Our people

Institute for Life Sciences

Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 430 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Institute for Life Sciences core team

Professor Max Crispin (Director)

Professor Mary Barker (Deputy Director)

Professor Hywel Morgan (Deputy Director)

Doctor Alexandra Mant (Collaboration Manager)

Janette Thompson (Project Manager)

Snita Bansal - Institute Coordinator

Interested in joining us? Please see details about current academic recruitment opportunities here.

Dr Philip Goodwin

Associate Professor

Research interests

Philip has a number of research interests spanning climate and the carbon cycle:
(1) Earth’s coupled physical climate and biogeochemical system;
(2) The Anthropocene (including surface warming, sea level rise and ocean acidification);

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Philip

Email: P.A.Goodwin@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6161

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Dr Philip Greulich

Associate Professor

Research interests

Mathematical modelling of stem cell fate choices
Universal features of cell lineages
Cell population dynamics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Philip

Email: P.S.Greulich@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2438

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Dr Phillip Fenberg

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Phillip

Email: P.B.Fenberg@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2729

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Professor Phyllis Lam

Professor

Research interests

Prof. Lam's research interest lies in the functional roles of microorganisms in biogeochemical cycling, particularly the nitrogen and carbon cycles, in diverse marine and aquatic systems. In collaboration with researchers inside and outside the university, her work integrates state-of-the-art molecular ecological techniques, stable isotopic analyses, process rate measurements, hypothesis-driven experimentation and modelling, to disentangle complex microbial interactions and their impacts on biogeochemical environments especially in the context of global change.
Current research topics include:
Shortcuts in the nitrogen cycle – novel pathways and microbial players for nitrogen remineralisation in the ocean’s twilight zoneMicrobial carbon remineralisation pathways and fluxes in the mesopelagic oceanUsing proteomics tools to disentangle active microbial nitrogen and carbon cycling processes in oceanic oxygen minimum zonesImportance of particle-associated microeukaryotes on the efficiency of oceanic biological carbon pumpMicrobial production and consumption pathways of greenhouse gases

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Phyllis

Email: P.Lam@southampton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8388

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