Hatef Madani is an Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Applied Thermodynamics, Department of Energy Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Besides research management and teaching in Academia, he is working closely with research institutes and industries in Europe and he is currently a Senior Scientist at the Austrian Institute of Technology. He is also a member of the steering committee at Renewable Heating and Cooling European Technology and Innovation Platform (RHC ETIP) as well as the strategic council of the School of Industrial Engineering and Management. During the last two decades, he has been involved in several national and international research projects on energy system analysis and system modeling.