Professor Simone Hochgreb

BSME PHD

College position:

Director of Studies for Engineering (Year 3, incl. Manufacturing Engineering)

Simone Hochgreb
Simone Hochgreb

Simone Hochgreb is Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Her main research involves understanding processes in combustion and reacting flows, as relevant to engines, gas turbines, and industrial processes.  She has developed methods for the investigation and analysis of autoignition, premixed turbulent flames, sprays, soot and particle formation, as well as thermoacoustics, and is the co-author of around 180 journal publications. Her more recent interests are in the application of optical diagnostics to the measurements of temperatures and species in turbulent flames, hydrogen combustion, thermoacoustics, aerosols and flame synthesis. Prior to Cambridge she held positions at MIT and Sandia National Labs. She holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, USA. 

Subject areas

Engineering

Awards

Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Combustion Institute. Recipient of the Wolfson Merit Award, Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Award.

Links to online publications, articles or other work
  • Temperature measurements in reacting flows using Laser Induced Grating Spectroscopy (LIGS) (with Paul Ewart, Oxford) (EPSRC 2013-2016)
  • CO and NO imaging measurements in stratified flames (E3C3, with INSA-CORIA/Rouen) (2013-2014)
  • Multi-pass high spatial resolution absorption measurements of soot in flames (CSC, 2013-2016)
  • Measurements of flame response characteristics to flame excitation under high pressure and temperature (2010 - 2013) (TECC/FP7, SAMULET/EPSRC)
  • Measurements of soot and particulate matter at high pressures and temperatures in flames at high pressure and temperature (SAMULET/EPSRC, ENTAPS/RR) (2010 - 2013)
  • International Leverhulme Network on Stratified Combustion. Long term collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and INSA-CORIA Rouen, among others (2010 - 2013)
  • Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways on Stratified Combustion for Quiet Low Emissions Aero-Engines (FP7/IAPP-STRATEGI) (2009 - 2013)

 

2
3