David Sánchez is Full Professor of Energy Engineering at University of Seville. He has worked on supercritical CO₂ technologies for over ten years, currently carrying out different projects on aspects of this technology with funding from the European Commission and from the industry. He has a strong network embracing stakeholders from industry, academia and government and sits in governing bodies of different industry-driven associations: Chair of the Board of the Knowledge Centre on Organic Rankine Cycle Technologies (KCORC), Member of the Project Board of the European Turbine Network (ETN), Past Chair of the Cycle Innovations Technical Committee and current Chair of the Energy Storage Technical Committe of the International Gas Turbine Institute (ASME). Prof. Sánchez has served as Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power and as evaluator of R&D programmes in Spain and internationally.

Prof. L. García Rodríguez is Full Professor in Thermodynamics at the Department of Energy Engineering of the University of Seville. She holds an MSc in Physics from University of Seville (1991) and since then, she has focused the development of technologies for the water-energy nexus driven by renewable energy sources. Her academic activity started in 1991 in the Canary Islands (University of La Laguna), where she was awarded her PhD degree, and has continued since 2007 at USE.

Francesco Crespi is a lecturer in Fluid Mechanics at the University of Seville, where he currently works at the Department of Energy as a postdoctoral research associate. Mr. Crespi started his research activity at the beginning of 2015 after completing a Double Degree project in Industrial Engineering between University of Seville and Politecnico of Milan. His research activity at the moment is focused on numerical simulation of sCO₂ power cycles, alternative cycle layouts for this technology and analysis of possible dopant candidates for CO₂ blends.

Pablo Rodríguez-de Arriba is a Ph.D. Student in Energy Engineering at the University of Seville. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering in 2020 and joined Prof. David Sánchez’s Research Group as Research Assistant since then. His thesis is focused on the techno-economic optimisation and integration of innovative CO₂-based technology for Concentrated Solar Power applications, within the framework of the SCARABEUS project. His areas of interest also include thermodynamics, heat transfer, non-conventional working fluids, renewable energies, desalination, WHR and refrigeration.