Southampton Space Institute

Our people

Learn about our people including their research interests, areas of expertise and their contact details.

 

Management team

  • Professor Matt Middleton, Director of the Southampton Space Institute; Deputy Head of School (Education) in the School of Physics and Astronomy. Matthew leads a team developing new ways to study black holes.
  • Professor Simon Cox, Head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Simon works on computational tools, technologies and platforms that solve interdisciplinary engineering and science problems.
  • Professor Mark Sullivan, Associate Dean for the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. Mark leads a supernova research group in the School of Physics and Astronomy.

 

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Professor Adam Pound

Professor of Theoretical Physics

Research interests

  • General Relativity
  • Sources of gravitational waves
  • Black holes

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Adam Prugel-Bennett

Prof of Electronics & Computer Science
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Dr Alasdair Marshall

Associate Professor in Risk Management

Research interests

  • Corporate risk management
  • Risk intelligence
  • Risk culture
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Dr Alessandro Silvano

NERC Independent Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Andrew Tatem

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Developing approaches to map population distributions, demographics and dynamics through comp…
  • Understanding the drivers of small area heterogeneities in population health and development …
  • The use of high resolution demographic and mobility data for improving understanding and mode…
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Dr Basel Halak MSc, PhD, SFHEA, NTF

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Hardware Security
  • Applied Cryptography
  • Digital Systems Design 

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Dr Booker Ogutu

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Developing methods of retrieving bio-geophysical variables from Earth Observation data
  • Understanding the effects of environmental change on terrestrial vegetation
  • Quantifying terrestrial carbon balance and its dynamics in a changing climate

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Callum Highmore

Research Fellow
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Dr Charlie Ryan

Associate Professor
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