Professor Soteris Kalogirou, DSc (Cyprus) is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Member of Academia Europaea, Fellow of International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance [AIIA], Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association [AAIA], and Fellow of CORE Academy of Sciences and Humanities [FCAcad].
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 and absorption cooling, and on the use of artificial intelligence, for the modelling and performance prediction of energy and solar energy systems.
He has a large number of publications as books, book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Editor-in-Chief, Emeritus of Renewable Energy and Honorary Editor of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another twenty-six 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.