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Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

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The University of Southampton is building on our world-leading success by appointing new academics.

Ambitious researchers and academics are invited to join our university as we further strengthen our reputation for education, research excellence and enterprise. We aim to tackle complex societal and environmental challenges and build on the University’s existing strengths.

Find out more about why this is such an exciting time to join the University of Southampton.

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

Email: S.P.Blainey@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2834

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Dr Simon Boxall

Principal Teaching Fellow

Connect with Simon

Email: simon.boxall@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2744

Professor Simon Cox

Head of Department

Research interests

My research focusses on computational tools, technologies and platforms and how they enable interdisciplinary problems to be solved in engineering and science.His team in the Computational Engineering and Design Group is applying and developing high performance and cloud computing in a variety of collaborative interdisciplinary computational science and engineering projects. These include:
High Performance and novel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and commercial distributed computing - which led to a spin out companyApplied computational algorithms Computational electromagnetics– which led to the formation of a spin-off company.New algorithms such as meshless methods and fast solvers.Data Management Simon is also Director of the Microsoft Institute for High Performance computing where he demonstrates why, where and how current and future Microsoft tools and technologies can be exploited to enable engineering and scientific research to deliver faster, cheaper and better results.

Connect with Simon

Email: S.J.Cox@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3116

Professor Stephanie Jones

Professor of Literature and Law

Research interests

Literature and Law
Postcolonial and decolonial studies
Marine and maritime literatures

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Email: S.J.Jones@soton.ac.uk

Professor Stephen Boyd BEng, MSc, PhD

Professor

Research interests

Maritime Composites
Experimental and Numerical mechanics
Non-contact full-field techniques for validation of numerical models

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Email: S.W.Boyd@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2375

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Professor Stephen Roberts

Professor of Geology

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Email: sr2@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3246

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Professor Stephen Turnock

Head of School

Research interests

His fluid dynamics expertise lies in the synthesis of analytical, experimental and computational methods for a diverse range of applications. Examples of such work are in the development of a patented integrated tidal energy generator (winner of The Engineers’ Energy Sector Innovation award 2008), supervision of the students who designed Amy Williams’ Gold medal winning bob skeleton sled (winner of The Engineer’s Sport Technology Innovation award in 2010) and with continued support for Gold medal success in 2014 and 2018, academic supervisor for the Delphin Autonomous underwater vehicle (winner of the SAUC-E competition in 2007).
He has acted as a consultant to diverse organisations including NOC, Speedo, Shell Shipping, BAEsystems, Rolls Royce, dstl, QinetiQ, and WS Atkins.
Expertise: Future Fuels for Shipping; Maritime Robotics and Autonomy; Rudder, hydrofoil, and control surface design; Unsteady race simulation for kayak, rowing and sailing; Hull-propeller-rudder interaction; Ship added resistance and manoeuvring in waves; Underwater noise prediction using CFD; Experimental techniques for use of wave/tow tank testing; Tidal turbines, wave energy and offshore wind turbine design; Wind turbine array power prediction; Hydrogen fuel cells for hybrid ship propulsion; Hydrodynamics of swimming assessment by pool based test techniques and using CFD.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Stephen

Email: S.R.Turnock@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2488

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Professor Steve Darby

Associate Dean Research

Research interests

River and coastal flooding - relationships between geomorphology and flooding in rivers and deltas
Biogeomorphology - interactions between river processes and life
River bank erosion processes

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Steve

Email: S.E.Darby@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7347

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