Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Clinical Gait Analysis and Gait Rehabilitation
A collaboration between:
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Prof Marcus Pandy, Chief Investigator, University of Melbourne
Marcus Pandy is the Chair of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Professor Pandy received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University in Columbus (1987) and then completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.
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.
Dr Pandy's research interests are in biomechanics and the 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 nearly 200 scientific papers on this topic.
He is a key participant in a number of research grants, including a five-year VESKI Fellowship to support research on the development of advanced patient-specific computer models of the human musculoskeletal system, as well as this collaborative NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Gait Analysis and Rehabilitation.