Researcher on boat preparing hydrophone for acoustic surveys of marine mammals in the Antartic
Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

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Dr Ben Pears

Research Fellow
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Dr Ben Waterson

Professor

Research interests

  • Road transport
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Traveller Behaviour

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Benjamin Cerfontaine

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Offshore renewable energy - wind, tidal and wave
  • Numerical and Physical Modelling of infrastructure for renewable energy
  • Constitutive modelling of geomaterials for cyclic loading

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Bharath Ganapathisubramani

Professor-Experimental Fluid Mechanics

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Dr Bindi Shah PhD, FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • A key question that Bindi is interested in asking is: What shapes citizenship and a sense of …
  • Bindi is also interested in exploring the role of social capital for developing interdiscipli…

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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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Mrs Carin Reisinger

Collaboration & Scientific Comms.Manager
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Professor Carlos Ponce De Leon Albarran MBA, PhD, FRSC

Professor of Electrochemical Engineering

Research interests

  • Electrochemical energy conversion
  • Water treatment technology
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Dr Catherine Rychert

Associate Professor
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Dr Cathy Lucas

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The role of gelatinous zooplankton in ecosystem structure and function.
  • Causes and consequences of jellyfish blooms.
  • Jellyfish and ecosystem servives in the coastal zone.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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