A prominent physicist working in the UK for over 20 years on hypersonic technology has now joined China to lead an innovation team working to make hypersonic vehicles more efficient and effective. Zhang Yonghao came to Britain in the early 2000s from China to work as a computational scientist at Daresbury Laboratory. In 2020, he was appointed as chair professor at the University of Edinburgh, the highest academic rank that can be achieved.

Over the last 20 years in the UK, Yonghao’s research focused on understanding multiscale and multiphysical flow physics through theoretical and computational studies. This area holds critical importance for fields such as aerospace engineering, energy production and environmental sc