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

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Meet our academic experts and learn more about their research.

Browse the list of our academic members to learn more about our expertise at the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI).

If you’re looking to work with someone with specific expertise and need help getting connected, get in touch with us at smmi@southampton.ac.uk.

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Ambitious researchers and academics are invited to join our university as we further strengthen our reputation for education, research excellence and enterprise. We aim to tackle complex societal and environmental challenges and build on the University’s existing strengths.

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Dr Nicholas Harmon

Associate Professor
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Dr Nicholas Townsend

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Experimental Hydrodynamics
  • Marine Renewable Energy
  • Maritime Robotics and Autonomous systems

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Nicky Marsh

PROFESSOR

Research interests

  • Intersections between culture and economics
  • Cultural representations of risk, money, finance, markets
  • Gender, feminism and the economy 
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Dr Nikolaos Skliris

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Water cycle change inferred from ocean salinity
  • Mediterranean Sea climate variability & change   (Overturning Circulation, Sea Level, Water Cycle, …)
  • Impacts of ocean physics on marine ecosystems 

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Nisreen A Alwan MBE, MBChB, MRCP, FFPH, MPH, MSc, PhD, FHEA, PGCAP

Professor of Public Health

Research interests

  • Public Health
  • Lifecourse Epidemiology
  • Long Covid

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Pamela Varley BSocSc, MSc, PhD

Head of Strategic Research Initiatives
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Mr Panos Manias

SMMI-CMMI Marine and Maritime SRA

Research interests

  • marine decarbonisation
  • utilisation of alternative fuels 
  • powertrain design and subsequent emission modelling
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Dr Patrick Beullens

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Ocean shipping - decisions under risk, environmental performance
  • Retail supply chains - perishable products, food waste management
  • Logistics and reverse logistics

Accepting applications from PhD students

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