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Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete.

Professor of chemistry, President and Executive Director of the University of Crete, Property Development and Management Company, Ex-Dean of The School of Science and Engineering Scientific Program Manager of the Region of Crete project: “Enrichment and Upgrading of e-Learning Infrastructures and Services at the University of Crete”, coordinator of the Spectroscopy Laboratory of the Department of Chemistry, director of the Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry.

Studied at the University of Minnesota, University of Michigan, ETH Zurich.Visiting professor at Tufts University, MA, Miami University.  Worked with Orion Research-Thermo Electron co. founder of Electrochemical Analytical Systems.Published more than one hundred scientific articles in peer reviewed journals and was invited speaker in numerous International and Greek conferences.Research interests include the use of novel nanomaterials for the development of electrochemical catalysis systems for hydrogen generation, bio-chemical sensor development, chemical analysis, STEM Education.

Dr. Christina N. Papadimitriou received her diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece (2001-2006) as well her PhD degree (2007-2012/Heracleitus II grant). She was a senior researcher at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) (2013-2016) while she has held short term lecturer positions at the Open University of Cyprus (2016) and University of West Attika (UniWa)(2016-2018). From 2016-2019 she served as a system engineer at Greek Distribution System’s Operator (HEDNO). She is currently a post-doc fellow with FOSS and University of Cyprus. In this context, she manages and coordinates European and National projects on her main research interests that is smart grids and flexibility of the integrated grid. She is currently the technical coordinator of eNeuron H2020 project, co-chair of the Scalability and Replicability Task Force of BRIDGE Initiative(EU) and leading the activities of R&I needs identification in WG5 (Innovation Implementation in the Business Environment) of the European Technology and Innovation Platform – Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP-SNET)

Mr. Tasos Tsitsanis is an Electrical and Computer Engineer, holding an MSc in the field of Energy and Environmental Management. Mr. Tsitsanis has great experience, acting as consultant and project manager, in several national and EU projects in the field of big data management and AI-enabled analytics for improving energy efficiency in buildings and introducing advanced concepts for flexibility utilization in demand side management/ active demand response. He currently holds the position of the Business Development Director in Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions Limited. He has deep knowledge in the fields of energy and environmental management, energy saving and planning, EU energy policies, energy market operation and economics. He has been involved in many academic and professional training activities dealing with multi criteria decision making, Business Modelling, Energy Services Provision with the use of ICT, etc. He is an active member in WG5 (Innovation Implementation in the Business Environment) of the European Technology and Innovation Platform – Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP-SNET) and in the Digital Built Environment Committee of the European Construction Technology Platform (ECTP). He participates as major contributor to the Data Management and Business Models Working Groups of the BRIDGE initiative (EU), as well as to the activities of the Big Data Value Association PPP (DAIRO/ BDVA).

Mohamed Shalaby is Research Coordinator at DERlab e.V. He completed the REMENA master programme, which is a joined master programme between the University of Kassel, Germany, and the University of Cairo, Egypt. His master thesis focused on simulation regions operating at 100% renewable energy. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the German University in Cairo (GUC). Mr. Shalaby was actively involved as a team leader in several research projects: Heating & Electricity Regional Synergies and BioPower2Gas (BMWi), Reliability Analysis of Wind and Solar Energy Systems in Egypt (STDF), INTERPLAN (H2020), NOBEL GRID (H2020) and PANTERA (H2020).

Andrei Z. Morch (male) holds a MSc in Energy Management from the Norwegian School of Management – BI. He worked as Research Scientist at SINTEF E 1999-2009, further as Task Manager at Aker Solutions 2009-2011, and continued as Research Scientist at SINTEF, Dep. of Energy Systems, from 2011. He has coordinated two EU projects, the most recent being the “Market4RES – Post-2020 framework for a liberalised electricity market with a large share of Renewable Energy Sources”. At present he is engaged in EERA JP Smart Grids, especially in its sub-program “Flexible Transmission network”. He participates in ETIP-SNET WG5 ” Innovation implementation in the business environment” and CIGRÉ WG C6/C2.34 “Flexibility provision from distributed energy resources”.