George Xydis, PhD had the opportunity to work in the wind sector together with developers, utilities, constructors, universities, and research institutes. He used to work as a Wind Projects Development Coordinator at Iberdrola Renewables, as a Wind Project Developer at Vector Hellenic Windfarms S.A., and as a Researcher at the Center for Electric Power and Energy, Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. He has been since Feb. 2017 with the Center for Energy Technologies, Aarhus University as an Associate Professor and since Jan 2023 as a Full Professor. He has been since Jan. 2024 with the University of the Peloponnese, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and belongs to the staff of the Fluid Mechanics & Turbomachinery Laboratory. George also works as an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University in Energy Policy and Climate program teaching 425.624 – Wind Energy: Science, Technology and Policy.He used to collaborate, as a freelancer, with institutes, universities, and SMEs.
George’s research interests include Energy Planning, Wind Resource Assessment, Technoeconomics of Renewable Energy Systems, Energy Demand and Plant Factories. He has co-authored more than 130 publications in international journals, more than 50 in international conferences, books, and book chapters, and serves as an Associate Editor in Frontiers in Energy Systems & Policy, Energy & Environment, and Heliyon Energy. Since May 2024, he serves as the Co-Editor in Chief of “Cambridge Prisms: Energy Transitions”, a scholarly journal that Cambridge University Press is initiating. He holds a PhD from the National Technical University of Athens, and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.