Associate Professor Muhammad Irfan, Beijing Technology and Business University, China

Prof. Muhammad Irfan is currently working as an Associate Professor at Beijing Technology and Business University. He is also adjunct Faculty Member at Lebanese American University and ILMA University. He is serving as an Editor-in-Chief of the Energy Technologies and Environment and Editor of The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Prof. Irfan is the leading guest editor of top-notch International Journals, including Resources Policy, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. His research achievements have been published in the form of over 200 research papers in top international Journals. According to Elsevier and Stanford University, he has consistently been ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide. He is among the top 5% of economists in the world according to the IDEAS/RePEc database. He was given the Best Scholar Award by the University of the Punjab, Best Paper Award by North China Electric Power University, and Outstanding Scholarship Award by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). Many of his highly cited papers fall under (top 1%) and (top 0.1%) categories. He has over 9,000 scholarly citations and h-index is 60. His homepage is https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CPuuS-AAAAAJ&hl=en

Speech Title: An assessment of consumers' willingness to utilize solar energy: End-users' perspective

Professor Nour Sh. El-Gendy, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Egypt

Dr. Nour Shafik El-Gendy is a Professor in the field of Environmental Sciences, Clean Energy and Nano-Biotechnology. She is Head Manager of Petroleum Biotechnology Lab., Former Acting and Vice Head of Process Design & Development Department, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI). El-Gendy is the Head of Technology Innovation Support Center (TISC) office, Vice Head of Center of Excellence and member in Entrepreneurship Hub in October University for Modern Sciences and Arts, MSA University. She is a Member of Water, Energy and Environment Committee - Technical, Monitoring and Performance Evaluation Office, and the coordinator of National Committee for Environmental Issues in the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT). She is the Former Advisor for the Egyptian Minster of Environment. El-Gendy is Scientific Advisor for the Federation of Arab Women Leaders. El-Gendy is the Former Coordinator of Nanobiotechnology Program, Faculty of Nanotechnology for Postgraduate Studies, Cairo University, Sheikh Zayed Branch Campus. She is the Vice Coordinator of the Scientific Research Committee and member in Rural Woman Committee, National Council for Women (NCW) of Egypt. El-Gendy is an Ambassador for the Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS). El-Gendy is a member of the Higher Scientific Committee of the Arab Union for Sustainable Development and Environment. She is a member of many technical committees for the preparation of regulations of different faculties concerned with Energy, Environmental and Biochemical Engineering. Awarded Professional Diploma in “Preparing Arab Women Leaders Internationally and Regionally” documented by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. El-Gendy is expert in the assessment of environmental pollution and its remediation, wastewater treatment, biofuels, petroleum upgrading, green chemistry, nanobiotechnology, valorization of wastes, biocorrosion and its mitigation. El-Gendy awarded Diploma in “Environmental Management”. She has published 10 chapters, 9 books and 127 research papers, and supervised 29 MSc and PhD theses. Dr. El-Gendy is also an editor and reviewer in 93 and 203 international journals, respectively.

Professor Liliana Rusu, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania

Liliana Rusu is full professor at ‘Dunarea de Jos’ University of Galati, Romania, Department of Mechanical Engineering since 2016. She received her first Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from ‘Dunarea de Jos’ University of Galati in 2006, while the second PhD in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture was awarded to her in 2009 by University of Lisbon, Portugal (former Technical University of Lisbon) under the supervision of Professor Carlos Guedes Soares, IST - CENTEC, University of Lisbon, Portugal. In 2015 she received the Habilitation degree. She has continued her collaboration with CENTEC in the framework of a Post-doctoral fellow (individual grant financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), currently being Professor Collaborator. Since December 2017 she is a Member of the marine knowledge expert group of the European Commission. From 2016 she is also Member of the National Ethics Council for Research Activities. Her research interests cover the fields of wave modelling, assessment of the wave climate in various geographical areas, assessment of the wave/wind energy, data assimilation, climate change impacts. She has many scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, her most relevant publications are included in the scientific profiles http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8179-1347.