Invited Speakers at WREC XI, Abu-Dhabi, 2010

Dr Mansur M. Abahusayn

Consultant, Expert in Water and Agriculture, Saudi Arabia

Dr Abahusayn was a Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Water, where he initiated the Agriculture and Water Research Center within MOWA and staffed it with 100 PhD professionals whose task started with survey of Saudi natural resources from soil to fauna to water and started the Water Atlas. He Developed and executed a scholarship program which sent 300 students abroad for university degrees in including PhD. He is Owner/Partner of private companies in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the US. He is the Owner of consulting engineering company which is Extensive experience in planning, staffing and directing research. He has a Working knowledge of Middle East/US government relations. He introduced central pivot irrigation to Saudi Arabia saving considerable amount of water, and conducted over 100 marketing, engineering and economic feasibility studiesServed on over 20 professional organizations and boards, Served and chaired on many US and international councils, proposed and directed the only successful privatization of a government project, King Faisal Settlement Project, saving the Saudi government over $300 million, and saved 50% of the water by introducing efficient irrigation systems (center pivots). He provided management for large scale projects with experienced professional personnel, He initiated and directed funding of a 10-year research project between Saudi Arabia and Texas A & M.He obtained his bachelor degree from American University of Beirut, Master of Science in Agriculture Engineering from University of Arizona, Tucson, and his Ph D in 1972 from University of California at Riverside.Dr Abahusayn published over 10 scientific papers in US and international journals. He is a member in American Water Works Association; The Chemical Society; Southwestern Membrane Operator Association; Patent Association of Southern California; and Gulf Venture Capital Association. He has four patents mainly on water recovery and desalination.

Presentation Title:

Groundwater Resources and Potential Role of Renewable Energy in the GCC Potable Water Sector

Prof Mohsen Aboulnaga

Advisor – Environment and Infrastructure, Strategy and Policy Dept.,

Prime Minister’s Office, UAE

Dr. Aboulnaga is a Professor in Sustainable Architecture and Built Environment. He is an expert on Sustainable Built-environment and Green Building and his selected areas of competency including strategy planning, policy development and tools, strategic environmental assessment, low-carbon society and scenarios, eco-friendly cities, green building policies and guidelines, renewable energy and climate change. Professor Aboulnaga is an Advisor – Environment & Infrastructure, Strategy & Policy Dept. at UAE Prime Minister’s Office. Prior to that, he held a position in the capacity of Advisor at The Executive Council, Government of Dubai from

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May 07 to Jan. 09. He was involved in developing Dubai Government Green Building Policy and Dubai Heat Island and Orthophoto Flyover Project in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California-US; and the 1st draft of Green Building Guidelines for the Ministry of Public Works that was presented to League of Arab States (LAS) in Jan. 09; as well as the outlines of the detailed policy for a Sustainable Built-environment for Dubai Urban Development Framework (DUDF). He also held a position of the Dean of College of Design at University of Dubai from July 01 to Sept 05, and a faculty member at the Dept. of Architectural Eng. at UAE Univ. from Sept. 95 to June 01. He is the main founder of Emirates Green Building Council (EmiratesGBC) and was the first chairman of the Board of Directors. He is the elected Vice President of ASHRAE Falcon Chapter and was the President of WREN Chapter–ME Region from 03-06 in U.K and one of the founding members of the Architectural Permanent Committee of UAE Society of Engineers. Dr Aboulnaga sits on the Editorial Board of the Int’l Journal of Low Carbon Technologies, Univ. of Nottingham, U.K; and an active member of renowned International Accredited Professional Bodies notably, Society of Building Science Educators; ASES, and ASHRAE in U.S.A.; and ISES in Germany and the WREN/WREC in U.K. In 2009, Prof. Aboulnaga was granted the highest rank of Institute of Green Professionals (IGP) in USA; and received its Honorary Fellow Certificate in July. He was also nominated by American Biographical Institution for the “2008 Man of the Year Award” representing the UAE for his outstanding contribution to the country; and received the World Green Building Council (World-GBC) Honorary Plaque for his outstanding professional efforts in establishing EmiratesGBC as country member and country no. 8 worldwide. Prof. Aboulnaga was invited speaker at many renowned int’l conferences, congresses and workshops namely, Low-carbon Society 2050 conference, Jan10, and Strategic Assessment Approaches in National Planning and Policy Making of Countries in Asia and the Pacific workshop, Bangkok-Thailand; Eco-Build America 09; Experts Meeting of UN-ESCWA 09; Energy Forum at Bressanone-Brixon, Italy; 3rd Int’l conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection, 09, Dublin-Ireland and Guest speaker at Manchester Business School. Also, UAE Ministry of Public Works conference on sustainable infrastructure, 08; ASHRAE Winter Meeting’08, N.Y.; World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC-X 08), Glasgow, U.K. In 2005, he was invited to Chair a workshop on Int’l Green Building and to deliver a technical paper at the World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC-05) that was held at the University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Scotland, and was invited as a Country Guest (UAE) to speak at and participate in the Annual Summit of World-GBC. He has over 25 years of eminent experience in senior management and faculty positions, consultations and has a strong links of cooperation with many organizations and research institutions in USA, Europe and Asia and Australia. Dr Aboulnaga is registered expert with the United Nation (UNDP, UNEP, ESCWA, and ROWA) from 97 till the date. He was a member of the planning committee contributed to the development of UAE National Environmental Strategic Policy and Action Plans directed by UNDP, Ministry of Environment & Water (known as Federal Environmental Agency), Ministry of Health and Dept. of Economic and Planning, Abu Dhabi (97-01). He also chaired many committees at the Ministry of Public Works that were responsible for reviewing the building codes for different industry sectors. In addition, he was the co-chairman and chairman of the organizing committee of 1st Int’l Conference on Green Buildings held at Dubai Chamber, Dubai-UAE (2-4 May 05). Dr Aboulnaga is author and co-author of more than 50 published int’l refereed journal and conference papers and holds a Ph.D. in Bldg. Environment, from the University of Leeds, U.K, a Master and a Bachelor degree from Cairo University.

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Presentation Title:

Climate Change: The Need for Low-carbon and Sustainable Cities

Dr Lawrence Agbemabiese

Programme Officer, UNEP, Paris, France

Lawrence Agbemabiese is currently a Programme Officer at the Energy Branch of UNEP’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics - where he manages several projects including Rural Energy Enterprise Development (REED) pilots in Africa and China (Yunan Province), and the Sustainable Energy Advisory Facility for Latin America and the Caribbean. He earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc in Development Planning at the Universities of Science and Technology, Ghana, and the University of Dortmund, Germany. Lawrence earned his Ph.D. in Urban Affairs and Public Policy at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware. His award-winning dissertation investigated the influence of paradigms on energy stakeholder choices in the context of changes in political economy, technology and environment. Dr. Agbemabiese has authored several publications and UNEP reports on sustainable energy-development models and emergent paradigmatic communities of practice. He is also currently contributing to the Global Energy Assessment as a lead author.

Presentation Title:

Using advance market commitments to stimulate demand for renewable energy in Africa: Critical requirements and success factors

Mr Martin Alder

BEng DMS MCIWEM MCIMgt MICD AMIMechE, Optimum Energy Ltd,

Wind Direct and Chairman of WREN

Renewable energy is my main career interest and expertise; At University I studied wind energy as part of my thesis and I joined the water industry in 1979 (Wessex) where I became expert in anaerobic digestion and bio-gas generation. From 1992 I was part a small team that put together the UK Waste joint venture where I specialized in technology transfer and in particular Waste to Energy technology. In 1995 I moved from the water industry to co-found The Renewable Energy Company, the first supplier dedicated to renewable electricity. In 1999 I became Operations Director of Cinergy Renewables and concentrated on developing contracts for new renewable generation under the RO (Renewable Energy Obligation). I have my own consultancy company Optimum Energy Ltd. which specializes in renewable energy contracts, trading and renewable market economics. OEL is a partner with Wind Prospect and Econnect in the Wind Direct joint venture. Wind Direct Ltd. is a developer owner and operator of on-site wind energy generation. (www.wind-direct.co.uk) I am currently Managing Director. Wind Direct offices are in Bristol. I am Vice-Chairman of the Association of Electricity Producers, and Chairman of their Renewable Energy Committee. I represent the AEP as the UK member of the Eurelectric workgroup for Renewables and Embedded Generation. In addition, I am a Trustee and Chairman of the World Renewable Energy Network.

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Presentation Title:

European Wind Energy Progress and Achievement

Dr Khaled A. Al-Sallal

School of Architectural Engineering, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE

Dr. Al-Sallal received a Master of Environmental Planning from Arizona State University in 1988 and a PhD from Texas A&M University at College Station in 1995.He has been teaching architectural engineering at the UAE University since 1996 and currently holds an associate professor rank. His area of expertise is architectural design with emphasis on building energy. His research has focused on building performance and simulation, carbon-neutral design and zero energy buildings. He is member of several organizations and societies and editor of few journals in the area of architecture and environment and produced more than 40 publications in international refereed journals and specialized conferences. He wrote chapters in 2 edited books. He also gave numerous lectures and presentations in various conferences, meetings, and scientific forums.He recently completed a research project funded by Dubai Municipality entitled “UAE Demonstration of a Dynamic Breathing Building: Construction Component Design and Cost-benefit Analysis” in association with Dr. M. Imbabi, University of Aberdeen-UK.He designed several residential and public buildings including the Yemeni Ministry of Education in Sana'a and won architectural competition prizes for the design of the Yemen Kuwait Bank and the design of a commercial residential complex for the Yemeni Government in Sana’a. He judged international design competitions for prominent projects including: development of a mixed-use towers complex consisting of an office building, hotel, serviced apartments, residential tower, shopping mall, and multistory parking in Al-Khalidyah, Abu Dhabi (estimated project cost: 600 Million Dhs); design of a shopping mall and 5 stars hotel in Al-Ain (estimated project cost: 500 Million Dhs; Consultants: APG, Shankland & Cox, Junglim & Arak); the Al-Saleh Great Mosque Project in Sana’a, Yemen.He received several awards including: the best internally-funded research award in the College of Engineering, UAE University for 2007; Award of Excellence in Teaching for the Year 1999/2000 College-wide level then University-wide Level, UAE University; Best Instructor of Engineering, UAE University for the year 1998/1999 by the Student Section of the UAE Engineers Society. He was awarded membership in Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, USA and in Tau Sigma Delta, Honor Society for Architecture and Allied Arts, USA.

Presentation Title:

Energy Saving in the UAE Residential Buildings

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Dr Hamda A. Al-Thani

Director, NEWRC National Energy and Water Research Center, Abu Dhabi

Water and Electricity Authority, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Hamda A. Al-Thani, has 12 years experience in growth, processing and characterization of thin film CIGS based solar cell and device. Dr. Hamda Al-Thani has PhD degree in Applied Physics from Colorado School of Mines, CO, USA. During her graduate research work, Dr. Al-Thani worked as associate scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA. Dr. Al-Thani’s professional employment included working as assistant professor in the Physics department at UAE University, and working as specialist in Technology and Academia in the Energy and Industry Unit, at Mubadala Development Company. Currently, Dr. Al- Thani is director of the National Energy and Water Research Center at the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority, UAE.Dr. Hamda A. Al-Thani has more than 25 scientific research publications. Her experience covers various thin films deposition and growth techniques of pure metals and semiconductor compound such as physical vapor deposition technique, direct current (DC) magnetron sputtering of Mo thin films, RF magnetron sputtering of ZnO and co-sputtering ZnO:MgO thin films. Furthermore, Dr. Al-Thani has extensive experience in the characterization of high efficiency photovoltaic and semiconductor CIGS materials, using high resolution scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Electron Probe X-Ray Microalysis (EPMA), I-V characterization, and quantum efficiency measurements.

Presentation Title:

Photovoltaic Activities at NEWRC and UAE

Dr Rajeewa (Rajiv) Arya

Moserbaer Photovoltaic (MBPV), New Delhi, India

Dr. Rajeewa (Rajiv) Arya, M. Tech., Ph. D is presently the Chief Executive Officer l at Moserbaer Photovoltaic (MBPV) in New Delhi, India. He was previously the COO & CTO for the Thin Film Vertical. He joined MBPV as a Senior Vice-President & CTO (Thin Film) in September, 2007. Prior to that Dr. Arya was a founder, Vice-President and CTO at Optisolar (previously called Gen3Solar) in Hayward, California. Before founding Gen3solar, he was the Director of Oregon Renewable Energy Center (OREC), an academic/research center at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT).Dr. Arya launched Arya International, Inc., a Solar Technology and Business Consulting firm, in 2003. Prior to that Dr. Arya worked at Solarex/ BPSolar for 19 years in various capacities, from Scientist to Executive Director, thin-film technology. He has over 25 years experience in thin-film solar cells and modules. His R&D activities have centered on material and device aspects of three types of thin-film solar cells and modules – amorphous silicon, copper-indium-diselenide, and cadmium telluride. His work includes product design, process scale-up, process transfer, piloting and start-up of a thin-film solar module plant. He has maintained a professional interest in many aspects of renewable energy components and systems. Dr. Arya holds a Masters of Science degree in Solid-State Physics from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India and a Master of Technology degree in

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Material Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1983. He has extensive management training in Total Quality Management, Finance, Project management, and Technology Innovation Management.Dr. Arya has authored and co-authored over 100 technical papers and holds 6 U.S. Patents. He is the recipient of the “Outstanding Paper Award” at the 7th PVSEC, the “Team of the Year” award from Solarex Quality Process, and his group received an R&D 100 award for the Powerview ™ Product. He chaired the Program Committee for the 29th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference in 2002. He is a member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) and the Materials Research Society (MRS).

Presentation Title:

Solar Energy Technology and Opportunities in India

Prof AbuBakr S. Bahaj

University of Southampton, Sustainable Energy Research Group, School

of Civil Engineering and the Environment, Southampton, UK

After completing his PhD Prof Bahaj was employed by the University of Southampton progressing from a researcher to the Personnel Chair of Sustainable Energy. Over the last 20 years, he has established the energy theme within the University and directed the Sustainable Energy Research Group (www.energy.soton.ac.uk, SERG), which is now considered to be one of the UK's leading university-based research groups in renewable energy and energy in buildings. Prof Bahaj initiated and managed research in ocean energy conversion (resources, technologies and impacts), photovoltaics, energy in buildings and impacts of climate change on the built environment in the University which has resulted in over 200 articles in academic refereed journals and conference series of international standing. Prof Bahaj heads of the Energy and Climate Change Division (E&CC) within the highly rated School of Civil Engineering and the Environment (www.civil.soton.ac.uk/research/divisions/divlist.asp?ResearchGroupID=1) (2nd in the UK, RAE in 2008, with 80% of research was judged to be either “World Leading” or “Internationally Excellent”). The aims of the Division and SERG are to promote and execute fundamental and applied research and pre-industrial development in the areas of energy resources, technologies, energy efficiency and the impact of climate change. Prof Bahaj is a member of the Editorial Boards of Renewable Energy, the UK's Institution of Civil Engineers journal Energy, and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. From 2001 to 2007 he was a member of the Department of Business and Regulatory Reform (BERR), (now Department for Business Innovations and Skills, BIS), Technology Programmes Panels on Water (including ocean energy) and Solar Energy. Prof Bahaj is the chair of the Technical Committees of the World Renewable Energy Congress for the coming Congress in Abu Dhabi September 2010 an in September 2009 he was elected to Chair the next European Wave and Tidal Energy Conferences EWTEC conference to be held in Southampton 5 - 9 Sep 2011. To address training in the areas of energy and climate change Prof Bahaj has recently coordinated and developed a set of MSc programmes that address, traditional energy generation and distribution, energy in transport, energy resources and climate change and energy in the built environment.

Presentation Title:

Energy, Buildings and Climate Change

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Dr George Baird

School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Dr George Baird is a Professor of Building Science at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand where he specialises in building environmental science and engineering services, building performance generally, and the energy efficient design and operation of buildings. At the Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture he has been variously Director of Energy Research Group (1977-85), Dean of Faculty of Architecture (1986-89), Director of Centre for Building Performance Research (1990-93), Associate Dean Research (1993-96), Acting-Dean (1997-98). He has undertaken major research contracts for the NZ Energy Research and Development Committee, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Works and Development, Department of Education, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority, and the Building Research Association of NZ He is currently a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (UK), the Institution of Professional Engineers (NZ) and of the Institute of Refrigerating Heating and Air Conditioning Engineers (NZ), and a Foundation Member of the Energy Management Association (NZ). He was recipient of the 1999 NZ Science and Technology Bronze Medal “For singular contribution to energy efficiency of New Zealand buildings and to building performance research….”; the 2002 inaugural IPENZ Technical Award in the field of Energy Engineering,; the 2004 „Excellence in Research‟ Award from Victoria University of Wellington; and the 2006 international „Pioneers of WREN Chairman‟s Award‟ of the World Renewable Energy Network for „contribution to the world of renewable energy through publications, teaching and promotion of renewable energy‟. Author or co-author of innumerable technical papers and case studies, his major book publications include: Energy Performance of Buildings (CRC Press, 1984), Building Evaluation Techniques (McGraw Hill, 1996), and Architectural Expression of Environmental Control Systems (Spon Press, 2001). His current book project, Sustainable Buildings in Practice – What the Users Think (Taylor and Francis, 2010), is a worldwide survey of users‟ perceptions of sustainable buildings.

Presentation Title:

Thermal comfort conditions in sustainable buildings – results of a worldwide survey of users perceptions

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Mr Nigel Banks

MEng (Hons) CEng MCIBSE, Associate Director, AECOM, Leeds, UK

Nigel started work in AECOM’s Applied Research group but moved to and now leads one of the Advanced Design groups, a specialist team with specific expertise in building physics, sustainability and low energy design. He is currently involved in projects in a wide variety of sectors and international locations as well as providing technical leadership to a number of UK research projects.Nigel specialises in bringing forward the latest research and building solutions into practical low energy, passive design and an integrated use of low and zero carbon technologies to meet the challenging sustainability standards of the future.Research projects of note include investigating the UK government’s zero carbon construction polices as well as working on some of the UK’s first commercial buildings and larger mixed use developments aiming to achieve net zero carbon emissions in practice. Nigel has also picked up the CIBSE “Low Carbon New Build Project of the Year” award the last two years for the University of Northumbria’s City Campus East and for DEFRA’s new net-zero carbon offices.

Presentation Title:

The use of weather and climate change information in building design

Mr Irvin Barash

President of Vencon Management, Inc. New York, USA

Irvin Barash is an expert in venture capital, technology commercialization and entrepreneurism He holds an MBA from the Columbia University Business School and a chemical engineering degree from Drexel University. He is President of Vencon Management, Inc. (VMI) which has been involved in all aspects of renewable energy including photovoltaics, solar thermal, biopower, ethanol, hydrogen, fuel cells. Prior to VMI, Mr. Barash was Director of Planning of the BASF Corporation, one of the world’s largest chemicals and related products businesses In prior affiliations, Barash was responsible for mergers & acquisition at W.R. Grace, a leading chemicals and medical products company. At Belco Petroleum, an international petroleum and coal producer, Barash was Assistant to the President. Barash has been on numerous U.S. Government panels regarding the commercialization of alternative energy, photonics and other technologies. During the early 1970’s, Barash was Director of Economic Studies for the Price Commission, a White House initiative to stabilize pricing.Mr. Barash has been involved in solar energy and other renewables businesses and ventures from the outset of the industry in the early 1980’s. In this regard, VMI provided its expertise to Atlantic Richfield. Texas Instruments, Westinghouse, RWE/ASE. In the mid-1990’s, VMI, created a venture forum initiative, called the NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) Growth Forums which converges new renewable energy ventures with leading venture capital firms. The initiative has continued for more than ten years to the present, having spawned growth companies in this sector.Mr. Barash is an accomplished speaker. Recent speeches include: Financing Renewable Energy in the Pacific Rim, APEC Conference, Denver, June 1996; Venture Financing of Environmental Technologies, U.S. Department of Energy Conference, Washington, February 1997; Investment Opportunities in

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International Solar Electricity, Third International Solar Energy Conference, Sharjah, UAE, March, 1998; Venture Capital, Seventh Arab Energy Forum, Sharjah, UAE, February, 2001; Private Equity and New Energy Industries, American Chemical Society National Conference, Chicago, August, 2001. Financing New Energy Technologies, Marketing and Economics Group, New York, April 2002; Private Equity and Sustainable Technologies, Commercial Development Association, Baltimore, May, 2002: New Business Growth Models, Utility Photovoltaic Group, Phoenix, October, 2003. Financing the Hydrogen Economy, National Hydrogen Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, April, 2004: Renewable Energy Equity Financing, World Renewable Energy Conference, Denver, September, 2004, Financing and the Chemical Industry, American Chemical Society, National Meeting, Washington, August 2005.

Presentation Title:

Renewable Energy for Sustainable Economic Growth

Dr Osman Benchikh

Head of Energy Programme, UNESCO, Paris, France

Osman Benchikh is Doctor in Physics, graduated at the French “Ecole Supérieur de Physique et Chimie de Paris”. Dr Osman Benchikh is actually head of the energy and renewable energy Programme at UNESCO. Dr Benchikh is author of several books and publications on renewable energies and launched several international programmes and initiatives related to the use and application of renewable energy sources and achievement of the Sustainable Development targets. He initiated and implemented the UNESCO’s ongoing Global Renewable Energy Education and Training (GREET) Programme and published various related learning/teaching materials and educational tools. Dr. Benchikh has also launched several concepts aiming at promoting wider the renewable energy sources such as the setting of regional solar councils and the annual summer school on solar energy. He is member of UN Energy and represents UNESCO therein. Dr Benchikh chaired the Commission on renewable energies at the Francophone Academy of Engineers and the European working group on education in renewable energy. Prior to his activities at UNESCO Dr. Benchikh was a university professor.

Presentation Title:

Renewable Energy: Perspectives and Challenges

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Dr Syham Bentouati

Technology Advisor for Petroleum Development Oman

Syham Bentouati works as a Technology Advisor for Petroleum Development Oman in the Sultanate of Oman since September 2007. Prior to that, she worked for Rolls-Royce plc in its Aerospace and Marine businesses in the UK and the Nordic countries. Syham has a PhD in the design of novel electrical machines and drives from the University of Sheffield, UK and a Bachelors (Hons) degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Nottingham Trent University, UK. She also has a degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Ecole Superieure d’Ingenieurs en Electrotechnique et Electronique in Paris, France.

Presentation Title:

Energy Saving and Renewable Energy in Oman Petroleum Industry

Prof John Boland

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Australia,

Australia

A/Prof John Boland is an expert in environmental modelling, specialising in time series and statistical modelling of climate variables and modelling systems under uncertainty. He has published extensively in many areas of environmental modelling, is on the Editorial Board of two journals in this research field including Renewable Energy, and is a reviewer for a number of international journals. The Electricity Supply Industry Planning Council (ESIPC) of South Australia, a State government research body, have called on Assoc Prof Boland's expertise for several projects. A PhD student, under his guidance, constructed a stochastic electricity demand model to enable the ESIPC – now part of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) - to make decisions under uncertainty for electricity grid operation. They also contracted him to study the output variability of windfarms in South Australia so they could better advise the State government on future development of windfarms. At a national level, he coordinated a project to develop the algorithms for quality assurance in construction of climate data files for the Australian Climatic Database, used principally for house energy ratings software. John Boland was co-leader of the research team that calculated the Ecological Footprint of South Australia, under contract from the State government. He has coordinated subsequent projects for the Land Management Corporation in SA for the Lochiel Park Green Village and the Adelaide City Council focussing on optimisation and sensitivity analysis with the goal of identifying the key areas to focus on to reduce the footprint. He has or presently holds 3 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grants and 3 ARC Linkage Grants, in the areas of electricity supply, water resources, and reducing food waste.

Presentation Title:

Decision making under uncertainty in the integration of renewable energy systems into the electricity grid

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Mr Tony Book

J.P., B.Sc., F.Inst.M., M. IDM.

Born in Newcastle and educated at the R.G.S., Tony Book left the North East to go to the University of Bristol.At University Book was awarded a Knowlson Trust Scolarship, and was Chairman of the University North America Club, and a member of the RAF University Squadron.After graduating Book worked at Lever Brothers Ltd., in brand management and Market Research, for eight years. He developed continuous market research software that was was used extensively throughout the the Group. He travelling widely in Europe and Asia supporting colleagues and had papers publishes in the ESOMAR Journal and presented at conferences in the UK and Europe.He then joined American Express where he was involved with product development in Card Division, across Europe, Middle East and Africa; as Director of Consumer Services. He lead the Viewdata (Prestel) development for Amex across EMEA, ( precursor to the Internet) and won the prestigious British Computer Society award for applications in 1983.In 1986 he set up his own Company called the Compass Consultancy, which specialised in Database Marketing techniques. This was sold to ICD Plc., He is a Fellow of the British Institute of Management, and a now a senior J. P., chairing both Adult and Youth Panels and sat on the South East Regional Courts Committee for six years.He bought into Riomay Limited the solar thermal company and has been the major share holder and Managing Director since 1993.Riomay is becoming a leading company in the renewable energy sector. The Company won the SEEDA Installer of the year accolade, and Book was runner up as the Business Personallity of the year for the area recently.He is a regular speaker at Conferences and Seminars around the world on (direct) marketing and solar energy development and is the author of over 200 papers on the subjects.Papers and speeches have been presented on many occasions throughout the world at conferences and seminars in locations such as Singapore. Johannesburg, Orlando, Chicago, Osaka, Perth, Sydney, Harare, Taejon and Sao Paulo, Bangalore and Denver outside Europe, and in Europe at all the “usual” conferences in the last fifteen years.He is currently Chairman of UK-ISES and on the World Board of the International Solar Energy Society and a member of the E4E Committee. Atttended as speaker in several of World Renewable Energy Congress, 2005 conferences in Jakarta and Aberdeen, 2007 Taipei, and WREN Seminars 2000-2009.He is a Fellow of the British Institute of Management

Presentation Title:

Solar Water Heating

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Prof Stefano Brandani

Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, University

of Edinburgh

Stefano Brandani is the Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) since 2007, where he leads the research group on carbon capture. Prof Brandani received his PhD from the University of Naples and began his academic career at the University of L’Aquila in 1994. He then moved to the UK in 1998 as a Senior Lecturer at University College London, where he was the co-Director of the Centre for CO2 Technology. He then became Reader (2000) and Professor (2003) and joined the UoE in 2007. Prof Brandani’s main research interests are in the areas of gas separations and gasification of biomass and his activity is reported in over 80 refereed publications. He is a member of the Board of the International Adsorption Society, a member of the AIChE and an associate member of the IChemE. He serves on the editorial board of Adsorption, Carbon Letters and Diffusion Fundamentals. He chairs the biomass committee for WREC.Prof Brandani is the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize, a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award, a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Secondment Award with UOP Ltd, and has acted as an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage.

Presentation Title:

Capturing CO2 from the Air: Does It Make Sense?

Prof Celio L. Cavalcante Jr.

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brasil

Prof. Cavalcante is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), in Fortaleza, Brazil. He graduated in Chemical Engineering at Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil (1978). He did a specialization course in Petrochemical Processing with Petrobras (1978-1979) and worked for 12 years at the petrochemical industry in Brazil. After a Master in Chemical Engineering at Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil (1988), he got his PhD at the University of New Brunswick, Canada (1994). Since March, 1994, he has been with UFC, where he held several positions, such as Chair of Chemical Engineering, Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, Coordinator of Petroleum Programme, Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture. He spent a sabbatical year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, USA (2003-2004). He is currently member of Editorial Board of the journal Adsorption Science & Technology, and Associate Editor of Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering. His work has mainly focused on adsorption, diffusion and catalysis on porous materials, which he has been recently applying to biofuels and biolubricants studies.

Presentation Title:

Adsorption and Heterogeneous Catalysis Studies Applied for Biodiesel Processing

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Dr Dorota Chwieduk

Vice President of the Polish Society of Energy and Environment, Poland

Dorota Chwieduk DSc. PhD., M.Sc, Mech. Eng. RTD on Energy, Buildings and environment. Studied at the Technical University of Warsaw, Mechanical Faculty for Aviation, Energetic & Power at Technical University of Warsaw. Mechanical Engineer, specialty - Energetic Systems and Equipment; Master of Mechanical Sciences Since 1978 at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1993 Ph.D., Doctor in Technical Sciences , specialty – Buildings. In 1992 and 1995 scientific fellowships DAAD at Munich Technical University, Landtechnik, Weihenstephan, Germany. At present Senior Researcher at the Institute of Heating Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology and at Division of Eco Buildings Problems. Since April 2008 DSc (habilitation) in Technical Sciences, specialty – Buildings. Fellow Member of the Thermodynamic and Combustion Committee and Physics of Building Construction Section of Polish Academy of Sciences. President of the Polish Solar Energy Society and President of the International Solar Energy Society - Europe. Editor in Chief “Polish Solar Energy” magazine. Vice President of the Society of Energy and Environment, Poland. Nominated member of the AGE – Advisory Group on Energy for the FP7 of the European Commission. Author of 200 papers and 8 books. Member of the World Renewable Energy Network, awarded by the WREN as Pioneer in renewable energy in 2008.

Presentation Title:

Prospects of solar thermal technologies

Prof Sergio Colle

LABSOLAR, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University

of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Federal University of Santa Catarina – Brazil in 1970, Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1972 and Doctor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1976 from COPPE / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Presently is professor of thermodynamics and solar energy, and head of LEPTEN – Laboratory of Energy Conversion Process Engineering and Energy Technology at Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. He is the founder of LABSOLAR – Laboratory Solar Energy and the Laboratory of Heat Pipes, in the frame of LEPTEN. Member of ISES and member of the International Heat Pipe Committee (IHPC). Brazilian representative in the BSRN – Baseline Surface Radiation Network / WMO – NOAA. Co-author of a the Brazilian Atlas of Solar Radiation and Brazilian co-manager of SWERA - Solar Wind Energy Resource Assessment Project (2000 – 2005). Senior researcher of CNPq – Brazilian National Council of Science and Technology. Has published around 27 papers. Advised 23 master of science works and seven PhD thesis.

Presentation Title:

Renewable energy impacts on electric power generation, sustainable buildings, and mobility in Brazil

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Mr Bradley D. Collins

Executive Director of American Solar Energy Society, Boulder, USA

Brad is Executive Director of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Publisher of SOLAR TODAY magazine. He has guided ASES since February 2001. During his career Brad has served as an organizational manager, chief development officer, foundation executive, fund raising consultant and solar building researcher, designer and builder. He represents the Society at functions and events throughout the country and works to educate and advocate for renewable energy technologies among decision makers, educators, media and the public. He has spoken at numerous conferences, Congressional briefings and seminars. He has directed ASES’ policy work in Tackling Climate Change, Green Collar jobs and the green economy as well as sets of policy recommendations for decision makers at the local, state and federal level. He holds an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Colorado and an MBA from Regis University.

Presentation Title:

American Solar Energy Society for Promotion of Renewable Energy in US and Beyond

Dr Andrew Cruden

Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Dr Cruden has been active in the field of hydrogen and fuel cells since 1995, when he acted as a consultant for Zevco Ltd, providing assistance with power electronic interfaces for early fuel cell systems. Later in 1998, he helped found the Scottish Fuel Cell Consortium (SFCC), supported by the Scottish Enterprise Energy Team, which ultimately developed a battery/fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle based on an AC Cobra kit car. The experience and contacts from the SFCC eventually gave rise to the formation of the Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (SHFCA), a trade body for the industry to promote and commercialise Scottish expertise in this field. Dr Cruden was the founding Chairman of the SHFCA.Dr Cruden is currently investigating alkaline electrolysers in terms of improving their part load efficiency and lifetime when powered by variable renewable power sources e.g. wind turbines, as part of a £5m EPSRC Supergen project on the ‘Delivery of Sustainable Hydrogen’ (EP/G01244X/1)., He is also working with a colleague within EEE at Strathclyde, studying the concept of Vehicle-to-Grid energy storage, as a mechanism to not only allow controlled load levelling on the power system, but also to potentially ‘firm’ up renewable energy generation. This work is supported by two research grants, an international E.On Research Initiative 2007 award and an ESPRC grant (EP/F062133/1).Dr Cruden is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. His current fields of research are: modelling fuel cell and electrolyser systems; fuel cell CHP systems; power electronic devices for interfacing both vehicular and stationary fuel cell systems; condition monitoring systems for renewable energy sources (i.e. wind turbines as part of EPSRC Supergen on Wind Energy Technologies, EP/D034566/1); energy management systems for hybrid electric vehicles.He is director - Scottish Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (SHFCA). Director - Argyll, Lomond and the Islands Energy Agency, Past Member of BSI GEL/105 Committee on Fuel Cells, and Committee member of the IET

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Scotland Power Section.

Presentation Title:

Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technology

Prof Erik Dahlquist

Malardalen University, Energy Engineering, Sweden

Erik Dahlquist has a back-ground from ASEA/ABB where he was working with product and process development 1975-2002 as project manager for development of new energy and environmental processes like cross flow membrane filtration, gasification and combustion processes. Member of the board of directors at ABB Corporate Research 1992-1995, global business manager for advanced control, optimization and simulation 1996-2002 at ABB Industrial solutions for Pulp and paper applications. Adj prof at KTH 1997-2000 and full prof at Malardalen univ in Energy engineering since 2000 (part time to 2002). Dean for the faculty of science and technology 2001-2007. Research director for some 30 researchers and 60 PhD students in the area Process and Resource Optimization, where the focus is on optimization of existing and future industry and power plant processes as well as energy efficiency improvement in buildings. 20 patents, some 130 scientific publications.

Presentation Title:

How to develop a sustainable fossil fuel free Stockholm-Malardalen region

Dr Mathieu David

LPBS, Universite De La Reunion

He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Reunion Island, in 2005. His is currently a researcher at the Laboratory of Building Physics and Systems.His research interests are in solar radiation and weather parameters modelling, forecasting of PV production, energy simulation of low energy consumption

buildings in tropical climate. He set up experimental benchmark to measure solar radiation on titled plane for an exterior environment with different

technologies, to assess the performance of different configuration of PV fields (BIPV, sheds, tracking), to evaluate the thermal performance of

buildings.

Presentation Title:

ZEN (Zero Energy) building in tropical climates

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Prof Tony Day

BEng (Hons) PhD CEng MCIBSE FEI, South Bank University, London, UK

Tony Day is professor of energy engineering at London South Bank University and Director of the new Centre for Efficient and Renewable Energy in Buildings (CEREB). Opening in 2010, CEREB will be a specialist teaching and research centre for low and zero carbon solutions in buildings. Tony specialises in building energy analysis and the application of low and zero carbon technologies in the urban environment, and has done extensive work with the Greater London Authority and others to evaluate the impact of these technologies in London. His work includes modelling of combined heat and power systems, renewable energy monitoring and the practical use of monitoring and targeting software for energy management. He has run numerous knowledge transfer projects in partnership with industry to deliver practical, real world solutions for saving carbon where they will be most effective. He has presented his work on energy policy and planning around the world, and is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars. Tony is a Fellow of the Energy Institute, member of CIBSE, and Vice-Chair of the UK Solar Energy Society.

Presentation Title:

1 - Building a state-of-the-art low carbon teaching and research facility2 - Achieving carbon savings through regional planning policies

Mr Jan De Decker

Energy Strategy and Policy Department of 3E, Belgium

Jan De Decker graduated in 2007 at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) as a Mechanical/Electrotechnical engineer with specialisation in energy technologies. His thesis dealt with the optimal sizing of combined heat and power installations in applications with known heat load.Jan De Decker joined the Energy Strategy and Policy department of 3E in October 2007. He worked on a CO2 mitigation study for the Belgian Region of Brussels and on a market integration model for wind power for the Belgian federal science policy department Belspo. He is co-author of the study ‘A North Sea Electricity Grid Revolution’ for Greenpeace on offshore wind energy and an offshore grid in the North Sea. He is 3E’s project manager for a project for the Belgian federal administration on the development of a strategic roadmap on offshore grid development in the Pentalateral Energy Forum. He is also part of the 3E team coordinating the European IEE project OffshoreGrid.Jan De Decker is particularly interested in the techno-economic modelling of electricity from renewable sources, in the integration of renewable energy in power systems and markets, and in everything related to offshore wind energy and offshore electricity infrastructure.

Presentation Title:

Review of the various proposals for the European Offshore Grid

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Dr Neelkanth G. Dhere

Program Director Florida Solar Energy Center, UCF, USA

He has been working at the Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida (UCF), since 1990 where he holds the position of Program Director. He is also a Joint Professor at the UCF Departments of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. At FSEC he has installed the largest of University facility in the World for preparation of photovoltaic CuIn1-xGaxSe2-ySy (CIGSeS) cells by selenization/sulfurization; prepared small area CIGSS cells with high efficiency (13.73%), developed 8.64% photoelectrochemical cells using thin-film PV cells and RuS2 photoanode for generation of hydrogen by splitting water, and studied module long-term exposure and module durability. Earlier he worked as a Visiting Senior Research Scientist at the SERI, NREL now. He was the first in USA to prepare high Tc superconducting thin films (Tc> 80K) based on bismuth in 1988. He worked as a Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during June 1971-86. At IME, he installed one of the few complete fabrication lines in the World to produce first-generation CdS/Cu2S thin film solar cells and prepared a 30cm x 30cm fully encapsulated CdS/Cu2S minimodule. He worked as a Research Fellow, Comissão Nacional de Atividades Espaciais (CNAE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, during July 1970-71 and as a Head, Techniques Laboratory, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India, during 1966-70. At PRL and CNAE, he installed new laboratories and directed research on thin film deposition, hybrid microelectronics, wire and die bonding, photolithography and packaging, and space simulation. Dr. Dhere has published two Book Chapters: N. G. Dhere and R. S. Bennur, Use of Solar Energy to Produce Hydrogen in "Hydrogen Fuel: Production, Transport and Storage," (Ram Gupta, Editor), CRC Press, (2008), and N. G. Dhere, High Tc Superconducting Thin Films, Chapter 1 in "Thin Films for Emerging Applications, Physics of Thin Films" Vol. 16, (M. H. Francombe and J. L. Vossen, eds), Academic Press, (1992). He has published over 50 papers in refereed Journals and over 150 papers in Conference Proceedings and other publications. He is a Fellow, American Vacuum Society (2003), Founder-President (1979-80) and Emeritus Member, Brazilian Vacuum Society. He was the Chairperson of the SPIE Reliability of Photovoltaic Cells, Modules, Components, and Systems Conference in 2008 and 2009, Chairperson, AVS Florida Chapter 2004, Program Chairperson, Joint Symposium of the Florida Society for Microscopy, Florida Chapter of the American Vacuum Society(AVS), March 2005, and Co-Chair, National Thin Film Module Reliability Team since 2002. He has received the 2003 UCF Research Incentive Award, and Institute of Electrical and electronic Engineers Region 3 Outstanding Engineer Award in 2002.

Presentation Title:

Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 Thin Film Solar Cells

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Dr Ramesh Dhere

NREL, Golden, Colorado, USA

Dr. Ramesh Dhere has worked at National Renewable Energy laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado for last 24 years and is presently in Electronic Materials Devices Division as Senior Scientist. Previously he worked at Military Engineering School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in Materials Science Department for 5 years. He has worked in the area of Polycrystalline thin films for over 25 years and his focus areas are in the field of thin film solar cells and transparent conducting oxides. He has been involved in the research on CdTe based thin film solar cells for past 16 years at NREL and worked on the analysis of CdS/CdTe interface and the junction properties. He has published over 100 papers in the area of thin films and solar cells. He has offered a specialized course on “polycrystalline thin film Solar Cells” at IEEE Photovoltaic Conferences various times.

Presentation Title:

Overview of Research and Development of CdTe/CdS Solar Cells

Dr Habib El-Habr

Director and Regional Representative of UNEP/ROWA, Bahrain

Dr. Habib N. El-Habr is the Director and Regional Representative of the United Nations Environment Programme Regional Office for West Asia (UNEP/ROWA), a post he assumed in 2005.Dr. El-Habr received his Masters Degree in Public Health in 1983 from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon and a Ph.D. in Freshwater Ecology in 1987 from University of Lyon, France. From 1983 to 1988, he worked at the National Scientific Research Council in France as a Water Research Specialist. He joined UNEP in November 1988, becoming Officer-in-Charge and Deputy Chief of the Freshwater Unit at the UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi until 1995, when he moved to Japan to assume the functions of the Deputy Director of the UNEP International Environment Technology Center. From September 1996 to December 1998, Dr. El-Habr was the Regional Coordinator for the UNEP Regional Coordinating Unit for East Asian Seas in Bangkok, Thailand, prior to moving to Bahrain and his current position.Besides his expertise in freshwater resources management, Dr. El-Habr during his long experience with UNEP has worked in coastal and marine management, wastewater mangement, environmental health and environmental assessment. Dr. El-Habr’s strength is in the development of policy options and advice to the concerned governments on major environmental issues. He is also member of the United Nations Disaster Coordination Team.

Presentation Title:

UNEP Regional Programme for West Asia

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Prof Kajsa Ellegård

Technology and Social Change, the Tema department, Linköping

University, Sweden

Kajsa Ellegård is Professor in Technology and Social Change, the Tema department, Linköping university, Sweden. She has her PhD degree in Human Geography (1984 at Göteborg University) and was appointed Docent in the Faculty of Social Science, Göteborg University, in 1992. She is an expert in Time geography and has developed computer programs visualizing time use for activities in daily life. Since the late 1990’s she is involved in the Swedish national Program Energy Systems, the Building consortium. She is a supervisor of several doctoral students writing dissertation on low energy buildings, visualization of energy use and planning for an energy efficient built environment. Current research projects aim to increase the understanding of how deeper knowledge about activities in daily life on individual, household and population levels can contribute to a more effective energy use in the housing sector. The research is relevant for household members, energy- and housing companies, energy advisors and policy makers.

Presentation Title:

Daily Energy consumption patterns of household in a Rural Area of Sweden

Dr Ali M. El-Nashar

Expert and Consultant on Water Desalination, Alexandria, Egypt

D r. El-Nashar is a mechanical engineer with specialization in the fields of energy and desalination with special interest in solar desalination and power generation. He received his Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering from Queen Mary College, University of London, UK in 1968. His work experience covers applied research and development work at both academic and industrial institutions. He has been involved in teaching and research at several academic institutions in Egypt, UK and USA, among them are: University of Alexandria and University of Mansoura in Egypt, Queen Mary College, London University and Lanchester Polytechnic in the UK and Clemson University and Florida Institute of Technology in the USA. He has worked as manager of cogeneration and desalination department at the Abu Dhabi Water & Elecricity Authority from 1982 to 2002 where his department participated in the commissioning of new desalination and power plants as well as monitoring the performance of existing plants operated by ADWEA. He was also in charge of the solar desalination research program in ADWEA during this period where he supervised the installation, commissioning and testing of the solar desalination demonstration plant in Umm Al Nar which was designed and operated as a part of a joint research program with Japan’s New Energy Development Organization (NEDO). He has been member of several professional organizations among which ASME, IDA and ISE and editor of IDA, Energy and ISE. He has consulted for a number of international organizations among which are: United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), Arab Agency for Industrial Development (AAID), Technology International, Inc. (USA), CH2M-Hill, Inc. (USA), Science Applications, Inc. (USA), Dow Chemical Europe (Switzerland), Industrial Center for Water & Energy Systems (ICWES), Abu Dhabi. Dr. El-Nashar has more than fifty published papers, reports and book chapters in his field of interest.

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Presentation Title:

The use of renewable energy in desalination

Prof Dr Ahmed Ennaoui

Project and Group leader, Physical Chemistry and thin film solar cells,

Helmholtz-Center Berlin Germany

Ahmed Ennaoui was born in South Morocco. He studied physics and chemistry and holds in 1979 his Master and Doctor titles in solid state electronic from the University of Bourgogne (France). He moved to Morocco and worked as lecturer in physics department at the University Mohamed V, (Morocco). In 1983, he moved to West-Berlin (Germany) and worked at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute GmbH with Prof. H. Tributsch, conducting research on (photo)electrochemistry of transition metal compounds for solar cells, especially Iron disulfide FeS2 (pyrite). In 1987, he obtained his Habilitation and appointed Professor of Physics at the University Mohamed V (Morocco). In 1989, he returned to the Hahn-Meitner-Institute (Berlin, Germany) and conducted research on new materials for solar energy conversion at the same time he taught several courses for graduate students at University Mohamed V. Since 2000 he is working as research manager and Group leader for research and development (R&D) projects in the Institute of Heterogeneous Material Systems at the Helmholtz-Center Berlin for Materials and Energy, developing efficient Cadmium free Cu-chalcopyrite solar cells and modules. He is author and co-author of more than 150 scientific papers and 3 patents most of them on innovative materials for solar cells devices. He is serving as Editorial Board for the journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Recent Patents on Materials Science. His research interest is focused on the wet synthesis of new materials, electronic materials properties and solar cell technology.

Presentation Title:

Recent progress in scaling up highly efficient Cadmium free Cu-chalcopyrite solar modules

Dr Rodrigo Escobar

University Santiago, Chile

Rodrigo Escobar studied Mechanical Engineering at Universidad de Santiago in Chile. After graduating, he attended Carnegie Mellon University in the US, where he obtained first an MSc degree working on CFD simulations of an intravenous membrane oxygenator device. He then went to pursue PhD degree, which was obtained in 2005, working on Lattice Boltzmann modeling of phonon transport during joule heating events in SOI transistors. He received the best paper award at the ITHERM 2004 conference, and the best MSc thesis award from Carnegie Mellon in 2002. After graduating, Rodrigo went back to Chile in 2005 to join Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) as an assistant professor. He started focusing in Sustainable Energy, by developing a Master´s program on Energy Engineering of which he is Director, and also by conducting research in Solar Energy. His research interests are power plant simulation, and system integration.Rodrigo received the 2008 awards for excellence in teaching and excellence in

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research from the School of Engineering at PUC. He is author of more than 10 peer-reviewed articles, and has been awarded significant funding for his efforts in assessing the solar energy potential in Chile.

Presentation Title:

Solar Energy Resource Assessment in Chile: Inluence of Uncertainty in the Levelized Electricity Cost of Concentrated Solar Power Plants

Mr Arno A. Evers

Chairman the Group Exhibit Hydrogen + Fuel Cells

Arno A. Evers started his career in 1965 with a British oil exploration company in the Middle East. After joining the German aircraft industry, Arno was involved from 1969 through 1985 in implementing the European Airbus Program, bringing their Airbus commercial planes to the international market from their Hamburg plant. Arno’s last position was Deputy Spokesman at the Munich-based Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH (MBB, now EADS as part of Daimler AG) where he served 23 years. He then started his own company, Arno A. Evers FAIR-PR in 1990 in Munich, Germany with the goal of simplify trade fair participations for exhibitors. Subsequently, he organized several conferences and symposia on computer and communication technology, and the environment. Arno founded the Group Exhibit Hydrogen + Fuel Cells at the annual HANNOVER FAIR in Germany in 1995 to serve as a bridge for moving this technology from laboratories to practical applications. He led the entire organization of the Group Exhibit which developed into Europe’s largest industry and research gathering, while introducing and refining his full service package for exhibitors. In 2006 he transferred his ownership to the Deutsche Messe AG, who is the owner of the worldwide biggest fairground in Hannover, Germany. From 2006 through 2010, he attended numerous H2/FC conferences and trade shows world wide to promote the Group Exhibit, as well as to provide unique internet documentation about the events and other informative areas on-site. Based on more than 300 information graphics (Energy Images) and 50 newsletter contributions (Arno’s Energy Ideas) Arno released in April 2010 the book: The Hydrogen Society…more than just a Vision? He now serves as a hydrogen ambassador not only as a speaker at conferences, but also as a lecturer at universities. Being the editor of the internet-portal www.hydrogenambassadors.com, Arno presents his long sought goal of a Hydrogen Society, and stimulates the integration of the direct solar hydrogen production as an essential part of the global hydrogen movement.

Presentation Title:

Fitting it all together: On the way - to a real hydrogen society

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Dr Barbara C. Farhar

Senior research associate, University of Colorado, USA

Barbara Farhar has been a pioneer in the area of renewable and sustainable energy policy development, directing research on the interaction between technology and society and diffusion of innovations. As a Senior Policy Analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), she gained national recognition for her work on the human dimensions of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Today, she is an internationally recognized expert on the use and adoption of new energy technologies. Areas of specialization include market and policy analysis on new developments of high performance homes and the intersection of energy, gender, and poverty. In addition to her own consulting practice, Dr. Farhar is a senior research associate at the University of Colorado's Institute of Behavioral Science where she is conducting research on the social and behavioral aspects of Smart Grid City. She has produced more than 240 publications and papers on the relevance of behavioral analysis to energy policy, strategic planning for federal research, public opinion about energy and environmental policy, energy efficiency R&D planning, and technology transfer. She has been published in Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Public Opinion Quarterly, Solar Today and Science. She is on the board of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society.

Presentation Title:

Energy and Gender Equitable Development

Dr Lorenzo Ferrari

Assistant Professor “Sergio Stecco” Department of Energy Engineering,

University of Florence, Italy

Lorenzo Ferrari earned his Master degree in Mechanical Engineering at University of Florence in 1999 with a thesis focused on advance measurement technique for turbo-machinery application. In 2003 he earned is PhD at “Sergio Stecco” Department of Energy Engineering with a thesis on theoretical and experimental analysis of aerodynamic instability of centrifugal compressors. In 2004 his PhD thesis won the “Sergio Stecco” grant as a distinguished study in turbo-machinery. Since 2003 he has been working as assistant professor at “Sergio Stecco” Department of Energy Engineering on systems for energy conversion and environmental impact analysis. From the original background of deep experimental and numerical analysis of turbo-machines and energy plants he progressively started to focus his activities on renewable energies and, in particular, in small size vertical axis wind turbine design and optimization. The activity started with the development of a software for the prediction of small-size Darrieus wind turbine performance. This software, improved over the time, has been used to design and optimize some machines in collaboration with local manufactures. He also assisted the installation of some of these turbines in order to estimate through a technical and economic analysis the real cost-benefit ratio for this kind of wind generator.

Presentation Title:

Critical aspects in the design of a small-size Darreius wind turbine

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Dr Dörte Annemarie Fouquet

Director Renewable Energy Foundation, Senior Partner Kuhbier, Germany

Since 1993, Senior Partner in the law firm Kuhbier with admission to the bar in Hamburg and in Brussels. Working as a Brussels based German lawyer, she has specialised in European and International law and consulting on European Community affairs in the fields of competition law (especially related to questions of access to the energy market for independent power production and on distorting subsidies in the energy sector), energy law, environment, transport, financing of international projects, conversion and legal approximation in Central and Eastern Europe. During her professional career Mrs Fouquet specialised in various legal aspects of energy, environmental, competition and administrative law. Her major focus in counselling is on issues in the field of Energy Law, especially in relation to Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency. She also works in the area of industrial environmental legislation especially on regulations in the field of environment, energy, trade law, competition law, as in general on standard-setting on the base of Best Available Technology Principle and the realistic planning towards approximation of EU legislation, enforcement and application. Since 2000 she is Director of EREF, the European Renewable Energies Federation and representing the Federation in Brussels and on European level. Before she became an independent European lawyer, Dr. Fouquet had a longstanding career as administrative lawyer in the administration concerning energy and environment in the German state City of Hamburg. She has a longstanding experience of working with national, international and in particular European institutions as well as with national and international NGOs. She has specific expertise in the administrative support to major RTD projects within the EC framework programmes. She is German national, is married and has one child.

Presentation Title:

Policy Instruments for Renewable Energy

Dr Sten Tronæs Frandsen

Senior Scientist, Wind Energy Division, Riso National Laboratory for

Sustainable Energy, DTU, Denmark

1976-1986: scientist at Physics Dept. Risø; 1985 1986: Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL), Colorado, USA; 1986-1993: Head of wind engineering group; 1995-1996: Head of wind systems group.Key qualifications: Wind turbine performance testing, in particular uncertainty analysis of power output (co-author of Danish standard, IEA and IEC standards on the issue); structure of flow in wind farms, loads in wind farms; structural design of wind turbines; wind load on civil engineering structures; wind energy project formulation and feasibility studies, appraisal of projects etc.; 15 years experience in project management of projects in developing countries.Committee memberships: International Electrotechnical Committee (Maintenance team IEC-MT01 on safety and design (IEC61400-1; working group IEC-WG03 on offshore wind turbines; Dansk Standard (Danish Standard) Committee S588. Participated in the IPCC 2nd Assessment Report.Selected experiences: Sten Frandsen (SF) has more than 25 years of experience within wind power research and development, of which the last 10 years increasingly has been focused on offshore applications. SF’s research has covered flow and structural mechanics as well as experimental techniques.

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Specifically the following can be mentioned. • Participation in development of the first generation frequency domain wind

turbine structure model. • Development of methods for power curve measurements for wind turbines,

including uncertainty analysis. This method is presently applied in national and international standards.

• Analytical models for the interaction between very large wind farms and the atmosphere.

• Model description of the turbulence within wind farms. The model is implemented in the international standard IEC61400-1.SF has authored or co-authored approx. 100 reviewed papers and conference contributions. Below are selected resent publications.

Presentation Title:

Offshore wind farms: an obvious climate mitigation option

Dr Guohui Gan

University of Nottingham, UK

Guohui Gan is associate professor at the Department of the Built Environment, University of Nottingham, UK. He has over 20 years experience in heat and mass transfer, fluid flow modelling, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, renewable energy and sustainable building technology. He has expertise in passive heating, cooling and solar-assisted natural ventilation; ventilation heat recovery; thermal comfort and indoor air quality; building-integrated photovoltaics; energy efficient building structures; ground coupled heat exchangers and ground source heat pumps; conjugate heat transfer in solid-fluid fields; heat and mass transfer and fluid flow in porous media. He has published over 100 refereed papers.

Presentation Title:

Follow the flow and make better predictions of solar-assisted natural ventilation

Prof H.P. Garg

Director General , Babu Banarsi Das Institute of Technology, India

Prof. H.P. Garg is presently the Director General at the Babu Banarsi Das Institute of Technology (BBDIT), Ghaziabad, U.P., India. He has been actively engaged in Research, teaching, consultancy, administration and management in the field of Solar Energy and Renewable Energy for the last more than four decades. He has published more than 500 research papers, 15 books and a large number of technical reports and popular articles in this field. He has guided 30 doctoral students and completed more than 36 consultancy projects and 26 sponsored projects. He held several positions like Senior Scientist, Professor and Head, Director, Principal Secretary, Director General and Advisor during the last four decades.After post graduation in physics, he received first Ph.D. in India on Solar Energy and established school of learning and thought in Renewable Energy in India. He is an expert member of several prestigious organization and President/Vice President/Founder Member/Member/Fellow of several leading National and International Professional Societies. He is the recepient of

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prestigious honorary UNESCO Chair (1992-1997) in Energy Education and IREDA Chair (2004- 2008) in Renewable Energy.Prof. Garg has received several National and International awards and life time achievement award in the field of Renewable Energy and recognition as an outstanding researcher and teacher. Due to his original and voluminous work in Renewable Energy, Prof. Garg is known as Energy Man in India.

Presentation Title:

Energy Outlook-Key Trends with reference to renewable energy in India

Dr Jan Geiss

Secretary General of EUFORES, Brussels, Belgium

Dr. Jan Geiss, is Secretary General of EUFORES - The European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources. EUFORES is a network of Members of the European Parliament and the EU27 national parliaments with the mission to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency policy and markets in the European Union. Dr. Geiss is running the Brussels based organisation and the secretariat of this high level parliamentary network since 2006. He has been Policy Advisor of EUFORES before he became Secretary General. Before his career in Brussels, he completed a PhD in Political Science and Economics in the field of "Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Service Contracting" at the University of Passau, Germany. Since 1999, Dr. Geiss is Chair of the Board of the Sustainable Development Forum Germany. He finished his studies of International Cultural and Business Management in 1997.

Presentation Title:

Renewable energy policies in the European Union – paving the way towards 2020: Overview with a special focus on smart buildings

Dr Sanaz Ghazi

Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Member of Scientific Board of Islamic Azad University, (Parand Branch), Project Manager, Coordinator or facilitator in the field of Environment and Energy (working by Afza Mohit Company, Center of Environment and Energy Research and Science(CEERS) and the Iranian society of Environmentalists(IRSEN NGO's ) BA-Azad Islamic University in the field of "Environmental Engineering", MA-AIU in the field of "Environmental Management", Ph.D.-IAU in the field of "Environmental Management", Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Tehran. She translated few books about environment into local language. Dr Ghazi main work is the Promotion and the adaptation of Renewable Energies in rural areas and related activities. She Established two proper Biogas sites in Yakh-kesh Mountain. (Caspian Region), (With supporting of UNDP/GEF/SGP). Also the Establishment of EMS in Siah-Bishe Pumped Storage Hydro-Electrical Plant, and Establishment ISO 14001 in Municipally of Tehran" (10 District). In the field of Environmental Engineering and Civil Engineering. (for instance Ecology, Environmental Engineering , Statistics , Meteorology and Air pollution Courses) (Islamic Azad University). She is a member of scientific societies and involved in running meetings and conferences in the environment fields.

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Presentation Title:

An Alternative approach for the prevention of deforestation using Renewable Energies as substitute

Prof Herbert Girardet

Co-founder of World Future Council, Hamburg, Germany

He is co-founder and director of programmes of the World Future Council. He is leading consultant on sustainable development and a recipient of a UN Global 500 Award ‘for outstanding environmental achievements’. For many years he has focussed mainly on the challenges of sustainable urban development. He has been a consultant to UNEP and UN-Habitat and has developed sustainability policies for major cities such as London and Vienna. In 2003 he was ‘Thinker in Residence’ in Adelaide, developing sustainable development strategies for South Australia. He has also been a senior adviser to the Dongtan Eco-City project on Chongming Island, Shanghai. Herbert is author and co-author of 12 books, and 50 TV documentaries for major broadcasters. He is an honorary fellow of Royal Institute of British Architects, a patron of the Soil Association, UK, and a visiting professor at University of the West of England. In 2004 Wiley-Academy published his book, CITIES, PEOPLE, PLANET – Urban Development and Climate Change. In 2007 he edited SURVIVING THE CENTURY – Facing Climate Change and other Global Challenges, published by Earthscan. He has recently completed A Renewable World – Energy, Ecology, Equality, which was published by Green Books, UK.

Presentation Title:

Renewable energy for Cities

Prof Ashwani K. Gupta

University of Maryland, College park, MD, USA

Dr. Ashwani Gupta is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He obtained his PhD and higher doctorate D. Sc from the University of Sheffield, UK. He is Fellow of ASME, AIAA, SAE. He is the founding co-editor of the Energy Engineering and Environment Series published by CRC Publishers. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Propulsion and Power, Intl. Journal of Sprays and Combustion Dynamics, Journal of Applied Energy, and Intl. Journal of Reacting Systems. His academic experience includes Professor at the University of Maryland, Research Staff Member at Energy Laboratory and Chemical Engineering Department at MIT, Senior Research Associate and Independent Research Worker at Chemical Engineering and Fuel Technology Department, Sheffield University. He has served as chairman of AIAA Terrestrial Energy Systems technical committee, Propellants and Combustion national technical committee, and Deputy Director of Energy. He presently serves as the Director of Propulsion and Energy Group at AIAA (2007-2010). At ASME he has served as chair of ASME Fuels and Combustion Technologies Division, and Computers and Information in Engineering (CIE) Division. He has received AIAA Energy Systems Award, and Propellants and Combustion Award. He received the ASME George Westinghouse Gold Medal, James Harry Potter Gold Medal, James Landis award and Worcester

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Reed Warner award. He has received 8 best paper awards from AIAA and ASME. At the University of Maryland he has received the College of Engineering Research Award and President Kirwan Research award. He has authored over 450 papers, 3 books, and 8 book chapters, and edited 9 books in his book series published by CRC press.

Presentation Title:

Clean and Sustainable Future Power Generation

Dr Muhammad R. Hajj

Director of Graduate Studies ESM Department, Virginia Tech, USA

Dr. Hajj is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut in 1983 and his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985 and 1990. His research interests include multi-fidelity modeling, analysis and optimization with applications in fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interactions and structures vibrations. He has made significant contributions to the modeling and analysis of wind loads on structures and aeroelastic systems, simulation of atmospheric turbulence and uncertainty quantification of gust loads. More recently, he has been involved in the development of international cooperative activities on wind energy. He is the author of over 250 archival and conference publications. He has held several positions with professional societies.

Presentation Title:

Aeroelastic Modeling and Analysis of Wind Turbine Blades

Dr Neveen Hamza

The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape in Newcastle

University, UK

Dr. Neveen Hamza, lectures on and researches sustainable buildings and Environmentally Conscious architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape in Newcastle University, UK. Her research looks into the triangulation between technical aspects of building technology, architecture design and environmental psychology. She believes that sustainable buildings that are those that remain in continuous use for generations, buildings that use the latest construction technologies but meet the needs of the occupants while minimizing dependency on energy. Dr. Hamza has over 20 publications in international refereed conferences and international scientific journals on environmental simulation of buildings including the thermal performance double skin facades in hot arid areas, as well as researching pragmatic issues of how building regulations affect the design team and setting policy for energy conservation in the mature built environments in the UK.She is a scientific reviewer in scientific journals including Energy, and Renewable Energy and also contributes on a number of scientific conference committees including International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) conference, Arab Society for Computer Aided Design

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(ASCAAD).

Presentation Title:

Energy Conservation and Saving in Buildings

Dr Ali Hamzeh

Damascus University, Syria

Dr. Ali Hamzeh is a full Professor at Damascus University and he is presently a visiting Professor at the Institute of Electrical Power Engineering, Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany. He is the head of The Energy Committee of the Syrian Engineering Society-Damascus since 1993. He is a Board member of Arab Institute of O&M since January 2009, which is chaired by H.H. Prince Khalid Bin Sultan Bin Abd Al Aziz.He obtained his PhD in Electrical Power Engineering from Technical University of Dresden, Germany in 1973. His main research areas include electrical power systems and renewable energy systems. He has published more than 95 papers in local and international journals and conferences. He has authored 11 text books in the area of electric power systems, renewable energy, Operation and Maintenance of Electric Utilities, and advanced computational methods.

Presentation Title:

Impact of integrating wind energy generators with the host electrical grid

Dr Falah S. Hasoon

Senior scientist at NREL and professor at Colorado School of Mines,

Golden, Colorado, USA

For more than 25 years, Dr. Falah Hasoon is actively involved in research in the areas of material growth and characterization of photovoltaic materials and device processing. Dr. Hasoon has Master degree in Physics from University of Bath, England, UK and he has Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Salford, England, UK. Dr. Hasoon is a senior scientist at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and he is a research professor at Colorado School of Mines, in Golden, Colorado, USA. He has more than 120 scientific research publications and he is an inventor of four US patents.The long term experience of Dr. Hasoon covers wide range of material growth techniques such as vertical Bridgeman method, iodine vapor transport technique, solution growth method, physical vapor deposition, and closed space sublimation. Whereas, his experience in the growth of semiconductor thin film materials includes growth of ternary and multinary semiconductor compounds such as CdTe/CdS, CuInGaSe2/ZnO, CuInGaSe2/ZnMgO. Furthermore, Dr. Hasoon’s interests include design and fabrication of growth and characterization research tools. His current primary research interest is the growth and characterization of silicon material and devices.

Presentation Title:

Progress on Thin Film Ternary and Multinary Semiconductor Compounds

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Prof Neil Hewitt

University of Ulster, UK

Professor Neil Hewitt is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Technologies at the University of Ulster and has a personal chair in energy. The Centre for Sustainable Technologies is a multidisciplinary research group of over 40 academics and researchers studying energy in buildings (heat pumps, advanced glazing, energy storage and thermal comfort), renewable energy (solar PV, solar thermal, biomass gasification and bio-oils), clean combustion (techno-economic analysis and carbon capture), highway engineering, river hydraulics, construction, architecture and sustainability. He is Vice President of Commission B2 (Refrigerating Machinery) and has over 70 publications is such areas a heat pumps, clean coal combustion, biomass and energy policy.

Presentation Title:

Advances in Vapour Compression Air Conditioning for High Developments and Hot Climates

Mr Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes

Board Member of German Renewable Energy Federation, Berlin, Germany

Mr Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes is a Board Member of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE). He is in charge of European and international policies. And he is European Advisor to the German Wind Energy Association (BWE).He initiated a BEE-committee (including BEE’s member associations) on European Energy Policy and he stayed in close contact with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Brussels based European Renewable Energy associations. He is representing BEE within the Board of EREF (the European Renewable Energy Federation, the voice of independent producers of energy from renewable sources). In April 2008, he was elected Vice-president of EREF. He is the chairman of the Policies Committee preparing the 2010 World Renewable Energy Conference in Abu Dhabi (WREC IX). He was a member of the Policies Committee and the International Steering Committee preparing the Xth World Renewable Energy Congress in July 2008 in Glasgow (Scotland). From November 1998 to December 2005, he was a Director General in the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), until - after the federal elections - he was “provisionally retired” by the new Environment Minister.He was one of the two chairmen of the International Steering Committee preparing the renewables2004-conference in Bonn. After the conference, he engaged in the follow-up process as a co-chair of the interim steering committee for the Global Policy Network - now known as REN21. Until he was retired in December 2005, he was a member of the REN21-Steering Committee and Member of the REN21-Bureau.Since he started working in the energy sector, as a representative of the German Environment Ministry and now of BEE and EREF, he has been engaged in promoting all types of Renewable Energies and the vast opportunities they offer for economic growth and climate protection, for energy security and sustainable development world wide. He delivered speeches and presentations at preparatory conferences for the renewables2004 (in Brasilia, Bangkok and Berlin), at World Wind Energy Conferences (in Cape Town in

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2003, in Beijing 2004 and in Melbourne 2005), at the Global Wind Power in Chicago 2004, at European Wind Energy Conferences (in London 2004 and Athens 2006), at World Renewable Energy Congresses (in Denver/USA in 2004, in Florence 2006 and Glasgow 2008), at the World Geothermal Congress in Antalya/Turkey in 2005 and at many other events in Germany and abroad.

Presentation Title:

Renewable Energy: Paving the Way towards Sustainable Energy Security - Lessons learnt from Germany -

Dr Bob Howlett

University of Brighton, UK

Dr. Robert J. Howlett PhD, MPhil, BSc(Hons) is a member of both the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology and British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Information Technology Practitioner. He is Head of the Smart Systems Laboratory at the University of Brighton, UK. He has a number of years experience of applying neural-networks, expert systems, fuzzy paradigms and other intelligent techniques to industrial problem domains e.g. sustainability; control, modelling and simulation of renewable energy systems; monitoring and control of internal combustion engines, particularly small engines for off road and power generation applications; and a range of condition monitoring and fault diagnosis problems. He leads a research team, funded by grants and industrial contracts. He has published widely on the subject, and has presented invited talks, keynote addresses etc. Dr Howlett is the Executive Chair of the KES (Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems) Organisation, dedicated to supporting and facilitating research, originally in intelligent systems, but more recently also in sustainability and alternative energy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems and Honorary Editor of Intelligent Decision Technologies: and International Journal. Dr Howlett is a nationally known figure in knowledge transfer and the UK Government Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) programme. He has supervised over 10 projects transferring university expertise to companies, mainly small to medium enterprises (SMEs).He supports a number of journals through regional editorships and membership of advisory and review boards. He is a past and current member of the scientific committees of a number of conferences. He is on the editorial board of various book series. He has authored over 50 publications in refereed journals and conferences, and edited over 20 books. He has reviewed research project applications for the EPSRC, and internationally as an Expert Evaluator under Framework and for other EU programmes.

Presentation Title:

Smart Sustainability: The link between intelligent systems and sustainability

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Mr Amolak S. Hunjan

BSc Eng CEng MIEE MIKE, BIPV Manager and Director, London, UK

Amlak Hunjan is the BIPV manager & Director for PV Systems and runs the design office, based in London. He has extensive experience in PV systems globally. Amolaks experience covers extensively in design & installations in Building Integrated PV, commercial & domestic systems in UK & Europe and works closely with major architectural companies and consultants.He has developed the PV systems roof integration system ©‘RIS’ (MIII) which is widely applied to most building integrated designs.He was involved with the ‘SolarSynergy’ TM mounting system which integrates PV & solar thermal technologies.Amolak is a highly experienced chartered engineer responsible for the design, installation and commissioning of thousands of solar systems around the world. He has worked on UN and EU funded research in the development of off-grid and grid-citied technologies for international, high profile projects.

Presentation Title:

Building Integrated PV-boundless possibilities

Dr Mohammed Salah-Eldin Imbabi

Founder of Centre of Excellence at Aberdeen University, the Centre for

Clean Technology in the Built Environment (CCTBE), UK

Dr. Mohammed Imbabi is an eminent, multi-lingual scientist andprofessional engineer in the diverse fields of low energy buildingengineering and renewable energy technology. In addition to hisleadership of the Buildings and Structures research group at one ofScotland’s top seats of learning at the University of Aberdeen, he is also Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of the Environmental Building Partnership Ltd (EBP), an innovative clean tech company with offices in Aberdeen and Alloa. The concept of Dynamic Breathing Building (DBB) systems to radically improve the state of the built environment and the inspiration behind the Energyflo™ cell are directly attributed to him and were developed under his guidance. In March 2007, EBP won the prestigious Shell Springboard Award for its groundbreaking contribution to combating climate change. Major sponsors of Dr Imbabi’s research include the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Scottish Executive, the Carbon Trust, and the Construction Industry. He hold a Senior Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. In 1990, Dr Imbabi joined the University of Aberdeen. He has played a pivotal role in putting Aberdeen on the map, through his teaching, by establishing a world-class research group in low energy building engineering and in the spinout of innovative technologies for the built environment. Dr Imbabi is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences, and author of more than 70 refereed scientific papers and 4 patents. In May 2005, he organised and chaired the World Renewable Energy Congress in Aberdeen, where Scotland’s First Minister was one of the speakers at the opening plenary. In January 2008, he laid the foundations for a new Centre of Excellence at Aberdeen University, the Centre for Clean Technology in the Built Environment (CCTBE), he joint many national and international committees related to buildings and environment. He is also a member of

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Technical Advisory Group of the Renewable Energy Foundation (London), the International Advisory Council of the World Renewable Energy Network's (WREN), IEA Task Force 44 on ‘Integrating Environmentally Responsive Elements in Buildings’.

Presentation Title:

Dynamic Breathing Building (DBB) systems, combining buildings’ comfort with energy saving

Dr Pierre Ineichen

University of Geneva - Energy Group, Carouge, Switzerland

Born in 1953 in Geneva Switzerland, Study in Geneva Master in Nuclear physics, PhD in Solar energy, 35 years of research in the filed of solar resource, data acquisition, calibration and solar irradiance modeling.Participation in IAE Tasks, European programs, collaboration with meteorologivcal offices, several honours such as Löf/Duffie Best Paper Award and Henry Ford European Conservation National Award.More than hundred publications in specialized scientific journals, swiss and international reviews and conferences.Associate editor for Solar Energy journal for 5 years.

Presentation Title:

Solar resource knowledge: from measurements to derived data

Dr Kenneth Ip

Centre for Sustainability of the Built Environment, University of Brighton,

Brighton, UK

Kenneth Ip is the Deputy Head of the Centre for Sustainability of the Built Environment (CSBE) in the School of Environment and Technology at the University of Brighton in the UK. He is a Chartered Building Services Engineer with over 20 years academic and industrial experience in the design, installation, operation and maintenance of building services. Kenneth has research interest in low carbon technologies for buildings. His research includes the sensible thermal storage utilising ducted ground heat exchanger, latent thermal storage using phase change materials, bioclimatic design of living plant on buildings and modelling of lifecycle carbon footprint of buildings. He has participated in a number of EU and UK government funded research projects. Recent projects include the EU Interreg fund Durabuild on sustainable buildings and two UK Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in collaboration with two companies to develop low carbon knowledge base and practice for new built and refurbishment of dwellings.

Presentation Title:

Environmental effect of living plants on buildings

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Dr Mark Jentsch

Sustainable Energy Research Group, University of Southampton, UK

Mark Jentsch is a Research Fellow within the Sustainable Energy Research Group at the University of Southampton where he also completed his PhD. He joined the group in 2004 after working on an EU-funded research project at the Hochschule Wismar in Germany. Mark holds an architecture degree which he obtained after completing his studies in Germany and France. Currently, parts of his time are spent on a knowledge transfer secondment at the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) in London.His current research centres on the development of weather data for building performance simulation and the assessment of the potential impacts of a changing climate on the future performance of buildings and cities. Mark has developed two tools that permit end users to generate climate change adapted simulation weather data for the UK and worldwide locations. The initial UK centred work in this area has resulted in a British Council funded research project with partners in Malaysia, looking at climate change implications for buildings and their technical services in tropical and temperate climates. Further research interests include the environmental monitoring of existing buildings, building occupant surveys, building application of high-performance glazing and the integration of renewable energy systems into buildings. Mark has taught undergraduates in the subject areas of lighting design, building services, architectural design as well as low energy architecture and its implementation into the built environment. Furthermore he has given lecture units for postgraduate students at the University of Bath and the KTH in Stockholm. Next to his research Mark has also undertaken design consultancy work inside and outside the university. He is a member of the technical committee for the ‘Low Energy Architecture’ sessions of the ‘World Renewable Energy Congress XI’ to be held 2010 in Abu Dhabi.

Presentation Title:

Climate Change adapted simulation weather data: implications for cities in hot, arid climates of the Middle East

Prof Hong Jin

Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Prof Hong Jin works at the School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology as the Director of Architectural Technology Department and the Director of Green Building Research Institute. Professor Jin is a member of several professional committees, including a Associate Director of Architectural Technology Committee of China; a Expert of Energy Conservation Council in the Architectural Society of China; a Council Member of Architectural Physics Committee of China; a Council Member of Architectural Fireproofing Technology Committee of China; a Member of Architectural Society of China; a Member of Solar Energy Society of China; a Expert of Village and Small Towns Construction Council of Heilongjiang.Professor Jin's research and teaching field is sustainable architecture. Her specialist areas include low energy building design, ecological building and environment, low energy technology for heating building, green building design and technology. She has authored and edited 3 books, published over 50 papers. She has been the principal investigator for over 10 funded research projects, and has been the Chief Architect for over 20 building design projects

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in China. She has got several awards and distinctions in research and teaching activities on above fields, including the Outstanding Research Fellow in Harbin Construction; the Excellent Teacher of Heilongjiang; the Third Award of Excellent Design in the Competition of Residential Building toward 21 Century in China, the First Award of Excellent Teaching Achievement of Heilongjiang.

Presentation Title:

Strategies of Rural Housing Integrated Renewable Energy Technology in China

Prof Thomas B. Johansson

Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Change, Lund

University, Sweden

Thomas B Johansson studied at the Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in 1974. He was appointed Professor of energy systems analysis in 1986. From 1994 till 2001 he was Director of the Energy and Atmosphere Programme in UNDP, where he initiated the use of energy as an instrument for socio-economic development in UNDP work on development cooperation, and developed and launched the World Energy Assessment in cooperation with UNDESA and the World Energy Council. In 2001, he became Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University, Sweden. He was Convening Lead Author of the IPCC Second Assessment Report (Energy Supply Mitigation Options) from 1992 to 1996. He was also a founding member of the Board of the International Energy Initiative from 1992 till present. He has chaired and has held memberships of a number of international and multilateral boards, among which are the Senior Policy Advisory Council of the China Sustainable Energy Programme, the Working Group on Energy Strategies and Technologies of the China Council on International Cooperation for Environment and Development, the International Advisory Board of the Wuppertal Institute, Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development (GNESD), Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility, and the Editorial Board of the World Energy Assessment. He was appointed to the Swedish Government’s Scientific Advisory Council on Climate Change, 2007. He is currently Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Energy Assessment, hosted by IIASA. He received the Volvo Environment Prize in 2000.

Presentation Title:

Global Energy Assessment

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Prof John K. Kaldellis

Technological Education Institute of Piraeus, Greece

He holds a Mechanical Engineering Degree from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a Business Administration Diploma from the University of Piraeus. He obtained his PhD from NTUA sponsored by Snecma–Dassault, France. He is currently the Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Head of the Soft Energy Applications and Environmental Protection Laboratory (since 1991) of the Technological Education Institute of Piraeus. Prof J.K. Kaldellis is also the Scientific Director (for TEI of Piraeus) of the MSc in Energy program organized by Herriot Watt University and TEI of Piraeus.Prof Kaldellis expertise focuses in technological developments in the energy and environmental sector and has accumulated significant academic and professional experience in various contemporary energy and environmental issues. More specifically, his research interests include feasibility analysis of energy applications and projects, technological advancements in wind, hydro and solar energy market, hybrid energy-energy storage systems, social attitude towards renewable energy applications and environmental technology-atmospheric pollution. Prof Kaldellis has participated in numerous research projects, funded by the European Community, European/Greek Industries and the Greek State.Prof Kaldellis has published six books concerning the Renewable Energy Applications and the Environmental Protection and he is the author of almost one hundred (100) papers in International peer reviewed Journals and more than 250 papers in International Technical/Scientific Conferences. He is also the Editor of International Conference Proceedings and Books related with RES applications and Hybrid Energy Systems. During the last decade he is also Member of the Scientific Committee of the Hellenic Society of Mechanical-Electrical Engineers as well as member of the organizing and scientific committee of several national and international conferences.He is currently Associated Editor (Member of Editorial Board) of the Renewable Energy International Journal and reviewer in several International Journals in the Energy and Environment Sector, like Renewable Energy, Energy Policy, Solar Energy, Desalination, Energy, Applied Energy, Wind Energy, Journal of Global Energy Issues, Journal of Environmental Management, IET Renewable Power Generation, Journal of Power and Energy, Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Fuel, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Bioresource Technology, Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, Journal of Hydrogen Energy, etc.

Presentation Title:

The wind energy REVOLUTION: From a complementary energy source to a leading priority in the global energy scene

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Dr Soteris Kalogirou

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and

Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

He received his HTI Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1982, his M.Phil. in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Wales in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Glamorgan in 1995.For more than 25 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination and absorption cooling. Additionally, since 1995 he is involved in a pioneering research dealing with the use of artificial intelligence methods, like artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic, for the modelling and performance prediction of energy and solar energy systems.He published and edited 22 books and published 180 papers; 79 in international scientific journals and 101 in refereed conference proceedings. Until now, he received more than 1370 citations on his work. He is Associate Editor of Renewable Energy and Energy, Section Editor of Journal of Engineering and Technology Research and Editorial Board Member of another eleven journals. He is the editor of the book Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Nova Science Inc. and author of the book Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier.He has been a member of WREN since 1992 and is a member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Institute of Refrigeration (IOR) and International Solar Energy Society (ISES).

Presentation Title:

Solar Thermoelectric Power Generation in Cyprus-Selection of the best System

Ms Gail Karlsson

ENERGIA Advisor, USA

Since 1997, Gail Karlsson has worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on energy and environment issues. In 1998, she was involved in the initiation of a UNDP project ‘Energy and Women: Generating Opportunities for Development’, and since then has prepared a number of briefing papers and publications on gender and energy issues, including serving as the editor of Generating Opportunities: Case Studies on Energy and Women (UNDP, 2001), and Gender and Energy for Sustainable Development: A Toolkit and Resource Guide (UNDP, 2004), a joint initiative of UNDP’s Sustainable Energy office and ENERGIA, an international network of experts on gender and sustainable energy. As an advisor to ENERGIA, she has coordinated international advocacy activities at meetings of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, and edited a publication entitled Where Energy is Women’s Business: National and Regional Reports from Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Pacific (ENERGIA, 2007). Ms. Karlsson began her career as an attorney for the United States Environmental Protection Agency and later practiced environmental and corporate law with a New York law firm. She has written extensively about environmental protection and sustainable development policies.

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Presentation Title:

Energy and Gender in Latin America and the Pacific Region

Dr Priyadarshini Karve

Samuchit Enviro-Tech (SET) Pvt. Ltd, India

Dr. Karve completed Ph.D. in Physics from University of Pune, in 1998. During 1997-99, she conducted a research project for Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI), under funding from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The project resulted in development of an experimental prototype of an oven and retort type charring kiln for converting agricultural waste into charcoal. From 1999 to 2005, she taught Applied Physics in different engineering colleges in Pune, while continuing her association with ARTI in an honorary capacity. In this period, she worked as the Secretary of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Improved Biomass Fuels and Cooking Devices (BFCS-2000), organized by ARTI at Pune in 2000. Also, from 2003 to 2005, she worked as Project Co-ordinator of a pilot project, funded by Shell Foundation (UK), aimed at testing the idea of commercialization of improved biomass fuels and cooking devices in India. Dr. Karve had developed the basic concept of the project, wherein a network of grassroots level NGOs, women's self help groups, and artisans were envisaged as a sustainable route for making various clean biomass fueled cooking devices available in the rural market without any subsidy. Through the project, a network of 10 NGOs and 120 rural energy enterprises was created, and within a span of about 1.5 years, nearly 75,000 households purchased clean energy devices at market prices. Dr. Karve coordinates a project on "Commercialisation of Improved Biomass Fuels and Cooking Devices in India – Scale Up project," at the Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) and serves as Director, Samuchit Enviro-Tech (SET) Pvt. Ltd., which is a company established to handle the business aspect of the scale-up project. She also conducts research, development and field testing of biofuels and stoves.

Presentation Title:

Commercialisation of Improved Biomass Fuels and Cooking Devices in India

Dr Lawrence L. Kazmerski

Executive Director S & T Partnerships, NREL, Denver, USA

Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado. He was at (Electrical Engineering) of the University of Maine before coming to SERI (NREL) in 1977. His research at Maine included NSF- and ERDA-funded work in thin-film photovoltaics and the report of the first thin-film copper-indium-diselenide (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 in the areas of solar cells, thin films, semiconductor materials and devices, surface and interface analysis, molecular beam epitaxy, semiconductor defects, scanning probe

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microscopy, nanoscale technology, high-temperature superconductivity, solar and photovoltaics technologies, and solar hydrogen. He has authored or edited four books, and 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. He is active in the IEEE, AVS, MRS, APS, ISES, and ASES. Kazmerski was the recipient of the Peter Mark Memorial Award of the AVS in 1981 and IEEE William R. Cherry Award in 1993. This year, Kazmerski was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).Presently is the director of Science & Technology Partnerships.

Presentation Title:

Renewable Energy and Solar Photovoltaics: The Revolution Begins ...

Mr Sami Khoreibi

Chief Executive Officer, Enviromena Power Systems

Sami Khoreibi is Enviromena’s Chief Executive Officer and a founding partner of the company. Since its incorporation in Abu Dhabi in October 2007, Enviromena has grown to become the largest solar developer in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In just over two years of operations, the company has proven highly successful, securing a series of premier solar installation projects, including the largest PV solar power plant ever built in the MENA region. Enviromena has attracted a broad base of leading international cleantech investors including Masdar, Good Energies Invest and zouk Ventures. Mr. Khoreibi has assembled a team of talented solar experts from around the globe, growing the size of the company seven fold since its 2007 founding. He led Enviromena to become one of the first CarbonNeutral companies in the UAE, and was awarded “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2008 at the Alternative Energy Awards. In 2009 Mr. Khoreibi was named by Arabian Business as one of the “Top 30 Under 30” young Arab business leaders and the company received the “Power Plant Operator of the Year” and “Energy Efficiency” Awards at the Middle East Power and Water Awards. Mr. Khoreibi regularly presents at local and international industry events including the World Future Energy Summit, the London Renewable Energy Finance Forum, and provides commentary for international and local publications including TIME magazine, the Financial Times and Dow Jones. Previous to Enviromena, Mr. Khoreibi was a founding partner of Candax Energy Inc., an international upstream oil and gas company, which was publicly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2005. As an Abu Dhabi based energy entrepreneur, Mr. Khoreibi’s key focus is developing clean, carbon neutral alternative energy projects throughout the MENA region.

Presentation Title:

Solar Opportunities in the Middle East

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Dr Bakr Hamza Khoshaim

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Power & Energy

Consultant, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Dr. Khoshaim is the former Director General of Electricity of the Western Regions in S audi Arabia from 1987 – 2001 and former Solar program Director at KACST, KSA 1979-1987.,Head of Mech. Eng .Dept .at KSU 1975-1979.,and Vice-Dean of Engineering 1977-1979.He is now member of the Al- Shura Council, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, He was Chairman of the Committee for Projects Follow-Up and Budgeting for Makkah region Council, and was member of the Solar Energy International Committee and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Electricity Corporation. Dr. Khoshaim has a B. Sc in Mechanical Engineering from King Saud University in 1968, followed by a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering, from Liverpool University, UK in 1972 and a PhD in Mech. Engineering, Liverpool University 1975. Dr. Khoshaim has held positions as Assistant & Associate Professor at King Saud University. Dr. Khoshaim is a member in the Saudi Eng. Committee 2001 and was a member of the Board of Directors of GOSI KSA, Attended many courses in strategic planning, Decision making, Intellectual thinking & Power Generation Conferences. He published over 150 papers and articles.

Presentation Title:

Regional Outlook on Carbon Footprint and Energy Usage in the Region

Dr Jong-dall Kim

Research Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, National

University, Kyungpuk, Korea

Dr. Jong-dall Kim is the Director of the Research Institute for Energy, Environment, and Economy at Kyungpuk National University (KNU), and a Professor in the School of Economics and Trade, where he specializes in energy and environmental economics and policy analysis, and integrated modeling of energy, environment, and the economy. He is also the Director of the Center for Solar City Daegu, in Deagu, Korea, where he facilitated the creation of the City’s 50 year energy plan. Prior to his work with KNU and the Center for Solar City Daegu, Dr. Kim was a Senior Researcher with the Korea Energy Economics Institute, with the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware, and with the Environmental Planning Institute at Seoul National University. He has authored numerous books in English and Korean on the topics of energy and the environment, including Energy Revolution in 2004, Contemporary Environmental Problems: An interdisciplinary approach in 2003, and City, Environment and Planning in 1998. Dr. Kim holds a PhD from the University of Delaware, a Masters in Environmental Planning from the Graduate School of Environmental Studies at Seoul National University, and a Bachelors in Economics from Yeongnam University. He is a Member of the Presidential Committee for Sustainable Development, a Member of the Advisory Committee for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and a Board Member of the International Solar Cities Initiative.

Presentation Title:

Energy Challenges for Green Development Model in Korea/Asia

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Dr Emilia Kondili

Mechanical Engineering Department, TEI of Piraeus, Greece

Dr Kondili is a Chemical Engineer from the Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece (1983) and has acquired her M.Sc and PhD degrees from Imperial College, London., UK. She currently belongs to the academic staff of the Mechanical Engineering Department, TEI of Piraeus, responsible for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of Production Management, Engineering Economics, Operations Research, Wastewater Treatment, and Environmental Impact Assessment. In addition to her academic career, she has a significant professional experience in the industry and in various engineering and consulting companies. Her field of specialisation and her research interests include the implementation of optimization tools (Mathematical Programming) in energy and environmental systems, the optimisation of production systems with the use of mathematical programming tools, the water and wastewater treatment technologies and the water resources management with the use of optimisation tools. She has participated in a number of Greek and European research and development projects in her field of expertise. She is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Computer Aided Process Engineering Working Party of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. She is the author of a significant number of scientific papers in international journals and conferences and has contributed to books related to hybrid energy systems and environmental technology.

Presentation Title:

Οptimization methods and tools for sustainable water resources management. Experiences and trends.

Dr Sumathy Krishnan

North Dakota State University, USA

Dr. Sumathy Krishnan, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Dakota State University, USA, earned her Ph.D in Solar Thermal Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. She has over 15 years of experience in solar thermal energy field in India, Korea, Hong Kong, Germany and the USA. She served as the organizing secretary for the Solar Unitization Training program sponsored by the United Nations University, Japan and Department of Science and Technology, India. Dr.Sumathy has several awards and honors, including Research Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Foundation, Korea Science & Engineering foundation, ASPEE foundation, and is a board member of International Energy Foundation. She is recipient of numerous research grants and has published more than 90 research papers and are highly cited. Her research focus is in solar absorption and adsorption cooling and integrated PV-T systems.

Presentation Title:

A Step towards Sustainability – using novel techniques in solar cooling

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Dr Chuck Kutscher

Principal Engineer, Manager of Thermal Systems Group, NREL, USA

He is a Principal Engineer and Manager of the Thermal Systems Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado where he currently leads the research on parabolic trough solar collector systems. He is a Past Chair of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and was General Chair of the SOLAR 2006 national solar energy conference held in Denver, which led to the 200-page ASES report, Tackling Climate Change in the U.S., available at www.ases.org/climatechange. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where last fall he developed and taught a course entitled “Climate Change Solutions.” He also writes a monthly column about addressing climate change for SOLAR TODAY magazine. He has given many invited presentations around the country on renewable energy and climate change. He was the keynote speaker for the first “Colorado’s New Energy Economy” Conference in October 2007, and this past January he received the 2008 Governor’s Excellence in Renewable Energy Individual Award.

Presentation Title:

Climate Change and the Role of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency.

Ms Despina Kyprianou Serghides

Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

She studied Architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) London, UK. She continued postgraduate studies in Planning at the Planning Department of the AA. Also from the AA she obtained her Master and Doctorate in “Architecture – Energy & Environment”. She has been invited to lecturer in many local and International Universities and institutions, including the Architectural Association School of Architecture, the Bartlett School of Architecture of the University College of London, the London South Bank University, the Glamorgan University (in Wales, UK) and the Summer Academy of Mediterranean Solar Architecture in Rome and given courses at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, in the USA. She was honored with a lot of awards and offices. She is the president of the International Solar Energy Society of Cyprus (ISES), member of the Board of Directors of ISES and ISES-Europe of which was the president the last two years. She chairs and participates in organizing and scientific committees and acts as a member of advisory and paper evaluation teams for many national and international congresses, conferences. She was the International President of the International Congress “EuroSun 2006” in Glasgow, an ISES-Europe international congress (supported by the Intelligent Energy Europe programme). She has acted as a consultant for the Cyprus Government and Parliament and has been the national scientific representative of the National Scientific and Technical Co-operations with Greece and China.She worked for over 25 years at the Higher Technical Institute (HTI) and in the field of bioclimatic architecture and energy conscious building design. She was the coordinator and the local architect of the team designed the Prototype Solar House for Cyprus. She is the scientific coordinator for ISES-Cyprus, of the EC 5th and 6th FW programmes. She has published many papers in international Journals.

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Presentation Title:

The Wisdom of our Ancestors Lessons from Traditional Cypriot Architecture for Energy Efficient and Indoor Comfort

Dr Lisa Lamont

Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Lisa Lamont graduated from University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, with a BEng (Hons) in Engineering and Diploma in Industrial Studies and continued her studies obtaining a PhD in Modelling and Control of a VSC (Voltage Source Converter) Transmission System in 2005. Since then Lisa has held the position of Assistant Professor at the Petroleum Institute Abu Dhabi where she has taught a variety of undergraduate courses in control and project management and undertaken academic tasks such as ABET Accreditation Documentation, Course and Laboratory Development, Senior Design Projects, Undergraduate Research, Internship Co-ordinator, Academic Service, Student Advising.Her research specialization is split into technical research in the fields of Control and Renewable Engineering with specific interest in the interaction, relevancy and application of these areas to the Oil and Gas Industry. Lisa has published and presented widely on these topics. She also undertakes research in the area of education with specific concern in educating students in the region about the benefits of renewable energy. Lisa has published on new methods of education, enhancement of control engineering education and methods of raising awareness and interest in the renewable energy field. Lisa is on the committee of the local PCE UAE and is also involve with the IEEE and the IET. Lisa also sits internationally on the IMechE Young Members Board and the IMechE Informatics, Mechatronics and Control Board.

Presentation Title:

Renewable Energy in the United Arab Emirates – A need for Action

Prof Philippe Lauret

University of La Reunion, La Reunion

Professor Philippe LAURET received is Ph.D. degree from the university of La Reunion, France, in 1998. His is currently a researcher at the Laboratory of Building Physics and Systems.His research interests are in solar radiation modelling, neural networks, Bayesian probability theory, sensitivity analysis, simulation and control of energy systems. He is the author or co-author of 17 publications in international journals and 28 conferences papers.

Presentation Title:

Bayesian statistical analysis applied to solar radiation modelling

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Prof Heekwan Lee

Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Incheon, South

Korea

Dr . Lee is the Associate Professor of Atmospheric Environment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Incheon, South Korea and the leader of Air Group in the department. He earned his doctoral degree from Building Service Engineering Program, Department of Construction Management of Engineering, University of Reading, United Kingdom. He had an experience with Center for the Built Environment, University of California at Berkeley, United States and recently he stayed with National Risk Management and Research Laboratory, United States Environment Protection Agency as a visiting scientist. Since he stared to work at the university, he has been working on indoor and outdoor environmental issues and producing a large number of journal papers as well as conference presentations. The indoor air quality (IAQ) control issues in subway and school environments are the major ones in indoor environment as well as other general approach to produce IAQ guidelines for different indoor environments. He has over 10 years experience with the IAQ study in subway environment and now he has been trying to deliver his work experience to international research partners. The outdoor air quality issues in urban and coastal environments are additional major research activities while making significant contribution to the national air quality management in Korea. Recently has been also dedicating efforts to the climate change issue, especially the greenhouse gases (GHGs) emission from marine vessels is the subject for his recent study. He has also been performing various international research exchange programs in the areas of his research interests with China, Taiwan, Nepal, United States, etc.

Presentation Title:

Energy management vs. indoor air quality issue in metropolitan subway environments

Dr Harry Lehmann

Federal Environment Agency of Germany, Dessau, Germany

He worked at various establishments since 1979, CERN/Geneva, Member of the UA1Group under Carlo Rubbia (Nobel price 1984), discovery of the Z0, W+ and W- (Elementary Particle Physics); Founder and owner of the Engineering Consultancy "UHL Data" for Systems Analysis and Simulation in the field of Energy and Environment; Teacher at the Polytechnic of Aachen, Dpt. Jülich for "Numerical methods in environmental and energy planning" and "Solar Architecture for Engineers"; Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy: Head of the Systems Analysis Group, Research Director; since 1987 Eurosolar : Member of the Board of the German Section, Vice president of the German Section, President of the German Section and Member of the European Board, 2000 – 2006 Vice president of the European Board, since 2007 Member of the Scientific Board; 1996 Prize-winner of the competition „best environmental book of the year“of the German Foundation for Environment for the book: "Zukunftsenergien - Strategien einer neuen

Energiepolitik”, together with T. Reetz; 1996 - 2000Member of the European Board of the ”European Business Council for a Sustainable Energy Future – E5”; since 1997, Member of the Consultative Committee “50 Solar Districts” of the Building Ministry and the Ministry of Regional Planning of North-Rhine Westfalia; since 1998 Member of the „Factor 10/X Club“ for resource

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productivity and sustainable use of natural resources, since 2005 President; 1999 - 2003 Member of the Enquete Commission “With new energy technologies in the next century” of the Parliament of the state of Bavaria; 2000 – 2002 Member of the Enquete Commission „Sustainable energy supply under the boundaries of globalisation and liberalisation“ of the German Parliament; 2000 – 2003, Solutions and Innovations Unit Director, Greenpeace International; since 2001, Member of the “World Council for Renewable

Energies”; 2000 - 2004Head of the “Institute f Sustainable Solutions and Innovations” (ISuSI); since 2004, General Director at the Federal Environmental Agency of Germany, Dessau, Head of Division Environmental

Planning and Sustainable Strategies; since 2005lectures “Renewable energy technologies” at the University Lüneburg; since 2005, Member of the scientific board of the “Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle”; since 2006, Member of the scientific board of the “Solar Institute” of the Polytechnic of Aachen, Dpt. Jülich, since 2007, co-founder of the “Energy Watch Group” and chairman of the scientific board.

Presentation Title:

100% Greenhouse Gas Free Society in 2050 – the role of renewables

Prof Andre Lejeune

University of Liege, Belgium

André Lejeune is full Professor of the University of Liege, in Belgium, at Civil Engineering Department Hydraulics and Hydraulic Constructions. He was visitor Professor at International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE - UNESCO) Delft Netherlands, at Ecole Polytechnique de Yaoundé, Cameroun, at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland, at Hanoi University of Technology (HUT). Vietnam, and at Electrificación del Caroní, C.A. (EDELCA) Venezuela.He worked as Consultant expert in hydraulic and hydraulic constructions engineering for International Agencies (PNUD, EEC, BAD, BOAD…) and private consultant offices in Algeria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Israel, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia , USSR, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Congo. He was involved in the hydraulic design of more than 40 dams. He received the 1972" Lorenz G. Straub Award" - Minneapolis - Minnesota - U.S.A. Rewarded the best PhD thesis issued in Applied Hydraulic in 1972. Jury: MM. H. Rouse, H.A. Einstein, A. Anderson. He is in International Conference of Large Dams ICOLD-CIGB, the Chairman of the Technical Committee on Hydraulic for Dams. He is member of Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences.

Presentation Title:

Hydropower Progress and Achievement

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Prof Baizhan Li

Professor of Built Environment, Chongqing University, P. R. China

Baizhan Li is a professor in built environment. He is currently the Dean of The Faculty of Urban Construction and Environmental Engineering in Chongqing University, China. He is an Honorary Professor of Hong Kong University. He has established the Key Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region’s Eco-Environment under Ministry of Education in China. He has been the founder Director since June 2004. Prof. Li was previously a Senior Analyst at Battle McCarthy Ltd. Responded for building simulations in 2002, Prior to that Prof. Li was a Post Doctoral Researcher in 1999 and then Research Associate in 2001 at Loughborough University, UK. He has over 25 years experience in teaching, design and consultancy in built environment, specialized in building energy, indoor climate, low carbon and renewable energy. Prof. Li holds a Masters of Science degree in Building Services Engineers from Chongqing University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. in Construction Management and Engineering from School of Construction Management & Engineering in the University of Reading in UK. Prof. Li has authored and co-authored 6 books, over 200 technical papers and 6 Chinese National Standards and Design Guides. He holds 10 Chinese Patents. He received “Construction Industry awards” in the Achievement through Innovation category for the prototype software tool “the Analytical Design Planning Technique (ADePT)” in London in March 1999. He received first prize award for scientific progress awarded by the Ministry of Education in China in 2009. Prof. Li is currently a Member of National Committee on National Climate Change Challenge under Ministry of Science & Technology, Member of National Science Committee (Energy, Civil, Architecture, Transportation and Environmental Engineering) under Ministry of Education, Member of National Science Committee under Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction and Member of National Consultant Committee of Sustainable Resource & Environment under Ministry of Construction in China.Prof. Li is a Fellow of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRCIS), Fellow of The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (FCIBSE), and Fellow of International Society of the Built Environment in UK.

Presentation Title:

An Introduction of Geothermal Water-Source Heat Pump Technologies Applied in a Building in Chongqing in China

Ms Christine Lins

Secretary General of European Renewable Energy Counsel, Brussels,

Belgium

Christine Lins, Secretary General of EREC (European Renewable Energy Council) since April 2001, graduated from the University of Linz, Austria (international economics and applied languages with a specialization in marketing). She has more than 12 years of working experience in the field of renewable energy sources. Key tasks of Ms Lins at EREC include policy advice for renewable energy sources and energy efficiency, the running of the associations, the management of international projects as well as the organization of international events. EREC is the common voice in Brussels for the European renewable energy industry, which currently employs more than 450.000 people and has an annual turnover of 45 billion €. Before moving to Brussels in 2001 she held the post of Project Manager at O.Ö.

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Energiesparverband (regional energy agency promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy sources) for international projects.

Presentation Title:

RES Policy Framework in Europe, RES Directive – the most ambitious law on renewable energy world-wide and RES Technology roadmap

Dr Elke Lorenz

Senior scientist, Energy Meteorology Unit, Energy and Semiconductor

Research Laboratory, Institute of Physics, University of Oldenburg,

Netherlands

Dr. Elke Lorenz is working as senior scientist in the Energy Meteorology Unit of the Energy and Semiconductor Research Laboratory of the Institute of Physics at the University of Oldenburg. She studied Physics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Oldenburg, where she received a Diploma degree in Physics 1995. Since then she is working in the field of energy meteorology. Her research focuses on prediction of solar irradiance and solar power production, and on methods to derive solar irradiance from satellite data. In her PhD thesis she investigated methods to determine cloud motionin satellite images and their application for short term forecasting of solar radiation. Sheparticipated in the European project SoDA, which aimed at providing services for professionals in solar energy and radiation, and at the integration and exploitation of networked solar radiation databases for environment monitoring. She was leading scientist in the European projects PVSAT-2 (Intelligent Performance Check of PV System Operation Based on Satellite Data) and MESoR (Management and Exploitation of Solar Resource Knowledge). From 2004 to 2008 she was member of the executive board of the virtual Institute of Energy Meteorology, a joint project of Oldenburg University and the German Aerospace Center DLR. Currently she leads the irradianceforecasting activities in the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC) -Task 36 on Solar Resource Knowledge Management and is responsible for the research field "solar irradiance and photovoltaic power prediction" of the Energy Meteorology Unit at Oldenburg University.

Presentation Title:

Role of resource assessment for an increasing use of solar energy

Mr Colin Mallett

BSc MSc CEng MIET, Founder and CEO, Trusted Renewables Ltd,

Friston, UK

Colin Mallett founded Trusted Renewables Ltd in 2008. The company applies ICT to carbon reduction and renewable energy industry and is developing a secure, trusted architecture based on best practice e-commerce techniques. This company grew out of a highly successful mobility and e-commerce consulting company which Colin founded in 2002 when he left BT Laboratories.Before he left BT Colin focused on ICT innovation - both as a Principal Consultant and a design authority. This included leading international collaboration to define a ‘SoftTelco’ - a new kind virtual communications provider which became a venture in BT’s corporate incubator. Colin was also a

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founder member of BT’s Mobility Research Centre and was responsible for BT's mobile applications platforms research. Earlier in his career he was involved in the development of optical fiber undersea cables which included leading a research team looking at high speed electronic devices. Colin has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Bath University and an MSc in Telecommunications from Essex University, is a Chartered Engineer and corporate member of the IET and Charted Management Institute.

Presentation Title:

Network-Enabled Intelligent Photovoltaic Arrays

Dr Xavier Mathew

Senior scientist, Centro de Investigación en Energía, Universidad

Nacional Autónoma de México, México

Dr. Mathew obtained his Ph. D in 1991 from the Kerala University, India. He started his career as a physics lecturer in a college affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University at the southern State of India, Kerala. Dr. Mathew is currently working with the energy research center of the National autonomous University of Mexico, and is a member of the Mexican National Researchers Scheme. During the past ten years as an active researcher, Dr. Mathew has contributed significantly to the advancement of solar cell research, CdTe cells in particular, and to the formation of young scientists through the supervision of post-doctoral, and graduate students. He has served in examination committees of various educational institutions in Mexico as well as abroad. Dr. Mathew’s contributions to the CdTe based solar cell research has resulted in the development of thin films of CdTe by close spaced sublimation, CdMgTe films by co-evaporation and prototype CdTe/CdS and CdMgTe/CdS solar cells. The findings in all these research activities are published in international journals (more than 60 articles) and in conference proceedings, which has been cited in published work of researchers outside his group. He is an active promoter of academia-industry partnerships in Mexico, and serves as co-investigator in industrial partnership project funded by National council for science and technology (CONACYT) of Mexico. Dr. Mathew is the principal investigator of different research projects in the field of solar cells funded by CONACYT, and leads a photovoltaic group at the energy research center. Dr. Mathew is known among his peers, both National and International. He is member of IEEE, ISES, SPIE, MRS, MRS-Mexico, and AMC-Mexico. For the past six years, he has been the Chairman of photovoltaics symposium at the annual meetings of Mexican MRS. He is one of the Associate Editors for the Elsevier journal “Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells” and has served as invited editor for few other International journals.

Presentation Title:

CdTe Prospect and future development

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Ms Julie Anne McLaughlin

Head of Origansation for South East Asia, EON Climate & Renewables

GmbH, Selangor, Malaysia

Julie currently oversees the South East Asia carbon origination for EON, identifying, structuring and negotiating emissions reduction purchase agreement (ERPA) contracts throughout the region. She is also responsible the specific processes and procedures related to project appraisal and ERPA contracting for the entire EON group.In 2008, Julie joined EON as Head of Origination for South East Asia. EON is headquartered in Dusseldorf and is one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies, operating along the entire value chain. EON has activities across Europe and operates electric, gas and renewable energy generating assets in North America. In 2008, EON generated just under EUR87 billion in sales. Prior to EON, Julie was with EcoSecurities Group PLC in New York, Santiago (Chile) and Oxford (UK). Prior to EcoSecurities, Julie worked for Global Change Associates in New York, where she was first exposed to environmental attribute markets. Julie also completed a two-year Peace Corps service in San Ramon, Nicaragua in the field of Environmental Education.Julie completed her undergraduate work at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and English. During her undergraduate work, she also completed a Comparative Ecology Program at the School for International Training in Quito, Ecuador. Later, Julie received her Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy from The Earth Institute at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs in New York.

Presentation Title:

Experiences and lessons learned in developing renewable energy projects

Prof Andrew Miller

Head of the Centre for Sustainability, Brighton University, Brighton, UK

Andrew Miller is Professor of Building Sustainability and Head of the Centre for Sustainability of the Built Environment (CSBE) in the School of Environment and Technology at the University of Brighton in the UK. He is also adjunct professor in the School of the Built Environment at Curtin University of Technology in Perth Australia.He is a chartered Building Services Engineer with over 30 years of experience in research related to the environmental performance of buildings. He has a keen interest in the environmental lifecycle of buildings, the resources they consume and their resulting pollution of the environment. His research includes the embodied energy of materials, thermal performance of buildings in operation as well as recycling of materials at the end of the useful life of the building. He is particularly interested in passive building design and in low carbon refurbishment of existing buildings.The CSBE undertakes research nationally and internationally collaborating with universities in Australia, China and Thailand as well as several European Universities. It works closely with industry and is currently working with consultants and contractors developing their knowledgebase for both new build and refurbished sustainable homes.

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Presentation Title:

Green Buildings Materials and Techniques

Prof Bahram Moshfegh

Division chairman of energy systems, mechanical engineering

department, Linkoping University, Sweden

Professor Moshfegh is the Chairman of Division of Energy Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Linköping University. He is also Professor of Heat Transfer and Head of the Division of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Technology and Build Environment, University of Gävle. Professor Bahram Moshfegh has rather wide research interests, and has been active in many areas of fluid flow and heat transfer, for example heat conduction, super insulation, phase change process, contact heat transfer, natural and forced convection (both laminar and turbulent flows) and radiation heat transfer. Professor Bahram Moshfegh main research interests is mathematical modeling of fluid flow and heat transfer in closed spaces and channels by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD, code with applications to heat transfer in buildings, heating and ventilation systems, industrial ventilation, low energy buildings, cooling of solar cells, developing of novel and energy efficient room air distribution systems as well as validation of numerical predictions by means of applying different advanced experimental techniques for velocity and temperature measurements.

Presentation Title:

New Energy Efficient Ventilation System

Dr Helio Moutinho

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado, USA

Dr. Helio Moutinho has been working in the research of photovoltaic materials for over 25 years. His specialty is in the area of materials characterization, including atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning Kelvin probe microscopy, conductive AFM, electron backscatter diffraction, and other techniques. He investigates the structural and electrical properties of photovoltaic materials such as CdTe, CdS, and Si, as well as photovoltaic devices. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; a Masters in Materials Science from the Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil; and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the Colorado School of Mines, USA. From 1981 to 1987, he worked at the Military Institute of Engineering on the deposition and characterization of photovoltaic materials such as InP and CdS. In 1987, he began working at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where he is now a senior scientist in the Measurements and Characterization Division. Dr. Moutinho has published over 150 scientific articles.

Presentation Title:

Characterization of CdTe Thin Films and Devices Using Scanning Probe Microscopy and Electron Backscatter Diffraction

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Prof Dr Helmut F.O. Müller

Greenbuilding Research and Development, Germany

Professor Muller, in 1966 – 71, Study of Architecture at University of Hanover and Stuttgart (Diploma). In 1971 – 72 had DAAD scholarship at the London University College (School of Environmental Studies / Bartlett School). 1979 Ph D Degree at the University of Stuttgart (Dr.-Ing.). In 1982 – 93, he was Professor at the Polytechnic of Cologne, Department of ArchitectureFrom 1991 - 97 he established the Foundation and director of the Institute of Light and Building Technology at the Polytechnic of Cologne (ILB). From 1993 – 2009, he is Univ.-Professor, Chair of Environmental Architecture, Department of Building, University of Dortmund. Also from 1997 - 2005 General Manager, GLB, Gesellschaft für Licht und Bautechnik mbH, Dortmund since 2006 Deputy chairman of FiTLicht e.V. He was involved in the Development Association Innovative Daylight Utilization since 2008 Director of Green Building R&D, Düsseldorf, Partner of office consortium 4greenarchitecture, Düsseldorf., Member of board of directors, Schuermann Spannel AG, Bochum.

Presentation Title:

1 - Advanced Daylighting by Micro Structured Components2 - Energy Efficient Museum Buildings

Mr Ammar Munir

Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA), UAE

He got the Bachelor and Master of Science, in electrical power systems engineering, from Baghdad-Iraq in 1984 and 1989. The research part of my master dealt with the reactive power control in distribution networks, considering overhead and underground distribution feeders. In 1990, He joined the Solar Energy Research Centre in Baghdad as a researcher in the Photovoltaic system applications department, and headed later on from 1993 until 1998. During that time, He was involved in designing and implementing stand-alone PV systems in Iraq for different applications including, water lifting and pumping, mobile PV generators, remote TV broadcasting stations, street lighting, radio telecom units, and others. Additionally, the department was involved in designing and implementing solar battery charge regulators and small invertors. In 1999, He joined the Emirates Applied Solar Energy Consultant in Sharjah-UAE as a consultant and designer of PV systems for different applications. Also He was involved in conducting feasibility studies for installing PV modules production line for several investors.In 2001, He joined the Arab Science and Technology Foundation in Sharjah-UAE and worked as a manager of the research grants program. At the same time, He joined a research team at the University of Sharjah doing several studies related to PV modules production lines and zero energy houses.In 2006, He investigated the impact of PV-Grid connected systems on the distribution network. In May 2008, He joined the National Energy and Water Research Centre (NEWRC) of Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) as a senior research engineer at the Renewable Energy Department. He is leading a research team working on the optimal installation of PV-Grid connected

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systems at the distribution level and a team member and coordinator of the first PV-Grid project connected at the distribution level in the UAE. The project has been implemented by NEWRC and interfaced effectively with Abu Dhabi distribution network in November 1, 2008.

Presentation Title:

PV Grid Connection in the UAE

Dr Luke Myers

Sustainable Energy Research Group, University of Southampton, UK

Luke Myers is a Research Fellow in the Sustainable Energy Research Group, part of the School of Civil Engineering and the environment. Luke joined the group following the completion of his PhD entitled “Operational parameters of horizontal axis marine current turbines”. This was one of the first research studies in this new field of renewable energy research that has since expanded at a rapid rate. Luke’s PhD involved the testing of a 1/30th scale horizontal axis turbine in a water channel, one of the first research studies in the field. Further tidal energy work was conducted to investigate the flow characteristics around horizontal axis tidal turbines through extensive flow mapping around scale turbines and mesh disk rotor simulators. Early results from 1/100th scale disk simulator experiments demonstrated the flow field around devices was more complicated that perhaps originally believed. Luke designed two fully-instrumented 1/15th scale horizontal axis turbines Testing was conducted at large European facilities where laser and acoustic flow mapping was made of the flow field downstream of the turbines.Luke is presently working on an EU project named EquiMar. Funded under the FP7 programme the project is geared towards developing standards and protocols for the equitable comparison of wave and tidal energy devices.

Presentation Title:

Design of 1st-generation marine current energy converter arrays

Dr Marialena Nikolopoulou

Director of EDEn, Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering,

University of Bath, UK

Marialena is Director of the Research Unit for the Engineering and Design of Environments (EDEn). Her research has been awarded the RIBA Trust Research Award and the Human Biometeorology Scientific Award by the International Society of Biometeorology. She has participated in various national and international collaborative research projects funded by the EU, UNESCO and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, working on sustainability, energy in the urban environment and environmental quality. She coordinated the EU 5th Framework Programmed project, RUROS, on outdoor comfort, and was a member of the Steering Committee for the Greencluster Network. She has implemented research findings at local level and provided consultancy on low energy buildings and urban settings. She has contributed as a member of scientific committees of international conferences, peer-reviewed papers for journals and research proposals to the EU and EPSRC. She has given invited

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talks internationally, to Kassel, UC Berkeley, Göteborg, Berlin, Milan and Athens. She is on the editorial board of an International Journal and has over 50 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and refereed conference.

Presentation Title:

Understanding people in open spaces: can it enhance our adaptive capacity under climate change?

Prof Brian Norton

President of Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland

Professor Brian Norton is President of Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland’s largest (21,500 students, 2500 staff) and most diverse third-level institution.Professor Norton was Dean of Engineering and Built Environment at University of Ulster. He is the author or co-author of over 400 papers principally in solar energy research including over 160 in major international learned journals. He has supervised thirty-four doctorates. Serves as Associate Editor of “Solar Energy” - the premier international journal in the field and serves on three other editorial boards. He has very extensive international links and over €10 million in research grants.Professor Norton has chaired the World Renewable Energy Network, the BSI Technical Committee on Solar Heating, the Eco-Energy Trust and, still chairs Action Renewables. He has represented the university sector on the Board of the Foundation for the Built Environment, which owns the UK Building Research Establishment. He has been a ministerial appointee to the Construction Industry Training Board. He was a member of the Built Environment Panel for the 2001 UK national universities Research Assessment Exercise and Chaired the Northern Ireland Business Education Partnership. He currently is a member of a number of Irish national policy committees and forums, including the North-South round table. He has served on a joint committee of the UK research councils and on the Engineering Sciences Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a member of the Council of the Irish Academy of Engineering and of the Council of Dublin Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Audit Committee of Dublin City Council. He is a European Universities Association institutional assessor.He has a BSc (Hons) in Physics from University of Nottingham and MSc and PhD degrees, in Engineering Experimentation and Applied Energy respectively, from Cranfield University and DSc from the University of Nottingham. He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute and the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, a Chartered Engineer (both in Ireland and the UK) and Fellow, Higher Education Academy. He was awarded the Napier Shaw Medal of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers and received the Roscoe Award of the Institute of Energy. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers and a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering. He is an Honorary Professor of the both University of Ulster, UK, and the Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Presentation Title:

The interdisciplinary scope of solar energy applications development

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Dr Gilles Notton

Université de Corse - UMR CNRS, Ajaccio, France

Gilles Notton gained PhD degrees in Energy Engineering in 1992 from the University of Corsica (France). He obtained its accreditation to supervise research in 2002. He is working in the fields of renewable energy for over 20 years. Since 2003, he was responsible of a research network on renewable energy systems between France and Oriental and Central European Countries with the support of the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME). His research interests cover renewable energy sources estimations, Wind/PV hybrid systems and development of new concepts of solar collector with high integration level in building. His career’s output includes over 40 international publications and one hundred communications in international congresses.

Presentation Title:

Hybrid wind/PV energy systems

Mr David Porter Obe

Chief Executive Association of Electricity Producers

David Porter began his career in local government. He then ran businesses of his own, including a successful restaurant in Cornwall and later a PR consultancy. He was an adviser to the Association from 1987, then became its Chief Executive in 1991 (until 1995 it was the Association of Independent Electricity Producers).He has served on the Executive Committee of the Electricity Pool of England & Wales; the government’s Renewable Energy Advisory Committee and the ‘Foresight Energy Futures Task Force’ and he was President of the UK’s Energy Industries Club 2003 - 2005. He is currently

• on the Board of the European electricity body ‘Eurelectric’; • a Director of the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group

(‘PRASEG’) and • a member of the government's Coal Forum.

David is an Honorary Fellow of the Energy Institute.He was appointed OBE for services to the Power Generation Industry in June 2007.

Presentation Title:

Renewable Energy Policy, Incentives and Barriers

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Prof Dato’ Dr Mohd. Yusof Hj. Othman

Director, Institute of Islam Hadhari, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia

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 Innovation Management 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.

Presentation Title:

Renewable Energy in Malaysia Issues and Challenges

Prof Alan Penn

Dean, the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College

London, UK

Alan Penn is an architect and a researcher at the Bartlett, UCL. He has been directly involved in the development of space syntax techniques and their application in a wide range of research and live project domains. In particular he has specialised in the application of these techniques to the design of large and complex buildings and work environments such as offices, science laboratories and hospitals. At the urban scale he has worked on the use of space syntax for analysis of vehicular flows, as well as for the predictive modelling of urban air pollution distributions. He has made a significant contribution to the development of new analytic techniques and software for space syntax analysis, and has recently managed projects which have developed software to tackle the representation and analysis of three dimensional spatial systems. He is the Director of the Virtual Reality Centre for the Built Environment, a UK Government and industry funded research centre at UCL, which is developing the use of virtual reality techniques for application

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to the design, construction and management of the built environment. Qualifications1983 MSc in Advanced Architectural Studies (Distinction), University College London 1982 RIBA pt III, ARCUK 1980 Diploma in Architecture, University College London 1979 Field experience year certificate, University College London 1978 BSc (Hons) in Architecture, University College London

Presentation Title:

Sustainable Urbanity: the spatialisation of society and economy

Dr Enio Bueno Pereira

Space Research, Brazil

Dr. Enio Pereira is a senior researcher at the Earth System Center of the National Institute for Space Research – INPE in Brazil, in which he has been engaged since 1981. His major field of work is on Energy Resources and the Earth’s Climate System. Over the last 20 years he has leaded several national and international projects focusing the development and application of models for the assessment of solar and wind energy resources, as well as the organization and management of networks for ground data acquisition, data quality assessment and distribution. He is the head of the Renewable Energy Group at INPE. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and books, and more than 150 publications in conference proceedings. He also teaches at the graduate level and supervises several Ph.D. and post-doc students at INPE.

Presentation Title:

The impacts of global climate changes on the wind power density in Brazil

Dr Giuliano C. Premier

Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Dr Premier is a Reader in Low Carbon Systems Engineering and senior member of the Sustainable Environment Research Center (SERC) and its subunits, the Hydrogen Research Unit (HRU) and Wastewater Treatment Research Unit (WWTRU) at the University of Glamorgan. His research activities cover renewable energy systems, biological wastewater treatment, wider technical and socio-economic implications of a transition to a hydrogen based economy, biohydrogen production, and bioelectrochemical systems (BES), in particular microbial fuel cells. His Ph.D. concerned the modelling and automatic control of anaerobic digestion (AD) processes and he has since been mainly involved with research into anaerobic processes including AD, Microbial Fuel Cells and the biological production of hydrogen by dark fermentation. His research also includes industrial computer aided control system design and instrumentation for soil and groundwater bio-activity monitoring. He is currently involved in collaborative projects with universities and industrial partners: EU FP6 REMOVALS project, during which hydrogen has been generated from sewage sludge; EPSRC SUPERGEN Sustainable Hydrogen Energy Consortium, considering the production of hydrogen from

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crops; SUPERGEN Biological Fuel Cells Consortium in which he leads the Microbial Fuel Cells Theme, NERC (with funding also from other Research Councils) TSEC BioSys project, modelling of biological conversion; a Carbon Trust project in which dark fermentative hydrogen and methane from an industrial co-product are considered, EU ERDF which has established The Hydrogen Research and Demonstration Centre at Baglan Bay in South Wales, where research into the technical and socio-economic implications of a transition to a hydrogen economy continue.

Presentation Title:

Integration of biohydrogen, biomethan and bioelectrochemical systems

Prof Ishwar K. Puri

Virginia Tech, USA

Professor Puri has served as Professor and Department Head of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech since 2004. He obtained his Ph.D. (1987), and M.S. (1984) degrees in Engineering Science (Applied Mechanics) from the University of California, San Diego after obtaining a B.Sc. (1982) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delhi. He was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1990-2004 where he also served as Executive Associate Dean of Engineering (2001-04). He is the author of over 250 archival and conference publications in the field of combustion and transport phenomena related to emissions, self assembly and magnetic drug targeting, and hydrogen storage. He has edited a book on the environmental implications of combustion processes, a textbook on Advanced Thermodynamics Engineering and another on Combustion Science and Engineering. Professor Puri is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is an editor of Experimental Heat Transfer and Associate Editor of International Journal of Reacting Systems.

Presentation Title:

Implications of Emerging Research for Innovations in Energy Technologies

Dr Wiktor Raldow

Director of Energy Conversion & Distribution, System, EU

He joined the European Commission in 1997. Since 2002, he is the head of the unit for new and renewable energy sources until 2006. Wiktor Raldow graduated 1972 in chemical engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He obtained his Ph D at the same school and worked as a post-graduate fellow at the University of Houston, Texas. Later, he was also active as a part time professor of Thermochemical Absorption Processes at the University of Lund.Wiktor Raldow published more than 30 articles and co-authored two books (in Swedish), one on energy storage and the other on a long term vision of the energy systems. Wiktor Raldow worked several years with industrially relevant research at the Swedish National Board for Technical and Industrial Development. During this period he also was the national representative to and the chair of IEA implementing agreement on Hydrogen and Energy Storage. Presently he is Director of Energy Conversion and

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distribution systems , Directorate K-Energy, European Commission.

Presentation Title:

European Electrical Grid Initiative

Prof Dr Pogaku Ravindra

Professor of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, School of

Engineering and Information Technology, University Malaysia Sabah

Prof. Dr. Pogaku Ravindra is an internationally renowned expert in bioenergy and biofuels field. Currently, he is a distinguished Professor of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, and the Postgraduate coordinator of School of Engineering and Information Technology at University Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Kotakinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.He has rich versatile and varied experience of teaching, research, industry, administrative and executive spanning over 30 years.Prof. Ravindra’s research interests include biofuels, wealth from waste (Single Cell protein etc), bioprocess engineering. At present his research group focus is on Bio-derived energy for sustainable development. His research work has culminated in over 150 research publications including chapters in books, critical reviews and presentations to his credit. He has published five books. He is the editor-in-chief, editorial board member, guest editor in referred journals and reviewer of many peer journals.He has carried out as many as 25 national, international and industrialresearch projects. He was bestowed with the national and international prestigious and distinguished awards. He has won gold and silver medals for his research contributions to the Chemical and Bio processing industry. Prof. Ravindra has delivered invited talks; keynote lectures at various National and International institutions and has a passion to interact with the people as he realizes this would be an opportunity to reach out to a wide spectrum of people. His focus is on the issues of Green energy, Environment and Food for sustainable development for better society. Prof. Ravindra envisions and dreams of a world without hunger and lead healthy lives.

Presentation Title:

Green (Cellulosic) Biofuels-Challenges and Opportunities

Mr Wilson Rickerson

Meister Consultants Group, Boston, USA

Wilson Rickerson is Executive Vice President at Meister Consultants Group, and is responsible for the firm’s international energy and climate change practice. Mr. Rickerson specializes in sustainable energy policy and market development, and has extensive experience with energy policy design and development at the state and municipal levels in the US. His recent work includes feed-in tariff design for the states of California and Hawaii, solar energy planning for the cities of Boston and New York, and sustainable energy utility development for the District of Columbia. Prior to his work in consulting, Mr. Rickerson was Policy Advisor to the Center for Sustainable Energy, staffed the Delaware Senate’s Energy & Transit Committee, and worked for the

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German Wind Energy Association in Berlin. Mr. Rickerson holds a Masters in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware, and a BA in International Relations from the College of William & Mary. He serves on the Board of the Institut für Organisationskommunikation, the Advisory Committee for the Solar America Board of Codes and Standards, the Advisory Board for the Network for New Energy Choices, and is a Policy Fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy.

Presentation Title:

Reinventing energy service delivery? Institutional innovation and the rise of the Sustainable Energy Utility

Dr Barbara Ridley

Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies, School of

Mathematics & Statistics, University of South Australia

Barbara is currently a member of a project team developing procedures to reliably forecast wind energy utilising advanced mathematical methodologies. Most importantly, the team is developing new techniques for modelling the volatility so that the output from these wind farms can be reliably estimated in order to enter fully into the competitive electricity market. This will move the market towards reducing its dependence on conventional centralised generation to a situation where more diversified, more volatile and less controllable generation sources contribute a significant percentage of the energy.Barbara’s previous work has focussed on mathematical modelling of diffuse solar radiation where she has published several articles and has developed a model of diffuse solar fraction with multiple predictors which can be used at any location worldwide. She has also developed algorithms for other weather variables for updating the Australian Climate Data Bank which underpins all building simulation and energy efficiency provisions for the Building Code of Australia.

Presentation Title:

Forecasting wind energy at 5 minute intervals using Lebesgue Integrals

Prof Renato Rizzo

Department of Electrical Engineering University of Naples Federico II,

Italy

His research and teaching field of interest is Power Electronics, Electric Machines and Drives. Courses delivered: Electrical Energy Generators, Laboratory of Electric Machines, Basics of Electrical Drives, Electric Machines Design.Author of more than 150 scientific papers published in Journals and/or Conference Proceedings, 3 books.Professor Honoris Causa Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Gold Medal Faculty of Engineering University of Cairo, IEEE Senior Member, ANAE Treasurer.Conference Manager of International Conference on Clean Electrical Power ICCEP (2007 and 2009).Reviewer IEEE Transactions, IET Proceedings, Scientific Journals and

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Conferences on Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics Electric Machines and Drives, Renewable Energy.Member of many Conference Scientific Committees, Coordinator and/or participant as a researcher in Research Projects supported by European Commission, NATO, Italian Ministry University and Industry, consultant for Private Companies on topics concerning Electrical Energy.Scientific Coordinator of Research Program Agreements between University of Naples Federico II and University of South Carolina USA, Tennessee Tech University USA, Nagasaki University JAPAN.Scientific Coordinator and Grantholder: Master on Economy Engineering supported by European Commission (partners: University of Naples, University of York, University of Cairo, TEI Piraeus).

Presentation Title:

Electrical Systems in Wind Energy

Prof Dermot J. Roddy

Professor of Energy, Newcastle University

Dermot Roddy has recently joined Newcastle University as Science City Professor of Energy after a period of some 20 years in the energy industry and petrochemical sectors. He is co-Director of the Sir Joseph Swan Institute for Energy Research, which integrates energy research across Newcastle University and links with a powerful external industrial base in the energy sector. As Chief Executive of Renew Tees Valley Ltd – a company which he set up in 2003 to create a viable and vibrant economy in the Tees Valley based on renewable energy and recycling – he was instrumental in a wide range of major renewable energy and low-carbon projects, relating to biomass, biofuels, hydrogen, carbon capture & storage, wind and advanced waste processing technologies. From 1998 to 2002 he ran the crude oil refinery on Teesside as site director for a $1 bn-turnover facility before moving to the Netherlands to work on Petroplus’ international growth plans. Dermot’s experience in the petrochemical industry began in 1985, involving a variety of UK and international roles in operations, engineering and technology with ICI and others. Prior to that he developed leading-edge technology at Queen’s University, Belfast, for optimisation and control in aerospace applications.

Presentation Title:

Biomass and Biofuel Production

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Mr Leon Rost

Urban designer, Porto, Portugal

Leon Rost is an architect and urban designer with education from California Polytechnic University, combined with a year at Denmark’s International Studies (DIS) program in Copenhagen. He has worked with various international architects such as BIG and JDS in Denmark, Shigeru Ban and Klein Dytham in Japan, KSARK in Sweden, and Space Group in Norway. Leon cofounded On Office in Oslo in 2008 and relocated to Porto, Portugal in 2009.

Presentation Title:

Turbine City – a combination of Tourism and Energy

Dr Thomas Rüschen

Global Head Asset Finance & Leasing, Deutsche Bank

Dr. Thomas Rüschen is globally responsible for Asset Finance & Leasing, a product group within Deutsche Bank’s Corporate and Investment Division. He joined Deutsche Bank in 1990 and worked in various functions within Corporate and Investment Banking in Frankfurt, London and Milan. In this capacity he is also a member of the Corporate Finance Executive Committee. In addition to his global responsibility he acts also as CEO of Deutsche Immobilien Leasing GmbH, Düsseldorf, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG. Thomas is also a member of the ESC Environmental Steering Committee of Deutsche Bank Group. Furthermore he is Member of the Group of Founders of DESERTEC Industrial Initiative. Responsibilities he held since 1990 include the role as Senior Relationship Manager within Relationship Management/Structured Finance in London and a role within Credit Risk Management. From 1997 to 2000 he was responsible for the corporate banking business in Continental Europe outside of Germany. Prior to taking over his current function in 2003, he served as Country Manager for Deutsche Bank in Italy. Following the completion of his studies at the University of Mannheim he wrote his thesis on the topic of „Consulting Banking“ at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt where he completed his PhD. Subsequently he worked for two years for a management consultancy.

Presentation Title:

Financial Innovation for the Renewable Energy Industry

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Prof Ricardo Rüther

LABSOLAR - Laboratorio de Energia Solar, Universidade Federal de

Santa Catarina / UFSC, Brazil

Associate Professor Ricardo Rüther was born in Brazil in 1964 and graduated in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 1988, where he also obtained his M.Sc in Metallurgy and Materials Science in 1991. Prof. Rüther moved to Perth - Australia in 1991, where he obtained his Ph.D. from The University of Western Australia in 1995. In 1995 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Award, moving to Freiburg – Germany, spending 15 months at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. In 1997 Prof. Rüther moved back to Brazil, establishing a photovoltaics research group at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, where he installed the first grid-connected, building-integrated photovoltaic installation in Brazil. In 2000 Prof. Rüther was tenured at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. His main interests concentrate in the field of thin-film photovoltaics, where he has published his most relevant scientific contributions, and in the development of grid-connected photovoltaics in Brazil. Prof. Rüther has founded, and was the first President, of ISES do Brasil, the Brazilian section of the International Solar Energy Society – ISES.

Presentation Title:

The potential of building-integrated, grid-connected PV in warm climate developing countries - Policy issues and showcase projects Solar Soccer Stadia and Solar Airports

Prof Wasim Saman

University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Wasim Saman is professor of sustainable energy engineering at the University of South Australia. He is founding Director of the Sustainable Energy Centre and Director of Research of the Institute for Sustainable systems and Technologies which he established and was founding Director. The institute comprises over 150 staff and research students working on innovations in sustainable systems and technologies.Professor Saman has a Ph D in Mechanical Engineering. He is Fellow of the Australian Institute of Energy, Fellow of the Australian Institute for Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating and Director of the Australian Carbon Biosequestration initiative. He has published over180 technical papers in renewable energy and energy management and has supervised 30 post graduate students in this area. Professor Saman current research activities focus on energy efficient buildings and appliances. He is leading research teams developing solar driven heating and cooling systems and contributing to reducing energy use in new and existing housing. His contribution comprises developing national rating tools, detailed monitoring of energy use in new and existing dwellings, advising the building industry and governments on innovations and programs for reducing energy use and peak demand in the housing sector and the impact on the electricity grid.Some of the outcomes of his industry linked research and development activities which have found their way to commercialisation are a roof integrated solar heating system and a new generation of solar lights. His current interests are evaluation and regulation of energy consumption in buildings, solar and energy efficient heating, cooling, dehumidification and hot water systems,

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energy storage and sustainable energy policy. He has recently established the Sustainable Energy Industry Support Centre to work collaboratively with industry partners in developing and evaluating new sustainable energy products. He has also established the Whyalla Regional Sustainability Centre with the aim of working with the minerals industry to develop sustainable energy, water and waste solutions. Current projects include working with Wizard Power on evaluating the first demonstration of solar dish technology for energy generation and storage and working with OneSteel on using waste heat to produce demineralised water.

Presentation Title:

Towards Zero Energy Homes Down Under

Mr Bruno Schmitz

Head of Unit, DG Research, European Commission

Bruno Schmitz is Head of Unit in the Directorate General for Research of the European Commission. Since October 2006, he is responsible for the "New and Renewable Energy Sources" Unit, which aims at promoting and supporting research on a mix of renewable energy technologies (solar, wind, biomass, ocean, geothermal) to address the pressing challenges of security of supply and climate change, whilst increasing the competitiveness of Europe’s industries.He holds a MS degree in bioengineering from the Free University of Brussels and started his career as researcher in the Belgian national programme on energy. He joined the European Commission in 1984, where he started as Project Officer responsible for the "Development of Natural Resources" Sub-Programme of the FAST (Forecasting and Assessment in the field of Science and Technology) Programme. In 1989, he created the SAST (Strategic Analysis in Science and Technology) Unit. He then held various positions in DG Research. Notably, between 1996 and 1999, he was appointed advisor to the Director General, whilst being also Deputy Director of the "Environment-Water" Task Force and Secretary of the European Science and Technology Assembly (ESTA). Prior to his current appointment he was Head of the "Research Training Networks" Unit as part of the FP6 "Human Resources and Mobility" Programme.

Presentation Title:

International Cooperation on Renewable Energy Research EU Prospective

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Mr Stefan Schurig

Director Climate Energy, World Future Council, Germany

Dipl. Ing. Stefan Schurig, born 1971 in Berlin / Germany is an architect from his background but devoted most of his working life to energy and climate change issues. He has been working in civil society organisations since twenty years. In the early nineties he became a board member of Germany’s biggest environmental youth organisation and was involved in the foundation of the youth organisation of the green party in Germany. In 1998 he became a press officer for Greenpeace in Germany. From 2002 to 2007 he became member of the Senior Management Team in Greenpeace and headed the Climate and Energy department. In 2004 Stefan became a member of the REALISE Forum, an international platform on renewable energy policies led by the European Union. Stefan Schurig has considerably shaped the image of Greenpeace for some ten years. Since 2007 Stefan is working as Director Climate Energy for the World Future Council (WFC), an international organisation founded by Jakob von Uexküll who founded the Alternative Nobel Prize in 1980. In this position Stefan initiated the international project on renewable energy and the world wide promotion of ‘Feed in tariffs’ as one of the best policies for a massive uptake of renewable energy. He also coordinates the international Expert Commission on Cities and Climate Change in collaboration with the Hafen City University (HCU) based in Hamburg. Stefan provides advice for parliamentarians from different countries and gives lectures at many international conferences e.g in China, India, South Africa, Middle East and Europe. He authored and co authored various articles and book contributions on renewable energy and climate change issues.

Presentation Title:

FIT for Future - How a Feed in Tariff (FIT) and other policies can boost the renewable energy sector

Prof Li Shao

Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, De Montfort University,

Leicester, UK

The author is Professor in Building Energy Systems and Head of Research at the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD), De Montfort University. He obtained his PhD from the University of Sheffield and had worked at the UK Building Research Establishment before starting his academic career at Nottingham University in 1993. He has published over 90 papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Supported by UK and European funding bodies as well as industry, he led research projects in the areas of sustainable energy technologies including low energy cooling, daylighting, and computer modelling. Professor Shao is the IESD PI in a number of major consortium projects on building energy and carbon emission reduction including the TARBase project and the active and passive system for airport buildings. He leads the IESD research in the EPSRC CREW consortium which is concerned with enhancing Community Resilience to Extreme Weather events particularly heat waves. He is a lead member of a research team investating into intelligent, user-responsive control of heating/cooling and micro renewable energy systems.

Presentation Title:

Passive ground cooling/heating systems for low energy buildings

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Prof Ralph Sims

Massey University as Professor of Sustainable Energy, and Director,

Centre for Energy Research

Professor Ralph SIMS began his career in Renewable Energy as an agricultural engineer at Massey University, New Zealand in 1973 making and testing biodiesel from vegetable oils and animal fats. He has since published a wide range of research papers and books in all areas of renewable energy. He has consulted for many companies and organizations including Shell, Rio Tinto, NZ Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA), Ministry of Research, Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers, Fellow of the UK Institute of Agricultural Engineers, a Chartered Engineer, and Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He served three terms on the EECA Board before resigning in 2006 to accept a position overseas based at the IEA (International Energy Agency), Paris for nearly 4 years working on sections of the World Energy Outlook 2008 – (the 550 and 450ppm policy scenarios); World Energy Outlook 2009 – (450ppm scenario); Energy Technology Perspectives, 2008; Deploying Renewable Energy 2008. He also co-wrote and produced: “Renewable Energy Heating and Cooling – untapped potential, 2007”; “Transition from 1st to 2nd Generation Biofuels”, 2008; “Good Practice Guidelines for Biomass Project Development”, 2006; and “Cities, Towns and Renewable Energy – YIMFY - Yes In My Front Yard”, 2009. He has now returned to his position at Massey University as Professor of Sustainable Energy, and Director, Centre for Energy Research.For the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) he was:

- Lead Author for the 3rd Assessment Report- Mitigation (2001) covering renewable energy and agriculture;

- Co-ordinating Lead Author of “Energy Supply” chapter in the 4th Assessment Report (2007); and is currently

- Co-ordinating Lead Author of the chapter “Integration into present and future energy supply systems” for the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy due for publication early 2011.

Presentation Title:

Biomass and Biogas A Global Scenario

Mrs Maryam Singeri

Izad University, Architecture and Art Department, Tabriz, Iran

She was born on February 02, 1976 the city of Tabriz, Iran. Presently Ph D, Urbanism (Candidate) at the Faculty of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. She obtained her M.A in Architecture during (1996-2003) on Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch in Iran.Full time Staff Member of Architecture and art Department at Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, central Instructor from 2002 up to this date.She participated in two International Congresses: the World Renewable Energy Congress IX, Aug 2006, Florence, Italy and the 2nd PALENC Conference and 28th AIVC Conference, September 2007, Greece.

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Presentation Title:

Sustainable locality Design Criteria in Tabriz

Dr Saran Paul Sohi

School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Dr. Saran Sohi is Lecturer in Soil Science in the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, and Leader of Soil Science research for the UK Biochar Research Centre. Dr Sohi has combined laboratory based fractionations of soil with simulation modelling to describe soil organic matter and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics for more than ten years. Since 2004 he has worked with leading researchers of charcoal-rich terra preta soils to assess their distinct patterns of carbon turnover, to examine the wider role of charcoal in the global cycle, and to evaluate new biochar-based soil management strategies as a combined tool for bioenergy, climate change mitigation and enhanced crop production.Dr Sohi was recruited to an inter-disciplinary team of three in Edinburgh during 2008, to establish a UK centre for the evaluation of pyrolysis bioenergy and carbon storage in biochar. During 2009 the UK Biochar Research Centre (UKBRC) has reviewed the “potential benefits and issues” around biochar for Defra, and Dr Sohi leads a new project to develop a screening “toolkit” for biochar in dedicated laboratory facilities.Dr Sohi has co-written a review on scientific evidence for the utility of biochar for CSIRO (Australia) and remains affiliated with Rothamsted Research, where he leads a biochar field experiment and co-supervises students. In Edinburgh he leads a team of six scientists and PhD students.

Presentation Title:

New biochar-based soil management strategies as a combined tool for bioenergy, climate change mitigation and enhanced crop production

Prof Dr Kamaruzzaman Bin Sopian

Director of Solar Energy Research Institute, Malaysia

Prof. Dr. Kamaruzzaman Bin Sopian obtained his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985, MSc in Energy Resources from the University of Pittsburgh in 1989 and PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from the Dorgan Solar Laboratory, University of Miami in 1997. He is presently the Professor in Renewable Energy at the Department of Mechanical and Material Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Currently, he is the Director of the Solar Energy Research Institute, a center of excellence for the research and development in solar energy technology. He has been involved in the field of solar energy for more than twenty years. His main contributions are in solar radiation modeling, alternative material for solar absorber, solar water heating system with integrated storage system, solar desalination, solar cooling, daylighting using solar light pipes, solar assisted drying systems, grid-connected photovoltaic system, thin film silicon solar cells, combined Photovoltaic thermal or hybrid collector and solar hydrogen production system.He has published over 400 research papers in journals and conferences. He has delivered keynotes speeches at national and international conferences on

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renewable energy. He is the founding member of the Malaysian Institute of Energy, member of the World Renewable Energy Network based in the United Kingdom and is an associate editor of the Renewable Energy published by Elsevier Ltd. He heads several national subcommittees on renewable energy by the Malaysian government to promote awareness, market enhancement, policy studies and the applications renewable energy.

Presentation Title:

Recent Advances in Photovoltaic Thermal Solar Collectors

Dr Bhushan Sopori

Principal Engineer at NREL, Denver, USA

Bhushan Sopori is a Principal Engineer at the National Center for Photovoltaics, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He joined NREL in June 1987. He is currently performing research in Defect Engineering for advanced device fabrication, development of instrumentation for material growth and device fabrication, and development of new processing techniques. He managed NREL/DOE Silicon Program for about 12 years and was Task Leader for Device Processing and Modeling. Dr. Sopori has published over 200 papers (in the areas of optics, holography, lasers, integrated optics, semiconductor devices, and crystal growth), written two book chapters, has eighteen awarded patents and several other patents are filed. Prior to joining NREL in 1987, he worked at Motorola Inc. for ten years and was Manager, Optoelectronic Analysis, at Solavolt International (a joint venture of Motorola Inc. and Shell Oil Co). Bhushan has developed several instruments that been either licensed or being negotiated for license to industry for commercial production. One of these instruments, Scanning Defect Mapping System received 1993 R&D 100 award. He has also developed optical packages for design and fabrication of optoelectronic devices. One of these packages, PV Optics, also won a 1997 R&D100 award. Dr. Sopori has organized many workshops and Symposia, including Workshop on Silicon Solar Cell Processing (now in its 19th year). He is Adjunct Professor at several universities and thesis advisor for several Ph. D. students.Dr. Sopori has a broad academic base: Ph. D. (Quantum Electronics), M. S.(Solid State Physics), M.E.(Electronics), B.E. ( Electrical Communication Eng.), B. Sc. (Phys, Chem, Math). Dr. Sopori is recipient of many awards, including: Motorola Executive Award in 1981R&D 100 Award, 1993, Scanning Defect Mapping System for Semiconductor CharacterizationR&D 100 Award, 1997, PV Optics: Cell and Module Design, FLC Award of Merit, Excellence in Technology Transfer May 7, 1996, Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer 2002,NREL Technology Transfer Award - September 28, 1995, NREL Director’s Award - September 21, 1993, Paul Rapapport Award in 2004.

Presentation Title:

Silicon Solar Cells

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Dr Benjamin K. Sovacool

National University, Singapore

Dr. Sovacool is an Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is also a Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globalization. Dr. Sovacool has worked as a researcher, professor, and consultant on issues pertaining to energy policy, the environment, and science and technology policy. His research interests are in science and technology studies, with an emphasis on the barriers to new and innovative energy systems. He has worked in advisory and research capacities at the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Electric Power Networks Efficiency and Security Program, Virginia Tech Consortium on Energy Restructuring, Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Semiconductor Materials and Equipment International, and U.S. Department of Energy’s Climate Change Technology Program. He is the co-editor with Marilyn A. Brown of Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths (2007) and the author of The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What’s Blocking Clean Power in the United States (2008). He is also a frequent contributor to such journals as Electricity Journal and Energy Policy. His e-mail address is bsovacool@nus.edu.sg.

Presentation Title:

(1) The first is a look at the social barriers to renewable energy in the United States, and what they mean for policy. (2) A look at the avian mortality issue

across wind, coal, and nuclear systems

Dr Don Swift-Hook

Secretary of Board of Trustees, WREN, UK

After National Service as a Lieutenant, Royal Signals, Dr Swift-Hook took up an Open Exhibition at Trinity College Cambridge to study Maths and Electrical Engineering. He is a Chartered Mathematician and Chartered Engineer as well as a Chartered Physicist and Chartered Scientist. He worked at GEC Research Laboratories, Wembley on 2GHz band microwave valves [the frequencies now used by mobile phones] for 4½ years before moving to research with the Central Electricity Generating Board at their Central Electricity Research Laboratories and Marchwood Engineering Laboratories on magnetohydrodynamic generation, hvdc, arcs and high voltage sparks, lasers, computing, combustion, environmental issues and wind and wave power. He became Head of a Research Division for 11 years and retired early, just before the CEGB was privatised, to manage his own business, with 60 employees. He is a Member of the Institute of Directors. He has several academic qualifications and was a Visiting Professor at King’s College London for 20 years.He has led renewable energy projects for the last 35 years in the CEGB, IEA, IEE, Watt Committee for Energy, World Renewable Energy Congress and others. He has Chaired and participated in the organisation of many national and international Conferences. While he was Chairman of the British Wind Energy Association, he set up the Council of the European Wind Energy Association and subsequently acted as their 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 is

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on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Renewable Energy and he is a Director and Secretary of the World Renewable Energy Network, which has organised successive World Renewable Energy Congresses since 1990.

Presentation Title:

The Case for Renewables apart from Global Warming

Prof Tianwei Tan

Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

Prof. Tianwei Tan was born on Feb.7, 1964 in Gansu Province of China. He graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering in Tsinghua University in 1986 with Bachelor degree. In 1986 he entered same department as a Master degree student and became a PhD student in Biochemical Engineering in Sept. 1987. From Feb 1990 to Oct 1992, he went to Gesellschaft fur Biotechnology Forschung (GBF, Braunschweig Germany), for Joint-training PhD student study. From Sept 1990 to April 1991, he went to Lund University of Sweden for cooperation. From May 1993, to May 1995, He was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Chemical Engnieering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. In Sept 1995, he became associate professor in Biochemical Engineering, Beijing Universty of Chemical Technology. Since Sept 1996 he is a professor of biochemical engineering. In 2001, Prof. Tan received an award as Outstanding Professor (Yangzi River Professor) by the Ministry of Education of China. Due to integrated use of biomass from fermentation industry for chemicals production, he received an Innovation Prize (2nd class Prize) from the Chinese government. In 2003, he received an Outstanding Youth Award by National Science Foudation of China. From Dec 2003 to Nov 2007, he was dean of College of Life Science and Technology. The research area of Prof. Tan is production of base chemicals, fuel and biomaterials and 6 of his research projects have been commercialized in China including: production of hyaluronic acid by fermentation; production of vitamin D2; production of chemicals by lipase enzyamtic catalysis; production of gluthione by fermentation. He is the leading scientist in Chinese Base Research Project (973 project) “Industrial Biotechnology Development”. He has published about 280 papers on biorefinery, among them about 100 papers were published in international journals. He is also a member of the board of several journals including “Enzyme and Microbial Technology” and “Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology”.

Presentation Title:

Recent Development of Biorefinery in China

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Dr Julie Teel

Center for Energy & Environmental Security at the University of Colorado

Law School, USA

Julie Teel is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Energy & Environmental Security at the University of Colorado Law School where she works on projects ranging from developing a Colorado Energy Profile for the Governor’s Energy Office to researching international and sub-national efforts to achieve Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Land Degradation. She has been working with Professor Lakshman Guruswamy to develop a World Energy Justice Partnership focused on increasing the deployment of sustainable energy technologies to improve the living conditions for the energy poor, with particular emphasis on empowering women. Julie came to CU Law School in 2008 after over eight years working as an environmental attorney for non-profit organizations and the City of San Diego. She started her legal career as the first law fellow at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. Since that time, she has worked for environmental protection, conservation, and sustainability in large part through successful litigation under a variety of state and federal laws. As an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate, Air and Energy Program, Julie focused on ways to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution under existing laws in order to protect biological diversity, public health, and the environment. She received a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from the New York University (NYU) School of Law.

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Mr Alexandros N. Tombazis

Hon. FAIA, Architect, Athena, Greece

Alexandros N. Tombazis has been practising architecture since 1963 when he founded his office based in Athens, Greece, which today employs about 60 persons. He is strongly interested in bioclimatic and low energy architectural design and has lectured on these subjects worldwide. A monograph on his work was published in 2002 by L’ Arca Edizioni. In 2007 he published a book entitled “letter to a young architect”. He is a recipient of many national and international awards. He is a member of WREN and attended all WREC Conferences since 1990.

Presentation Title:

Learning from the past to create Architecture of the Future

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Assoc Prof Theocharis Tsoutsos

Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete

(TUC)

He coordinates the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Laboratory (2005-). Development and Marketing Manager (Centre for Renewable Energy Sources, 1992-2004). Adjunct Professor in the Technical University of Crete (1999-2001), the University of Thessaly (2001-2002), Tutor (Greek Open University, 2000-today). More than 35 papers in International peer reviewed Journals, more than 100 papers in International Technical/Scientific Conferences. His published work is based mainly on the non technical issues relevant to the environmental impact from RES, as well as the analysis of the market framework for the wide adoption of RES applications. He coordinated more than 20 projects and participated in more than 40 European projects. Reviewer in the International Journals: Energy Policy, Energy, Applied Thermal Engineering, Bioresources Technology, Environmetal Science and Technology. He was the European coordinator of the European Solar Thermal Marketing Group (EC, 1992-1997).

Presentation Title:

Environmental Impact of Renewable Energy Sources in Greece

Prof Nick Tyler

Head of Department and Professor of Civil Engineering, University

College, London, UK

Nick Tyler is Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, and set up the Accessibility Research Group within the Centre for Transport Studies, with a team of researchers investigating many aspects of accessibility and public transport. The group has a total research budget of more than £7million for projects including the PAMELA pedestrian environment laboratory, which is being used to develop models for accessible pedestrian infrastructure. Nick is also the Director of the UCL CRUCIBLE Centre, which is a multi-Research Council funded Centre for interdisciplinary research on lifelong health and wellbeing and invlves researchers from all 8 faculties in UCL. Nick holds a PhD from University College London, where his thesis was on a methodology for the design of high capacity bus systems using artificial intelligence. He was on the winning team for the EC-funded ‘City Design in Latin America 2000: The European City as a Model’ competition, for the design of the transport interchange at Federico Lacroze in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Presentation Title:

Making best use of renewable in clean transport

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Dr Wilfried G.J.H.M. van Sark

Science, Technology and Society, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable

development and Innovation, Ultrecht, The Netherlands

Wilfried van Sark (1958) is currently employed as assistant professor in the research group Science, Technology and Society of the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovations and he is responsible for photovoltaic solar and wind energy research. In addition, he is participating in the Debye Institute for NanoMaterials Science. He has over 25 years experience in the field of photovoltaics, ranging from thin film silicon and III-V solar cell experimental and modeling development and testing to solar cell processing development, out- and indoor performance of solar cells, policy and cost development. His current activities focus on employing spectrum conversion (down/up conversion) using nanocrystals to increase solar cell conversion efficiency for next-generation photovoltaic energy converters. He has (co-)authored over 100 scientific publications and has trained hundreds of graduate students on Energy Conversion Technologies; he is a regular reviewer of scientific journals in the field of photovoltaic’s. He also is active in the European Photovoltaic Technology platform.

Presentation Title:

Luminescent Solar Concentrators - a low cost photovoltaics alternative

Mr Jakob von Uexküll

Chair of the Management Board of the World Future Council Foundation

Jakob von Uexküll has been a journalist, writer, lecturer, professional philatelist and Member of the European Parliament (1987–89) where he served on the Political Affairs Committee and the Science and Technology Committee. He was also a member of the Delegation for Relations with the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Baltic Intergroup. Mr von Uexküll is a co-founder (1984) of The Other Economic Summit (TOES) and founder of The Estonian Renaissance Award (1993). He is a patron of Friends of the Earth International, member of the Council of Governance of Transparency International, and of the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations. He served on the Board of Greenpeace, Germany, and the New Economics Foundation (London). He was also a member of the UNESCO Commission on Human Duties and Responsibilities. Jakob von Uexküll holds German and Swedish nationality and lives in London. HONOURS AND PRIZES: Bios Prize, St. Petersburg (1998); Future Research Prize, Salzburg (1999); Mariana Order, Estonia (2000); Time Magazine European Heroes Award (2005) Great Binding Prize for Environmental Protection, Liechtenstein (2006) and Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009)THE RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARD: In 1980, Jakob von Uexküll felt that the Nobel Prize categories, established in 1901, were too narrow in scope and too concentrated on the interests of the industrialised countries to be an adequate answer to the challenges now facing humanity. Thus, he approached the Nobel Foundation with the suggestion that it establish two new awards, one for ecology and one relevant to the lives of the poor. He offered to contribute financially but his proposal was turned down. He then decided to set up the Right Livelihood Awards, and provided the initial funding of about US$ 1 million. Since 1980 133 people and organisations from more than 50 countries have been awarded the Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the

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Alternative Nobel Prize. Jakob von Uexküll chairs the Board of Directors of the Right Livelihood Award.THE WORLD FUTURE COUNCIL: Since the year 2000 Jakob von Uexküll has concentrated on building the World Future Council that was officially founded in May 2007. The World Future Council brings the interests of future generations to the centre of policy making. Its up to 50 eminent members from around the globe have already successfully promoted change. The Council addresses challenges to our common future and provides decision-makers with effective policy solutions. In-depth research underpins advocacy work for international agreements, regional policy frameworks and national lawmaking and thus produces practical and tangible results. In October 2009 the World Future Council presented the Future Policy Award for the first time. Jakob von Uexküll chairs the Management Board of the World Future Council Foundation.

Presentation Title:

Breaking the Funding Deadlock, Creating new money to finance climate security and climate justice

Prof Ewa Wäckelgård

Uppsala University, Sweden

Ewa Wäckelgård is professor in solid state physics at Uppsala University since 2004 and has also a half time position as professor at Dalarna University from 2007 in energy technology. She has her main research activities within solar thermal applications with focus on coatings for solar absorbers. This has resulted in a large number of scientific publications and cooperation with industry for commercialisation of new absorbers. She has also been engaged in the graduate school Programme Energy Systems as research leader for the area Buildings as Energy Systems. Ewa has up to now supervised eight PhD students to examination.At Dalarna University she is the research leader for the research area Energy Transformation and Processes in Society, which is multidisciplinary and comprises of research on renewable energy technology and systems, integrated with studies on households as energy users, energy policies and implementation of energy technology.

Presentation Title:

New development of spectrally selective solar-absorbing coatings for low and intermediate temperature applications

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Dr Beth J. Xiang

North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China

Beth J Xiang is a visiting professor at North China Electric Power University in Beijing, China. She received a BEng. in Industrial Automation from Hunan University in 1982, an MEng in Automatic Control in 1996 and a PhD in Geophysics in 2000 from Central South University, P. R. China. For several years she worked as Associated Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, China, until she came to the UK as a principal project investigator sponsored by a Royal Society Fellowship in 1999. Dr Xiang has been working at universities both in China and the UK for over 27 years. Dr. Xiang started working in wave energy and wind energy in the UK since 2001. She has been involved in several research projects funded by E.U., UK EPSRC, UK EMDA and UK Royal Society. Dr Xiang has a long term link with Chinese organizations and universities on renewable energy, especially the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Tsinghua University. A delegation on renewable energy from the Chinese Academy of Engineering visited the UK under her efforts in 2007.

Presentation Title:

Wind Energy Programme in China

Dr Runming Yao

University of Reading, UK

Dr Runming Yao is current a lecturer of the University of Reading, UK and a Guest Professor of Chongqing University, China. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and a Committee member of the CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group and Building Simulations Group; she is a member of American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers(ASHRAE). Dr Yao’s research interests are the sustainable building and urban environment including urban and building environmental performance; thermal comfort and productivity; human behaviour and energy management in buildings; intelligent building and control and green buildings. She has chaired several International Conferences, published internationally and been a frequently invited speaker.

Presentation Title:

Numerical and experimental studies of an integrated strategic simulation model for urban microclimates

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Prof Yigzaw G. Yohanis

School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Professor Yigzaw G Yohanis (BSc MSc PhD CEng FCIBSE FEI FIMechE) is Professor of Building Services Engineering in the University of Ulster. He is a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and the Energy Institute. He has many years of industrial experience at senior levels. He is currently advising an energy company in the development of its engine driven CHP product range and another company in biomass energy heating systems. He is a member of the Centre for Sustainable Technologies and the Built Environment Research Institute of the University of Ulster. His research interests, in which he has published widely, are in the area of Low Energy Buildings: they include thermal modelling, building energy analysis, embodied energy in buildings, building integrated photovoltaics, solar water pumping, household energy behaviour, and currently long-term thermal energy storage. He is a reviewer for Solar Energy Journal and the journal of Buildings and Energy, an author of a Best Full Length Solar Energy Journal Paper in Photovoltaics in 2005-06, and a recipient of a Royal Academy of Engineering award. He is an associate editor of Research Letters in Physical Chemistry and a visiting professor in Darma Persada University in Indonesia. He is a member of the International Advisory Committee of Renewable Energy 2010 in Yokohama, Japan. The institutions with which he has research collaborations include the following: the Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Department of Engineering and Technical Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland; and, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, USA.

Presentation Title:

The thermal and economic performance of long-term solar energy storage

Mr Isao Yukawa

Adviser KYOCERA Corporation, Japan

He is an advisor to Kyocera Solar Group from April 2007, previously was senior managing office from 2002-2007. He held several positions in addition to the previous posts: President of Kyocera Solar Cooperation,Director of Solar Inc./USA, Solar Cooperation of China,Solar Cooperation of Czech Republic and Kyocera fine ceramics in Germany.He is vice president of Japan Solar Energy Association, Vice president of ISES and member of New Energy Committee, METI, Japan.He was born in Osaka, Japan 1942, after graduation in commerse in 1964, he worked for 11 years at machinery company in marketing. In 1976 he joined Kyocera. 26 years in ceramics industry and 6 years in solar industry.

Presentation Title:

Development of Photovoltaic Industries and Programme in Japan

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Dr Ahmad Zahedi

Associate Professor, Head of Electrical and computer Engineering,

James Cook University, Queensland, Australia

Ahmad Zahedi (PhD) is an Associate Professor and Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences of James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. He has educated in Iran and Germany and is author or co-author of more than 150 publications including 4 books, and has trained 16 postgraduate candidates at Master and PhD levels, and completed 15 research and industry-funded projects. He has 20 years tertiary teaching and research and 6 years industry experience.

Presentation Title:

Renewable Energy Progress in Australia

Prof Wim Zeiler

Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Wim Zeiler studied Mechanical Engineering (Design and construction; Methodical Design) at the Technische Universiteit Twente. In 1983 he started working in a building services company in which he currently holds the position of specialist in building services technology. He was a visiting assistant professor at the faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft from 2000 till 2003. In 2001 he became professor Building Services at the faculty of Architecture at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. His current research is focussed on Integral Design, Agent technology and Sustainable Energy in the Built Environment. He is a member of the board of TVVL (the Dutch Society for Building Services in the Built Environment), chairman of the Electrical Engineering department of TVVL and a member of the board of advice of ISSO (the Dutch society for stimulation of research on building services in the Netherlands).

Presentation Title:

Green Buildings: a question of the right BEAT( Building Environmental Assessment Tools)?

Prof Kai Zhang

National Engineering Laboratory for Biomass Power Generation

Equipment, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China

Kai Zhang is the professor of chemical engineering at North China Electric Power University. He received his bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering in 1989 from Nanjing University of Technology and his MEng and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1992 and 1996. Then, he started as a lecturer and promoted as associate professor in 1999 at the Institute of Coal Chemistry. He was a head of Research Group and served as the Deputy Director of Chemical Engineering Division. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Cagliari in Italy (1998). In 2000, he obtained Royal Society Royal Fellowship at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge. Later, he moved to University College London and became a research fellow at the

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Centre for CO2 Technology. He came back China in October 2003 and as professor for multiphase flow at the Faculty of Chemical Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (Beijing). In July 2009 he moved to his current post at North China Electric Power University and started to organize the Group of Chemical Technology for Green Energy at the School of Renewable Energy. In 2008, he was awarded China’s Excellent Scientists and Professors by China Daily and Excellent Youth Scientist of Sunyueqi foundation by China Association for Science and Technology. He is a member of Biomass Energy Group, 12 Five-year Plan for Advance Energy of National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program), the Ministry of Science and Technology of P. R. China. He is Royal Society Chinese Fellow, the senior counselor of Beijing Toptech technology Company Ltd. (China), Honorary Professor of Guangxi University of Technology (China) and Honorary Senior Research Fellow of University College London (UK). He is a member of The Society of Chemical Industry, a member of Particle Technology Group of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and a member of Chinese Society of Particuology. His research interests are clean energy conversion process, chemical reaction engineering, and multiphase flow computational fluid dynamics.

Presentation Title:

Development of biomass gasification and Programme in China

Dr Bernard Wilson Zingano

Director, Zingano and Associates, Lilongwe, Malawi

Bernard Wilson Zingano is an Architect who studied Architecture at the University of South Bank in London. In 1977 he was chartered as an Architect and went back to Malawi to join the Civil Service as planned by government. While in employment he continued to do research on the Distribution and Intensity of Solar Radiation in Malawi. He undertook this work at University of Malawi in the Department of Physics and Department of Mechanical Engineering. He designed a number of solar, water heaters which were tested the laboratory and in situ and development typical mounting of these devices. Some of the work has been incorporated in government guide lines on the installation of solar water heaters in hospitals.In 1986 he obtained his Masters in Physics at the University of Malawi. He continued to do research with the University of Hertfordshire in the UK; in the Department of Aerospace, Automotive and Design Engineering; Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences and was awarded a Doctorate degree for his work in 2003. He has published a number of technical articles in international journals and read paper in USA, Canada, United Kingdom and the continent. In 1994 he was requested by the Malawi Government to establish the second Public University in the Northern part of Malawi. He accepted this as a challenge. By 1998 he had established a full university now called Mzuzu University. He established administration systems, including drafting the university charter and recruited staff including the vice chancellor. In July 1998 he was elected Fellow of Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) of London.He opted to retire early from Civil Service in 1998 and established his own multidisciplinary practice in Architecture. He is currently the Director of Zingano and Associates in Lilongwe Malawi.

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Presentation Title:

Architectural and Building development in Malawi

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