Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute
Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

Our people

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

Professor Xize Niu

Professor of Biosensing&Microengineering

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Xize

Email: X.Niu@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2367

Professor Yannis Ieropoulos PhD, MIET

Professor of Environmental Engineering

Research interests

  • Environmental Engineering;
  • Bioelectrochemistry;
  • Autonomous Bio-Robotics;

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Yannis

Email: I.Ieropoulos@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2380592845

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Dr Yao Zhang

Lecturer in Maritime Engineering

Research interests

  • Learning-based Control and optimization
  • Renewable energy
  • Control applications to marine systems (wave energy converters, launch and recovery systems, underwaters)

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Yao

Email: Yao.Zhang@soton.ac.uk

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Mr Yi Wang

Connect with Yi

Email: yw7u21@soton.ac.uk

Dr Yongqiang Liu

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment 
  • Biofilm 
  • Anaerobic digestion 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Yongqiang

Email: Y.Liu@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2843

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Dr Yu (Jack) Gong

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Sustainable supply chain management
  • Supply chain innovation
  • Blockchain technology

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Yu (Jack)

Email: Y.Gong@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 1834

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Dr Yue Wu

Reader

Research interests

  • Global supply chain and logistics
  • Maritime logistics
  • Container terminal operations

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Yue

Email: Y.Wu@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8711

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Dr Yue Zhang

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Anaerobic digestion (AD) for organic waste management and renewable energy production, especially optimisation of digestion process e.g. via selective trace element supplementation, and manipulation of microbially-mediated pathways methanogenesis
  • Mixed-culture fermentation for bio-based chemical production with integration of downstream recovery processes, especially on selective carboxylic acid production from protein-rich wastes
  • CO2 biomethanisation, especially in-situ hydrogen addition new project to be created
Connect with Yue

Email: Y.ZHANG@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2188

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Professor Zudi Lu

Chair in Statistics

Research interests

  • Nonlinear financial time series modeling and financial statistics / econometrics; 
  • Statistical inference and computation for nonlinear dynamic modeling with statistical (deep) learning, (causal) reasoning and prediction of spatial/temporal (tensor) data;
  • Applied temporal/spatial modeling for actuarial/financial, energy, environmental, climate  and green financial risks;

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Zudi

Email: Z.Lu@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7169

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