Hong-Quan (Holden) Zhang received Ph.D. (Fluid Mechanics) in 1988 from Tianjin University, China, M.S. and B.S. (Thermal Energy Engineering) in 1985 and 1982 from Xian Jiaotong University, China, respectively. In 1993 and 1994, as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, he conducted researches on 3-D wake flows at the Max-Plank-Institute of Fluid Mechanics and the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) in Goettingen, Germany.

Dr. Zhang joined TUFFP as a research associate in May 1998. He became a faculty of the TU Petroleum Engineering Department in August 2003. He also serves as the Associate Director of TUFFP. Dr. Zhang supervises and participates in many multiphase flow research projects from experimental test to theoretical modeling.