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MDPI Topic Editor Club 2026 | Environmental & Earth Sciences Session

13 October 2026
14:00 (CEST)
Online

Welcome from
the chair

Topic Editor Club 2026

Environmental & Earth Sciences Session


Dear colleagues,


MDPI warmly invites you to the 2026 MDPI Topic Editor Club webinar series. This global platform connects worldwide Topic Editors, featuring emerging research themes, practical editorial experience sharing and academic communication. MDPI Topics are interdisciplinary thematic paper collections published across multiple MDPI journals. Led by professional Topic Editor teams and supported by MDPI’s efficient open access publishing workflow, they facilitate academic collaboration and help research reach broader global audiences.

Focusing on Environmental and Earth Sciences, this session brings together discipline Topic Editors to showcase editorial work, discuss the successes and challenges of Topic development, and share innovative strategies for building high-impact Topics. It offers a great chance for peer learning and cross-disciplinary collaboration to advance open access research in this field.

We welcome your participation in the 2026 MDPI Topic Editor Club, and look forward to your insights and questions during the live Q&A session.

Date:
13 October 2026

Time: 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 am EDT

Webinar ID: Webinar IDWebinar ID872 3710 1659

Webinar Secretariat: webinar@mdpi.com



Meet Our Speakers

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Dr. Giovanni De Feo

Environmental and Sanitary Engineering at the University of Salerno, Italy ;Giovanni De Feo is Associate Professor of Environmental and Sanitary Engineering at the University of Salerno, Italy. His research and teaching activities focus on waste management, circular economy, life cycle assessment, environmental sustainability, and environmental education and communication. He is the author of around 200 scientific publications and has extensive experience as an editor, Topic Editor, reviewer, and member of editorial boards of international journals. He is also the creator of Greenopoli, an environmental education and communication project launched in 2006 that combines scientific knowledge, storytelling, creativity, and direct engagement with schools, institutions, companies, and local communities.

Prof. Dr. Emanuele Giovanni Carlo Ogliari

Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano, Italy ;Emanuele Ogliari is an Associate Professor at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where he teaches Electrical Engineering at the Photovoltaic Systems Laboratory. He received his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2016. Since 2010, his research has addressed the design, optimization, and performance assessment of photovoltaic plants, and since 2012 his work has addressed the estimation of the expected power output of renewable energy sources by means of artificial intelligence techniques. He has collaborated with international universities and research centers, including the University of Danang—University of Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and the Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute Europe. In 2013, he received the Italy–Israel Joint Laboratories on Solar Energy (ILSE) award. He is serving as Topic Editor for the MDPI Topic “Solar and Wind Power and Energy Forecasting”, and is IEEE senior Member and Editor of the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics.

Dr. Hanlin Zhou

University of Connecticut, USA;Hanlin Zhou is a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Connecticut who completed his PhD at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on how the built environment is associated with health behaviors, crime risks, and urban resilience.

Ms. Natasa  Miladinovic

MDPI;Natasa Miladinovic holds a master’s degree in Spatial Planning and a second master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Belgrade. She joined MDPI in 2020, where she worked as an Assistant Editor and Special Issue Editor for several years. Since 2022, she has served as a Journal Relations Specialist at MDPI, as well as a Senior Conference Representative. Since 2025, she has been working as Deputy Managing Editor for the journal Sustainability.

Registration Instructions

This is a FREE webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized. 

Certificates of attendance will be delivered to those who attend the live webinar. 

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Schedule
Speaker/Presentation  Time in CEST Time in EDT
Natasa Miladinovic
MDPI Topics - Introduction
2:00-2:15 pm 8:00 - 8:15 am
Dr. Giovanni De Feo

From Research Topics to Research Communities: Building Connections for Sustainability and Circular Economy 
2:15-2:35 pm 8:15 - 8:35 am
Prof. Dr. Emanuele Giovanni Carlo Ogliari 

Growing a Topic Across Five Journals: Lessons From "Solar and Wind Power and Energy Forecasting" 
2:35-2:55 pm 8:35 -8:55 am
Dr. Hanlin Zhou

Linking the Visual Built Environment to Human Health and Mobility 
2:55 - 3:15 pm 8:55 - 9:15 am
Natasa Miladinovic 
Closing of Webinar 
3:15 - 3:20 pm 9:15 - 9:20 am

Relevant Topics

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Next Generation Circular Economy: From Material Valorization via Innovative Product Design to Sustainable Industrial Transformation
Edited by Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Pielichowski, Prof. Dr. Piotr Duda, Dr. Michał Łach, Dr. Tomasz Mariusz Majka, Dr. Tomasz Zdeb, Dr. Giovanni De Feo
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 July 2027

Solar and Wind Power Energy Forecasting, 2nd Edition
Edited by Prof. Dr. Emanuele Ogliari, Dr. Alessandro Niccolai, Prof. Dr. Sonia Leva
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 July 2027

Advances in Urban Resilience for Sustainable Futures
Edited by Dr. Ying Tu, Dr. Hanlin Zhou, Dr. Wei Lang, Dr. Tingting Chen
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026

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