Vangelis Tzimas is head of the ‘Energy Transition Insights for Policy’ unit in the Energy, Mobility and Climate Directorate of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. He leads a team of 45 researchers that provide scientific evidence and analysis to support the energy, industrial and research and innovation policies of the European Union to enable a just, competitive and resilient transition to climate neutrality. His Unit manages and operates SETIS, the SET Plan Information System. Vangelis joined the European Commission in 2000. Since then he has held research positions across a range of areas in the field of energy, including clean energy innovation & competitiveness, the decarbonisation of the power, industrial and heating & cooling sectors, materials for the energy transition, supply chain resilience, energy and industrial infrastructure planning, renewables integration and social aspects of the energy transition. He is based in the Netherlands, and has a Masters Degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and a Ph.D. from Drexel University in USA, both in engineering.