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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.

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

Professor Simon Cox

Head of Department

Research interests

My research focusses on computational tools, technologies and platforms and how they enable interdisciplinary problems to be solved in engineering and science.His team in the Computational Engineering and Design Group is applying and developing high performance and cloud computing in a variety of collaborative interdisciplinary computational science and engineering projects. These include:
High Performance and novel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and commercial distributed computing - which led to a spin out companyApplied computational algorithms Computational electromagnetics– which led to the formation of a spin-off company.New algorithms such as meshless methods and fast solvers.Data Management Simon is also Director of the Microsoft Institute for High Performance computing where he demonstrates why, where and how current and future Microsoft tools and technologies can be exploited to enable engineering and scientific research to deliver faster, cheaper and better results.

Connect with Simon

Email: S.J.Cox@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3116

Dr Sofia Michopoulou PhD

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Sofia

Email: S.Michopoulou@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2381206628

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Professor Sonia Zakrzewski

Prof of Bioarchaeology & BioAnthropology

Research interests

bioarchaeology and palaeopathology
disAbility, impairment, injury and disease
race, migration and mobility

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Sonia

Email: S.R.Zakrzewski@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4778

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Dr Srinandan Dasmahapatra

Associate Professor

Connect with Srinandan

Email: sd@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4503

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Professor Stefan Bleeck

Prof of Hearing Science and Technology

Research interests

The intersection of hearing science, audiology, and signal processing
Bio-inspired auditory modeling
Speech intelligibility in noise

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Stefan

Email: S.Bleeck@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6682

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Dr Stephan Onggo PhD, SFHEA

Professor of Business Analytics

Research interests

Simulation Modelling Methodology (hybrid simulation, discrete-event simulation, agent-based simulation, system dynamics and simheuristics)
Simulation for real-time decision making (digital twin, symbiotic simulation)
Simulation Applications in healthcare, supply chain and disaster management

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Stephan

Email: B.S.S.Onggo@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4856

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Professor Stephen Beers

Professor of Immunology & Immunotherapy

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Stephen

Email: S.A.BEERS@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 81206639

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Professor Steve Darby

Associate Dean Research

Research interests

River and coastal flooding - relationships between geomorphology and flooding in rivers and deltas
Biogeomorphology - interactions between river processes and life
River bank erosion processes

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Steve

Email: S.E.Darby@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7347

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