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

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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.

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Dr Seyedvahid Vakili

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Sustainable Shipping;
  • Maritime Engineering;
  • Maritime Technology;
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Dr Sheida Afshan PhD, FICE, MIStructE, CEng, FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • High performance metallic materials and structures for applications in infrastructure and ene…
  • Experimental and numerical investigation of structural materials and components
  • Metallic materials for liquid hydrogen (LH2) fuel storage and transportation

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Simon Blainey PhD, FRGS, FHEA, MCIHT, CMILT

Research interests

  • Rail demand and operations modelling
  • GIS and transport
  • Transport decision support systems
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Dr Simon Boxall

Principal Teaching Fellow
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Professor Simon Cox

Head of Department

Research interests

  • My research focusses on computational tools, technologies and platforms and how they enable i…
  • High Performance and novel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and commercial distributed comput…
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Dr Stephanie Blankshein PhD

C&IW Heritage Science Facilities Manager

Research interests

  • Maritime/underwater archaeology
  • Landscape archaeology
  • Prehistory

Accepting applications from PhD students

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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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Professor Stephen Boyd BEng, MSc, PhD, CEng, MRINA

Professor

Research interests

  • Maritime Composites
  • Experimental and Numerical mechanics
  • Non-contact full-field techniques for validation of numerical models
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Emeritus Professor Stephen Daley

Research interests

  • Active control of viscoelastic metamaterials
  • Acoustic Black Holes for control of structural vibration and sound radiation
  • Active control of sound and vibration
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