Our people
Meet the geospatial experts working in our interdisciplinary team.

Doctor Hugo Putuhena
Senior Research Fellow in Offshore Renewable Energy- Geospatial assessment
Email:H.S.Putuhena@soton.ac.ukTel:+44 23 8059 8549Address: Boldrewood Campus, Burgess Road, Southampton, SO16 7QF
Professor Jadu Dash
Head of SchoolSatellite derived land surface phenology and its validation with ground data
Email:J.DASH@soton.ac.ukTel:+44 23 8059 2203Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Professor Jane Hart
Professor of GeographyAccepting applications from PhD studentsEmail:J.K.Hart@soton.ac.ukTel:+44 23 8059 4615Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Professor Jason Sadler
ProfessorSpatial data infrastructure (SDI)
Web science
Email:jds@geodata.soton.ac.ukTel:+44 23 8059 4628Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Professor Jim Wright
Professor of GIS & International DevelopmentSafe water access and public health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail:J.A.Wright@soton.ac.ukTel:+44 23 8059 4619Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Professor Jo Nield
ProfessorDune Processes
Salt pan dynamics
Dust emissive surfaces
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail:J.Nield@soton.ac.ukTel:+44 23 8059 4749Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Professor Jonathon Hare
ProfessorMy main research interests lie in the area of representation learning;
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail:jsh2@soton.ac.ukTel:+44 23 8059 7678Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Professor Julian Leyland
ProfessorFluvial and Intertidal Geomorphology
Remote Environmental Sensing
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail:J.Leyland@soton.ac.ukTel:+44 23 8059 2285Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Professor Justin Sheffield
Professor of Hydrology & Remote SensingLarge-scale hydrology and its interactions with climate variability and change.
Accepting applications from PhD studentsTel:+44 23 8059 0577Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Professor Kirk Martinez
Professor of Electronics & Computer ScienceEmail:km@ecs.soton.ac.ukTel:+44 23 8059 4491Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, SO17 1BJ