Professor Brian Norton PhD DSc DUniv(h.c.)  FIAE MRIA is former Head of Energy Research at Tyndall National Institute, former Research Professor at University College Cork and Professor of Solar Energy Applications at TU Dublin.

He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland’s highest academic distinction, and a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers. He is currently a Principal Investigator in MaREI, the Irish national research centre for Energy, Climate and Marine and leads its Energy Efficiency research area. He is an Honorary Professor at Universities in Northern Ireland, China and USA. He is currently Vice-President and Treasurer of the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance and serves on the Steering Committee of the Daylight Academy.

As Secretary for Policy and International of the Royal Irish Academy, he serves on the European Academies Science Advisory Committee (EUSAC) and the EASAC Energy Panel. As immediate past-President of Dublin Institute of Technology, he played a major role in the creation of Technological University Dublin and in the realisation of its flagship Dublin city-centre campus at Grange Gorman.

Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He is currently the Vice Rector on Economics, Personnel and Development of the university. In addition to his Ph.D., he holds the title of D.Sc. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts.

For more than 35 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination, photovoltaics, geothermal energy and absorption cooling.

He has a large number of publications in books, book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another twenty journals. He is the editor of the book Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Nova Science Inc., co-editor of the book Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Springer, editor of the book McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics, published by Academic Press of Elsevier and author of the books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier.

He is a member of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN), American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Institute of Refrigeration (IoR) and International Solar Energy Society (ISES).

Professor Tapas Mallick is a Chair in Clean Technologies, Renewable Energy and Lead of Solar Energy Research Group within the Environment & Sustainability Institute. He is also Director and Scientific Advisor of the BuildSolar Limited.  He is also Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. His research focus is applied solar energy, he looks at bridging the urban and rural energy divide through solar energy implementation. He is particularly interested in teaching advanced solar energy engineering and heat transfer for renewable energy systems. He actively involves various RCUK, European and Industrial funded research projects in the area of Solar Energy. Professor Mallick is part of SUPERGEN solar consortium, EUED centre - key research consortium in the UK. In addition, Professor Mallick is Associate Editor and Subject Editor of the Journals Energies and IET Renewable Power Generation.He has strong relationship with many ODA countries spans across Indian continent, Middle East, and sub-saharan African continent. He has supervised twenty-two PhDs to completion and engaged several governmental level panel across the world. In 2016 Professor Mallick received British Indian Award for services to Education in the UK and in 2018 BuildSolar received Best Innovation for Sustainability award in Cornwall. 

Aoife Houlihan Wiberg recently joined The Department of Architecture and Engineering at The University of Bath in early 2023 having previously held the position of Professor of Architecture, Chair of Research in Architecture at the Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment at Ulster University, Belfast, UK since 2019. She returned to the UK after working for 10 years at The Research Centre for Zero Emission Buildings (ZEB http://zeb.no/index.php/en/) and The Research Centre for Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. She is a Chartered member of The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) graduated as an architect from Cardiff University, and completed her M.Phil. and PhD Degree in Architecture from the University of Cambridge. She is UK National Expert in the International Energy Agency (IEA EBC) Annex 89 - Ways to Implement Net-zero Whole Life Carbon Buildings (2023-28). Prior to this, she was leading research in Annex 72 – Assessing Life Cycle Related Environmental Impacts Caused by Buildings (2017-2023) and Annex 57 – Evaluation of Embodied Energy and CO2eq Emissions for building construction (2012-2015).