Professor Pan Chin is currently Head and Chair Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He joined CityU in February 2018 and became Acting Head of the Department in July and Head in October of the same year. Before joining CityU, Professor Pan was a Faculty Member of National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan for 32 years, from Associate Professor in 1986 to Professor in 1990 and Tsing Hua Distinguished Professor in 2011. He received a Bachelor’s Degree from NTHU in 1979 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the United States, in 1986.
Professor Pan has vast experience and an excellent performance background in academic administration. He served as Chairperson of the Department of Engineering and System Science, formerly the Department of Nuclear Engineering, of NTHU from 2001 to 2004, Founding Director of the Centre for Energy and Environmental Research from 2003 to 2008 and the Low Carbon Energy Research Centre in 2011, and Dean of the College of Nuclear Science from 2005 to 2011. Professor Pan served as Chairperson of the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Safety of the Taiwan's Atomic Energy Council from 2008 to 2017, Convenor of the Energy Programme of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan from 2014 to 2016, and President of the Chung-Hwa Nuclear Society from 2012 to 2018.
Professor Pan is an internationally well-recognised scholar in the fields of boiling heat transfer and two-phase flow. He received an "Outstanding Research Award" in 1998 from Taiwan’s former National Science Council (currently the Ministry of Science and Technology) and the "First Grade Service Medal" from the Executive Yuan of Taiwan in 2018.