Simone Hochgreb

Biography

Simone Hochgreb is a professor in Engineering at the University of Cambridge, specialising in combustion and turbulent flows. Her early work was on chemical kinetics and air pollution, as relevant to internal combustion engines, including rapid compression machines, autoignition and particulate matter from gasoline engines. Her current work is in the application of laser diagnostics to gas turbine combustion using real and model flames, both under steady and unsteady conditions, particularly regarding stratified flames. She has previously held positions at MIT, Sandia National Labs. She is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautics Society (2011), and has received the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award (2003) and the Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Award (1996). She holds a BSc from the University of São Paulo, and a PhD from Princeton University.

Research Interest

Professor Hochgreb's research investigates problems in energy conversion and reacting flows, with the aim of maximising efficiency and minimising harmful pollutant emissions. The main theme is to understand the physics of reacting flows in energy conversion devices, and the tradeoffs in stability, efficiency and emissions.