Managing Indoor Environments and Energy in Buildings with Integrated Intelligent Systems

Technical University of Crete.

She is currently assistant professor in the Technical University of Crete, Dept. of Environmental Engineering. Her research interests include energy management and energy efficiency in the built and urban environment, neural Networks and fuzzy logic technology, advanced optimization theory and applications, Decision Support Systems in energy modeling and automation. She is the author and co-author of about hundred full papers in international refereed journals, books and conferences. She has participated in more than twenty EC and national funded projects on the above topics and he has coordinated two among them.

Dr. George S. Stavrakakis was born in Sitia-Crete-Greece in 1956. He received his first degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1980. His postgraduate "D.E.A. in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering" was obtained from I.N.S.A., Toulouse, France in July 1981 and his Ph.D. in the same area was obtained from "Paul Sabatier" University-Toulouse-III, Toulouse, France in January 1984. He has worked as a Research Fellow in the Robotics Laboratory of N.T.U.A., Athens (1985-1988), and as a Visiting Scientist at the Institute for System Engineering and Informatics/Components Diagnostics & Reliability Sector of the EC - Joint Research Centre (JRC) at Ispra, Italy (1989-1990).He was Vice President of the Hellenic Center of Renewable Energy Sources(CRES), 2000-2002 .In September 1990 he joined the  Electronic and Computer Engineering Dpt., Technical University of Crete, Chania, Crete, Greece  as an Associate Professor.

He is currently a Full Professor (from November 1995) in the same Department. His research interests include industrial and space technology applications of control theory and estimation theory, production systems automation, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic technology, optimization theory and applications, Decision Support Systems. He performs prototype and  advanced engineering research and applications of the above scientific  topics in: robotics, process reengineering, systems safety and reliability analysis, real-time industrial processes fault monitoring and diagnosis, power systems and alternative sources of energy modeling and automation, energy efficiency and Building Energy Management Systems(BEMS).He is the author and co-author of about a hundred thirty  full papers in international refereed journals, books and conferences, of  forty five research reports ,of three international edition and dissemination  books and of sixty five papers in international no refereed conferences on the above topics. He has participated in 33 EC and national funded projects on the above topics and he has coordinated the 8 among them.

Dr. Apostolos Apostolou became Scientific Researcher Grade I in energy sector with the relevant decision from the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research & Youth, and Managing Director of Montana Energy Group, a group of companies active in the field of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency. He received the diploma in production and management engineering from the Technical University of Crete, in 1993 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the same University, in 1995 and 2002, respectively. He is author/editor of 5 books on the field of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, innovation and quality management, as well as of a significant number of research reports and papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He has participated in the organization of many scientific conferences and he has numerous presentations in scientific conferences. His research interests include BEMS, integration of RES in the built environment, related data bases, energy saving standards elaboration and certification of quality systems.

Dr. Corneliu Munteanu is Professor Ph.D in Materials Science Domain at Technical University "Gh. Asachi" from Iasi, Romania, chief-department of Materials Study and Advances Materials form Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. He is Ph. D coordinator from 2004 having published a number of 9 books, author and co-author over 200 scientific papers and more than 40 ISI scientific papers in prestigious journals. Professor Munteanu has participated in the organization of many scientific conferences and he has numerous presentations in scientific conferences. He is the holder of numerous research grants in materials science and engineering for use of renewable energy systems. Between 2007 - 2012, he held the position of General Director of Higher Education and Director of CNRED from Ministry of Education, Romania. His research interests include energy efficient materials, cool materials, and energy efficient and environmental friendly constructions, classification.