Prof. Dr. Jo Darkwa currently serves as a Professor of Energy Storage Technologies at the Energy and Environment Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham (UK). He was the founding Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technology (CSET) and the Head of the Division of Sustainable Development at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Energy from Cranfield University. He is one of the world's leading experts in composite phase-change material research and thermochemical energy storage systems. He has published widely and has been involved in several major research/consultancy contracts for the UK Government, China, the EU, and the private sectors. He was appointed in 2005 as a member of the European Union Energy Management Expert Advisory group for six Western Balkan Countries. In 2004, he was honored by the Terrestrial Energy Systems Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as a Distinguished International Energy Research Coordinator and in 2007 received another prestigious award from the AIAA for technical excellence in energy conversion engineering systems. Prof. Darkwa was recently invited to deliver the keynote address at the second World Energy Storage Conference (WESC-2022), Turkey, and at the seventh edition of the Global Energy Meet (GEM 2023) conference in the USA.