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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 Chris Hauton PhD, FRSB, FMBA

Head of School

Research interests

  • Hauton has worked extensively with colleagues in India and Bangladesh since 2015 and has developed an international profile in shrimp health research, including contributing to the development of a mobile phone app, the 'Chingri Shrimp App', to support shrimp farmer training in Bangladesh.
  • Research has also included quantifying the potential toxic risk of deep sea mining of mineral resources. He was part of the leading team of the EC FP7 MIDAS Project, exploring the ecological risk of deep-sea mining, outputs from which led to contributions to the Royal Society Foresight Future of the Sea report (2016/17), to presentations at the UN International Seabed Authority in Jamaica, and expert contributions to the UN ISA ISA Legal and Technical Commision ISBA/27/C/11 'Guidelines for the establishment of baseline environmental data.'
  • Other activity

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chris

Email: C.Hauton@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 5784

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Dr Chris Kipps

Connect with Chris

Email: christopher.kipps@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Chris McCormick BSc, DPhil, PGCert

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Positive strand RNA virus replication
  • Viral proteases
  • Viral host pathogen interactions

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chris

Email: cjm@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2381206993

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Professor Chris Skylaris

Professor of Computational Chemistry

Research interests

  • Development of large-scale electronic structure methods, based on Density Functional Theory within the ONETEP program (onetep.org)
  • Development of atomistic and multiscale simulation methods for materials using quantum and classical methods, and machine-learned potentials
  • Application of these simulation methods to discover advanced materials in technologically relevant problems such as batteries, hydrogen fuel cells and drud optimisation

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chris

Email: C.Skylaris@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 9381

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Dr Chrissie Jones BMedSci, BMBS, FRCPCH, PgcertHBE, FHEA, PhD

Assoc Prof Paeds Infection & Immunology

Research interests

  • Vaccination in pregnancy
  • Infection risk reduction in pregnancy
  • Congenital infections

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chrissie

Email: C.E.Jones@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2381206159

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Professor Christian Knigge

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • accretion phenomena and associated outflows
  • cataclysmic variables
  • close binaries
Connect with Christian

Email: C.Knigge@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3955

Dr Christina Saville MSc, PhD, AFORS

Lecturer in Healthcare Management

Research interests

  • Safe staffing
  • Operational research techniques applied to healthcare
  • Health workforce
Connect with Christina

Email: C.E.Saville@soton.ac.uk

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Professor Christine Currie

Professor of Operational Research

Research interests

  • Simulation optimisation
  • Healthcare management
  • Decision making under uncertainty

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Christine

Email: Christine.Currie@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3647

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Dr Christoph Witzel

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • My main technical expertise is colour psychophysics and behavioural experiments.The main focus of my work has been the role of language and experience in colour perception.More broadly, I am interested in how culture and experience shape automatic assumptions to form our subjective reality.See also "About", and for recent developments and PhD opportunities, see Lab Website.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Christoph

Email: C.Witzel@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4599

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Professor Claire Foster

Professor of Psychosocial Oncology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Claire

Email: C.L.Foster@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4006

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