Dr. Michalis Gr. Vrachopoulos is Professor and Deputy President in the Department of Agricultural Development, Agri-Food and Natural Resource Management. He holds a PhD degree from the National Technical University of Athens and many years of experience in thermal behavior of buildings, design of energy installations and Renewable Energy Sources (RES) installations with an emphasis on solar energy and geothermal. He is the Director of the Energy and Environmental Research Laboratory (E2ReLab) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in which research is conducted funded by competitive research programs of the GSRT(COOPERATION, RESEARCH CREATE INNOVATION, etc.) and the European Commission (HORIZON, INTERREG, etc.) in which he is Scientific Manager. Also, due to his extensive experience, he supports public bodies (eg Municipality of Alexandroupolis, Municipality of Dirfyon Messapia, Municipality of Western Lesbos, etc.) and Private Sector in matters of energy saving and RES. Mr. Vrachopoulos has many publications in international journals and conferences and has authored 6 books on heating cooling air conditioning and RES (one in progress). His scientific work has significant recognition at an international level, while he has participated in Scientific Committees of international conferences and is a member of international organizations (eg ASHRAE). He was an important executive and Scientific Lead together with the Coordinator in the project TESSe2b: Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings. An integrated solution for residential building energy storage by solar and geothermal resources, Horizon 2020 project, GA680555 which has been characterized as one of the successful projects of the previous Horizon programming period of the European Commission.

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