Simona Onori
Simona Onori is an Italian engineer who studies cars and energy. She focuses on energy storage, energy use, and keeping batteries healthy in hybrid electric vehicles. Her work suggests that real-world, changing energy patterns can help batteries last longer than constant test patterns.
She is an associate professor at Stanford University in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering. She directs the Stanford Energy Control Lab and is affiliated with Electrical Engineering and the Precourt Institute for Energy. She also serves as editor-in-chief of the SAE International Journal of Electrified Vehicles.
Education and career: She earned a bachelor’s degree in 2003 from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, a master’s degree in 2004 from the University of New Mexico, and a PhD in control engineering from Tor Vergata in 2007. After working in aerospace, she did a postdoctoral stint at Ohio State University with Giorgio Rizzoni, where she began applying control theory to automotive engineering. She became an assistant professor at Clemson University in 2013, and moved to Stanford in 2017. She became editor-in-chief of the SAE journal in 2020.
She coauthored Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Energy Management Strategies (Springer, 2015). She received the 2018 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from SAE International and the 2020 C3E research award. She was named a Fellow of SAE International in 2022, and was named an IEEE Fellow in 2026 for contributions to energy systems modeling, control, and optimization.
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