**About the Editors**

#### **Dawei Liang**

Dawei Liang is an Associate Professor of New University of Lisbon. He has published more than 130 articles. His researches on solar lasers were highlighted by CSP Today, Spotlights on Optics in 2012, Laser Physics in 2013, Laser Focus World in 2013, 2016 and 2022, Journal of Photonics for Energy in 2020, 2021 and featured news from SPIE in 2022. His research team signed a book-publishing contract on Solar-Pumped Lasers with Springer-Nature in 2020. He was among "World's Top 2% Scientists list" by Stanford University in 2021. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Photonics for Energy. He serves as special issue Guest Editor for Energies.

#### **Changming Zhao**

Changming Zhao is a Full Professor of Beijing Institute of Technology. He was a visiting scholar of Technical University of Berlin. He has published more than 140 articles. He accomplished many research projects like LD-pumped double-frequency solid-state laser, LD-pumped Yb:YAG laser, DPL coherent laser radar techniques, Solar-pumped solid-state lasers etc. He serves as Editors of Lasers and Infrared (in Chinese) and Applied Optics (in Chinese). He published the first book on Solar-Pumped Lasers (in Chinese) in 2016. He serves as special issue Guest Editor for Energies.
