Editorial Team

Luigi Vesce is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer of Nanoelectronics at CHOSE (Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy), Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he received a Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering and Microelectronics in 2011. In the last few years, he developed a pilot line for a public/private consortium (Dyepower) to produce 10000 m ²/year of dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) panels for BIPVs (Building Integrated Photovoltaics). He collaborates with research institutes and startup/spin-off companies on third-generation PV devices and process engineering, and on quality control optimization. Recently, he was the technology transfer responsible for DSSC modules with Start-up G+Lyte (Amiens, France). His research activity deals with the discovery, development, and fabrication by coating/printing techniques, and scaling-up of efficient and stable dye-sensitized and perovskite solar technologies for outdoor and indoor applications. He is involved in national and international PV-related projects, author of several contributions to international journals and conferences, and committee member/chairman of conferences about renewable energies.

She received an Engineering degree and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Craiova, Romania. She also received a Certificate of  Habilitation in Electrical Engineering in 2016. She is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Craiova, Romania, and Director of the Doctoral School of Electrical and Energy Engineering. Her main field of interest includes power converters, adjustable-speed drives, active power filters, and power quality, with more than 200 journal and conference papers. She is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, the IEEE Industry Applications Society, a senior member of the Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, and an academic member of the Electrical Engineering Research Unit in Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER).

Mamdouh El Haj Assad is a Professor in the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department at University of Sharjah. He has worked at Aalto University as research scientist and docent in the Department of Energy Technology for 21 years, and as Associate Professor and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Australian University in Kuwait. His research expertise ranges through energy system optimization, solar, geothermal and wind energy systems, absorption chillers, artificial intelligence and environmental pollution. Dr. Assad has more than 250 publications in the form of articles, conferences and book chapters. Dr. Assad has published a book entitled Design and Performance Optimization of Renewable Energy Systems (Elsevier, 2021). Dr. Assad is acting as a Guest Editor in journals for more than 7 special issues related to renewable energy systems. He is the Editor of Performance Enhancement and Control of Photovoltaic Systems book (Elsevier, 2023). Dr. Assad received the best teacher award of the year 2011 at Aalto University, Finland, and Sharjah Sustainability Award for the year of 2020, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Professor Huan-Liang Tsai is a researcher in Computer Science and Information Engineering, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Fields of specialty (limited to fields related to research) are:

1. Internet of Things (IoT),
2. PV System Engineering,
3. Solar Energy,
4. Control Engineering.

He is the author of many scientific articles in many international journals.

Yang Han (S’08-M’10-SM’17) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China, in 2010. In 2010, he joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, where he has been an Associate Professor in 2013, and Full professor in 2021. From March 2014 to March 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He is currently with the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, UESTC. His research interests include the ac/dc microgrids, active distribution networks, power quality, grid-connected converters for renewable energy systems, active power filters, multilevel converters, and static synchronous compensators (STATCOMs).
Dr. Han has received several national and provincial projects, and more than 30 industrial projects in the area of power electronics, smart grid, microgrid, and power quality analysis and compensation. He holds more than 40 issued and pending patents. Dr. Han was listed as “World’s Top 2% Scientist 2022” by Stanford University in 2022, and the recipient of the Young Scientist Award in CPESE 2021, the Provincial Science and Technology Award in 2020 and 2022, Science and Technology Award from Sichuan Electric Power Company in 2019, Academic Talent Award by UESTC, in 2017, Baekhyun Award by the Korean Institute of Power Electronics, in 2016. He has published a book “Modeling and Control of Power Electronic Converters for Microgrid Applications”, ISBN: 978-3-030-74512-7, Springer. He served as an Associate Editor of Journal of Power Electronics and IEEE ACCESS (2019-2020).

Prof. Shijie Zhu affiliation is Chongqing Institute of science and technology. His research area covers

1. enhanced oil recovery (chemical flooding, CO ₂);
2. Porous media seepage (viscoelastic fluid, gas injection drive, gas storage operation);
3. ANSYS simulation of fluid motion.

Scientific research topics are research on productivity evaluation methods and software development of deep shale gas reservoirs, seepage simulation experiment and seepage law research of oil-water gas storage, and study on key technical parameters of reservoir reconstruction and gas storage after water injection development.

Prof. WANG Zhengwei completed his Ph.D. in Fluid Machinery and Fluid Engineering at Department of Hydropower Engineering in Tsinghua University. Post-doctor on Fluid Machinery and Engineering done at Politechnical University of Catalynia, Spain. Prof. Wang also serves as a member of IAHR International Academic Committee on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems, the chairman of IAHR Asian Working Group, vice-director of the National Marine Energy Technical Committee, member of the National Renewable Energy Society, vice-director of the China Hydro-Turbine Commission, member of the Hydraulic Turbine Standardization Committee, member of the Professional Committee on Wind and Tidal Power Generation of the Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering, member of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Hydropower Equipment, and organized several international academic conferences and various forms of international academic research activities. The research results of Prof. Wang have won more than 30 awards, including 3 first prizes and 9 second prizes at provincial and ministerial level. Professor Wang has presided over 2 National High Technology Research and Development Program projects, 1 National Natural Science Key Fund project, 4 general projects, 1 special research project of State Oceanic Administration, 3 Green Design platform projects of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He also participated in 2 national key science and technology projects, was responsible for 4 international cooperation projects and more than 200 scientific research projects in domestic enterprises and institutions. Author of Basic Fluid Machinery, Multi-LINGUAL Hydraulic Machinery Vocabulary and Analysis Techniques of Hydraulic Machinery Flow-induced Oscillation and Vibration. The research team led by Professor Wang has obtained 19 patents and 5 registered software copyrights. He has published more than 380 scientific research papers, of which more than 150 have been indexed by WOS, 140 by SCI and 260 by EI.

Assoc. Prof. Wael A. Altabey was awarded a postdoctoral research certificate in 2018 from Southeast University, Nanjing, China after completing a postdoctoral research fellowship for two years in Artificial Intelligence (AI) based schemes for structural health monitoring (SHM), and damage detection of composite structures. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University in 2015. For the past 8 years, his research has focused on the utilization of AI-based schemes for structural health monitoring and structure dynamics in the research group of Professor Noori. He participated in several research activities, which achieved from NSFC and private sectors. He serves on various technical committees and on the editorial board of 6 international scientific journals in the field of mechanical, materials, and civil engineering. He advised more than 4 M.Sc. students and 6 Ph.D. students in the fields of AI-based schemes for structural health monitoring and structure dynamics. He is author and co-author of more than 70 technical papers, 35 conference papers, 8 books, and 16 chapters in books and delivered over 26 invited talks. He was research scientist at Nanjing Zhixing Information Technology Co., Ltd., and Full Researcher at National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Basalt Fiber Production and Application Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, for 6 years.

Featured in Top 2% Highly Cited Researcher published by Elsevier-SCOPUS in collaboration with Stanford University, USA in October 2022. Author of 11 articles reflected in WOS Highly cited articles as on Sept’2022. Published 75+ SCI/ISI indexed articles in high impact factor WOS indexed with high impact factor journals in Biofuel sector in collaboration with eminent researchers in the past 4 years apart from PhD work (2018- 2022). Published 09 SCI/E articles as first author and 20+ SCI/E articles as second/ third author in high-impact factor WOS journals related to Energy (Biofuels) field. Reviewed overall 180+ articles, 150 listed on Publons (Web of Science). Highly cited researcher in year 2020, 2021, 2022 in AD Alper-Doger Scientific Index. Recognized Reviewer Award from several journals. Overall impact factor of ≤700 from peer-reviewed articles. QS Global University and Employer World Ranking Surveyor- 2021, 2022. Worked as RA at KKU, Saudi Arabia under several Deanship of Scientific Research grants (RGP, GRP). 

Research area of dr Tabish Alam includes Heat Transfer Enhancement, Artificial Roughness/Turbulators, Solar Air Heater, Green Building, Building Physics, Thermal Insulation, Solar Thermal System, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). He has published more than 50 research papers to his credit in reputed peer-review national and international journals. His research papers have more than 1070 Google scholar citations along with 14 h-index and 17 i10-index. He is a reviewer of more than 50 International SCI journals. He is Awards Obtained: (Shrimati Saroma Sanyal Memorial Award (India) 2017; Best Paper Award in 7th Internal Conference in Advances in Renewable Energy, (IIT Bombay) 2019. He is active member of CHD17 Committee, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and has lifetime membership in Institution of Engineers.

Dr. Al-Asheh is a faculty member at the Chemical Engineering Department at the American University of Sharjah (UAE) since 2014. He joined Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) since 1997 and served as Director of Academic Development Center at JUST during the period 2009 – 2014 and Dean of Engineering at JUST for the academic year 2017/2018. He also joined Qatar University as faculty member during the period 2003 - 2007. He taught various courses in Chemical Engineering at the B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels. His research interest focuses on adsorption of pollutants by biological materials and different naturally occurring Materials, Sorptive storage of natural gas, supercritical extraction for different applications, Microbial fuel cells application, and Water Disinfection.