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Deo Prasad
Country: Australia
Year Started Research: 1985
Title of Research: Building integrated PV and zero carbon buildings
University: University of New South Wales, Sydney
Still Active in Research: Yes

Scientia Professor Deo Prasad AO is a veteran of the solar field having started his research career under Professors
John Ballinger and Graham Morrison in 1985. He came in as an architect interested in low energy buildings and
finished a PhD in heat transfer engineering at UNSW. Deo became a member if ANZSES in 1987 and in 1994
became its President. He also was Director ISES for 9 years and looked after the ISES Asia Pacific Chapter for
another 9 years. In fact, when the ISES Office in Melbourne closed he was ANZSES President and rescued the HQ
by hosting it at UNSW in Sydney for a few years prior to it moving to Freiburg. Deo has been a prolific researcher
and headed the SOLARCH Group at UNSW for 15 years after Prof John Ballinger. He was part of the pioneering
team which published many of the Australian data and guidance on passive solar and energy efficient buildings.
Deo represented Australia at many International Energy Agency Tasks and meetings. He was a sub task leader of
the PV in Built Environment Task 7 of the PVPS agreement and led the Task Book on Designing with Solar Power
(EarthScan). He supervised more than 40 doctoral students and more than 80 masters students in this field. In
2012 he was the Chief Investigator and CEO of a seven-year Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living
which became a national innovation hub in the field delivering more than 111 Mt of carbon reductions by 2027. Deo
continues his research in this integration field of energy efficiency, BiPV and zero carbon buildings.

Eduardo Armando Rincón-Mejía
Country: Mexico
Year Started Research: 1987
Title of Research: Tolokatsin Solar Cookers
University: Engineering Faculty-UAEM / Energy Program-UACM
Still Active in Research: Yes

Eduardo Rincón-Mejía works primarily in the area of Renewable Energy Technologies, with a strong emphasis
on affordable solar technologies while being an astute critic of nuclear power. Rincón-Mejía’s current research
focus is the development of efficient and low-cost solar concentrators denominated “Tolokatsin”, primarily using
non-imaging optics for a wide range of applications, such as solar cooking and food processing, water distillation,
space heating, steam generation for industrial and residential uses, sterilization, and high-flux research; resulting
in more than 60 peer-reviewed publications; of which more than 40 are articles in scientific research journals
and conference proceedings, both national and international, such as the “Journal of Solar Energy Engineering”,
“Renewable Energy” and “Applied Energy”; and he was in charge, together with Dr. Alejandro de las Heras, of
editing the book “Sustainable Energy Technologies” published by CRC-Press in 2018. Since 1986, he is an active
member of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), where he was President of the Solar Energy
Division (2013-2014); he is also a life member of the ISES (International Solar Energy Society) within which he has
been part of the Board of Directors (2005-2009) and Secretary (2008-2009); while since 1987 he is a member of
the ANES (Asociación Nacional de Energía Solar A.C.) where he was President (2002-2004). Devoted professor
at the Engineering Faculty in the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México since 1975, and at Energy Program
in the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México since 2004, where he has directed more than 60 theses and
taught classes as a devoted professor of thermal-sciences and renewable energies. In 2018-2019, he was the
General Director of Energy Efficiency and Sustainability at the Secretary of Energy of the Federal Government of
Mexico (SENER).

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