The 3rd International Online Conference on Energies
The 3rd International Online Conference on Energies
Part of the International Online Conference on Energies series
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
9 February 2026
9 March 2026
7 May 2026
Energy Sources, Energy Conversion, Energy Policy, Energy Fundamentals, Smart Energy
Abstract submission is closed! Registration is still open – click here to register.
Instructions for authors are available online.
Abstract Notification Deadline: 9 March 2026.
Registration open until 7 May 2026 HERE.
For any inquiries, please contact us at iocen2026@mdpi.com.
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the 3rd International Online Conference on Energies (IOCEN 2026), which will be held virtually from 12 to 15 May 2026.
This conference will showcase the latest research and advancements in energy resource management, focusing on areas such as energy sources, energy conversion, energy policy, energy fundamentals, smart energy, and other energy innovations, with an eye open towards sustainable use of resources. We aim to explore the current landscape, address existing challenges, and identify opportunities.
We warmly invite all energy researchers, professionals, and innovators to participate and share their expertise in the following thematic areas and related topics:
S1. Energy Sources (Fossil & Renewable);
S2. Energy Conversion (Heat and Mass Transfer, Combustion, Thermodynamics, Entropy & Exergy Analysis);
S3. Energy and Environment. Sustainable Transition;
S4. Smart Cities and Urban Management;
S5. Advanced Energy Materials;
S6. Electrical Power Systems;
S7. Energy Economics and Policy (Thermo-Economics, Exergy Economics);
S8. AI Applications to Energy Conversion Systems.
The conference committee will review the submitted abstracts. All accepted abstracts will be available online in open access format on Sciforum.net during and after the conference. Following the conference, selected contributions will be invited for submission to the Energies journal (ISSN 1996-1073, Impact Factor: 3.2), with a 20% discount on the publication fee.
We look forward to your participation in this inspiring event.
Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba
University Niccolò Cusano, Italy
Chair of the 3rd International Online Conference on Energies
Event Chair
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University Niccolò Cusano, 00166 Roma, Italy
Dr. Enrico Sciubba (M.Eng. Roma 1972, Ph.D. Rutgers, NJ 1981) is Professor of Turbomachinery & Energy Systems in the Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering of the Niccolò Cusano University of Roma. From 1986 through 2019 he held the same position at the University of Roma Sapienza. He has held industrial positions in Germany (1973-75) and Italy (1975-78) and taught in the field of Thermal Sciences at Rutgers University (1980) and Catholic U. of America (1981-85). He was a Fulbright scholar (1978-1981), and holds two honorary Doctoral Degrees, from the U. of Galati and from Ovidius University (Romania). His currently active research topics are the exergy analysis of complex systems, from single processes to industrial Sectors to entire Societies; the study of the links between Thermodynamics and Sustainability; the CFD-aided optimization of energy-conversion components; the design and prototyping of ultra-micro gas-turbines for hybrid vehicles and as portable power generators. He has authored or co-authored 4 books (2 in english) and over 200 scientific papers. Professor Sciubba is an ASME Fellow, a member of several international Engineering Societies. He is the General Secretary of the ECOS International Society, a community dedicated to the improvement of the efficient and sustainable resource-to-final use conversion. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Energies (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies).
Session Chairs
Prof. Tassos Stamatelos
Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Thessaly, 38334 Volos, Greece
Dr. Tassos Stamatelos is a Professor of Internal Combustion Engines, and Head of the Laboratory of Thermodynamics & Thermal Engines (LTTE), at the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Thessaly at Volos, Greece. His research interests include the Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Gas Dynamics of the Internal Combustion Engine, the theory and practice of catalytic automotive Exhaust after-treatment systems, and the analysis, simulation and design optimization of a variety of energy systems, including building HVAC and PV systems. During the past 40 years, he authored more than 100 journal publications, and numerous conference papers on the above subjects. He holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (1984) from Aristotle University Thessaloniki and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (1988) from the same University.
Prof. Dr. Benjamin McLellan
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Craig McLellan has been at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Energy Science since 2010. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) in May 2007. He served as a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland, from July 2009 to July 2010. His research is in sustainability broadly, with a focus on industrial ecology and the lifecycle implications of energy technologies and sustainability in the minerals sector. He has experience in energy modeling and the nexus of energy systems with various other resource systems. Currently, his research interest is in the resources–energy nexus and critical minerals, deep-sea mining, and just energy and resource transitions.
Prof. Efstathios Michaelides
Department of Engineering, Texas Christian University (TCU) College of Science & Engineering, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Professor Michaelides holds the Tex Moncrief Chair of Engineering at TCU. Among other honors, he was awarded the Lee Johnson award for teaching excellence at Tulane; a Senior Fulbright Fellowship; the ASME Freeman Scholar award; the Outstanding Researcher award at Tulane; the ASME Fluids Engineering award; the ASME 90th Anniversary FED Medal; the ASME Edwin Church Medal (2021) and the James Harry Potter award (2024 for eminent achievement in the science of thermodynamics and its application in mechanical engineering). Professor Michaelides has authored more than 190 journal papers; gave more than 300 presentations in national and international conferences; and has authored nine books.
Prof. Dr. Adrian Ilinca
Mechanical Engineering Department, Laboratoire Énergie Durable - ÉTS, Canada
Adrian Ilinca is a professor in Mechanical Engineering at École de Technologie Supérieure. He was a professor, founder, and director of the Wind Energy Research Laboratory at Université du Québec à Rimouski. He completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal. His areas of interest include the aerodynamics and aeroelasticity of wind turbines, the effects of icing on wind turbines with anti-icing and de-icing techniques, and wind-diesel systems with compressed air energy storage.
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Esposito
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Giovanni Esposito is full professor of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the University of Napoli Federico II. In the framework of several national and international projects, he has leaded the training of early-stage researchers through both education and research in environmental technologies, mainly focusing on developing, modelling and engineering innovative biotechnologies for energy and resources recovery from waste and wastewater. He has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications in the environmental technology field, with more than 16000 citations and h-index 65 (Scopus source).
Dr. José Ramón Fernández
INCAR-CSIC – Institute of Carbon Science and Technology, Spanish National Research Council, Asturias, Spain
José Ramón Fernández García is a tenured scientist at the Carbon Science and Technology Institute (INCAR), part of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oviedo in 2009 and works in the CO₂ Capture research group since then. His research focuses on developing and optimizing advanced CO₂ capture technologies, including calcium looping, chemical looping combustion and sorption-enhanced hydrogen production. His work combines laboratory- and pilot-scale experimentation with detailed process modeling and simulation, aimed at improving efficiency, reducing energy penalties, and facilitating industrial-scale deployment. Author of over 55 publications with more than 3,600 citations, he collaborates in European projects to advance industrial decarbonization.
Prof. Dr. Ramiro S. Barbosa
Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP/IPP), Porto, Portugal
Ramiro S. Barbosa received MSc and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He is currently Coordinator Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP/IPP). His research interests include modeling, control, simulation, fractional calculus, fractional-order systems, artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, and robotics.
Prof. Dr. Josep M. Guerrero
Center for Research on Microgrids, Huanjiang Lab, Zhejiang University, China
Josep M. Guerrero received the B.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering, the M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering, and the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. He is a Full Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he leads the Microgrid Research Program and is the Founder and Director of the Center for Research on Microgrids (CROM). He is also affiliated with Zhejiang University, China, and the University of Valladolid, Spain. His research focuses on microgrids, distributed and cyber-physical energy systems, renewable energy integration, cybersecurity, and neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence for energy applications. Prof. Guerrero has published over 1,000 journal papers with more than 120,000 citations. He is an IEEE Fellow, Associate Editor of several IEEE Transactions, a nine-time Highly Cited Researcher, and recipient of multiple IEEE awards for his contributions to microgrid systems.
Prof. Dr. Marco Pasetti
University of Brescia, Italy
I received the M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Brescia, Italy, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Currently I am Associate Professor of electrical energy systems at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Brescia, where I carry out research activities in the field of energy systems and distributed generation, with specific focus on the modelling and management of distributed energy resources and on their integration into distribution networks. My main research interests include: energy systems, distributed generation, renewable energy sources, solar engineering, photovoltaics, energy storage, distributed measurements, demand-side management, EV charging systems, energy management systems, supervisory control and data acquisition, energy policies, smart grids, and micro-grids.
Prof. Dr. Elisa Sani
National Institute of Optics, Department of Physical Sciences and Technologies of Matter, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Elisa Sani, PhD. (ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9854-2892), is Researcher at National Institute of Optics, National Research Council of Italy (INO-CNR), where is reference person of the Solar Energy & Smart Materials Laboratory. Her main research interests span from solids for high-temperature solar thermodynamic plants, colloidal suspensions for mid-temperature solar thermal plants, optical property tailoring of surfaces, fundamental optical constants of liquids, as well as nonlinear optical phenomena in liquids and colloids and solar-enabled hybrid power generation in different materials and by different effects. Dr. Sani is co-author of more than 110 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 2 book chapters and holds 3 patents. She serves as member of Editorial Board of the journals Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Energies, Applied Sciences (MDPI Publishing Group), Energy Storage and Saving (Elsevier-KeAI).
Event Committee
CSIC – Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Carbono (INCAR), Oviedo, Spain
Energy Engineering Department, ETSII-UPM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials & Environment, Sapienza – University of Rome, Italy
Director of the Sustainable Energy and Power Systems Research Centre
Chair and Head of the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering (SREE) Department
Professor, Research Institute of Sciences & Engineering (RISE), United Arab Emirates
Department: School of Engineering, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
University of Salento , President of the National Energy Technological District, Italy
University of Rome Tor Vergata, National Research Council , Italy
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Texas A&M University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, United States of America
EAFIT University., Medellin, Colombia
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Construction, Jaume I University Castelló de la Plana, Spain
University of Milan–Bicocca, Italy
Pennsylvania State University, United States
National Research Council (CNR), Italy
National Institute of Optics, Department of Physical Sciences and Technologies of Matter, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Sessions
S2. Energy Conversion (Heat and Mass Transfer, Combustion, Thermodynamics, Entropy & Exergy Analysis)
S3. Energy and Environment. Sustainable Transition
S4. Smart Cities and Urban Management
S5. Advanced Energy Materials
S6. Electrical Power Systems
S7. Energy Economics and Policy (Thermo-Economics, Exergy Economics)
S8. AI Applications to Energy Conversion Systems
Registration
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 7 May 2026.
Instructions for Authors
Procedure for Submission
IOCEN2026 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Important Deadlines
1. Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: 9 March 2026.
Please note:
An abstract acceptance email only confirms that your abstract has been accepted. Oral or poster presentation invitations are determined separately by the conference chairs, and you will receive an additional email with the presentation result.
The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
2.Abstract Submissions
If you do not have an account, please register at www.sciforum.net. After logging in, submit your abstract using the “Submit Abstract” button on the conference homepage. No template is required.
Abstract Requirements
1. Types of Submissions
- Accepted: Original research abstracts; systematic reviews or meta-analyses abstracts(must comply with PRISMA 2020).
- Not accepted: Narrative, scoping, comparative, perspective, opinion, or essay-style reviews
2.Content Requirements
- - Length: 200–300 words
- Structure: Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions
- Language: Clear, publication-ready English
- Originality: Must be original and unpublished; previously published abstracts will not be considered
3.Authorship
- The submitting author must ensure all co-authors approve the content.
- Authors may submit multiple abstracts, but only one abstract per author may be selected for an oral presentation.
Presentation Requirements
- Each abstract must designate one presenter. To change the presenter, please contact us after you receive the oral/poster presentation invitation.
2. Only live presentations are accepted.
3. Presenters who do not attend the live session will not be eligible for awards or presentation certificates.
Oral Presentation and Slides Preparation
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
Poster Presentation
- Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
- Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3).
- You can use our free template to create your poster.
The poster template can be downloaded HERE. We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
Copyright
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a research article to the Special Issue, published in Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073, Impact Factor: 3.2), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
Please note if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers.
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of the 3rd International Online Conference on Energies (IOCEN 2026) in the Engineering Proceedings journal (ISSN: 2673-4591); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IOCEN 2026 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the "Instructions for Authors" on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Proceedings submission deadline: 30 June 2026.
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Title.
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Full author names.
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Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
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Abstract.
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Keywords.
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Introduction.
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Methods.
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Results and Discussion.
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Conclusions.
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Acknowledgements.
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References.
Please click HERE to submit your proceeding paper to the Engineering Proceedings
IOCEN 2026 Proceedings Paper Template
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards including Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference, with a particular emphasis on the most innovative investigations.The Best Poster Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference, highlighting the most innovative investigations.
There will be 6 winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Best Oral Presentation Award
- Eligibility: Open to all authors selected as oral speakers who have delivered their presentation.
- Criteria: Evaluation based on content quality, delivery clarity, audience interaction, and overall impact.
- Eligibility: Open to all authors who have presented their work through posters.
- Criteria: Evaluation based on scientific merit, creativity, and ability to attract and engage viewers.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Miruna Adelina Nicolcioiu
Mr. Ionut Spatar
Mr. Russell Wang
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
Email: iocen2026@mdpi.com
