Giorgos Papakokkinos holds a PhD in Thermal Engineering from the Polytechnic of Catalonia (UPC, Barcelona), an MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Stockholm), and a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), with specialization in Energy Engineering.
His interests include: solar energy, thermal energy storage, sorption-based heat transformers (solar cooling, seasonal thermal storage, heat upgrade) and bioclimatic architecture. He is currently working on the incorporation of Concentrating Solar Thermal systems in industrial heat applications, through the development of computational models within OpenModelica.