Rongchun Zhang has been Associate Professor of Aeroengine Research Institute at Beihang University in China. His research focuses on the flow and ultra-compact combustion of gas turbine engines. His expertise is in the flow mechanism analysis and coupling mechanism analysis of flow and combustion in combustion zone, which is applied to the design of gas turbine combustor. He has supervised over 10 PhD and Master students. He has chaired more than 10 projects, including 2 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than 50 SCI and EI papers. He was the editorial board member of International Journal of Aerospace Engineering.