Professor Marcus Pandy is appointed as Chair of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Melbourne. He received a PhD in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University, Columbus USA, and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in mechanical engineering at Stanford University.
Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, he held the Joe J. King Professorship in biomedical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Engineers Australia.
Prof Pandy's research career has focused on using computational models of the human musculoskeletal system to describe and explain muscle and joint function during functional activities such as walking. He has published approximately 150 journal papers and serves as a chief investigator on grants from the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council as well as industry.
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FEATURED Journal article
Direct Validation of Human Knee-joint Contact Mechanics Derived From Subject-specific Finite-element Models of the Tibiofemoral and Patellofemoral Joints.
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Research Grant
9
Research Contracts
3
Internal Research Grant
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
VESKI Victorian Innovation Fellowship (2005-2009)
Victorian Innovation Fellowship, 2005-2010. Research fellowship awarded by the Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge, and Innovation, Melbourne,
Best Paper Award, American Society of Engineering Education. Best paper presented at the Gulf Southwest Section Annual Conference, Arlington, 2003.
Journal of Biomechanics Award, American Society of Biomechanics. Received at the Fourth World Congress on Biomechanics
Richard Skalak Best Paper Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Best paper published in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering in 2001.
Best Paper Award, Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society. Best paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Gait and Clinical Movement Analy
FIEAUST - Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Australia
FAIMBE - Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
FASME - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Credentials
Positions
Chair Of Mechanical & Bio Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Member
Biomedical Engineering Society (BES)
Member By Special Invitation
Phi Kappa Phi U.S. National Honor Society
Member
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Member
American Society of Biomechanics (ASB)
Member
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Biomechanical Systems Committee
Education
Post-doctoral fellowship
Stanford University
Doctor of Philosophy (Mechanical Engineering)
The Ohio State University
Master of Engineering Science (Mechanical Engineering)
Monash University
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) (Mechanical Engineering)
Monash University