Zhihua Xie obtained his Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics in 2010 from the University of Leeds, funded by the Marie Curie Fellowship. He joined Imperial College as a research associate in January 2013 after a postdoctoral research position in the Hydro-Environmental Research Centre at Cardiff University. His research interests span a broad range of topics in computational fluid dynamics, turbulence modelling, multiphase flows, water wave mechanics, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, and environmental fluid mechanics.