Prof. Risto Kosonen
Aalto University, FINLAND
Risto Kosonen (D.Sc.), head of 25 persons HVAC research team. He is working on indoor climate, smart building services engineering, and energy efficiency of buildings and communities. Over 25 years experience in industry of development and innovations. President of Scanvac Nordic HVAC association, vice-president of Federation of Finnish HVAC associations and Chair of Indoor Climate Association in Finland. Committee membership of e.g. REHVA organizations. Author of over 320 international publications. Awards: Rydberg Gold Medal, REHVA Fellow and the best paper award of Building and Environment 2016.
Keynote lecture: “HVAC- technology for healthy buildings and sustainable society“
Dr. Michael Bardanis
EDAFOS Engineering Consultants S.A., GREECE
Dr Michael Bardanis is the Director of Laboratory of EDAFOS Engineering Consultants S.A., a geotechnical consultancy based in Athens, Greece. He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, an MSc in Soil Mechanics from Imperial College, London, and a PhD degree in Unsaturated Soil Mechanics from the National Technical University of Athens. Michael has worked as a geotechnical engineer since 1998 on several demanding projects in Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria, including large landslide remediation projects, highways, dams and airports. Since 2009 he directs a large commercial soil and rock mechanics laboratory designed and organized by himself. Michael has authored and co-authored 70 papers in journals and conferences, mainly on unsaturated soil mechanics, landslides and the mechanical behaviour of soils. Between 2018 and 2021 he was a visiting lecturer at Neapolis University Paphos, Cyprus, teaching engineering Geology, Soil Mechanics, and Foundation Engineering. He has been elected several times on the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (HSSMGE), serving as its Secretary General between 2015 and 2019, and as its President since 2019. He is the Chairman of the 8th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils to be held on Milos island, Greece, in 2023.
Keynote lecture on: “Investigation, identification and exploitation of underdrainage pore pressure profiles for the stabilisation of large-size paleolandslides covering old river-beds”
Ph.D. Eng. Gabriel Mihai Sirbu
Renault Technologie Romanie, ROMANIA
Gabriel Mihai Sirbu received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University Politehnica of Bucharest. He held a postdoctoral position in CEIT-IK4 Center San Sebastian, Spain. He joined Renault Technologie Romanie in 2008 as a Team Leader for developing electrical and thermal simulation for electrical systems. He also held different management positions in simulation and customer requirements teams. He managed several teams dedicated to the most complex synthesis simulations of a car, as aerodynamics, thermal, crash, durability, and vehicle dynamics simulations. He was involved in many research projects as contributor or project manager, including projects funded by EU from H2020 program. Now he is project manager for internal projects of the company and for research projects in partnership on new energy sources and on improving the environment of passenger compartment.
Invited lecture on: “Evolutions of European passenger cars following new regulations regarding vehicle emissions and decarbonization“
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