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

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Dr Richard Knighton MChem DPhil MRSC

Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry

Research interests

  • upconversion luminescence
  • d-metals and lanthanides
  • supramolecular chemistry

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Emeritus Professor Richard Oreffo DPhil DSc (Oxon) FMedSci FHEA FRSB FIOR

Research interests

  • Skeletal Regenerative MedicineSkeletal Stem Cells
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Dr Richard Stockey BA MSci PhD

Lecturer in Palaeobiology

Research interests

  • Treating the geologic record as a historical laboratory for studying the responses of marine ecosystems to environmental change
  • Earth system, ecological and biogeochemical modelling to better understand relationships between changes observed in the fossil and geochemical record
  • The importance of Earth system evolution for ecological and oceanographic responses to ancient climate change

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Robert Nicholls

Professor in Coastal Engineering

Research interests

  • long-term coastal engineering and management
  • the issues of coastal impacts and adaptation to climate change, with an emphasis on sea-level rise
  • the assessment of the future of deltaic areas, which are the most threatened coastal setting in the coming century
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Professor Robert Marsh

Professor of Oceanography and Climate

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Robert Raja

Prof of Materials Chemistry & Catalysis

Research interests

  • Heterogeneous Catalysis
  • Sustainable Chemistry
  • Carbon Capture Storage and Utilisation

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Dr Rodolfo Olvera PhD

Experimental Officer (Towing Tank)

Research interests

  • Experimental tests
  • Tidal energy
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Dr Rodrigo Ortiz Vazquez

Senior Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

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