Soteris A Kalogirou

Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology, Cyprus University of Technology.

Professor Soteris Kalogirou is a distinguished faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering at the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He holds both a Ph.D. and the title of D.Sc., and he is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, a Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, a Member of Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance.

With over 35 years of experience, Professor Kalogirou has been actively engaged in research across various areas of solar energy, including flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination, photovoltaics, geothermal energy, and absorption cooling.

He has authored numerous publications, including books, book chapters, and articles in international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. Professor Kalogirou serves as Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Honorary Editor of Energy, and is a member of the editorial boards of twenty other journals. He is the editor of Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems (Nova Science Inc.), co-editor of Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems(Springer), and editor of McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics (Academic Press of Elsevier). Additionally, he is the author of Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, both published by Academic Press of Elsevier.