Chao Zhou is Professor at the College of Engineering, Peking University, where he serves as the director of the turbomachinery laboratory. His primary research interest is aerodynamics and heat transfer of turbomachinery. The main research topics include aero-thermal performance of tip leakage flows and secondary flows in high-pressure turbines; ultra-high lift low-pressure turbines; advanced cooling methods; vortex transportations in turbines and inter-turbine ducts; design and optimization methods.

Prof. Zhou received his Ph.D. from the Whittle Laboratory, Cambridge University in 2010. Before that, he received his M.S(2006) and B.S(2003) from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). He is a member of ASME Turbomachinery Committee, a member of the State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, and a member of The Beijing Innovation Center for Engineering Science and Advanced Technology (BIC-ESAT). He has published more than 20 journal papers, including nine papers on Journal of Turbomachinery. He has obtained three projects from National Science Foundations of China, and various projects from the industry.