Dr. Dan Zhao is a tenured faculty in Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is the director of Master Engineering studies and the Chief Editor of International Journal of Aerospace Engineering; an Associate Editor of 1) AIAA Journal, 2) Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 3) Aerospace Science and Technology. He is also an editorial board member of Progress in Aerospace Sciences and Journal of Thermal Science. After graduating from Cambridge, he worked in London in a high-tech company as a R&D engineer and Singapore University. Currently, Dan is Associate Fellow of AIAA (The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics). Dan's research interests include applying theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches to study porous medium, combustion instability, thermoacoustics, fabric drying, energy conversion, heat and mass transfer, fluid-structure interaction, aeroacoustics, aerodynamics, propulsion and energy harvesting.