Professor Tsatsaronis has more than 40 years of experience and related educational background in the fields of combustion technology, exergy-based methods, development, design, simulation and analysis of energy-conversion processes, optimization of the design and operation of energy systems and power plant technology. He has been serving as a professor at the Institute for Energy Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Germany since 1994. During periods of 1996-2005, he was the Managing Director of the Institute and 2002-2003 Associate Dean, School of Process Sciences and Engineering.