Antoine Donne is a Senior Legal Counsel at EPEX SPOT, the power exchange operating short-term electricity markets in Europe. He also undertakes a PhD in energy law and digital law at University Paris Dauphine PSL. He graduated from Sorbonne Law School University in Paris with a Master in energy law. His main professional and research interests are energy regulation but also digital regulation, in particular non-personal data, and IPR and IT topics.

Lucille is social science data-use specialist and qualified sustainability professional, with local and global expertise. She has over 15 years experience in all aspects of sustainability across a multitude of sectors, with 9 years experience in data-driven public service delivery and smart cities efforts, primarily focused on digital transformation at the local government level.

Lucille holds a law degree from the University of Oxford in the U.K., an MSc in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Sweden’s Lund University, and is currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, within the Sociology department. In addition, she holds a researcher post at the United Nations University EGOV Unit in Portugal.

Tania is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, working on supply chain cybersecurity
with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Research Institute in Trustworthy
Interconnected Cyber-physical systems (RITICS). Tania is researching the impact of the NIS Directive
on securing essential services in the Energy, Water and Transport sectors and facilitates multidisciplinary working groups across industry and academia, producing cybersecurity guidance for
industry. At University of Strathclyde Tania led cybersecurity projects at the Power Network
Demonstration Centre integrating cybersecurity into energy research themes, and has submitted her
PhD (awaiting viva) on Developing Cybersecurity Assurance across public & private actors. Tania
holds a multidisciplinary MEnv degree from University of Melbourne and a BEng(Hons) in Electronic
& Electrical Engineering from University of Edinburgh. Tania has facilitated collaboration and
information sharing across the European energy sector including the development of the European
Energy Information & Sharing Analysis Centre. A Chartered Engineer, she previously worked as a
systems engineer for 10 years in the telecoms sector integrating people, processes and technology in
the design and implementation of network operations centres.

Angela Daly PhD SFHEA is full Professor of Law and Technology in the University of Dundee (Scotland) where she has a joint position in the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science and the Law School. She is a socio-legal scholar working on the regulation and governance of new (digital) technologies, and has expertise in data protection, intellectual property, human rights and sector-specific regulation in telecoms and energy. She is the author of Private Power, Online Information Flows and EU Law: Mind the Gap (Hart 2016) and Socio-Legal Aspects of the 3D Printing Revolution (Palgrave 2016), and co-editor of the open access collection Good Data (INC 2019). Angela holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute.

Gerwald Lichtenberg is Professor of Physics and Control Engineering at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the HAW Hamburg and scientific director of the Fraunhofer application center for Integration of Local Energy Systems ILES. His research areas are in the fields of model-based and learning control as well as fault diagnosis of complex systems such as local energy networks, building systems, or particle accelerators. The methodological focus of his work is on tensor decomposition methods and multilinear models.

Carlos Cateriano Yáñez was born in Arequipa, Peru in 1990. He received the B.Eng. degree in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Piura, Lima, Peru, in 2012 and the M.Eng. in renewable energy systems from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany, in 2017. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in automation, robotics, and industrial computer science at Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, in cooperation with the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany.

Since 2017 he is working at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. in Hamburg, Germany. His research interest includes model predictive control and its applications in the field of power systems integrated with renewable energy sources.

Niklas Jöres received his B.Sc. in Renewable Energies in 2016 from the University of Stuttgart. From the same University he received his M.Sc. in Energy Engineering in 2019, with the specifications in wind energy systems and thermal turbomachinery. He spent part of his master’s degree as an international student at the UPC in Barcelona and the NPU in Xi’an. His focus during his studies was mainly on the multi-objective optimization of wind turbines. Since 2019 he is part of the Fraunhofer IWES and focuses on modeling and simulation of local energy systems.

Aline Luxa received the B.Sc. (2017) and M.Sc. (2020) degree in energy and process engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2020 she is part of the Application Center for Integration of Local Energy Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems. In the scope of the Application Center, she is in close cooperation with the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. With a background in electrochemistry from future work at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, her research topics include modelling and control of grid supporting hydrogen systems

Janine Karlein received her diploma of Renewable Energy Engineering in 2010 from the University of Applied Science in Nordhausen. After collecting experience in the sector of PV and Wind energy as well as clean fuels, she joined the Application Center ILES for the Integration of Local Energy Systems and the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems in 2020. Her focus lies on modelling and simulation of regulations and she has expertise in future market development for renewable cross sector applications.

Marina Nascimento Souza is a research associate at the Fraunhofer Institute IWES. With an academical background in process engineering, she is working at the application center for integration of local energy systems at IWES. Marina’s research focus lays on modelling and simulation of electrolyzers, where she aims on contributing to the energy revolution towards decarbonization.

Tobias Schmidt is Professor of Energy and Technology Policy and the director of the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy at ETH Zurich. In his research, he analyzes the interaction of energy policy and its underlying politics with technological change in the energy sector. His research covers both developed and developing countries. Tobias holds a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering (energy focus) and a PhD in Management/Economics.

Ahouansou Roger H. was born in Porto-Novo, (Benin Republic) in 1964. He is currently Associate-Professor; lecturer at the University of Abomey-Calavi. He is involved in research in mechanics, energy and agricultural equipment. The accessibility of energy and the reduction of its production cost with strict respect for the environment are one of his research field.