Min Pan

Clean Growth Committee Member

Min Pan is a Professor and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She joined the department as a Lecturer in 2016. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Bath in June 2012 for research into fluid-borne noise control in digital hydraulic systems. After graduation, she continued at Bath as a postdoctoral researcher working on the efficient fluid power control project in the Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control. She worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2014 and 2015. Prof Pan has been awarded prestigious Fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering (2019-2021), The Leverhulme Trust (2020-2022) and the UKRI.

Pan’s main research interests include intelligent machine systems, numerical modelling of dynamic systems, control and robotics. In 2014, she was awarded the prestigious IMechE Donald Julius Groen Prize for outstanding achievements in the areas of mechatronics, informatics and control. Her work has been featured on the Front Covers for a variety of world-leading journals, including Advanced Science, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Materials Technologies, Advanced Intelligent Systems, iSceince (Cell) and Soft Matter. Min is collaborating with academics and industrial partners.

Her research encompasses fundamental analysis, complex modelling, novel design and innovative applications. Her research has been widely funded by the UKRI, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society, the Leverhulme Trust and the Innovate UK. Total research fund over £4.2m.