Prof. Michalis Konsolakis (Male, Chemical Engineer ), TUC leader in ECOLEFINS, is currently Full Professor of “Heterogeneous Catalysis & Surface Science” at the School of Production Engineering & Management of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. He is the director of the Atomic Structure and Laser Physics Lab with his research activities to be mainly focused in the areas of heterogeneous catalysis, electro-catalysis and surface science with particular emphasis on structure-property relationships. Recently, he is mainly focused on the rational design and nano-engineering of metal oxide electro-catalysts by means of advanced synthetic and promotional routes. His published work includes ca. 110 articles in international peer-review journals and more than 150 articles in conference proceeding with more than 4500 citations (h-index=38). He is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals in the fields of Materials & Surface Science, serving also as a regular reviewer in numerous scientific journals and research funding agencies. He has served as a Guest Editor of various special issues in the fields of Heterogeneous Catalysis & Materials Science.

Prof. Spyros Papaeftymiou (male, Physicist) graduated from the Physics Department of the University of Patras, Greece, in 1995 and then received an MSc and a PhD from the same Department in 1997 and 2001 respectively. Spiros is currently Full Professor in the School of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete. He is one of the founding members of the Industrial, Energy and Environmental Systems Lab, and he is currently serving as the Director of the Lab. His research interests are in the fields of Renewables, smart devices and technologies for energy saving and energy management. Spiros teaches graduate and undergraduate courses, he is a member of various international scientific bodies and acts as a reviewer for journals and conferences. He has participated in several European and national research projects, while his scientific work includes numerous articles in international journals, books and presentations at conferences.

Assistant Professor Dimitrios Ipsakis (Male, Chemical Engineer ), is an Assistant Professor of “Constrol Systems with Emphasis in Renewable Energy Systems and Energy Savings” at the School of Production Engineering & Management of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. His main research & applied activities involve process modelling and simulation of energy, fuel and fine chemicals production systems, conceptual design and process control of integrated systems, optimization and technoeconomic analysis, elucidation of reaction kinetics. On the above areas he has contributed with more than 30 publications on international scientific journals, 1 book and 1 book chapter, and more than 80 publications in national and international conference proceedings. His portfolio has received more than 1100 citations in Scopus (h=15) and more than 1700 citations in Scholar (h=19). He is serving as editorial board member and special issue editors in Journals related to Process Engineering.

Assistant Professor Vasilios Binas is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Associated Researcher at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH). He has served as Visiting Researcher at Imperial College-UK (2015), International Institute of New Energy, Shenzhen, China (2014), International Research Center for Renewable Energy (IRCRE) School of Energy & Power Engineering, Xi’an, China (2014) and at Electronic Ceramics-K5, Institut ‘Josef Stefan’, Slovenia (2013). His work in nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications, from design, synthesis, characterization of nanomaterials, fabrication (additive manufacturing) and study of their physicochemical properties for environmental and energy applications. He is co-author of more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and inventor on 5 patents.

Dr. Maria Lykaki is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Production Engineering & Management of the Technical University of Crete. Her research activities lie in the areas of heterogeneous catalysis, surface science, nanomaterials synthesis and characterization. Her published work includes 19 peer-reviewed articles (Citations: 819, h-index: 13) and 32 articles in conference proceedings.

Dr. Ioannis Poimenidis (Male, Physicist) is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Production Engineering & Management of the Technical University of Crete. His main research interests are in the fields of electrocatalysis, electrolysis (HER and OER) nanomaterials, nanoengineering, and the characterization of newly synthesized materials. He has more than 10 published works in international scientific journals. He also serves as a regular reviewer in several scientific journals.