**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Denia Kolokotsa** is Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Engineering of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. Her research interests include energy management for the built environment, energy efficiency and renewables, integration of advanced energy technologies, indoor environmental quality, energy efficiency in buildings, cool materials, distributed energy management systems, artificial intelligence, building automation as well as optimisation of microgrids and smart grids. She is Editor of the *Energy and Buildings* journal of Elsevier and has served as Editor in Chief of *Advances in Building Energy Research*, Taylor and Francis. She is a member of the editorial board of 3 journals and Scientific Coordinator of 8 international research projects. She has participated in more than 30 international research projects as team leader or researcher. She is the author of 95 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. She is also President and Founding Member of the European Cool Roofs Council and member of numerous scientific committees and international organisations.

**Gloria Pignatta** is an academic of the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia. Her research touches on the global problem of climate adaptation and mitigation by investigating the relationship between extreme weather events and the built environment. She is a Civil Engineer with a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering from the University of Perugia, Italy. In 2016, she was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Inter-University Research Center on Pollution and Environment "Mauro Felli" (CIRIAF), University of Perugia, Italy. In 2017, she was Postdoctoral Associate at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), in Singapore. She is the author of scientific papers in the field of building energy efficiency and sustainability, and has participated in 2 European and several international research projects as team leader or researcher.

**Kostas Gobakis** is Research Associate at the School of Environmental Engineering of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. His research interests include prediction using artificial neural networks, energy simulation energy, management for the built environment, energy efficiency and renewables, energy efficiency in buildings, and cool materials. He is a physicist with a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Technical University of Crete. He has served as the main technical coordinator of more than 5 European funded projects since 2012.
