Clean Energy Science & Engineering graduates work across the fastest-moving parts of the economy — from solar, wind and hydrogen to smart grids, energy storage, industrial decarbonisation and the data behind it all.
The transition needs engineers who can move across the science, the systems and the economics at once.
Most energy roles still sit inside a single discipline — a chemist, a power engineer, an economist. This programme is built the other way around: four years spanning chemistry, mechanical and electrical engineering, agriculture and energy economics, taught entirely in English.
That breadth is the point. A graduate can size a solar array, model an electrolyser, run the life-cycle assessment and read the project's economics — which is exactly the profile employers across the clean-energy sector are short of.
In year four you choose one of three specialisation directions. Each opens onto a distinct part of the clean-energy sector — and you keep the shared foundation that lets you cross between them.
A sample of the roles this degree prepares you for. Each is tied to its specialisation direction and to the courses that build it — so you can see the line from a class in year two to a job after graduation.
Design, size and optimise the equipment and the material-and-energy flows of clean-energy plants — from first feasibility study to detailed layout. You run mass and energy balances, model processes in tools like ASPEN Plus and GAMS, and find the bottlenecks that decide whether a plant is viable.
Help heavy industry cut its emissions: electrify process heat, recover waste heat, switch fuels to hydrogen or biofuels, and weigh up carbon-capture options. The work sits where combustion, chemical processing and life-cycle thinking meet.
Turn an energy concept into a financed, build-ready project: assess the resource, size the system, and model CAPEX, OPEX and levelised cost. You decide which projects are worth building — and de-risk the ones that are.
Price, trade and hedge energy across spot and futures markets, and read how policy and carbon pricing move value. A role for graduates who enjoy the commercial edge of the transition as much as the engineering.
Design and size solar PV and solar-thermal, wind, geothermal, hydro and heat-pump installations — and estimate what they will actually produce. The day-to-day spans resource assessment, component selection and performance evaluation.
Make buildings low-carbon and comfortable: model heating and cooling demand, specify HVAC and building-automation systems, and work toward LEED or BREEAM certification. Audits and retrofits are a large, growing market.
Build the control loops that keep energy systems stable and efficient — PID, cascade and feedforward control, frequency-response design and state-space methods — together with the electronics and sensing behind them.
Deploy solar, geothermal and biogas systems across farms and the food chain, and turn agricultural residues into energy through anaerobic digestion and biorefining. A distinctive niche this programme is unusually well placed to fill.
Integrate renewables, smart meters, EVs and storage into resilient grids, and keep power quality, protection and cybersecurity under control. You work alongside grid operators and the technologies modernising distribution.
Design distributed energy resources and microgrids — PV and wind paired with storage, grid-forming inverters, islanding and DER placement — for communities, campuses and industrial sites.
Work on electrolysers, PEM and solid-oxide fuel cells, hydrogen storage and safety, and power-to-X — the technologies behind clean mobility, industrial decarbonisation and grid balancing.
Develop and integrate batteries and supercapacitors, from cell chemistry and characterisation to battery-management systems, vehicle-to-grid and second-life applications.
Forecast demand, optimise consumption and model energy and environmental systems with machine learning. The programme names this path directly — consultancies, public agencies, research institutes and clean-energy tech firms all hire for it.
Measure environmental footprint, run life-cycle and impact assessments, and guide organisations through ESG, CSRD reporting and ISO 14001/50001. A role for graduates who want to steer strategy, not only systems.
Most graduates move between these over a career. The degree is designed to keep all three open.
Join engineering and EPC firms, utilities, renewable developers, manufacturers or consultancies — in Greece, across Europe or internationally. The degree spans the whole clean-energy value chain, so you are not boxed into one technology.
Continue to a PhD at AUTh or a partner university. The two final-year projects — a 12-ECTS Senior Project and an 18-ECTS Capstone with original work — plus computational and laboratory training, build genuine research capability. Graduates are also eligible to continue directly to Master's study.
Clean energy is fertile ground for deep-tech and climate-tech ventures. AUTh's research institutes and the Thessaloniki innovation ecosystem give graduates a route from a final-year project into a product.
Optional Greek-terminology courses in year four support graduates who want to enter the Greek market, alongside the English-taught core — so an international qualification still lands locally.