Fanzhou Zhao received his PhD degree at Imperial College London with the research topic on flutter of embedded blade rows in multi-stage compressors. He’s currently a research associate in the Mechanical Engineering department of Imperial College London. His main research topics include computational aeroelasticity method development, fan and compressor flutter modelling, forced response analysis in compressors, stall-driven non-synchronous vibration modelling, rotating stall and surge simulation of multi-stage axial compressors. He has received 3 Best Paper Awards in the ASME Turbo Expo conferences from the Turbomachinery and Structure and Dynamics Committees.