Simona Onori (SM’15) received her Laurea Degree, summa cum laude, (CSE) in 2003, her M.S. (ECE) in 2004, her Ph.D. (Control Engineering) in 2007, from University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, and University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, respectively. She is an Assistant Professor in the Energy Resources Engineering Department at Stanford University since 2017 and by courtesy in Electrical Engineering and an Adjunct professor at Clemson University, where she was an assistant professor from 2013 to 2017. Prior to that, she was a research scientist at the Ohio State University. Her research activities are in the area of sustainable energy, for both transportation and utility sectors, and specifically they are related to modeling, control and optimization of electrified powertrains, energy storage systems for transportation and grid-storage applications and emission control devices.

She is the recipient of the 2019 Board of Trustees Award for Excellence, Clemson University, 2018 Global Innovation Contest Award, LG Chem, 2018 SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, 2017 NSF CAREER award, 2017 Clemson University College of Engineering and Science Dean’s Faculty Fellows Award, 2017 Clemson University Esin Gulari Leadership & Service Award, 2016 Energy Leadership Award in the category Emerging Leader (for the Carolinas), the 2015 Innovision Award (South Carolina), and 2012 Lumley Interdisciplinary Research (The Ohio State Univeristy), 2011 Outstanding Technology Team Award, TechColumbus.

In 2020, she was selected as the new Editor-in-Chief of the SAE International Journal of Electrified Vehicles. She has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions of Intelligent Vehicles since 2019. She was a former chair of the CSS Technical Committee of Automotive Controls (2015-2017 term), she is Vice Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee of Automotive Controls, a member of the Conference Editorial Board (CEB) for the American Control Conference and Control and Decision Conference.