John Perram
Visiting Professor at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark
Jinan City, Shandong, Denmark
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Top SchoolJohn Perram is a Visiting Professor and veteran applied mathematician with a career spanning theoretical molecular dynamics, statistical mechanics of polar fluids, and practical robotics engineering. Trained with a PhD from the University of Manchester, he held a long professorship at the University of Southern Denmark where he founded robotics research that led to an intelligent welding robot for large ship construction. His work uniquely bridges deep theoretical research—solving when competing theories of polar fluids apply—and hands-on engineering, including parallelized molecular dynamics simulations and EU-funded high-performance computing initiatives. He has mentored doctoral research tied directly to applied outcomes and helped sustain a university engineering program through industry-coupled projects. Based in Denmark but originally educated in Australia and the UK, he combines academic rigor with successful technology transfer to industry. An unexpected thread through his career is the way abstract perturbation theory informed very concrete automation and computational infrastructure advances.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Mathematics at The University of ManchesterGithub contributions (5)
qinantang/PSO
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
qinantang/semiVIENNA-Psim
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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