Professor Pan Liangming received his Ph.D. from Chongqing University in 2002. He is now the chair professor and the academic discipline director of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, Chongqing University. He has been long engaged in the research work of reactor thermohydraulics, especially the theory and measurement of bubble dynamics in the application of nuclear reactor thermohydraulics. He served as a senior visiting professor in the researching group of Professor Mamoru Ishii, Purdue University and Professor J. C. Tien, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2013 and 2004 respectively.

As the principle investigator, he has undertaken a large number of research projects related to thermohydraulics of nuclear reactor. He has supervised 15 Ph.D. recipients and nearly 70 Master recipients so far. In recent years, more than 180 peer-reviewed papers have been published in journals and in international conferences. He has won two scientific research awards such as the first prize of the 2004 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education of China. He is now a member of the Nuclear Engineering Teaching and Instruction Committee of the Ministry of Education of China, and also is one of the academic members of the Nuclear Reactor Thermal and Hydraulic Technology Laboratory and other laboratory academic committees and panels. Professor Pan Liangming has dedicated himself as chair and co-chair to ICONE, NURETH, PBNC, WORTH etc. since 2007.