Nicola Cardinale is an energy engineer, working as a full professor at Department of European and Mediterranean Cultures: Architecture, Environment, Cultural Heritages (DICEM) of the University of Basilicata in Matera (Italy). He has produced a total of about 130 scientific papers, review, educational and informative, mostly in collaboration with other authors. The main themes of the work concerns mainly: exergy analysis and life cycle assessment in the context of sustainable manufacturing, temperature and humidity performance of buildings and building components with particular reference to the Mediterranean climate, renewable and alternative energy sources, ventilation and diffusion of pollutants in confined spaces, heat transfer with phase change, lighting and acoustic measurements, heat generators, chimney performance, refrigeration technology, technology and bioclimatic materials and diffusion of pollutants in the atmosphere. He is referee of international journals in the energy sector and member of the scientific committee of several international conferences. He was Deputy Director of the Department of European and Mediterranean Cultures: Architecture, Environment, Cultural Heritages (DICEM) from 2012 to 2020.

More information about Prof. Nicola Cardinale and his research works can be found at ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicola-Cardinale, and Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I13AHVEAAAAJ.

Prof. Adriana Greco, born in Naples (Italy) on 7th August 1968, received degree cum laude in Chemical Engineering at University of Naples Federico II on 1994, and PhD in Thermo-Mechanical Systems Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II on 1997. She now serves as Full Professor of Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II. Prof. Adriana Greco is member of the board of examiners for the admission to the Research Doctorate, member of committee for the final test of Research Doctorate, and member of the board of examiners for the list of Assistant Professor and of Associate Professor. She has worked as reviewer for more than 50 international journals. She is also member of the Editorial Board of the International Review of Mechanical Engineering (IREME), of the Scientific World Journal, and of International Journal of Engineering Science (Tecnica Italiana). Her research activity has been developed in the field of the termodynamics applied and the heat transfer. The scientific activity is related to following arguments: Energetic and exergetic analysis of vapor compression plants; Refrigerant fluids; Convective condensation; Convective boiling; Solid state refrigeration. She is co-author of more than 100 publications among paper on international and national journals and conference proceedings. She has (basing on Scopus Data-Base on 3/11/2022) and h index of 33 with 2036 citations.

More information about Prof. Adriana Greco and her research works can be found at ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Adriana-Greco-2185934512.

Prof. Guglielmina Mutani graduated in Civil Engineer in 1993 at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and her Master’s Degree thesis was awarded by the Piedmont Region. In 1997 she achieved the Ph.D. in Energetics. In 1997 and 1998, she was a teacher assistant in Buildings Physics at Politecnico di Torino and won a research grant funded by the Piedmont Region. From 1999, she worked as Assistant Professor and, since 2022, she is Associate Professor of Buildings Physics and Energy Systems at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). She published her research in international journals, proceedings of conferences and books, and is a reviewer of many scientific journals. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal “Instrumentation Mesure Metrologie” and in the Editorial Board of “TI-Italian Journal of Engineering Science” . She was Guest Editor of the journals “Sustainability” and "Energy Efficiency". She is a member of the scientific committee of international conferences in the field of energy modelling and renewable technologies. She is authorized to issue Energy Performance Certificates for buildings and is registered as a professional engineer in Italy. Her research interests concern energy modeling of buildings, districts and cities, energy performance certification of buildings, energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies, indoor/outdoor thermal comfort, and urban heat island. She collaborates with researchers from several universities and research institutions.

More information about Prof. Guglielmina Mutani and her research works can be found at ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6822-8624; ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guglielmina-Mutani; Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GrO9NaYAAAAJ.

Prof. Vincenzo Bianco is Full Professor at University of Genoa, Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management, and Transportation Engineering. He develops extensive research in the field of heat transfer and energy management published on leading international peer reviewed journals. He is ranked among the Top 2% Scientists in the Stanford Ranking. He develops international cooperation and research projects in the framework of EU grants. So far, Prof. Vincenzo Bianco has published more than 116 high-quality papers in international journals, and actively participated in no fewer than 7 research projects. His works contribute significantly to the fields of sustainable development, fluid mechanics, numerical modeling, electrical power engineering, strategic management, design engineering, computational fluid dynamics, and CFD simulation, to name but a few.

More information about Prof. Vicenzo Bianco and his research works can be found at ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vincenzo-Bianco-2; Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=QCHAtIUAAAAJ&hl=en.