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Dr Alasdair Marshall

Associate Professor in Risk Management

Research interests

Corporate risk management
risk intelligence
risk culture

Email: a.marshall@soton.ac.uk

Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Professor Brenda Hannigan

PROFESSOR OF LAW

Research interests

Sustainability reporting
Directors' Liabilities
Risk Management

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: b.m.hannigan@soton.ac.uk

Address: B4, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Emeritus Professor Chris Chapman

Research interests

Management decision-making
Project management
Risk

Email: c.b.chapman@soton.ac.uk

Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Professor Christophe Mues

Prof of Data Science and Info Systems

Research interests

Credit scoring
Predictive analytics
Machine learning

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: c.mues@soton.ac.uk

Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Dr Chung-Ching Tai

Associate Professor in Risk Management

Research interests

Behavioural economics and Experimental economics
Neuroeconomics
Agent-based computational economics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: c-c.tai@soton.ac.uk

Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Emeritus Professor Con Connell

Email: n.a.connell@soton.ac.uk

Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Professor Fiona Woollard

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood/ Parenthood
Normative Ethics.
Applied Ethics.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: f.woollard@soton.ac.uk

Address: B65, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, SO17 1BF (View in Google Maps)

Professor Frank McGroarty

Chair in Computational Finance & FinTech

Research interests

Empirical Market Microstructure
Computational Finance
Systematic Mispricing

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: f.j.mcgroarty@soton.ac.uk

Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Dr Ian Dawson

Associate Professor

Research interests

Risk perception
Risk communication
Judgment and decision making

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: i.g.dawson@soton.ac.uk

Address: B2, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Professor Jize Yan

Professor

Research interests

Prof. Jize Yan, a Sensor Technology and Microsystem expert at the University of Southampton, holds a BEng from Tsinghua University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. As a PI and co-I, he's secured £14M+ in research grants, having 100+ peer-reviewed publications and several best-paper awards. He leads a dedicated team of 10+ PhD students and Post-Docs, collaborating with industry leaders to address vital challenges in infrastructure safety, battery, and quantum technology.
His pioneering research in Sensor Technology and Microsystem has set world records, driving innovations in silicon-photonics sensors, distributed fibre optic sensors, MEMS sensors, meta-lenses and vortex-beam based microscope and sensors, wireless sensor networks and energy harvesting based on cleanroom fabrication. His research also develops precise instruments to explore quantum theory's boundaries, serving as a testbed for theoretical predictions, such as gravity-related collapse models, topological quantum computers, and new frontiers in holographic duality.
With a portfolio of 10+ patents, he co-founded spin-out companies (8power, Wisen Innovation, Traco) and enabled technology transfer (Silicon Microgravity, NXP Semiconductors, Cementation Skanska), resulting in £16M+ income streams. Invited by venture capital panels, he evaluated 30+ startup proposals across various funding rounds. At the School of Electronics and Computer Science, he led and upgraded the Internal Grant-Application Review process and is the EEE Impact Champion. He serves as an Associate Editor for five international journals and a member of the EPSRC Review College. For education, he collaborates with leading AI education enterprises to champion AI technologies and promote future AI education standards.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.yan@southampton.ac.uk

Address: B59, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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