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Our people

Meet the geospatial experts working in our interdisciplinary team.

Doctor Shengjie Lai

Principal Research Fellow

Lai is interested in understanding the transmission dynamics and intervention effe

Accepting applications from PhD students
Email:Shengjie.Lai@soton.ac.uk

Professor Simon Blainey

Rail demand and operations modelling

GIS and transport

Email:S.P.Blainey@soton.ac.uk
Tel:+44 23 8059 2834

Professor Simon Kemp

Professor of Education for Sustainable Development

Education for Sustainable Development

Waste Management

Email:S.Kemp@soton.ac.uk
Tel:+44 23 8059 5868

Doctor Somnath Paramanik

Research Fellow

Crop disease/stress detection; Hyperspectral, LiDAR Remote Sensing

Accepting applications from PhD students
Email:Somnath.Paramanik@soton.ac.uk

Doctor Songyan Zhu

Lecturer in Geospatial Data Science
Accepting applications from PhD students
Email:Songyan.Zhu@soton.ac.uk

Mrs Thea Woods

Enterprise Fellow (GIS Analyst)

geospatial analysis

migration mapping

human mobility

Email:Dorothea.Woods@soton.ac.uk
Tel:+44 23 8059 8997