Carlos A. Santos Silva is an Assistant Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon and the director of the Industrial Ecology and Sustainability Lab of IN+, from the research lab LARSyS. He holds a degree (1999), a MSc (2001) and a PhD (2005) in Mechanical Engineering from IST. Currently, his research and teaching activities are in the area of energy management in buildings and sustainable energy systems modeling and optimization. He coordinates the Executive Masters on Sustainable Energy Systems of the MIT Portugal Program at IST and the Iberian office of the PhD School from European Institute of Technology (EIT) - InnoEnergy PhD School. He is also the principal investigator in several industrial and research projects in the area of energy planning and energy efficiency.

Previously, he was an invited assistant professor in the MIT Portugal Program at IST and the coordination deputy of the PhD and Advanced Training Programs in Sustainable Energy Systems, holding the WS-Energia Industrial Chair devoted to research and product development on energy systems management. He is the author of several papers in peer-reviewed international journals in systems modeling and operations research and communications in international conferences.

Claudia Sousa Monteiro is an architect and a researcher at the Industrial Ecology and Sustainability Lab of IN+, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. She holds the PhD in Sustainable Energy Systems from the MIT Portugal Program, a Master and BSc in Architecture, both from IST.

She is currently involved in several research projects related to the Smart Sustainable Cities initiative such as SusCity – urban data driven models for creative and resourceful urban transitions (http://www.suscity-project.eu), Sharing Cities (http://www.sharingcities.eu/) and FIRST - mapping flexibility of urban energy systems. Previously, she worked as an architect in urban design and strategic planning in the Department of Urban Planning and Rehabilitation in the Lisbon Municipality. Her main areas of interest include the development of methodologies for urban building analytics towards the improvement of decision support tools for a sustainable urban planning and energy reduction in cities.

Daniel Aelenei is an assistant professor of building physics and building technical services at Department of Civil Engineering and and researcher at Center of Technology and Systems - Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is responsible for taught graduate and postgraduate courses in energy efficiency of buildings and for coordinating the Postgraduate Course on Façade Engineering. He is co-author of around 50 peer reviewed publications (journal, book chapter or conference proceeding) and responsible for supervision of 40 MSc and 4 PhD theses.

The research of Daniel Aelenei is focused on the low-energy buildings and in particular on net zero energy performance of buildings. He is Member of Committee of COST Actions TU1403 “Adaptive Facades Network”, co-subtask leader of Annex 67 – “Energy Flexible Buildings” of the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme (EBC), member of EU Interreg Project “SUDOKET – Mapping, consolidating and disseminating Key Enabling Technologies (KET) for the building sector in the SUDOE area” and member of H2020 EU Project – “NANOGUARD2AR - nanomaterials-based innovative engineering solution to ensure sustainable safeguard to indoor air”. He is also the principal investigator of the MIT Portugal Project – “FIRST - Mapping flexibility of urban energy systems” (MITEXPL/SUS/0015/2017)

Active since 1979 in several areas in the Energy Sector; Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Renewable Energy, with particular attention the Integration of Renewables on Buildings (Simulation, Passive Solar Systems and Design, Simplified Design Tools, Thermal Comfort, Audits, Integrated Design, and Building Thermal Regulations).

Present research; NZEB (Solar Building XXI-The first Solar Buildings Towards NZEB; Smart Cities Joint Program in EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) and SusCity Project

Is member of several National and International Groups representing Portugal in IEA (International Energy Agency) in CERT (Committee on energy research and technology) and End Use IA,); CYTED ( Coordinator of an IberoAmerican Grid on Bioclimatic Buildings and Renewable) and in CEN (European Committee for Standardization /TC 89, Thermal performance of buildings and building components), representing Portugal in EERA/Smart Cities. Is the Portuguese representative on the Horizon 2020 Programme Committee.

Since 1990 has been involved in the Portuguese Commission for the Building Regulation and in the last years has been one of the main responsible for the set-up of the New Building Regulations and Certification on Buildings in Portugal according the new Energy Performance Building Directive.

Has been; President of the Portuguese Energy Agency (ADENE); President of the Portuguese Solar Energy Society (SPES) and Head of Renewable Energy Department of INETI (National Institute of Engineering and Industrial Technology). Is member of the Portuguese section of ISES since 1980 and President from 1996 to 2000.

João Martins is an associate professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and a researcher at Center of Technology and Systems (UNINOVA), where he coordinates the energy efficiency group and acts as Communication Officer at the CTS Board of Directors. He has more than 50 book and journal publications, more than 150 papers in conference proceedings with referees and is responsible for the supervision of 65 MSc and 11 PhD theses.

The research of João Martins is focused on heritage buildings and energy efficiency (alternative energies and power quality, intelligent and energy efficient buildings, user awareness, renewables integration) and electrical drives. He is the chair of COST Action TD1406 – Innovation in Intelligent Management of Heritage Buildings (i2MHB); parnter coordinator on H2020 Storage4Grid, on H2020 New Cost Efficient Business Models for Flexible Smart Grids (NOBELGRID) and on INTERREG SUDOE Smart Heritage City (SHCity); and member of Annex 67 – “Energy Flexible Buildings” of the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme (EBC), amongst others.

João F. A. Martins is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), he was the Chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronic Society Technical Committee on Education in Engineering and Industrial Technologies (2013-2015), he is an Effective Member of the Portuguese Engineers Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros) and Founding Member of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (Sociedade Portuguesa para a Educação em Engenharia - SPEE)

Laura Aelenei holds a PhD in Civil Engineering, sub-field Building Physics (heat transfer, fluid dynamics), from Technical University of Lisbon (IST-UTL), Portugal (2006). She graduated in Civil Engineering, and obtained an MSc in Civil Engineering, sub-field Building Rehabilitation from Technical University Gh. Asachi, Iasi, Romania. She is Senior Researcher at LNEG and Responsible for Energy in Built Environment Research Area.

Her research interests are broad from buildings energy efficiency and renewable energy systems integrated in buildings with special focus on solar energy systems integration in building façades to new buildings concepts as Net Zero Energy Buildings and Communities and Interactive buildings in the context of Smart Cities.

Since 2008, she developed coordinated and participated in more than 50 National and European proposals for R&D projects.

She was participating in national building regulation/regulatory commissions, one in 2008, responsible for contribution of solar energy systems in existing residential buildings and the second from 2010 to 2011 integrating the LNEG research team in the review/new buildings regulations and certification. She participates also in the preliminary meetings and discussions regarding the review of the National Energy Strategic Plan on Energy Efficiency, PNAEE2016.

She is also Invited Professor and coordinator of the of Energy Efficiency studies at the Master of Energy and Environment Engineering at FCUL –Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, reviewer for international Journals: Renewable Energy Journal, Energies and ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering: Including Wind Energy and Building Energy Conservation.

She is Patent holder (PT 108535), resulting from the research project FRAME - Prefabricated Systems for Low-Cost Buildings: Design, Modulation, Prototyping and Testing, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, PTDC / AUR-AQI / 117782/2010.

She is co-editor and co-author of the book Wiley, Ernst&Sohn, IEATask40: Solution Sets for Net Zero Energy Buildings, Feedback from 30 NZEBs worldwide (in publication) and co-author of other 8 books (national and international) and author of more than 50 research papers published in scientific journals, conferences and communications.

Rui Amaral Lopes was born in Lagos, Portugal, in 1989. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He is now working with the Electrical Engineering department of this institution as Invited Assistant Professor. Additionally, since 2013 he has been with the Center of Technology and Systems - UNINOVA, where he is currently working on H2020 European Project BigDataOcean, on the Annex 67 – “Energy Flexible Buildings” of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme (EBC), and on MIT Portugal Project – “FIRST - Mapping flexibility of urban energy systems”.

The research of Rui Amaral Lopes is focused on Energy Flexible Buildings, Demand Side Management, Energy efficiency, Integration of renewable energy sources, Power distribution, nearly Zero-Energy Buildings and Communities, and Cooperative Net-Zero Energy Communities.

Teresa Simões has a PhD in Energy and Environment from the University of Lisbon with specialization in Energy and Sustainable Development. She is an Invited Researcher at LNEG, and is responsible for the Wind Energy Area. Has been working in the wind energy group since 1999, mainly in the area of the wind resource assessment (in complex environments – onshore and urban – and offhore) and GIS planning methodologies. Teresa Simões is a member of the TPWind – WG1 – Wind Conditions and TUD COST Action TU1304 Wind energy technology reconsideration to enhance the concept of smart cities (WINERCOST). Her main research activities are: wind resource assessment for wind park installation; wind energy production estimates of wind parks in complex terrains; CFD modeling of the wind in complex and urban environments; database planning and development in standard and GIS environments; development of methodologies for the identification of the sustainable wind and solar potential estimation in Portugal and foreign territories. She has participated in several research projects in the wind energy area, including: ERANET+/FCT NEWA – New European Wind Atlas, FCT/P2020 WindScanner.PT – The Portuguese WindScanner Facility, ESFRI WindScanner – The European WindScanner Facility, FP7 Demofloat – Demonstration of the WindFloat Technology, FP7 Norsewind – Northern Seas Wind Index, IEE 2020 Seanergy, FCT Fluctwind, FCT Roadmap WW, REIVE, T.Urban DEMTEC (ADI).

Francisco was born in Lisbon. He has been involved in education and engineering since his pre-bolonha Management and Industrial Engineering degree in LEGI-IST. He has worked in building HVACC, IoT, Renewables, Robotics, Automation, Mechatronics projects for Industry and Residential Sectors. Has created start-ups in these fields. Has been lecturer for ISQ and several other Professional Education Institutions, both in Private and Public Sector. Has been 3 years in Engineering Faculty as Laboratories Coordinator and Lecturer in Luanda, Angola where often represented Faculty in Government and International events, and supervised students in Mechatronics, Energy, Industrial and Computer Science Engineering. Collaborates with African, European and American developers and researchers. Is member of an international Data Science Academy, and Spatial GIS community. Has Diploma of Advanced Studies in Sustainability, Energy and Systems by MIT Portugal Program. In IN+ as Urban Researcher Participates in Summer School, Suscity and FIRST among other projects.