2026 Christopher H. Onder: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	34	2786	2612	30	29	174	6377

Overview

Christopher H. Onder is a researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their body of work spans major areas within engineering, particularly focusing on automotive and electrical engineering, fluid flow, transfer processes, and control systems. Within engineering, Onder has contributed extensively to subfields such as Automotive Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Control and Systems Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Onder's research centers mainly on Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies, Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies, Vehicle Emissions and Performance, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure, Advanced Control Systems Optimization, and Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies.

Publications by Onder cover diverse topics and have been featured in multiple venues with consistent frequency. The venues where Onder has frequently published include:

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Control Engineering Practice
Energies
arXiv (Cornell University)
International Journal of Engine Research

Frequent coauthors in Onder's publications comprise Fabio Widmer, Pol Duhr, Alberto Cerofolini, Stijn van Dooren, and David Theodor Machacek, each contributing substantively to collaborative work over multiple papers.

Highlighting some recent papers by Christopher H. Onder, the following works include:

"An integrated perfusion machine preserves injured human livers for 1 week," 2020, Nature Biotechnology
"MPC Flight Control for a Tilt-Rotor VTOL Aircraft," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
"Time-optimal gearshift and energy management strategies for a hybrid electric race car," 2020, Applied Energy
"Long-term stochastic model predictive control for the energy management of hybrid electric vehicles using Pontryagin's minimum principle and scenario-based optimization," 2022, Applied Energy
"Battery lifetime extension through optimal design and control of traction and heating systems in hybrid drivetrains," 2022, eTransportation

Best Publications

Introduction to Modeling and Control of Internal Combustion Engine Systems

Lino Guzzella;Christopher H. Onder

1697
Citations
Control of an SCR catalytic converter system for a mobile heavy-duty application

C.M. Schar;C.H. Onder;H.P. Geering

246
Citations
Convex Optimization for the Energy Management of Hybrid Electric Vehicles Considering Engine Start and Gearshift Costs

Tobias Nüesch;Philipp Elbert;Michael Flankl;Christopher H. Onder

207
Citations
Operational aspects of a large PEFC stack under practical conditions

Paul Rodatz;Felix Büchi;Chris Onder;Lino Guzzella

193
Citations
A review of synthetic fuels for passenger vehicles

Severin Hänggi;Philipp Elbert;Thomas Bütler;Urs Cabalzar

135
Citations
A Model for the Estimation of Inducted Air Mass and the Residual Gas Fraction using Cylinder Pressure Measurements

Michael Mladek;Christopher H. Onder

134
Citations
EQUIVALENT CONSUMPTION MINIMIZATION STRATEGY FOR THE CONTROL OF REAL DRIVING NOX EMISSIONS OF A DIESEL HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLE

Tobias Nüesch;Alberto Cerofolini;Giorgio Mancini;Nicolò Cavina

123
Citations
FUEL-OPTIMAL CONTROL OF CVT POWERTRAINS

Rolf Pfiffner;Lino Guzzella;Christopher H. Onder

110
Citations
Control of a Urea SCR Catalytic Converter System for a Mobile Heavy Duty Diesel Engine

C. M. Schär;C. H. Onder;H. P. Geering;M. Elsener

98
Citations
Time-optimal Control Strategies for a Hybrid Electric Race Car

Soren Ebbesen;Mauro Salazar;Philipp Elbert;Carlo Bussi

97
Citations
Realizing a Concept for High Efficiency and Excellent Driveability: The Downsized and Supercharged Hybrid Pneumatic Engine

Christian Dönitz;Iulian Vasile;Christopher Onder;Lino Guzzella

91
Citations
Engine Thermal Management with Electric Cooling Pump

Elena Cortona;Christopher H. Onder

88
Citations
Is oxygen storage in three-way catalysts an equilibrium controlled process?

Roman Möller;Martin Votsmeier;Christopher Onder;Lino Guzzella

85
Citations
Real-time model for the prediction of the NO x emissions in DI diesel engines

Alexander Schilling;Alois Amstutz;Christopher H. Onder;Lino Guzzella

82
Citations
CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION OF TURBOCHARGED SPARK IGNITED ENGINES

Lars Eriksson;Simon Frei;Christopher Onder;Lino Guzzella

81
Citations
Feedback control of particulate matter and nitrogen oxide emissions in diesel engines

Frédéric Tschanz;Alois Amstutz;Christopher H. Onder;Lino Guzzella

79
Citations
Optimal energy management for a diesel hybrid electric vehicle considering transient PM and quasi-static NOx emissions

Tobias Nüesch;Mu Wang;Pascal Isenegger;Christopher H. Onder

69
Citations
Control-Oriented Model of an SCR Catalytic Converter System

C. M. Schär;C. H. Onder;H. P. Geering;M. Elsener

67
Citations
Pneumatic hybrid internal combustion engine on the basis of fixed camshafts

Christian Dönitz;Christopher Onder;Julian Vasile;Lino Guzzella

65
Citations
Modelling and optimizing two- and four-stroke hybrid pneumatic engines

C Dönitz;I Vasile;C H Onder;L Guzzella

60
Citations
On the power split control of parallel hybrid vehicles: from global optimization towards real-time control

Antonio Sciarretta;Lino Guzzella;Christopher H. Onder

57
Citations
Model-Based Actuator Trajectories Optimization for a Diesel Engine Using a Direct Method

Michael Benz;Markus Hehn;Christopher H. Onder;Lino Guzzella

54
Citations
A new knock event definition for knock detection and control optimization

Pau Bares;Donald Selmanaj;Carlos Guardiola;Christopher H. Onder

54
Citations
Control and Optimization of Turbo Charged Spark Ignited Engines

Lars Eriksson;Simon Frei;Christopher Onder;Lino Guzzella

19
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lino Guzzella ETH Zurich

Philipp Rudolf von Rohr ETH Zurich

Pierre-Alain Clavien University of Zurich

Marco Pavone Stanford University

Konstantinos Boulouchos ETH Zurich

Lars Eriksson Linköping University

Sergio M. Savaresi Polytechnic University of Milan

Antonio Sciarretta French Institute of Petroleum

Christoph Schär ETH Zurich

Francesco Braghin Polytechnic University of Milan

External Links

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