Keynotes

Workshop 1 – Advances in Lithium-ion Battery and Beyond

	Dr. Khalil Amine distinguished Fellow and manager of the Advanced Lithium Battery Technology program at Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA.
	Battery Materials and Interface Understanding and Design at the Nanoscale By Prof. Yi Cui Full Professor, Stanford University, USA.
	All Solid-State Batteries: from Sulfide-based Electrolyte to Halide-based Electrolyte By Prof. Xueliang Sun University of Western Ontario, Canada.
	Advanced Diagnostic Tools for Characterizing Lithium Metal and Solid State Batteries By Dr. Y. Shirley Meng University of California San Diego, USA.
	Reviving Zn Battery Chemistries via New Electrolyte and Interphase Concepts By Dr. Kang Xu U. S. Army Research Laboratory, USA.
	Development of Interfacial Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage By Prof. Donghai Wang The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
	Progress on Na-ion batteries: research and commercial overlook By Prof. Teófilo Rojo Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain.

Workshop 2 – Emerging semiconductors for photovoltaics application

	Perovskite Solar Cells The Road Towards Commercialization By Prof. Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
	Reduced trap density and mitigating the interfacial losses by placement of mitigator By Prof. Shahzada Ahmad BCMaterials-Basque center for materials, applications & nanostructures, Leioa, Spain.
	A-DA’D-A type acceptor based organic solar cells By Prof. Yingping Zou Central South University, China.
	Interlayers in organic and perovskite solar cells: The impact on performance and device stability By Prof. Morten Madsen University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
	Designing of Organic semiconductors as hole selective layer for perovskite solar cells By Dr. Samrana Kazim BCMaterials-Basque center for materials, applications & nanostructures, Leioa, Spain.
	Inter-molecular charge-transfer states for organic solar cells. Prof. Koen Vandewal Hasselt University, Belgium.

Workshop 3 – CSP and thermal storage development perspectives

	Next Generation of CSP plants: hybridization with PV and supercritical CO2 cycles – the EU R&D perspective and the SolarSCO2OL project By Dr. Rafael Guedez KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
	Storage Mix to Enhance Renewable Penetration, Noor Midelt an Innovative CSP/PV Hybrid Power Plant Mr. Abderrahim Jamrani Technical Director of Masen (Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy), Morocco.
	CSP hybrids – Abengoa’s View on Future of CSP and Thermal Energy Storage Dr. Cristina Prieto Head of Innovation, Abengoa, Spain.

Workshop 4 – Energy Efficiency in the Buildings and construction sector

	Selection and Calibration of Models of Water Sorption in Porous Building Materials By Prof. Helcio R. B. Orlande Escola Politécnica, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
	Fighying Urban Overheating. Recent progress of Urban Mitigation Technologies By Prof. Matthaios Santamouris University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Co-Editor in Chief of Energy and Buildings, Elsevier.
	IAQ and ventilation at the covid19 time By Prof. Francis Allard La Rochelle University, France.
	Building and systems performance enhancement using Latent Energy Storage By Prof. Mohamed El Mankibi Research Director, ENTPE/university of Lyon, France.
	Simulation-based optimization methods for ZEBs design: insights and beyond By Dr. Enrico Fabrizio Asso. Professor, TEBE Research Group, DENERG, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Workshop 5 – Power-to-X

	From MOF Design to Applications: Enabling Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability By Prof. Mohamed Eddaoudi Distinguished Professor of Chemical Science. Director, Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research Center at KAUST, Saudi Arabia.
	The role of plasmonics to enhance water splitting and hydrogen generation By Prof. Mustapha Jouiad Picardie Jules Verne University, France. Guest Editor: Journal of nanomaterials, MDPI (IF 4,3).
	Towards Harnessing Local Minerals as low-Cost Catalyst Extruded as Honeycomb Monolith for Syngas Production By Prof. Tarik Chafik FST, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tangier, Morocco.
	Multi-absorber systems for efficient solar-driven artificial leaf structures By Prof. Thomas Hannappel Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany.

Workshop 6 – Digital Technologies in Solar Energy

	Living Microgrids By Prof. Josep M. Guerrero IEEE Fellow, Center for Research on Microgrids, Aalborg University, Denmark.
	The Role of Power Electronics in Providing a Sustainable Energy Supply By Prof. Saad Mekhilef Dean of Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
	Multiphysics analysis for the prediction of performance, degradation and fatigue failure of PV panels By Prof. Said Ahzi Strasbourg University, France.

Special Session 1: Magnetocaloric refrigeration

	Magnetocalorics of frustrated Fe2P type-compounds. Two examples: MnRh1-xRuxAs with intricate fundamentals and Mn2-xFexP1-ySiy, for promising cooling applications By Prof. Daniel Fruchart Institut Néel, CNRS, Grenoble, France.
	Quantum Magnetic Materials for Hydrogen Storage By Prof. Mohamed Balli International University of Rabat, Morocco.

Special Session 2 – Biomass and Biogas Energy in circular economy context

 

	Biogas: Pathways to 2030 By Dr. David Newman President of World Biogas Association, UK
	Exploring Alternative Models for Rural Biogas Provision in Africa By Prof. Cristina Trois School of Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Special Session 3 – Wind Energy: Electric Production and Grid Integration

	Location and size optimization of distributed generator systems – Case study: Hybridization concept for horizontal axis wind / tidal systems By Prof. Cristianis Nichita Professor Emeritus at the University of Le Havre Normandy, France.
	Wind Farm; Factors to be Considered for a Successful Project By Prof. Ahmad Zahedi James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.