Archives: Speakers

Thomas Walter is managing director Easy Smart Grid GmbH in Karlsruhe/Germany. His professional career focussed on digitisation with roles in R&D, product management, strategy, business development and general management in medium to large industrial, consulting and financial companies. Since 2011 he worked in energy, founding Easy Smart Grid in 2014 (voted top 3 smart energy start-up by EIT Digital in 2014) to develop and provide smart technology for efficient renewable-dominated energy systems. He studied electrical engineering at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Essex/GB and holds a PhD in industrial automation from RWTH Aachen.

Dimitrios Psychoyios is an Associate Professor of Finance & Investment at the Department of Industrial Management & Technology of the University of Piraeus. He started his academic career at the Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester as a lecturer in Finance. Dimitrios Psychoyios graduated from the Department of Mathematics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds an MBA and a doctorate in Finance from the Athens University of Economics and Business. His expertise are in the area of energy and the environment finance, financial economics, corporate finance and investments. Dimitrios Psychoyios has taught in MBA programs at Greek, European and American universities, and his professional experience includes over 15 years of consulting, research, and training services for organizations in the private and public sector in Europe and Greece.

John Charalampidis is an Agronomist at the Department of Food Science and Technology, Agricultural University of Athens. He worked from 1990 to 2002 at the Center for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES) in the Department of Rational Energy Use and in the Department of Energy Policy.

From 2002 until today he works at the Regulatory Authority for Energy with the main object of evaluating applications for RES projects. From 2002 to 2013 he worked in the Department of Decision Processing and Documentation unit as coordinator of the licensing process and evaluation of applications for Renewable Energy Sources projects. From 2013 to 2017 as coordinator of the Working Group for the monitoring of the Licensing of RES projects, from 2018 to 2020 as Head of the Department of Licensing Process Management & Registry Keeping.

George Pechlivanoglou studied mechanical engineering (BSc) and completed the MSc in renewable energy technology at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.

He completed his doctoral dissertation (PhD) in the field of wind turbine aeroservoelasticity at TU Berlin, Germany and post-doctoral work at the same institute. Has published more than 90 scientific papers and holds more than 13 national and international patents.

George Pechlivanoglou has 18 years of industrial experience in the wind energy market and 10 years’ experience as a wind energy expert designer and wind turbine technical inspector with international collaborations and global project portfolio. He held the position of the technical director of SMART BLADE GmbH for 8 years and has established several global collaborations with corporations like 3M, Vestas, Nordex etc.

He is the former Wind Energy Committee Chair at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a member at the German Chamber of Engineers (VDI) as well as the former representative of the Technical University of Berlin at the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE).

Mr. Pechlivanoglou is currently holding the position of Vice President for the EUNICE ENERGY GROUP(EEG)

I am specialised in various energy, infrastructure and industrial projects and I have a wide range of knowledge on environment & social technical advisory for energy projects for ensuring compliance with national, EU standards and EBRD Performance Requirements, EIB Environmental and Social Standards, IFC Performance Standards and Equator Principles. Also, I have been involved in environmental & social due diligence assessing energy projects against regulations and international financial institution HSE standards and I have a very good knowledge of the HSE legislation and regulations, such as European legislation, National legislation, International.

Currently, I am expanding my portfolio to work on Transition to Zero Carbon Economy, by participating in Hydrogen and Biomethane Projects.

Ioannis Aspirtakis is Mechanical Engineer with MSc in Occupational Health & Safety Management. He works in this field for more than 20 years focusing on Risk Management and OHS consulting. His area of expertise also includes carrying out risk audits and establishes risk mitigation strategies. Last 18 years, he is General Manager in ErgoProlipsis.

Dr. Stefanos E. Dallas received his PhD. Degree by the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computers Technology of Patras University Polytechnic School in 2012 and his BSc in Physics by the University of Athens in 2004. As of September 2019 he works as an EU project coordinator in PROTASIS S.A. and he has been a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the University of the Peloponnese since 2012. Additionally, between 2012 and 2018 he worked as a post-doc researcher at the S-Naval AME of NTUA, by participating in 4 research projects (MARINELIVE, THALIS-DEFKALION, DC-SHIP, ELEMED) dealing with marine electrical engineering issues focusing in the design and analysis of shipboard electrical systems and in the investigation of related power quality issues, analysis on onboard power management systems, system analysis for connecting a ship to a shore-side power supply in port (either AC or DC) with the ship’s machinery (Cold-Ironing)