Beemkumar Nagappan completed his undergraduate engineering program in the domain of Mechanical Engineering from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT), Coimbatore, India, in 2004, and then completed his post-graduation in Energy Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy (CEG), Chennai, India. He received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering for innovative research in solar thermal energy storage field from Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India, in 2018. He has more than 18 years of teaching experience at various levels and he is currently working as a Professor & Deputy Dean Research in JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bengaluru, India. He is recipient of a research grant of INR 15.20 lakhs & faculty training grant of INR 3 Lakhs from AICTE - Delhi (GoI) and he also received a research grant of INR 40 Lakhs from VGST, Government of Karnataka, India. Since 2021, he has been recognized among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists for four consecutive years. He has published more than 125 research articles in various WoS (SCI) and Scopus indexed journals with the cumulative impact factor of 450 (as per SCI, Clarivate Analytics). He received many awards for his outstanding contribution to research and academics. His current research interests include thermal energy storage with nano- encapsulated PCM, methods to reduce NOx emission in bio- fueled CI engine, and solar- powered refrigeration systems. He is a life member in various professional bodies like the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), India.Gloria Pignatta is Scientia Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Univeristy of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney, Australia. She received a PhD degree in Energy Engineering from the University of Perugia (Italy), in 2016. In the same year, she was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Inter- University Research Center on Pollution and Environment “Mauro Felli” (CIRIAF), University of Perugia (Italy). From 2017 to 2018, she worked as Postdoctoral Associate and Building and Construction Expert at the Singapore- MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), in Singapore. Since 2018, she has been High Performance Architecture (HPA) Research Cluster expert in the School of Built Environment, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at UNSW Sydney. She is also Investigator at the Material and Manufacturing Institute (MMFI) at UNSW. In 2021, she was nominated City Futures Research Centre (CFRC) Fellow. She is an expert in building energy efficiency and sustainable solutions for the built environment. Her research touches on different fields, from engineering to architecture, material science, and urban climate, and aims to face the global problem of climate adaptation and mitigation, as well as social challenges, such as energy inequality. She has been actively engaged in research and contributed to the knowledge and literature with more than 60 research papers, 3 books, and numerous international conference papers. Her collaboration network touches different countries: Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Denmark, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Singapore, Sweden, USA, Canada, India, and Australia.A D Dhass received his BE, ME, and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Energy Engineering, and Solar Energy in 2005, 2009, and 2018, respectively, from Anna University, Chennai, India. Since 2020, he has been working as Assistant Professor in the Indus Institute of Technology and Engineering (IITE), Indus University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. His areas of research include solar, heat transfer, thermoelectric generators, Green Building and phase change materials.
