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About the Editors

Peter D. Lund is Professor in Advanced Energy Systems at Aalto University (Helsinki) where
he chairs the multidisciplinary Energy Science Initiative. He is also a Visiting Professor in
Wuhan, China. His primary interest is in sustainable energy systems, innovations, and policies.
Dr. Lund is active in senior roles with EU initiatives in energy: he chaired the Advisory Group
Energy of E.C. 2002-06, he chairs the Energy Steering Panel of European Academies Science

Advisory Council (EASAC) and is a steering committee member of Euro-CASE energy
platform. He has served in advisory role in many energy programmes world wide, including
IEA, EIT, Baltic and Russia cooperation. Dr. Lund is Editor-in-Chief for Interdisciplinary
Reviews: Energy and Environment and European Editor for International Journal of Energy
Research (Wiley). Peter Lund has given numerous invited talks and written over 500 research
papers on energy.

John Byrne is Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) and
Distinguished Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the University of Delaware. He has
contributed to Working Group III of the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) since 1992 and shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Panel’s
authors and review editors. He holds several senior academic, advisory and policy advisor
positions, among others in South Korea, China, India and the USA. His work in the US
includes service as an advisor to the National Council for Science and the Environment (US)
and the Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice, coordinated by the US EPA. Dr
Byrne created the first undergraduate and graduate degrees in the United States in the combined

area of energy and environmental policy and a recent external review conducted by a
committee of internationally respected scholars rated the CEEP graduate program among the
three best in the field. He has published 17 books and over 150 research articles.

Göran Berndes is Associate Professor in Energy and Environment at Chalmers University of
Technology in Sweden. Göran Berndes’ research integrates land use and energy systems at
scales ranging from local case studies to the global context. The research is in particular
directed towards the production and use of biomass for food, energy and materials purposes.
Important aspects include: (i) the effectiveness of different ways to produce and use biomass
for energy, using long-term energy system modeling and Life Cycle/Well-to-Wheel analyses
linked with land use change modeling and assessment of the associated flows of C; and (ii) the
resource (e.g., land and water), environmental and socioeconomic implications of bioenergy
strategies and also of the alternative strategy to use land for enhancement of biospheric carbon
sequestration.

Iacovos A. Vasalos was a Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of
Chemical Engineering from 1979 to 2005. He is currently Emeritus Researcher at the Chemical
Process and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
(CERTH). He started his career in the Amoco Research Center in Naperville, Illinois, where
he worked for 10 years from 1969 to 1979, as a research engineer, project manager, process