Melbourne School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor Marcus Pandy

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Chair of Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering

 

teaching

Bioengineering. Teaching

biographic details

Marcus Pandy is appointed as Chair of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical 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

selected publications

  1. Anderson FC, Pandy MG. Dynamic optimization of human walking. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 123: 381-390, 2001.
  2. Pandy MG. Computer modelling and simulation of human movement. Annual Review Biomedical Engineering 3: 245-732, 2001.
  3. Garner BA, Pandy MG. Estimation of musculotendon properties in the human upper limb. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 31: 207-229, 2003.
  4. Pflum M, Shelburne KB, Torry M, Decker M, Pandy MG. Model prediction of anterior cruciate ligament force during drop-landings. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 26: 1949-1958, 2004.
  5. Shelburne KB, Torry M, Pandy MG. Contributions of muscles, ligaments, and the ground-reaction force to tibiofemoral joint loading during normal gait. Journal of Orthopaedic Research 24: 1983-1990, 2006.
  6. Seth A, Pandy MG. A neuromusculoskeletal tracking method for calculating muscle forces from human movement data. Journal of Biomechanics 40: 356-366, 2007.
  7. Ackland DC, Richardson M, Pandy MG. Lines of action and stabilizing potential of the shoulder musculature. Journal of Anatomy 215: 184-197, 2009.
  8. Kim HJ, Fernandez JW, Akbarshahi M, Walter J, Fregly BJ, Pandy MG. Evaluation of predicted knee-joint muscle forces during giat using an instumented knee implant. Journal of Orthopaedic Research 27: 1326-1331, 2009.