Teresa Donateo has been an associate professor of Fluid Machinery, Energy Systems, and Power Generation at the University of Salento since 2014, teaching courses on Fluid Machinery and Hybrid-Electric Powertrains. She received her master’s degree in Materials Engineering from the Università degli Studi di Lecce in 1999 and her Ph.D. in Combustion and Energy Conversion in 2003 from ISUFI. She joined the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Salento as an assistant professor in 2001 and has been involved in the Quality assurance processes at the University of Salento since 2018. She was also a member of the Groups of Evaluation Experts (GEV) in the Italian Evaluation of Research Quality 2015-2019 (VQR).  She has been collaborating since 2005 with the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, since 2019 with the University of Brest, Brest, France, and since 2001 with major automotive and aircraft industrial partners.  Appointed editor of the book titled “Hybrid Electric Vehicles”, In-Tech, she is also associate Editor of the SAE International Journal of Engines, Nature, Scientific Reports, and MDPI Vehicles. She is the author of more than 100 papers on the simulation, design, and optimization of internal combustion engines, fuel cells, and electric and hybrid-electric powertrains for aircraft, heavy-duty vehicles, and passenger cars.