**About the Editors**

**Alireza Dehghani-Sanij**, a Senior Research Fellow, is currently working at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, NL, Canada. His research interests include renewable energy, energy sources and production, energy conversion and storage, geothermal energy, hybrid energy systems, and sustainable development. With more than a decade of experience in academia and industry, he has published around 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented more than 30 papers at conferences. He has also collaborated with other researchers to publish three scientific books in English with Elsevier, Springer and River Publishers, and six scientific books in Farsi with K.N. Toosi Universityof Technology and Yazda Publications. Among his scientific and professional memberships are ones in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME).

**Jatin Nathwani**, Ph.D., P.Eng, Prof. of the Department of Management Sciences/Civil & Environmental Engineering, is the founding Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE). He held the prestigious Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy (2007−2020). As the inaugural Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy (2007−2020), he led research initiatives on accelerating energy transitions for a zero-carbon economy through systems assessments of technology, financing strategies, risk management and public policy. He is also a Fellow and currently leads the Research Cluster 'STEM for Global Resilience' at the Balsillie School for International Affairs (BSIA). Prof. Nathwani, co-Directs with Prof. Joachim Knebel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) is the Global Change Initiative-Affordable Energy for Humanity (AE4H). The consortium comprises 150+ leading STEM and social science researchers, energy access thought leaders and practitioners from 50 institutions in 30 countries committed to eradicating energy poverty by 2030.
