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Dr Ranga Dinesh Kahanda Koralage BSc (Hons), PhD, FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Zero-Carbon Energy Systems: Hydrogen and altrenative zero-carbon energy systems 
  • Clean Combustion Technology of Hydrogen, Ammonia, Biofuels and Synthetic fuels: internal combustion engines, gas turbines, thermal boilers
  • Green Hydrogen Production Using Renewable Energy: Process systems engineering, Scalability and energy management

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Ranga Dinesh

Email: Dinesh.Kahanda-Koralage@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2872

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Professor Rebecca Hoyle

Assoc Vice-President Interdisc Research

Research interests

  • Multimorbidity across the lifecourse
  • Cooperation in social networks and evolution of cooperation
  • Quantitative genetics of transgenerational effects

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Rebecca

Email: R.B.Hoyle@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3733

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Renee Hoogland

Connect with Renee

Email: R.Hoogland@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Richard Stockey BA MSci PhD

Lecturer in Palaeobiology

Research interests

  • Treating the geologic record as a historical laboratory for studying the responses of marine ecosystems to environmental change
  • Earth system, ecological and biogeochemical modelling to better understand relationships between changes observed in the fossil and geochemical record
  • The importance of Earth system evolution for ecological and oceanographic responses to ancient climate change

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Richard

Email: R.G.Stockey@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4600

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Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography and Climate

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Robert

Email: R.Marsh@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6214

Professor Robert Raja

Prof of Materials Chemistry & Catalysis

Research interests

  • Heterogeneous Catalysis
  • Sustainable Chemistry
  • Carbon Capture Storage and Utilisation

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Robert

Email: R.Raja@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2144

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Dr Rodolfo Olvera PhD

Experimental Officer (Towing Tank)

Research interests

  • Experimental tests
  • Tidal energy
Connect with Rodolfo

Email: R.Olvera@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 1993

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Dr Rodrigo Ortiz Vazquez

Senior Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Rodrigo

Email: Rodrigo.Ortiz-Vazquez@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 1971

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Dr Rosalind Coggon

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • The role of hydrothermal fluids in the formation and evolution of the ocean crust
  • Reconstructing records of past seawater chemistry
  • Global biogeochemical cycles
Connect with Rosalind

Email: R.M.Coggon@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6621

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Dr Ryan Reisinger PhD, FHEA, MRSSAf

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Ryan

Email: R.R.Reisinger@southampton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 6449

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