Stefano Barberis received his Ph.D. in Turbomachinery and Advanced Energy Systems Engineering at University of Genova in 2016. He is a Senior Mechanical Engineer with expertise in renewable energy sources, project management, techno-economical feasibility studies, research activities on energy storage, hydrogen and renewable energy systems, due diligence, innovation and technology transfer. He is currently appointed as Researcher and Assistant Professor at University of Genova in the Thermochemical Power Group ,(https://tpg.unige.eu/ )where he leads R&D activities on energy storage and use of hydrogen in innovative environment.

Christopher Schifflechner studied Mechanical Engineering at TU Delft and has been working as a researcher for the Technical University of Munich since 2018. Christopher is currently a research group leader for thermodynamic cycles at the Chair of Energy Systems at TUM, where he leads R&D activities on waste heat utilization, geothermal energy systems and thermodynamic processes. He is involved in various national and European research projects and is the coordinator of the European Horizon project FlexGeo.

Sotirios Karellas is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering at NTUA and a visiting Professor at TU Munich and at University of Bayreuth. The main areas of his work are in waste heat exploitation solutions, centralized and decentralized power plants, energy storage, biomass applications, thermal processes and hydrogen.