Professor T X Mei took up the position of Chair in Control and Mechatronics at Salford in January 2009. He was previously Reader at The University of Leeds. 

His main research is concerned with the advanced control and mechatronic solutions for industrial problems especially applied to railway and automotive systems including fault tolerance, condition monitoring, traction control, wheel-rail contact mechanics, vehicle dynamics, intelligent sensing and data fusion, and system integration. Professor Mei is one of the most active researchers world-wide in the latest fundamental research into active steering and system integrations for railway vehicles. He has given a number of invited seminars and state-of-art reviews at the international level and has published about 90 papers in the last 10 years in leading academic journal and international conferences.