Costas N. Papanicolas (Chair)
Professor, President of the Cyprus Institute and Director of the Energy Division
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Rabia Ferroukhi
Deputy Director at Knowledge, Policy and Finance International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Manuel Blanco (Co-Chair)
Professor, ERA Chair in Solar Thermal Technologies for the Eastern Mediterranean, Energy Division
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Daniel Feuermann
Professor at the Department of Solar and Environmental Physics,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel
Kimon A. Antonopoulos
Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Gilles Flamant
Scientific Director of SOLSTICE Laboratory of Excellence, Processes, Materials and Solar Energy
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS-PROMES), France
Derek Baker
Co-Director of ODAK, Professor at Mechanical Engineering Department, Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications (GUNAM)
Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey
Suhil Kiwan
Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Energy Center Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Julian Blanco
Director at Plataforma Solar de Almeria,
Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT-PSA), Spain
Chuck Kutscher
Fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), USA
Nicolas Calvet
Assistant Professor, Chair of the Masdar Institute Solar Platform of the Concentrated Solar Power and Thermal Energy Storage Unit
Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
Alexander Mitsos
Professor, Director at IEK-10 Systems Energy Engineering, Forschugszentrum Juelich, Laboratory for Process Systems Engineering (AVT.SVT)
Manuel Collares
Renewable Energies Chair at the Institute for Advanced Studies and Research
University of Évora, Portugal
Fabio Maria Montagnino
Director and Coordinator of Research at the Solar Living Lab (SoLL)
Consortium for the Application of Research and the Creation of Innovative Enterprises (ARCA), Italy
Luis Crespo
President of the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association (ESTELA)
Cédric Philibert
Senior Analyst at the Renewable Energy Division
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Simona De Luliis
Researcher at the Department of Energy Technologies Energia Nucleare ed Energie Alternative (ENEA), Italy
Robert Pitz-Paal
Director of the Institute of Solar Research
German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany
Wesley Stein
Solar Research Leader at the Solar Group Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
Local Organising Committee
Manuel Blanco (Chair)
Professor, ERA Chair in Solar Thermal Technologies for the Eastern Mediterranean, Energy Division
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Nicolas Jarraud
Assistant Vice President for Institute Affairs
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Aristides Bonanos
Assistant Professor, Energy Division
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Georgios Kirkos
Scientific Coordinator, Energy Division
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Nestor Fylaktos
Associate Research Scientist
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Pavlos Tsiartas
Head of Communications
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Chariklia Hephaestou
Executive Assistant
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus