Simone Hochgreb is a Brazilian mechanical engineer whose research has concerned efficiency and pollution in

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s, and the structure of

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s. She is Professor of Experimental Combustion at the

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, head of the reacting flows group at Cambridge, and a Fellow of

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, where she is Director of Studies for Engineering.

Education and career

Hochgreb studied mechanical engineering at the University of São Paulo, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1985. She completed a Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering in 1991 at

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. Her dissertation ''An Experimental and Numerical Study on the Oxidation of Formaldehyde'', was supervised by Frederick L. Dryer. She became Bradley Foundation Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the

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, where she worked from 1991 to 1999. After working more briefly for

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and for engineering consulting firm

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, she took her present position as professor at the University of Cambridge in 2002.

Recognition

Hochgreb won the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award of

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in 1996, and the

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in 2003. She was named a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 2011, and elected to the inaugural 2018 class of Fellows of

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, "for excellent experiments in combustion across fundamental and applied areas, including autoignition, instabilities and turbulent flows".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hochgreb, Simone Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Brazilian mechanical engineers Women engineers University of São Paulo alumni Princeton University alumni Fellows of Homerton College, Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society Fellows of the Combustion Institute