Dr. Duan Penghao earned his doctoral degree from the University of Oxford, where he subsequently served as a postdoc from 2021 to 2022. Before his doctoral studies, he gained industry experience at ACAE (AECC Commercial Aircraft Engines), China’s first commercial aeroengine company. He completed his master’s degree at ETH Zürich, during which he conducted thesis research at MIT Gas Turbine Laboratory as a ZKS-funded Visiting Scholar. He obtained a dual bachelor’s degree from Tongji University and Polytechnic of Milan.

He was awarded the ASME IGTI Turbo Expo Early Career Engineer Travel Award and the ASME IGTI Student Advisory Committee Travel Award. He has served as a session chair at leading international conferences, including ASME Turbo Expo, GPPS, and CITC, and has acted as a Guest Editor for Machines. As a supervisor, his students have been awarded the American Physical Society Distinguished Student Program Award, the NSFC Youth Science Foundation, and the NSFC PhD Student Scheme.