Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

Our people

Learn about our scholars and their expertise from research interests to contact details.

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

Senior Research Fellow

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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