Energy and Sustainable Futures

Dr Iosif Mporas (male) is Senior Lecturer in Information Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire since 2016. He holds a PhD (2009) and a 5-years Diploma (2004) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece. His expertise is in signal processing and machine learning applications. He has participated in several R&D projects (H2020, FP7, commercial) in the areas of ICT, self-adaptive and intelligent systems as PI or senior researcher. He has served as Guest Editor in journals and as General Chair or Organiser of international conferences and workshops. Dr Mporas has published more than 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings cited more than 1000 times (h-index: 16).
Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh is Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems within the Product Design team at Nottingham Trent University. He is also the national Director of DTA-Energy (Doctoral Training Alliance). His research and teaching activities focus on several multi-disciplinary topics in the broad area of product design and innovation, automation, energy, condition monitoring and artificial intelligence. Amin is the Director of the Product Innovation Centre at Nottingham Trent University and  currently leading the Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment Technologies research group (iSBET). He has over 180 patents and publications and a he is a Fellow of  Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Amin holds a PhD in Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and an MSc in Manufacturing Systems from the University of Nottingham; he also received his BSc in Industrial Engineering (Design and Manufacturing) from the University of Jordan. Before joining NTU, Amin had several industrial and academic positions including leading research roles at the University of Nottingham (Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre) and Loughborough University (Mechatronics Research Centre). Amin is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technologies (The IET) and a past chairman of the IET for the East Midlands Region and Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire local network panel. He has acted as an external examiner at numerous UK and international universities. Over his career, Amin has received over £5 Million of funding for his research an academic activities from the EU, Innovate UK, EPSRC,  AHRC and industrial collaborators. 
Dr Abhishek Asthana (FIET, FEI, FHEA, Ceng) is the director of Hallam Energy and Reader in Energy Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the Deputy Director of Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) in Energy. He has led 65 energy research and consultancy projects for industry and government organisations. He is the inventor of four patents and five energy software packages. He has been the course director of BEng Energy Engineering and Chemical Engineering courses at the university. He is a member of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERK) and a reviewer for the International Energy Agency (IEA)'s Renewable Energy Division.
Dr Vladimir Vukovic is a Deputy Director of Doctoral Training Alliance in Energy established between 14 UK universities and a Senior Research Lecturer in BIM and Energy Reduction in Built Environment at Teesside University. His research interests and over ten year experience include sustainable (energy efficient, socially acceptable, environmentally friendly) building design and operation: Building Information Modeling, cyber physical system modelling and optimisation, predictive controls, indoor environmental quality, energy efficiency implications on occupants' wellbeing and productivity, energy aware social networking enabled via smart metering. He had a leading role in more than 15 funded EU and international research projects worth over £100 million, consulting experience for UNDP, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Innovation Fund Denmark, Estonian Research

Chapter 1. Introduction: The City as a Multifaceted and Dynamic Constitutional Entity.- Part I. Cities Within National Power Structures.- Chapter 2. Cities and the Dutch Constitution.- Chapter 3. Modes of Urban Autonomy: The Constitutional Characteristics of Self-Governance in Amsterdam, Paris and Hamburg.- Chapter 4. Reanimating Brussels: The Beating Heart of the Belgian Federation.- Chapter 5. How much Local Autonomy is Good for a City? An Analysis of the Peruvian Constitutional Design for Cities and its Effects in the Case of the Lima.- Chapter 6. Comparative Constitutional Politics in Hong Kong and Macau under Chinese Sovereignty.- Chapter 7. A Tale of Three Cities: The City in German Constitutional Law.- Part II. Cities and Citizens.- Chapter 8. The Constitution and the City: Reflections on Judicial Experimentalism Through an Urban Lens.- Chapter 9. Urban Governance and the Right to a Healthy City.- Chapter 10. Topical Storm Approaching: Regulating Public Assemblies and Respondingto Online Falsehoods in the City State of Singapore.- Chapter 11. The City of London: Dominance, Democracy and the Rule of Law?.- Part III. Cities and the International Arena.- Chapter 12. Accelerating Cities, Constitutional Brakes? Exploring the Local Authorities between Global Challenges and Domestic Law.- Chapter 13. European Cities between Self-Government and Subordination: Their Role as Policy-Takers and Policy-Makers.- Part IV. Constitutional Law in the Age of the City.- Chapter 14. Urbanization, Megacities, Constitutional Silence.- Chapter 15. Redrawing the Boundaries of City Governance: Preliminary Lines of Inquiry into Metropolitan Cities, Socio-Economic Challenges and Constitutional Law.