IRIS CoE

Our people

Learn more about our researchers and their expertise.

Mr Adrian Bodenmann

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • High-resolution visual seafloor mapping for benthic habitat mapping and subsea infrastructure…
  • Remote awareness for autonomous offshore mapping operations
  • Uncertainty characterisation in digital 3D reconstructions
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Professor Blair Thornton

Professor of Marine Autonomy

Research interests

  • seafloor 3D visual reconstruction: development of deep-sea imaging hardware and processing pi…
  • automated interpretation of data: development of AI methods for rapid scalable interpretation…
  • robotics: development of low-cost, long endurance seafloor imaging floats and highly intellig…

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Damon Teagle

Professor of Geochemistry

Research interests

  • formation and evolution of the ocean crust
  • fluid-rock interactions and Ore mineralisation
  • geochemical analysis

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Robert Fear

Professor

Research interests

  • Magnetic reconnection
  • Large-scale solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling
  • Global magnetospheric dynamics
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