Role in the project: Konstantinos Polychronakis is responsible for the technoeconomic and life cycle assessment of the collector and the system.

Brief Biography: Mr. Konstantinos Polychronakis is a Diploma-holding Mechanical Engineer from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (grade: 7.56/10). His undergraduate thesis focused on the multi-criteria optimization of insulation thickness and the integration of renewable energy sources in a residential building. During his studies, he was a member of the AUTH student team SpaceDot as a Thermal Engineer, where he worked on the design and thermal analysis of the ACubeSat nanosatellite. He also successfully completed the international ATHENS program with a grade of 10/10 in the course “Efficient Energy Supply of Buildings” at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He then pursued postgraduate studies at the National Technical University of Athens, obtaining a master’s degree in Energy Production and Management (grade: 8.78/10). His master’s thesis focused on the modeling of a floating photovoltaic collector using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the Laboratory of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Solar Energy, in the Thermal Sector of the School of Mechanical Engineering at NTUA. His doctoral research, titled “Thermal and Energy Analysis of Solar Systems: Modeling Environmental Parameters and Energy Management,” focuses on the development of thermal and energy models to study environmental factors such as wave motion and salinity in offshore floating photovoltaic parks. He has three (3) publications in international scientific journals and is a member of the laboratory’s research team participating in the European project DIVIRTUE. At the same time, he works as a Mechanical Engineer at LM Engineering Firm, as well as a freelancer on energy upgrade projects and electromechanical studies.