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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. 

Dr Neil Wells

Sen Exp Officer in NMR Spectroscopy

Research interests

  • Applied NMR Spectroscopy
  • Structural elucidation by NMR Spectroscopy
Connect with Neil

Email: N.J.Wells@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3593

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Emeritus Professor Neil Wells

Connect with Neil

Email: N.C.Wells@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2428

Dr Nic Bury

Associate Professor in Natural Sciences

Research interests

  • Nic Bury's research integrates molecular, physiological and toxicological techniques with computational methods to understand and predict how aquatic organisms respond to, and are affected by, natural and man-induced stressors.
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Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Nic

Email: N.R.Bury@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 23 8059 6630

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Professor Nicholas Bates

Connect with Nicholas

Email: N.R.Bates@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +14417051888

Dr Nicholas Harmon

Associate Professor
Connect with Nicholas

Email: N.Harmon@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4783

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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

Connect with Nicholas

Email: N.C.Townsend@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6524

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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 
Connect with Nicky

Email: nm8@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6707

Dr Nikolaos Skliris

Lecturer B

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

Connect with Nikolaos

Email: N.Skliris@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 5075

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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

Connect with Nisreen A

Email: N.A.Alwan@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2381204776

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Dr Pamela Varley BSocSc, MSc, PhD

Head of Strategic Research Initiatives
Connect with Pamela

Email: P.M.Varley@soton.ac.uk

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