Professor R Ajit Shenoi BTech, PhD, Ceng, FRINA, FIMechE
Professor of Lightweight Structures
Professor R Ajit Shenoi is the Professor of Lightweight Structures within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton. He is the founder and first Director of the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI).
Professor Ajit Shenoi graduated in 1974 with a degree in naval architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Between 1974 and 1978 he worked successively in Mazagon Docks Bombay and Arya National Shipping Lines, Tehran before returning to academe, to the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow from where he obtained his doctorate in 1981. Since then he has been at the University of Southampton as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and, now, Professor. He is a Chartered Engineer, being a Fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.