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Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

Our people

Learn about our scholars and their expertise from research interests to contact details.

Dr Alexandra Auderset

Senior Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Alexandra Karamitrou PhD

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence and Image processing algorithms 
  • Geophysical Archaeology
  • Image Processing techniques

Dr Ali Masoudi

Senior Research Fellow

Dr Alison Cribb

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Evolution of marine ecosystem engineering
  • Response of ecosystem engineers to climate-related stress
  • Marine ecosystem recovery after mass extinctions

Professor Alison Gascoigne

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Archaeology of the Islamic world
  • Archaeological ceramics
  • Medieval Egyptian urbanism

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Amber Annett

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Oceanography
  • Marine biogeochemistry
  • Trace elements

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Andras Sobester

Airbus Professor in Digital Design

Professor Andrea Lista

Professor of Law

Research interests

  • International Trade (Contracts Concluded on Shipment Terms)
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • The Enforcement of Mariitme Claims

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Andrea Russell

Professor of Physical Electrochemistry

Research interests

  • Structure/property relationships in electrocatalysts
  • Development and application of syncrotron based spectroscopic techniques for operando characterisation of electrocatalysts, electrode structures, and electrochemical interfaces
  • Development and application of vibrational spectroscopies (IR and Raman) to study electrochemical interfaces and reactions

Professor Andrew Cruden BEng, MSc, PhD, FIET

Associate Dean Infrastructure

Accepting applications from PhD students