Alan Kwan

Professor Alan Kwan is a faculty member in Structural Mechanics at Cardiff University's School of Engineering and part of the BRE Institute of Sustainable Engineering. He has over 90 publications, including 35+ in refereed journals, and his research spans sustainability informatics, deployable structures, and structural optimization.

• BEng (Hons) from Sheffield (1987), PhD from Cambridge (1991)
• Deputy Head of School at the School of Engineering

Research Interests:
Dr. Kwan's work focuses on Sustainability Informatics (telemetry, control systems), Deployable Structures (pantographic systems, kinematics), and Structural Optimization (genetic algorithms). His recent grants total £1.04M, with additional £6.8M from collaborative projects, all in sustainability informatics.

Scientific Contributions:
He has supervised 21 PhD students (19 completed) and two MPhil students. His KTP project with Reid Lifting Ltd. led to commercialization of a deployable lifting product, earning two Queen’s Awards in 2013. He serves on editorial boards of three journals and eleven conferences, and has delivered invited lectures internationally.