Our people

Institute for Life Sciences

Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 430 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Interested in joining us? Please see details about current academic recruitment opportunities here.

Professor Saul Faust MBBS, FRCPCH, PhD, FHEA, OBE

Professor Paediatric Immunology & Infect

Connect with Saul

Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 2381204939

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Professor Selin Ahipasaoglu PhD

Professor

Research interests

Convex Optimisation
Robust Optimisation
Discrete Choice Theory and Applications

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Selin

Email: S.D.Ahipasaoglu@soton.ac.uk

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Professor Senthil Murugan Ganapathy

Professorial Fellow-Research

Research interests

Integrated Photonic Devices;
Point-of-Care Diagnostics;
Lab-on-a-Chip;

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Senthil Murugan

Email: smg@orc.soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7811

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Dr Seung Lee

Associate Professor

Research interests

Chemical biology
Antimicrobial resistance
Glycan processing enzymes

Connect with Seung

Email: S.S.Lee@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2987

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Professor Shane Norris PhD, MASSAf, FAAS

Professor of Global Health

Connect with Shane

Email: S.A.Norris@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Shelly Vishwakarma PhD

Lecturer

Research interests

Designing and developing hardware and software frameworks for contextual sensing applications
Concurrent physical activity recognition and indoor localization

Connect with Shelly

Email: S.Vishwakarma@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 26872-Teams number

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Dr Shengjie Lai PhD

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

Lai is interested in understanding the transmission dynamics and intervention effectiveness for infectious diseases; Quantifying seasonal human mobility, social connectivity and migration using novel data sources, e.g. mobile phone data; Investigating spatiotemporal interactions between human behaviour, environmental change and infectious disease dynamics.

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Shengjie

Email: Shengjie.Lai@soton.ac.uk

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Mrs Shilpy Bhat

Research interests

Technology-Driven Innovations in Health and Social Care
Stakeholder Experiences in Technological Adoption
Regional Partnerships for Technological Impact

Connect with Shilpy

Email: S.Bhat@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Shiyang Tang PhD, BEng, FHEA, CEng, MRSC, MIET

Associate Professor

Research interests

Liquid metal
Intelligent microfluidics
Biosensors

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Shiyang

Email: Shiyang.Tang@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8839

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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 interdisciplinary problems to be solved in engineering and science.His team in the Computational Engineering and Design Group is applying and developing high performance and cloud computing in a variety of collaborative interdisciplinary computational science and engineering projects. These include:
High Performance and novel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and commercial distributed computing - which led to a spin out companyApplied computational algorithms Computational electromagnetics– which led to the formation of a spin-off company.New algorithms such as meshless methods and fast solvers.Data Management Simon is also Director of the Microsoft Institute for High Performance computing where he demonstrates why, where and how current and future Microsoft tools and technologies can be exploited to enable engineering and scientific research to deliver faster, cheaper and better results.

Connect with Simon

Email: S.J.Cox@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3116