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Hwai Chyuan Ong is currently as Distinguished Professor at School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University, Malaysia and an Adjunct Professor at Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is also a Chartered Engineer (CEng) registered with the Engineering Council, UK. His research focus on energy & fuel, biomass energy, sustainable energy, environmental sustainability, circular economy, and waste management. He has published more than 250 high impact SCI journal articles with H-index 79 (WOS). And, he is invited to deliver several keynotes, plenary and invited talks at international conferences. He is listed as Highly Cited Researcher (Engineering) by Clarivate Analytics in 2019-2022. He also named as Australia’s top early career researcher in sustainable energy in 2021. Currently, he is Associate Editor of Alexandria Engineering Journal, and Senior Editor of e-Prime.

Nicholas Apergis is Professor of Economicsat the University of Piraeus. His research areas are:Macrofinance, Environmental Economics, Applied Economics and Finance, and Energy Economics. He has over 280 published papers with a current Scopus h-index=83.He is also Associate Editor in Energy Economics and Editor in many other journals.

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Prof. Ala’a H. Al-Muhtaseb is a Professor in the Department of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University (Oman). He obtained his BSc in Chemical Engineering from Jordan University in 1999 and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast (UK) in 2004. Currently, the overarching aim of his research is on the utilization and conversion of waste to energy, such as biofuels, biohydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and high-value products (e.g. biochar and activated carbon). He has over 200 publications in peer-reviewed Journals, 20 international conferences, and 6 book chapters. Prof. Ala’a has had many research projects and consultancy services during the last 10 years, with a total value of around 2.5 million USD.  As a recognition of excellence in scholarship and exceptional research performance, Prof. Al-Muhtaseb was awarded the prestigious Fellowship at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK. He was selected twice by the “Web of Science” as one of the top 1% of highly cited researchers in 2020 and 2021. He is also the receiver of the Oman National Research Award in 2018 and 2019 in the Energy & Industry Sector by TRC Oman. He is an external examiner for several MSc and PhD students in the UK. He is/was actively involved towards supervising multiple postdoctoral fellows, PhD students, and graduate/undergraduate students.

Dr Yun Wang is an Associate Professor at Griffith University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is an expert in computational materials science, with a focus on catalysis and renewable energy. He has published about 200 papers in high-impact journals, such as Nature and Nature Energy. His research aims to understand and control the electronic properties of nanomaterials for green chemistry technologies.

Prof. Blaž Likozar is a head of the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering at the National Institute of Chemistry (NIC), leading the program me “Chemical Reaction Engineering”, as well as numerous research projects (15 H2020 / 50 in Horizon Europe alone). His expertise lies (among others) in heterogeneous catalysis materials, modelling, simulation and optimization of process fluid mechanics, transport phenomena and chemical kinetics. He worked at the University of Delaware in 2014–2015 as a Fulbright Program researcher. He has authored >330 articles, was cited >10000 times, having a h-index of 46. He is also involved in many industrial projects, amongst others, with TotalEnergies, Evonik Industries, UPM, Novartis, Carbon Recycling International… He is a recipient of Pregl and Zois awards.

Adrian Ioinovici, IEEE Fellow,is the Director of the Power Electronics based on Switched Capacitors Center,the Shanghai University of Electrical Power, China, within the “ one thousand foreign experts plan”, and holds honorary professorships from many universities. Previously, he served as a Professor and Director of the Power electronics for renewable energy Centre, Sun-Yat-sen University, Guangzhou under the “One thousand experts” program and as a Full Professor in the Nanjing University of aeronautics and Astronautics.He got the IEEE Fellow grade for “pioneering work in switched-capacitor converters”. He is on leave from Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. He authorized the books Computer-Aided Analysis of Active Circuits (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1990) and Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Systems, Volume 1: Fundamentals and Hard-switching Converters (Wiley, 2013), translated to Chinese in 2017, and the chapter Power Electronics in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology (San Francisco, Academic, 2001). His main research interests are switching-capacitor converters and inverters, large dc gain converters, soft-switching converters.He published over 200 papers in IEEE Transactions and conferences. He has given keynote speeches or tutorials at many IEEE conferences. He has been a number of terms the Chairman of the Technical Committee on Power Systems and Power Electronics of the IEEE CASSociety. He served as an Associate Editor for Power Electronics of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, and of Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers (JCSC), and he was a Guest Editor of special issues of different IEEE Transactions.He was an Overseas Advisor of the IEICE Transactions, Japan.He is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics , and as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education.

Liviu Duta successfully completed his master’s studies in Biomaterials in 2008 and his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in 2013. Since 2024, he has held the position of Senior Scientific Researcher I-st degree in the “Laser-Surface-Plasma Interactions” (LSPI) laboratory, Lasers Department, National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics (NILPRP), Magurele, Romania. He has over 17 years of experience in the field of laser processing and the characterization of various types of materials. Liviu Duta is recognized as one of the pioneers of synthesis via the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique of simple and doped hydroxyapatite coatings derived from biological resources. He has demonstrated his leadership and involvement in the academic community by organizing several international conferences. Additionally, he actively contributes as a reviewer for reputable ISI-ranked journals, is a member of several editorial boards and has served as a guest editor for eight Special Issues. He is an active member of the Scientific Council of NILPRP and Scientific Committee of the Doctorate School in Physics. Since 2009, Liviu Duta has taken on the responsibility of coordinating more than 10 international specialization stages for students from French universities. His current research interests include thin-film deposition (via PLD and matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation techniques), biomaterials, hard and protective coatings, advanced characterization methods, and the exploration of natural-origin calcium phosphates as sustainable biofunctional coatings for medical applications. Additionally, he is involved in research related to biomimetic metallic implants. Liviu Duta has made significant contributions to the field with more than 60 published scientific papers, 3 book chapters, 4 editorials, 2 eBooks, 2 awarded invention Patents, and 6 international prizes. Moreover, he has over 1465 citations, corresponding to an H-index of 22 (according to Google Scholar).

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