Prof. Ernian Pan

　　Ernian Pan obtained his BS and MS degrees from Lanzhou University and Beijing University, respectively, and his PhD from University of Colorado at Boulder. He joined the University of Akron in 2002 and promoted to professor in 2008, with a primary appointment in the Department of Civil Engineering and a joint appointment in the Department of Applied Math. His teaching and research are in continuum/computational methods/mechanics with applications to modern engineering and Earth science problems including pavement/earth deformation due to surface and internal loadings, mechanical and electronic properties of nanoscale quantum heterostructures, and mangetoelectric effect in multiferroic composites. He has published over 270 peer-reviewed journal articles, designed a couple of software products, and coauthored a book titled Static Green's Functions in Anisotropic Media by Cambridge University Press.