately 44 awards from regional, Arabic and international universities and organizations, Spent a total of 6 years as a visiting professor in 14 different universities in 10 different European, North and South American countries.In 2003- up to the present, He is a professor at Ajman University and advisor to the President of the University, UAE.

Title: Toward Green Building and Eco - Cities in UAEAjman University, Ajman, UAE

Antonella Trombadore

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Professor at the University of Florence, senior researcher, PhD, MSc, Architect from 1999 she works at the ABITA Interuniversity research center. PhD in Architectural Technology in the University of Florence, MSC in Energy Management, she works in the office research as senior expert in the field of Project Management, Integrated Projects, Sustainable Urban Design, Energy Conscious Design, Low energy buildings, Communication and dissemination strategies Specialized in sustainable architecture and bioclimatic design. Team leader-collaborator for the management of European Master

Course “ABITA – Sustainable design and technologies for built environment” and Post-graduate courses in Bioclimatic Architecture and Energy Saving in Buildings at the University of Florence.

Title: Historical villages as a model of sustainable living and green circular economy.Antonella Trombadore, University of Florence, Architectural Department, Florence, Italy

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Dr Marta Szabo

Dr. Marta Szabo graduated in Hungary as agricultural and mechanical engineer specialized in Building Service engineering. She received a PhD in engineering in 1998 in the field of energy and renewable energy utilization in greenhouses. She started as lecturer in 1998, then in 2004 became Assistant Professor and Researcher at the Szent Istvan University Hungary. In 2008 became an Associate Professor. Her field is the utilization of renewable energy, and energy management in buildings. In 2009 she acted as a Faculty Director for the International Relations. In 2006-2007 Dr Szabo was seconded as a national expert to the Institute of Environment and Sustainability of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, and in 2010-2011 has been senior researcher in the Institute of Energy of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission working on the technical assessment of Renewable

Energy in the EU. She has authored and coauthored more than 120 papers and research reports, published in journals and international conferences. She was member of several organizing committees for many international conferences and workshops. Dr. Szabo is member of the WREN and has been awarded a has been chosen as the best young scientist in renewable energy Congress, Florence, Italy in 2006.

Title: Building-integrated Renewable Energy Progress in the EU Márta Szabó: Szent István University, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Godollo,

Hungary

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Dr Arthur Williams

After graduating, Dr Williams worked for GEC Large Machines in Rugby in Electrical Machine Development. Following a period working in the voluntary sector in Birmingham, he began research into micro-hydro systems, often working in collaboration with the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now "Practical Action") and completed a PhD in this field in 1992. He has been involved in the development and dissemination of low-cost technologies for rural electrification, and has visited Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Peru in connection with this work. A project entitled "Modelling and design of Pico propeller turbines for rural electrification, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, was

completed in summer of 2007 before transferring from Nottingham Trent University to the University of Nottingham. He lectures in the field of sustainable energy and is course director for the interdisciplinary MSc in Sustainable Energy Engineering as well as the part-time MSc in Power Electronics, Machines & Drives. He is a member of WREN Council responsible for hydropower.

Title: Storage for Community Electricity: a comparison between batteries and mini Pumped Hydro.

Gülce Onbaşılı, Sandeep Dhundhara, Arthur Williams*.*School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Dr Hussein Kazim

He Has received his BSc, MSc degrees in electrical engineering from University of Technology

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(UOT), Baghdad - Iraq also, PhD from Newcastle University (NCL), UK. In 1995 he joined Al-Mamon College and in 1996 he was appointed as Assistant Lecturer in UOT, Baghdad and from 1997 to 2002 he was a Lecturer and Program Coordinator with the Faculty of Engineering, Al Tahady University, Libya. In 2002 he became a Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor with the Faculty of Engineering-Sohar University, Sultanate of Oman. Also, he is currently academic visitor at Newcastle University-UK and visiting scientist in National University of Malaysia-Malaysia.Hussein is involved in academics and research, since the last 22 years and is associated withProfessional organization and engineering societies such as IEEE, IEE, Elsevier, IAENG, WREN and WSEAS. He organized and participates in many conferences, symposiums and Workshops. He is a referee in IEEE, WSEAS, AMSE, Elsevier and IJCSER journals. Also, He is a referee and organizer for many international conferences and editor of few International Journals. He has authored several publications on electrical engineering, including more than 150 papers published in scientific journals and conferences, some 40 invited talks, and six Books in Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy. Dr Hussein is the winner of Sohar University Vice Chancellor award for Research and Industry. Also, He is the winner of some national and international awards: Tistahil Award-Majan Electricity Company-Oman, the Golden Medal Award-Pecipta’13 Malaysia, and Outstanding Renewable Energy Lab Award-World Renewable Energy Congress XIII, 3 – 8th August 2014 London, United Kingdom, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Pioneer Award-World Renewable Energy Congress VX, 19 – 23rd September 2016; is an inventor and co-inventor of 3 patents. Hussein had supervised and graduated more than 35 BSc, 7 MSc and 3 PhD students under his supervision in Al Tahady University, Sohar University, Newcastle University, National University of Malaysia and University of Malaysia Perlis. Dr Hussein has completed three ORG and one FURAP research projects granted as Principle Investigator and Co-Investigator by the Research Council of Oman (TRC). His currentResearches interests are in the area of Photovoltaic, Renewable Energy, Power Electronics, Power Quality and Electrical Power System. Hussein is chairman of the Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technology Research Group in Oman. Dr Hussein is the team leader of Generation & Storage taskforce in Oman Renewable Energy Strategic Program

Title: The Impact of the Dust on the electrical performance of photovoltaic module: An Experimental Study

Hussein A Kazem, Sohar University, Sohar, Oman

Dr Ala HasanAla Hasan (DSc. Tech., Helsinki University of Technology- Finland) is a Senior Scientist in Smart Energy and Transport Integration at VTT, the

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Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd http://www.vttresearch.com/, which is the largest research centre in North Europe. He held the Post of Academy of Finland Research Fellow (2010-2015). Dr Hasan worked at Aalto University http://www.aalto.fi/en/ (formerly known as Helsinki University of Technology) for 14 years. He has academic experiences in carrying out research, teaching and supervision of Master and PhD students in universities since 1992, as well as professional experience in Mechanical-Power Engineering since 1982.

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Dr Hasan contributed in many research projects funded by Finnish national and EU programmes. He was able to get funding from the Academy of Finland mounted to two million euros in the past years. Dr Hasan is currently the representative of Finland in the Executive Committee of the Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC) Programme of the International Energy Agency (IEA) http://www.iea-ebc.org/. He is currently the Finnish National Expert in the IEA-Energy in Buildings and Communities EBC- Annex 67 Energy Flexible Buildings (2015-2018) http://www.annex67.org/.

Dr Hasan has more than 90 publications including international scientific journals, international conference papers and book chapters. An overview of some publications can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ala_Hasan. He is Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Low Carbon Technologies – Oxford Journals UK http://ijlct.oxfordjournals.org/. Dr Hasan initiated and was President (2011-2015) of IBPSA-Nordic (www.ibpsa-nordic.org, the Nordic regional affiliate of IBPSA for four countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden).

Title: Performance simulations of different energy flexibility sources in a building with the electrical grid

Dr Ala Hasan, Senior ScientistSmart Energy and Transport Solutions/Interactive Buildings, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland

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Professor Adel Sharif: PhD, CEng, FIChemE

Prof Adel Sharif is Professor of Water Engineering and Process Innovation, and Founder Director of the Centre for Osmosis Research and Applications, (CORA) at the University of Surrey, UK. Prof. Sharif is a winner of The Queen’s 2011 Anniversary Prize for Water Research and the 2005 UK Royal Society Brian Mercer Senior Award for Innovation in Science and Technology. He is also the winner of the 2008 Science Business first pan-European Academic Enterprise Award in the category of Energy/Environment. CORA water technologies were also awarded the Institute of Chemical Engineers 2011 Innovation and Excellence award in the Water Supply and Management category. He is a

founder of Modern Water plc, a London Exchange AIM Market listed company specialized in desalination and renewable power generation.  Prof. Sharif is a member of the Qatar Foundation’s Expatriate Arab Scientists Forum. He obtained his first degree in Chemical Engineering from Baghdad University in 1986, followed by MSc and PhD from University of Wales Swansea in 1989 and 1992 respectively. He has over 100 publications; is an inventor and co-inventor of more than 15 patents and has supervised over twenty PhD projects and more than 40 MSc dissertations.

Title: Overcoming the Global Challenges - Securing the World’s Food, Energy and Water

Prof Adel SharifChemical & Process Engineering Department, University of Surrey, Guildford,

Surrey GU2 7XH, UK

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Dr Qahtan A Abed

He Has received his BSc, MSc degrees in Mechanical engineering from University of Technology (UOT), Baghdad - Iraq also, PhD from University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (UPB), Romania. In 1996 he joined Military College of Engineering, Baghdad and in 2000 he was appointed as university teaching assistant in UOT, Baghdad and from 2004 to 2008 he was a university teaching assistant in Engineering Technical College of Najaf (ETCN)/ Al- Furat Al- Awsat Technical University Iraq. In 2008 he became an Assistant Lecturer in ETCN, also he become a Lecture in ETCN on 2011. He is Assistant Professor in Engineering Technical College of Najaf (ETCN)/ Al- Furat Al- Awsat Technical University Iraq.

Qahtan is involved in academics and research, since the last 15 years. He organized and participates in many conferences, symposiums and Workshops. He has authored several publications on Mechanical engineering, including more than 20 papers published in scientific journals and conferences. He was published a book chapter in solar thermal applications.Dr. Qahtan had supervised and graduated more than 50 BSc and 1 PhD students under his supervision in Engineering Technical College of Najaf (ETCN), Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University and University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. His current Research interests are in the area of Photovoltaic, Renewable Energy, Heat transfer Power plant. Qahtan is the leader of laser and electro optics department in ETCN.

Title: Enhancement the productivity of tubular solar still by using the phase change material

Dr Qahtan A Abed, Dhafer Manea H. Al-Shamkhee, Najaf, Iraq

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Dr Sarah Abdourraziq

Sarah Abdourraziq has a PhD, MSc and BSc in Industrial Engineering from Sciences and Technologies Faculty in Fez, Morocco 2011. & 2015. She is currently an authority on PV Solar Pumping. Her PhD was awarded from the electrical engineering department, LESSI Laboratory, at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University. Her research study was based on the improvement and optimization of the efficiency of the water pumping systems driven by the photovoltaic systems. Photovoltaic pumping has become one of the most promising fields in photovoltaic applications.  She works in the modeling of the system, and the improvement of the efficiency of each component of the system (MPPT Command, Inverter, Motor-Pump group and PV panel sizes). Dr Abdourraziq is a member of WREN Council.

Title: Photovoltaic energy employed to supply water: environmental impact

Sarah Abdourraziq, Mohamed Amine AbdourraziqSidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Ecole Supérieure de Technologie,Département Génie électrique et Informatique, Fez-Morocco

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Prof L W Wang

2011-, Associate Professor, Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 12/2010-12/2011, Research Fellow for EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship, Newcastle University, UK 2/2010-11/2010, Research Fellow for Royal Society International Incoming Fellowship, University of Warwick, UK 11/2008-2/2009, Visiting Academic in the University of Warwick, UK 2007-2/2010, Associate professor, Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2005-2007, Lecturer, Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 1999-2001, Editor, Journal of Jiangsu University, Natural edition 1998-1999, Developer, Qingdao Haier Airconditioner Company

Research Interests Adsorption refrigeration and power generation Heat and mass transfer intensification Thermodynamic cycle Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 12/2010-12/2011, Research Fellow for EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship, Newcastle University, UK 2/2010-11/2010, Research Fellow for Royal Society International Incoming Fellowship, University of Warwick, UK 11/2008-2/2009, Visiting Academic in the University of Warwick, UK 2007-2/2010, Associate professor, Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 2005-2007, Lecturer, Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 1999-2001, Editor, Journal of Jiangsu University, Natural edition 1998-1999, Developer, Qingdao Haier Air condition Company Research InterestAdsorption refrigeration and power generation,Heat and mass transfer intensification, Thermodynamic cycle, many projects and publications in the field of heating & cooling

Title: A domestic air conditioning and water heating system driven by solar energyL.W. Wang, Y. Yu, Q.W. Pan

Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai 200240, China

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Dr Hossein Mirzaii

He is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering, in Aerospace Materials Engineering and a Programme Director for M Sc. in Renewable Energy Engineering, since 2006. From 1999 to 2006, Dr Mirzaii was a senior lecturer and course director for the B Sc. (Hon.) in Aeronautical Engineering at Farnborough College of Technology, Surrey University. In the period 1995-1999 he was lecturing at South East Essex College as full- Time. The college affiliated to Greenwich University. In 1990-1994 he worked at British Aerospace and in 1995 he was a senior scientific advisor, Ministry of Agriculture, Tehran, Iran. In the period 1986-1990 Dr Mirzaii was a full time research assistant at Imperial College, London, UK and prior to that from 1983 to 1986, he worked as research assistant at City University, London, UK.Dr Mirzaii attended several courses and seminar in various field of engineering. He is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society MRAeS. He published several papers in refereed journals.

Title: 1- Feasibility Study into Design, Development and Testing of a Parabolic Solar Water Pump for use in Rural Areas of a Developing Country such as Nigeria

Dr Hossein Mirzaii, Mr Ighorodje Ejiro SylvesterSchool of Aerospace & Aircraft Engineering, Kingston University London, UK

2-- Feasibility Study into Design, Development and Testing of an Indirect Multi-Rack Solar Dryer for Agricultural Products

Dr Hossein Mirzaii, Mr Juan Pablo, Nojek BarbieriSchool of Aerospace & Aircraft Engineering, Kingston University London, UK

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Prof. Dr. Ghanim K. Abdulsada

He got his Ms.c &Ph.D degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University UK.Professor, Al- Mustansiriyah University and University of Warith Alnabiya teaching courses in postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Conducting researches in the field of Renewable Energy applications, hydraulics systems, heat transfer , and thermodynamicsProfessional Consulting :

- Over 32 years of outstanding experience in Design ,Engineering , Inspection, Management of large projects of Industrial , irrigations and water supplied supervisor of many Renewable energy projects such as wind energy projects, Passive building with low energy

consumption and water desalination plants using solar energy or using waste heat power plants). - Consultant Engineering for ministry of industrial, - Consultant Engineering for Baghdad Mayoralty (inspection of pipes for water supply to Baghdad city). - A team player, open-minded, appreciate and respect my work obligations and aim are results oriented and believe in coherent team working and rights-based management. Professional Associations : 1 – Member of the World Renewable Energy Council ( England UK) 2- Member of International Solar Energy Society (ISES) (Germany) 3- The National Society of Engineering Inspection & Civil Protection (Inspection and Design Boilers). Conferences and Exhibition Participated in many conferences and seminars inside and outside Iraq. Iraqi university conferences relating to various facets of science and technology. Attendance of Iraqi industrial conferences & seminars including chairing sessions and presenting papers. ISES Solar world Congress 1987 Germany. Renewable Energies Congress Baghdad Iraq, 1992 Sharjah solar energy conference, UAE 2001.

ISES Solar world Congress 2002 Germany Mechanical Eng. Congress Kofa University 2002. Bahrain solar energy conference, 2004. Energy conferences Maraud Australia 2007).

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Clean Energy congress (8 UTEG10 ) 2010 Turkey, ISES Solar world congress ( WREF 2012) Denver Colorado USA, ASME 13 congress 2013 Mansoura USA, Solar energy conference in Tehran 2015, Conference smart city Kuwait 2016 Committees and boards: Chairman and member of various Technical committee dealing with renewable energy and Irrigations projects. Reviewer for many International Scientific journals; Energy and power engineering (USA) ETASR (- Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research) (Gress) ASME (American society mechanical Engineering) USA. PublicationsSince 1985 published many papers deal with Renewable Energy Technology ( Solar, Wind, alternative energy systems, and energy system planning), Building –Integrated solar and natural heating and cooling. and Power plants Technology.

Title: The Effect of Passive System in Improving the Indoor Air Quality for Residential Buildings in Iraq

Ghanim Kadhem Abdul Sadaa, Tawfeeq Wasmi M. Salihb

a Mechanical Engineering Dept. / Al Mustansiriyah University, Iraq

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Dr Shadia J. Ikhmayies

Shadia J. Ikhmayies had received the B.Sc. from the physics department in the University of Jordan in 1983, the M.Sc. in molecular physics from the same university in 1987 and the Ph.D. in producing CdS/CdTe thin film solar cells from the same university in 2002. Now she works in Isra University in Jordan as an associate professor. Her research is focused on producing and characterizing semiconductor thin films, and thin film CdS/CdTe solar cells. Dr. Ikhmayies also works in characterizing quartz in Jordan for the extraction of silicon for solar cells and characterizing different materials by computation. She published 46 research papers in international scientific journals, three chapters in books,

and 73 research papers in conference proceedings. She is the author of two books for Springer Silicon for Solar Cell Applications, and Performance Optimization of CdS/CdTe Solar Cells, which are in production, the editor-in-chief of the book Advances in Silicon Solar Cells for Springer, the book Advances in II-VI Compounds Suitable for Solar Cell Applications for the Research Signpost Publisher, and an eBook series about materials for Springer Publisher, where this eBook series is in production.

Shadia is a member of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN). She is a member of the International Organizing Committee and the International Scientific Committee of the European Conference on Renewable Energy Systems (ECRES2015- ECRES2018). She is a field editor (Energy Materials) for the Journal of Energy Systems the official journal of ECRES, a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Materials and Chemistry for Scientific & Academic Publishing. She was a technical advisor/subject editor for JOM the member journal of TMS. She is a guest editor for three special issues of the Journal of Electronic Materials: European Conference on Renewable Energy Systems (2015-2017). Shadia is a reviewer in 24 international journals; she was the chair of the TMS Materials Characterization Committee (2016–2017), and the leading organizer of more than three symposia in TMS annual Meetings and Exhibition.

Title: Production of Diverse Morphologies of ZnO Nano/Microstructures by the Spray Pyrolysis Method

Shadia J. Ikhmayies: Isra University, Department of Physics, Amman, Jordan.

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Prof. David Elliott

He is Emeritus Professor of Technology Policy at the Open University UK, where he has developed courses and research programme on innovation policy, focusing on sustainable energy development, on which he has written extensively. His latest book, co-authored with OU visiting research fellow Terence Cook, is ‘Renewable Energy: from Europe to Africa’ (Palgrave Pivot 2018)

Terence Cook

He is based at the Open University UK, and has worked on a series of EU supported projects focused on Sustainable Energy in the the EU and in Africa, most recently via his involvement with EU’s Technical Assistance Facility in Eastern and Southern Africa.

In conjunction with Prof David Elliott, his has reported on this work in ‘Renewable Energy: from Europe to Africa’ (Palgrave Pivot 2018)

Title: Renewable energy in Africa: changing support systems

Terence Cook and David Elliott**Department of Engineering and Innovation,

The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

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Prof. Dr. Ali Hamzeh

Prof. Dr. Ali Hamzeh obtained his PhD in Electrical Power Engineering from Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He is currently a full professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan. Prior to that, Prof. Hamzeh worked from 1984 to 2012 as full professor at the Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde in 2000, and at Erlangen-Nuernberg University, Germany many times since 1994. His main research domains include electrical power systems and renewable energy systems. He published over 83 peer-

reviwed article and conference papers. He authored/co-authored 17 books in the area of electric power systems, renewable energy, and computer programming.

He is member of IEEE, World Wind Energy Association (WWEA), Board of Arab Institute of Operation & Maintenance (Saudi Arabia), and Energy Committee of Arab Engineers Fedaration.

Title: Design and construction of a small Standalone Wind Turbine using Scrap materials Prof. Dr. Ali Hamzeh, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zakaria Al-Omari, Prof. Dr. Sadeq Hamed

Department of Electrical Engineering, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman, Jordan

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Prof. Dato Dr Mohd. Yusof Hj. Othman

Prof. Mohd. Yusof Hj. Othman obtained BSc (Hons) in Physics from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, MSc in Solid State Physics from University of London and PhD in Heat Pump from Aston University, UK. He is currently, a Professor at Department of Physics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He was the Head, Department of Physics (1990-94); Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology (1994-02); Director, Research and InnovationManagement Centre (2002-07); and the founding Director of Institute of Islam Hadhari since July 2007 of the university. Prof. Othman has been involved in renewable energy for more than twenty five years. His main contributions are in solar radiation, solar thermal and photovoltaic systems. His major research efforts include designing solar collectors for drying and hot water systems, photovoltaic water pumping, grid connected photovoltaic systems, and currently in

Photovoltaic-thermal collector (air & water based). He was the founding member of Solar Energy Research Group, UKM and founding Secretary General of Malaysian Institute of Energy (1992-2005). He has been elected as council member of the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) since 1992, contact person for International Solar Energy Society (ISES) in Malaysia (1990- 96). He was a visiting professor at the Department of Engineering, University of Reading,UK (1994), Associate Editor of the International Journal of Renewable Energy since 2005, Editorial Review Board of Scientific Journal International since July 2007. He received “WREN Pioneer” Award from World Renewable Energy Network/Congress in 2004 for his recognition and contribution in renewable energy activities. He has been sitting on various panels and committee on renewable energy and education at ministry level in Malaysia. He has authored and co-authored more than 250 articles in journals, proceedings, and seminars in the field of renewable energy, physics and science education. He has written 21 books in the field of physics and general interests. He received numerous awards from UKM, the Government of Malaysia and international associations for his afford in renewable energy.

Title: Evolution of Photovoltaic –Thermal Hybrid Solar Technology for the Tropics:

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A Case Study of Malaysia Mohd Yusof Hj Othman, Kamaruzzaman Sopian, Mohd Hafidz & Sohif Mat

Solar Energy Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Dr Winfried Hoffmann

did his PhD-thesis in biophysics. He joined the just formed photovoltaic R & D group for thin film solar cells at NUKEM (RWE) in 1979 and took over its leadership in 1985. His focus was Applied Research towards industrialization in the area of CdS/Cu2S – Thin-Film solar cells and modules, amorphous Silicon as well as Dye Solar Cells. In the mid-1980s and 90s a pilot production for MIS-inversion layer c-Si solar cells and large area modules was put in operation. The focus on PV systems in these years was for decentralized off-grid applications (e.g. Solar Home Systems and water pumping in developing countries).

He initiated the Joint-Venture in the photovoltaic field between NUKEM and Daimler-Benz Aerospace to form "Angewandte Solarenergie - ASE GmbH" in 1994 where he served as Managing Director. In the same year the acquisition of 100 % shares of Mobil Solar as a subsidiary company was done with special focus on their developed ribbon EFG technology.

In the late 90s the company was renamed RWE Solar and was one of the worldwide 5 biggest production companies. The first inline PE-CVD machines for SiN were developed and built in these years.

In October 2002 the Joint Venture between RWE Solutions and SCHOTT, the RWE SCHOTT Solar GmbH, was formed, where he served as Chairman of the Board. Effective in 2005 SCHOTT acquired the shares of RWE Solutions and the company was renamed SCHOTT Solar GmbH where he was Member of the Management Committee.

In 2007 he joined Applied Materials to become Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of the Solar Business Group and member of the Management Board of the German based Applied Materials GmbH. From November 2010 he served with his consulting company Applied Solar Expertise - ASE to the solar business of Applied Materials. He served many years until 2008 as member of the Board of the German Solar Economy Association (Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft – BSW Solar), at last as president. Until March 2014 he was for 17 years member of the board and half of this time president of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA, now SolarPower Europe). In 2010/11 he was member of the High Level Group on Key Enabling Technologies to advise three EU-commissioners on a strategy to strengthen particularly the European production industry.

Until 2016 he was member of the supervisory board of the company SMA Solar Technology AG as well as chairman of the Supervisory Board of Solar-Fabrik AG.

He is currently independent consultant and member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW), chairman of the scientific board of DLR-Institute of Networked

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Energy Systems (Oldenburg) and member of the Scientific Board of the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hameln (ISFH).

Since 2011 he gives lectures about Renewable Energy at the universities Konstanz and Freiburg.In 2012 he received the John Bonda prize from EPIA and the prestigious “European Becquerel Prize for Outstanding Merits in Photovoltaics” from the European Commission. The World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) awarded him as “Solar Pioneer” in 2014.

Title: Smart houses and regions as building blocks for 100% renewable energy globally

Winfried Hoffmann, Bergstrasse 48, 63456 Hanau, Germany

DR DAVID S. RENNÉ

Dr. Renné has served as President of the International Solar Energy Society since 2010.

From 1991 until his retirement in 2012 Dr. Renné managed the solar resource assessment activities at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Since 2012 he is a Senior Consultant to Clean Power Research, a small U.S. Company that develops resource assessment and analytical software tools to support large-scale grid connected solar energy systems, and a consultant to the World Bank, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the Asian Development Bank, and others. He is an Associate Editor of the Solar Energy Journal.

Title: An Overview of Pathways to 100% Renewable Energy

David S. RennéPresident, International Solar Energy Society

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Dr Stan Shire

Dr Stan Shire is associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems in the School's Mechanical and Process Engineering stream. His research is focused around solar energy, energy storage, phase change materials, recovery of waste heat, thermo-chemical storage and upgrading of thermal energy and thermally driven cooling technology. He has supervised several MSc and PhD student at Warwick University and published several papers in well-known journals. He is a World Renewable Energy Network Pioneer.

Title: Development of vacuum insulated flat-plate solar thermal collectors

Dr Stan Shire & Dr Roger Moss School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

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Prof Donald Swift-Hook

After military service as a Lieutenant Royal Signals, he obtained a degree in Maths and Electronics from Trinity College, Cambridge followed by an MSc in Maths from London University and a career in industrial research. After five years in microwave research with GEC he joined the Central Electricity Generating Board where he became head of a Research Division. He obtained a PhD from Cambridge University on the basis of his research publications in plasmas and gas discharges and he has numerous other publications, mainly in the field of renewable energy, especially in wind power. While he was Chairman of the British Wind Energy Association he founded the Council of the European Wind Energy Association of which he was subsequently Honorary Treasurer. He represented the UK in the International Energy Agency on Wind Energy Agreements and led (as Operating Agent) major

international research projects (or Annexes) on Off-Shore Wind Power, Wakes & Clusters, etc. He was a Visiting Professor at Kings College London for more than 20 years and is now a Visiting Professor at Kingston University London. He is a Director and Secretary of the World Renewable Energy Network which has organized successive World Renewable Energy Congresses since 1990.

Title: RENEWABLES ARE COMMERCIALLY JUSTIFIED TO SAVE FUEL AND NOT FOR STORAGE WOKING, Surrey, UK

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Prof Hassan Nfaoui

Dr Hassan Nfaoui has a M.Sc in Solar Energy and a Ph.D in Wind Energy from the University of renewable energy resource assessments and analysis. He is currently a Professor of Renewable Energy at University of Mohammed – V, Morocco.Besides his current main area of research in wind energy, he has several projects in solar and environmental area. Prof Nfaoui also, was appointed as an Academic expert in Solar and Wind energy resource assessments by the government. He has published several scientific research papers in International peer reviewed Journals and supervised M.Sc and Ph.D students with their research. He is currently an invited co-editor of LEF98 Journal and

reviewer in several International Journals in the Energy and Environment Sector, among them is the Renewable Energy Journal, Solar Energy, wind Engineering, published by Elsevier. He has also contributed in the development of the Wind Energy Volume of Elsevier Encyclopedia for Renewable Energy.

Prof Nfaoui is also qualified in Management and a member of several domestic and International Societies including ‘World Renewable Energy Network’ and ‘The Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association’.

Title : New horizons for renewable energies in Morocco and AfricaHassan NFAOUI* & Ali SAYIGH

Université Mohammed V, Rabat, Marochassan.nfaoui@gmail.com

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