Prof. Dr. Nikolaos C. Kokkinos is a Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the School of Science of the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece and the Director of the Petroleum Institute (PI) at DUTH. He is an editor and reviewer in various scientific journals in the field of energy, bioenergy, applied catalysis, and scientific simulations. Dr. Kokkinos has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings. His research interests, among others, include biofuels, sustainable aviation fuels, applied catalysis, process engineering, and process modeling and simulation.