Micro-grids, CHP and RES: An option for sustainable energy communities

Professor Dr. Agis M. Papadopoulos graduated from the German School of Thessaloniki. He obtained his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle University Thessaloniki in 1989, his Master of Science in Energy Conservation and the Environment from Cranfield University (UK), in 1991, and his Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in solar systems, from the Aristotle University Thessaloniki in 1994.
Since 1998 he is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2013 he is Director of the Process Equipment Design Laboratory at the same Department. His main research interests lie in the fields of (a) Energy efficiency and integration of RES technologies in the built environment, (b) Development and evaluation of energy conservation technologies and materials and (c) Policies and regulatory issues on energy efficiency and RES.
He has supervised or co-supervised 21 PhD Theses, 4 post-Doc dissertations and more than 170 Diploma Theses; he has coordinated more than 60 national and international research projects and authored or co-authored more than 110 papers published in peer reviewed journals, 250 in conference proceedings and 17 chapters in text books and other publications.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Sustainable Energy, Vice Editor-in-Chief of the Advances in Building Energy Research journal and Editorial Board Member in several other journals. He has worked as an expert for a series of international consulting projects in Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Ukraine and Central Asia. Since 2010 he is Visiting Professor at the International Hellenic University and since 2015 at the TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany.