Prof. Omid Mahian

World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (2022 Release)

Ningbo University, China

Biography:

Omid Mahian is a full Professor (National young talents) and doctoral supervisor at Xi'an Jiaotong University. He is also a visiting professor of Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Energy (Elsevier) and Renewable Energy (Elsevier) journals, a senior associate editor of Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Springer) and an associate editor in Alexandria Engineering Journal (Elsevier) & J. Thermal Science (Springer). He has been a reviewer for more than and 100 international journals. His research direction mainly includes the application of nanotechnology in renewable energy (such as nanofluids application in solar collector and solar desalination) and entropy generation and exergy analysis in energy systems. So far, he has published more than 200 SCI papers. He has papers in top journals including Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Physics Reports and Nano Energy. He has been selected as a highly cited researcher for three consecutive years (2018, 2019 and 2020) by Web of Science. He has received several international awards from conferences and innovation exhibitions for his contribution in the field of heat transfer and renewable energy.

Prof. Pierluigi Siano (IEEE Senior Member)

The Highly Cited Researchers list from the ISI Web of Science Group for the Engineering category (Since 2019)

University of Salerno, Italy

Biography:

Pierluigi Siano (M'09–SM'14) received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively.,He is currently an Aggregate Professor of electrical energy engineering with the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno. In 2013, he received the Italian National Scientific Qualification as a Full Professor in the competition sector of electrical energy engineering. He has coauthored over 160 papers, including over 70 published in international journals. His research activities are centered on the integration of distributed energy resources in smart distribution systems and on planning and management of power systems.,Dr. Siano is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and a member of the Editorial Boards of over 30 international journals. His research activities mainly concern the management and planning of smart cities and smart grids, the development of advanced technologies and smart infrastructures for refuelling or recharging zero-carbon vehicles, the economy and energy management, smart houses, and smart buildings, distributed micro-generation, generation systems from renewable sources. Further research activities are related to safety and security in the field of smart cities and smart grids, artificial intelligence, sustainable urban transport, electric vehicles, and mobility infrastructures. In these research fields, he has co-authored more than 800 articles including more than 460 international journals that received in Scopus more than 24000 citations with an H-index equal to 75. Since 2019 included among the Highly Cited Researchers list from the ISI Web of Science Group for the Engineering category. According to a new study by researchers at Stanford University in the US: in year 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021 he has been ranked among most cited scientists in the world.