Southampton Geospatial

Our people

Meet the geospatial experts working in our interdisciplinary team.

Dr Samantha Cockings

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Automated zone design
  • Spatiotemporal population modelling
  • Environment and health

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Samantha

Dr Shahram Heydari

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Transportation safety
  • Travel behaviour
  • Traffic-related air pollution

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Shahram

Professor Simon Blainey PhD, FRGS, FHEA, MCIHT, CMILT

Professor of Sustainable Transport

Research interests

  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport
  • Transport decision support systems

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Simon

Professor Simon Kemp

Professorial Fellow-Education

Research interests

  • Education for Sustainable Development
  • Waste Management
  • Carbon Footprinting
Connect with Simon

Dr Songyan Zhu

Lecturer of Geospatial Data Science

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Songyan

Mrs Thea Woods

Enterprise Fellow/GIS Analyst

Research interests

  • geospatial analysis
  • migration mapping
  • human mobility
Connect with Thea