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

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Mr John Gillett

Principal Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Countdowns: the role of duration and duration-awareness in the experience of time-based material.
  • Decision-making: programmatic production; judgement; intuition; thinking through making.
  • The relationship between studio practice and curatorship.
Connect with John

Email: J.R.Gillett@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7002

Professor John Holloway PhD, FHEA

Associate V-P Interdisciplinary Research

Research interests

  • Human genetics
  • Epigenetics
  • Respiratory Disease

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with John

Email: J.W.Holloway@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2381208758

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Professor John Langley

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Research interests

  • The application of separation science and mass spectrometry as a routine tool for chemistry/chemical biology/oilfield chemistry;
  • Probing new areas for research using these tools;
  • The application of hyphenated approaches (GC-MS, GCxGC-MS, HPLC-MS & SFC-MS).
Connect with John

Email: G.J.Langley@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2380592182

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Professor John Marshall

Professor
Connect with John

Email: jeam@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2015

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Dr John Mcaleer

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  • The East India Company and its worlds.
  • Islands and empires.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with John

Email: J.Mcaleer@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2239

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Professor John Mcbride

Professor of Electro-Mechanical Eng

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: J.W.Mcbride@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2895

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Professor John Preston

Professor in Rail Transport

Research interests

  • Demand, capacity and cost modelling for sustainable transport infrastructure.
  • The design, monitoring and evaluation of transport interventions designed to promote sustainable choices.
  • The determination of pathways for future mobility transitions to net zero carbon.
Connect with John

Email: J.M.Preston@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4660

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Professor Jon Copley BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD, SFHEA

Professor

Research interests

  • Deep-sea ecology
  • Ocean exploration
Connect with Jon

Email: jtc@southampton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6261

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Professor Jonathan Adams BA DPhil MIfA FSA FRSA

Professor of Archaeology

Research interests

  • the chronology and impact of environmental change on later prehistoric human populations in the Black Sea region
  • maritime connectivity in the Black Sea
  • ships as tools of Early Modern state-building
Connect with Jonathan

Email: jjra@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2240

Professor Jonathan Bull

Professor in Ocean & Earth Science

Research interests

  • Fluid Flow and Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Monitoring, Measurement and Verification
  • Marine Geophysics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jonathan

Email: bull@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3078

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