Dharmendra is an engineer by heart and by occupation, he is a Research Scientist working at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Dharmendra is a generalist and have background in electronics, automation, and machine learning. For last 3 years he is working in smart energy domain. He is interested in applications of industry 4.0 tools and blockchain in energy domain. His recent work is related to low barrier & fair energy flexibility marketplaces based on ledger, positive energy districts for energy self-sufficiency of local communities and blockchain based new type of governance mechanisms for digital energy communities.