Prof. Yogi Goswami

New and Emerging Developments in Solar Energy

Yogi Goswami is the John & Naida Ramil Professor and the Co-Director of the Clean Energy Research Center at the University of South Florida. He has served as an advisor and given testimonies on energy policy and the transition to renewable energy to the US Congress and various Governments around the world. He is Editor in chief of the Solar Energy Journal and Advances in Solar Energy.

Prof. Goswami conducts fundamental and applied research on Solar Power and various other applications of solar energy. 
Within the field of Renewable Energy he has published as an author or editor 14 books, 13 book chapters, 6 conference proceedings and more than 200 refereed technical papers. He also holds 12 patents and he is a recipient of many awards.

Prof. Mamoru Ishii

Renaissance of Nuclear Engineering and Coming Global Energy Crisis

Mamoru Ishii is Walter H. Zinn Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University. He is also serving as the Director of the Institute of Thermal-hydraulics established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at Purdue.

Prof. Ishii is specialized in two-phase flow, nuclear reactor safety and accident analyses. His work spans over experiments, instrumentations, and physical model development and computer codes. 

Prof. Ingwald Obernberger

The Present State and Future Development of Industrial Biomass Combustion for Heat and Power Generation

Prof. Obernberger is head of  the Research group “Energetic Biomass Utilisation” at the Institute for Process and Particle Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Managing Director of the engineering company BIOS BIOENERGIESYSTEME GmbH, Key researcher at the Austrian Competence Centre Bioenergy 2020+, Graz. He is a member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal Biomass and Bioenergy.

Prof. Obernberger’s main research areas are the characterisation of the properties of biomass fuels and ashes, the analysis and development of biomass combustion, gasification and flue gas cleaning technologies, as well as the development of innovative small-scale biomass Combined Heat and Power technologies. He is the author of 6 books and of more than 200 scientific publications. 

Prof. Hans Muller-Steinhagen

Desertec: Substainable Electricity for Europe, Middle East and North Africa

Prof. Müller-Steinhagen is the director of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics of the German Aerospace Centre and the director of the Institute for Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering of the University of Stuttgart. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the DESERTEC Industrial Initiative.

Prof. Müller-Steinhagen’s research work covers a wide range of topics related to heat and mass transfer, multi-phase flow, fuel cells, solar technology and process thermodynamics. He is the author of more than 550 books and articles and he is a recipient of many awards. 

Prof. John R. Thome

Comparison of New Refrigerant R1234ze versus R134a for Two-Phase Cooling of Microprocessors

John R. Thome is Professor of Heat and Mass Transfer at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) since 1998.

Prof. Thome is the author of 4 books and has published widely on microscale and macroscale two-phase flow and boiling/condensation heat transfer. He is currently directing a large Swiss National Science Foundation/Nano-Tera consortium project CMOSAIC on single- and two-phase cooling of future 3D computer chips. 

Prof. Kambiz Vafai

Primary Aspects of Transport in Biofilms

Prof. Vafai joined the University of California, Riverside as a Presidential Chair in the year 2000. He belongs to ISI’s Highly Cited category. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Porous Media and of Special Topics & Reviews in Porous Media - An International Journal.

Prof. Vafai has done extensive investigations in the area of thermal design and modeling, power electronics modeling and design, cooling enhancement investigations, feasibility, optimization and parametric studies for various engineering applications. He is also involved in developing biosensors for biological detection as well as modeling of tissue and organs. He has authored well over 230 journal publications, book chapters and symposium volumes. 

Prof. Robert G. Watts

Global Warming and the Future of the Earth

Robert G. Watts is the Cornelia and Arthur L. Jung Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tulane University. He was awarded the Dixie Lee Ray Award for his work on global warming by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2009.

Prof. Watts is the author of many papers on global warming, paleoclimatology energy and the physic of sport. He is also the author and the editor of many books.