Researcher on boat preparing hydrophone for acoustic surveys of marine mammals in the Antartic
Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

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Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute
Meet our academic experts and learn more about their research.

Browse the list of our academic members to learn more about our expertise at the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI).

If you’re looking to work with someone with specific expertise and need help getting connected, get in touch with us at smmi@southampton.ac.uk. 

Professor Jadu Dash

Professor of Remote Sensing

Research interests

  • Satellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
  • Developing a chlorophyll content based production efficiency model to quantify terrestrial carbon uptake
  • Impact of extreme climatic events on vegetation phenology
Connect with Jadu

Email: J.DASH@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2203

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Dr James Blake

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • James is interested in the fundamental way that fluid and structures interact and the practical consequences on the design and operation of marine vehicles:
  • Sustainable structural materials for composite boat design and production;
  • Experimental & theoretical analysis of composite material performance;
Connect with James

Email: J.I.R.Blake@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 9544

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Professor James Jordan

Head of School (Interim)

Research interests

  • The British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Holocaust studies
  • Post-war media in Britain

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with James

Email: J.A.Jordan@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4679

Dr Jan Janouskovec PhD

Lecturer in Ecology

Research interests

  • Protist diversity and ecology
  • Evolution of eukaryotic cells
  • Metabolism in plastids & mitochondria

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jan

Email: J.Janouskovec@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2380 590 258

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Professor Jane Falkingham

VP Engagement and International
Connect with Jane

Email: J.C.Falkingham@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3399

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Dr Jane Lavery

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Mexican Day of the Dead, Covid-19 and diaspora.
  • Latin(a) multimedia women writers and artists (i.e writers and artists whose works straddle multiple disciplines (literature, art performance, photography, video, art installation, cyberspace).
  • Latin(a) American Women writers and artists

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jane

Email: J.E.Lavery@soton.ac.uk

Professor Janice Barton

Professor of Experimental Mechanics
Connect with Janice

Email: janice@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 7776933686

Dr Jared Charles MEng, PhD, AFHEA

Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jared

Email: J.A.Charles@southampton.ac.uk

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Professor Jasmin Godbold

Professor

Research interests

  • Changes in seafloor biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
  • Effect of human activities and environmental change on species-environment interactions 
  • Trait-expression in benthic invertebrates

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jasmin

Email: J.A.Godbold@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3639

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Professor Jason Sadler

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Research interests

  • Spatial data infrastructure (SDI)
  • Web science
  • Environmental web applications and semantics
Connect with Jason

Email: jds@geodata.soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4628

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