Research highlights

Revealing space’s secret supermassive black holes

Scientists from the University of Southampton have found that there are more hidden supermassive black holes in the universe than previously thought.
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  • A satellite image of two galaxies colliding with each other.

    Demystifying the universe’s largest galaxies

    The mystery of the creation of the universe’s biggest galaxies has almost been solved, thanks to new significant discoveries from an international team of experts, including members of the University of Southampton.
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  • Uncovering secrets of our universe

    A team of astronomers, led by researchers from the University of Southampton, has discovered the largest cosmic explosion ever observed.
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Research institutes, centres and groups

Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research

Tony Bird

Associate Dean Education

Vasileios Apostolopoulos

Professor

Sebastian Hoenig

Head of School

Nicholas Evans

Professor of Particle Physics

Matthew Middleton

Professor

Facilities

Laboratory with a Bruker Neo 400MHz device in the centre of the room

Magnetic resonance facility

Our facilities at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Magnetic Resonance include nine NMR spectrometers plus several customised and ancillary items. Our facilities are located on the ground floor of Building 27 (School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering).
A researcher in a cleanroom suit with a 200mm wafer in the nanofabrication cleanroom

Nanofabrication cleanrooms

The nanofabrication cleanrooms houses a fully featured suite of semiconductor processing tools as well as a planar fabrication laboratory.
x-ray diffraction imaging equipment

X-ray diffraction imaging facility

The X-ray diffraction imaging facility is suited for work including crystal structure determination, high resolution surface texture mapping, and texture pole plotting.