Staff: Marcus Pandy

Marcus Pandy is appointed as Chair of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Professor Pandy received a PhD in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University in Columbus (1987).

He then completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. In 1990, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and to full professor in 2002.

In 2002, he was appointed as the Joe J. King Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

research interests

Professor Pandy's research interests are in biomechanics and control of human movement. Much of his research is aimed at using computer models of the human body to study muscle, ligament, and joint function in the normal, injured, and diseased states.

He has published over 150 scientific papers on this topic. He currently serves as a Chief Investigator on a number of research grants, including a 5-year VESKI Fellowship to support research on the development of advanced patient-specific computer models of the human musculoskeletal system; and a 5-year multi-institutional research grant funded by the NHMRC to support a new Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Gait Analysis and Rehabilitation. Current projects and postgraduate supervision