Prof. Emmanuel Karapidakis is the dean of the School of Engineering and the director of the Energy, Environment, and Climate Change Institute, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece. He is the scientific coordinator of many European, nationally funded projects and several privately funded projects. He is a member of IEEE and a member of the North-Eastern Europe Energy Institute (ΙΕΝΕ). His research interests include energy policy, power systems operation, diverse and dispersed generation, micro-grids, renewable energy sources, and energy trading.