Researcher on boat preparing hydrophone for acoustic surveys of marine mammals in the Antartic
Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

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Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute
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Browse the list of our academic members to learn more about our expertise at the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI).

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The University of Southampton is building on our world-leading success by appointing new academics.

Ambitious researchers and academics are invited to join our university as we further strengthen our reputation for education, research excellence and enterprise. We aim to tackle complex societal and environmental challenges and build on the University’s existing strengths.

Find out more about why this is such an exciting time to join the University of Southampton.

Professor Paul White

Prof of Statistical Signal Processing

Research interests

  • Signal processing
  • Underwater acoustics and bioacoustics (the way animals, especially marine mammals, use sound)
  • The processing of calls of marine mammals
Connect with Paul

Email: P.R.White@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2274

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Professor Paul Wilson

Professor

Research interests

  • Greenhouse climates
  • Ice sheet instability
  •  Monsoons and Rainfall Deserts and Aridity 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Paul

Email: paw2@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6164

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Professor Peter G.R. Smith

Professor in Electronics & Comp Science

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Peter G.R.

Email: Peter.Smith@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2809

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Professor Peter Sunley

Professor in Human Geography

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Peter

Email: P.J.Sunley@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 5496

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Professor Peter Wells

Professor

Research interests

  • Heterogeneous Catalysis
  • Operando Spectroscopy
  • Nanoparticle Design

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Peter

Email: P.P.Wells@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 6826

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Dr Philip Leadbitter

Research Fellow (PSDI)

Research interests

  • Digital lab Notebooks and paperless note-taking
  • Human and technological road blocks to paperless note-taking
  • Use of Autonomous Underwater Platforms to further research in remote ocean regions
Connect with Philip

Email: P.J.Leadbitter@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Phillip Fenberg

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Phillip

Email: P.B.Fenberg@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2729

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Professor Phillip Joseph

Professor of Engineering Acoustics

Research interests

  • Broadband fan noise
  • Shallow water acoustics
  • Active noise control
Connect with Phillip

Email: pfj@isvr.soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2172

Professor Phyllis Lam

Professor

Research interests

  • Dr. Lam's research interest lies in the functional roles of microorganisms in biogeochemical cycling, particularly the nitrogen and carbon cycles, in diverse marine and aquatic systems. In collaboration with researchers inside and outside the university, her work integrates state-of-the-art molecular ecological techniques, stable isotopic analyses, process rate measurements, hypothesis-driven experimentation and modelling, to disentangle complex microbial interactions and their impacts on biogeochemical environments especially in the context of global change.
  • Current research topics include:
  • Shortcuts in the nitrogen cycle – novel pathways and microbial players for nitrogen remineralisation in the ocean’s twilight zoneMicrobial carbon remineralisation pathways and fluxes in the mesopelagic oceanUsing proteomics tools to disentangle active microbial nitrogen and carbon cycling processes in oceanic oxygen minimum zonesImportance of particle-associated microeukaryotes on the efficiency of oceanic biological carbon pumpMicrobial production and consumption pathways of greenhouse gases
Connect with Phyllis

Email: P.Lam@southampton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 8388

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Professor Prof Larry Lynch

Head of School

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Prof Larry

Email: l.lynch@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 7123