**About the Editors**

**Helena M. Ramos** is a Professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico—IST (the Engineering Faculty ´ from University of Lisbon) and a member of CERIS in Civil Engineering Department. She has participated in 15 national projects and in 12 International Scientific projects and has been the supervisor of 20 PhD students, 45 MSc theses, and 10 post-graduates/docs. She has more than 5382 citations, index h 40 and i10 119. She has been a Member of various Editorial Teams and Reviewer of different scientific journals. She has several publications, more than 150 in International Journals with referees, more than 180 in Conferences, 22 book chapters, 3 books: in Small Hydropower Plants 2000 and Pump as Turbines 2018, Bombas operando como Turbinas, among others documents of technical and scientific disclosure. She has received 3 International Scientific recognitions. She is an expert in transients, hydropower, pumped storage and hybrid renewable solutions, water –energy nexus, leakage detection, hydrodynamics, and hemodynamics. For more detail: http://scholar.google.pt/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=pt-PT&user=9jTHk6oAAAAJ; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9028-9711.

**Armando Carravetta** is a Full Professor in Hydraulics at the Department of Civil, Architecture and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples, Federico II, IT. He undertakes research in technical innovation for water systems, energy efficiency and resilience of pumping systems, energy recovery by PAT technology, and fluid dynamics of slurry flows. He represents the Italian Association of Pump Manufacturers in the Europump Lot 28 Working Group for the implementation of the European standards on Ecodesign. He is one of the partners in the ongoing EU Interreg project, Reducing Energy Dependency in Atlantic Area Water Networks (REDAWN).

**Aonghus Mc Nabola** is a Professor in Energy and the Environment at the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, TCD. His research interests lie in the field of environmental fluid dynamics, where he has applied this expertise in the air pollution, energy efficiency, and/or water services sectors. He has been active in this field of research for over 15 years. Prof. McNabola currently leads a group of 8 PhD students and 3 postdoctoral researchers and is involved, primarily, as the lead partner and principal investigator, in a number of national and international collaborative projects, funded by Horizon 2020, INTERREG ERDF, SEAI, and the EPA. Prof. McNabola has a h-index of 25 and an i-10 index of 45. He has generated funding of over 5.25 million from national and primarily EU sources in over 20 funded research projects since 2008.
