Professor Soteris Kalogirou

Professor Soteris Kalogirou is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. In addition to his Ph.D., he holds the title of D.Sc. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Member of Academia Europaea, Fellow of International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance and Member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence.

For more than 35 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination, photovoltaics, geothermal energy and absorption cooling.

He has a large number of publications in books, book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Renewable Energy and Honorary Editor of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another twenty-six journals. He is the editor of the book Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Nova Science Inc., co-editor of the book Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Springer, editor of the book McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics, published by Academic Press of Elsevier and author of the books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier.

This work qualified Professor Kalogirou to appear for consecutive years in the Stanford University World Top 2% Scientist. For the career-long list he is in the prestigious 0.62% top scientists’ position. He is also ranked as a Global Top 0.05% Scholar, by ScholarGPS and is honoured to be in the Finalist list of the prestigious Global Energy Prize award in 2024 and 2026.