Prof. Dr. Jorge Payá has been a mechanical engineer since 2006, through the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, Spain) and the Ecole Centrale Paris (France) by means of the T.I.M.E. program (Top Industrial Managers for Europe). His PhD (2006–2010) involved the dynamic modeling and experimental validation of an innovative metal hydride cooling system. J. Payá has been an associate professor in the Applied Thermodynamics department at UPV since 2019. His teaching involves heat transfer, solar energy, and energy efficiency. In 2017, he received the best teacher award at the engineering school ETSII (UPV). His research is focused on solar energy, refrigeration, heat pumps, and thermal energy storage. He has participated in several European projects (TOPMACS, ICE, CHESTER) and is currently head researcher at UPV for the European project PUSH2HEAT, which is coordinated by TECNALIA. His h-index in December 2023 was 14.