Committee
Prof. Gordon Huang
Executive Director, Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Communities
Canada
Dou Zhang
Dr. Dou Zhang is an Assistant Researcher and M.S. Supervisor at Harbin Institute of Technology, China. Her research focuses on the mechanical behavior of shape memory polymer (SMP) composites and their application-oriented validation, with particular emphasis on constitutive behavior, thermo-mechanical coupling, and structure-function integration for deployable mechanisms. The SMP-based locking-and-release deployment mechanism developed by her team enabled the first dynamic unfurling of the national flag on China’s inaugural Mars mission, Tianwen-1. This achievement was selected as one of the “Top Ten Scientific and Technological Advances of Chinese Higher Education Institutions” in 2021.
Prof. Constantin Volosencu
Constantin Voloşencu is a prominent Professor in the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics at the Politehnica University of Timişoara, Romania. His professional achievements are extensive, particularly in control systems, electrical drives, and intelligent systems (including fuzzy logic and neural networks). He is the author of over 10 books, 11 book chapters, and more than 170 scientific papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He holds 27 patents and has managed numerous research grants. He has developed various electrical and automation systems for industrial applications, including machine tools and high-power ultrasound processes. He serves as editor-in-chief and a member of the editorial boards of international journals; he has served on scientific committees at many international conferences and has been a plenary and keynote speaker at numerous global conferences. Significant contributions to both academic research and practical engineering development characterize his career.
Dr Ruomei LI
Dr Ruomei LI, Fellow of AETDEW; Senior Member of IEEE; Honorable Member of CIGRE; Vice Chair of Dual Carbon Branch, China Energy Research Society （CERC）； Vice President, New Future Foundation Inc. ; Task Group Chair of Energy Efficiency, WFEO Energy Committee, from 2023; Former member of Executive Council of WFEO, 2015~2023; Former WIP Chair, IEEE PES, 2020-2021. Ruomei LI received her Ph.D. from University of Bath, UK, in 2000; M.E. from CEPRI China, in 1989; and B.E. from Hefei University of Technology, China, in 1982. During 1994~1995, Ruomei has been a Visiting Scholar in UMIST, UK, upon Lee Kai Hueng Fellowship. Ruomei has started her career in electrical engineering field since 1982. She worked in the Power Dispatching Center of Anhui, China in 1982-1986. A researcher in CEPRI, China in power system planning and simulation in 1989-1994, the Chief Engineer of S&T of CEPRI in 2000~2004. She has got numbers of national and international awards including National First prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, 2008, as a team member; IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer in Power Award, 2019. Ruomei LI had worked in CSEE, as Deputy Secretary General/Secretary General (2004/2009-2013). She was in AC/SC of CIGRE (2005/2006~2014), as the Chair of CIGRE AORC in 2010~2012, and in DC of CIRED (2007~2016), Vice chair of WFEO CE (2012~2016). Recent tenure, Ruomei Li held the positions of Vice President of the New Future Foundation and Vice Chair of the Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality Industry Cooperation Subcommittee of the China Energy Research Society (CERS).
Prof. Matthaios Santamouris
Prof. Mat Santamouris Distinguished Professor, High Performance Architecture, Arts Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney M. Santamouris is a Scientia, Distinguished, Professor of High Performance Architecture at UNSW, and past Professor in the University of Athens, Greece. Visiting Professor : Cyprus Institute, Metropolitan University London, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Bolzano University, Brunnel University, Seoul University National University of Singapore, and UITM Univ Malaysia. Past President of the National Center of Renewable and Energy Savings of Greece. Editor in Chief of the Energy and Buildings Journal, Past Editor in Chief of the Advances Building Energy Research, Associate Editor of the Solar Energy Journal, E- Prime, Journal of Low Carbon and Sustainable Energy, and Member of the Editorial Board of 24 Journals. Editor of the Series of Book on Buildings, published by Earthscan Science Publishers. Editor and author of 20 international books published by Elsevier, Earthscan, Springer, etc. Author of 456 scientific articles published in journals. Reviewer of research projects in 29 countries including USA, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Sweden, etc. Ranked as the top world cited researcher in the field of Building and Construction by the Stanford University ranking system, for 2019-2022. Highly Cited Researcher in the Clarivate ranking for 4 continuous years. Ranked as no 451 researcher in the world in all scientific disciplines in the list prepared by Stanford University in 2021 for the 200000 more influential researchers. He has received many international awards.
Prof. Shunli Wang
Shunli Wang Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Executive Vice President of Smart Energy Storage Institute, Academic Dean of Electric Power College at Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, IET Fellow, Provincial Senior Overseas Talent, Tianfu Qingcheng Provincial Scientific and Technological Talent, Academic Leader of the National Electrical Safety and Quality Testing Center, Provincial Tianfu Talent, Academic and Technical Leader of China Science and Technology City, Top 2% Worldwide Scientist.
Prof. Frank Werner
Frank Werner studied mathematics from 1975 to 1980 and graduated from the Technical University of Magdeburg (Germany) with a distinction. He received a Ph.D. degree (with summa cum laude) in Mathematics in 1984 and defended his habilitation thesis in 1989. From this time on, he worked at the Faculty of Mathematics at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany and since 1998, as an extraordinary professor. In 1992, he received a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He was a manager of several research projects, supported by the German Research Society (DFG) and the European Union (INTAS). Since 2019, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Algorithms. He is also an Associate Editor of The International Journal of Production Research since 2012, and of The Journal of Scheduling since 2014, as well a member of the editorial/advisory boards of 19 further international journals. He has been a guest editor of Special Issues in ten international journals, and has served as a member of the program committee of more than 160 international conferences. Frank Werner is an author/editor of 17 books, among them, the textbooks Mathematics of Economics and Business and A Refresher Course in Mathematics. In addition, he has co-edited four proceedings volumes of the SIMULTECH conferences and published more than 300 journal and conference papers, e.g., in The International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Operations Research, The Journal of Scheduling, Applied Mathematical Modelling, or The European Journal of Operational Research. He received Best Paper Awards from The International Journal of Production Research (2016) and IISE Transactions (2021). His main research subjects are scheduling, discrete optimization, graph theory, and mathematical problems in operations research.
Prof. Hanshen Li
Prof. Hanshen Li received his B.S.E. degree in Electric Power Engineering and Automation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, and the M.E. degree in Information, Production and Systems Engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from SJTU, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), Beijing, China. Prof. Li has been a researcher at China Electric Power Planning and Engineering Institute (EPPEI) since 2023. His research interests include planning and operation of active distribution networks, where Li has published 50+ papers with over 200 total citations. He has been an editorial board of Journal of Energy Science and Technology since 2023, and also member of IEEE, IEEJ, CSEE and CES.
Dr. Xingxing Huang
Director at S.C.I.Energy (Swiss)
Future Energy Research Institute
Switzerland
Prof. Yu Wang
Yu Wang is a Professor and Hongshen Outstanding Scholar at Chongqing University. He is a IEEE Senior Member, recognized as one of Stanford's Global Top 2% Most Cited Scientists, and a top 1% Highly Cited Researcher by Web of Science. With over 100 papers published in international journals and conferences, his work has garnered over 4,000 citations. He serves as editorial board member for Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, and IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, and holds committee positions at the Chinese Association of Automation (Committee of New Energy and Energy Storage Systems) and China Energy Society (Smart Microgrid Committee). His research focuses on power system analysis and control, microgrid and distributed energy resource, and artificial intelligence applications in power systems
Prof. Isabel S. Jesus
I&D Group: GECAD - Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development
Portugal
