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 Katie Plant

Professor
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Dr Katrina Morgan-Innes

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Energy harvesters
  • Flexible and wearables
  • 2D and advanced materials

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Kees De Groot

Professor

Research interests

  • Radio-Frequency and Microwave Devices
  • 2 dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides  Transistors
  • Smart Radiative Cooling and RF control of smart glass using metal oxides such as Al-doped ZnO…

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Kendrick Oliver

Professor of American History

Research interests

  • History of 20th century science, especially scientific cosmology
  • Space history
  • History of technology, especially communication technology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Kif Liakath-Ali MSc, MPhil, PhD.

Lecturer in Advanced Cell Biology

Research interests

  • Regulation of RNA splicing
  • RNA Splicing Misregulation in Neurodegeneration
  • Ribosomes and Alternative Splicing

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Konstantinos Katsikopoulos

Professor of Behavioural Science

Research interests

  • Human decision making: Prescriptive and descriptive
  • AI decision making: Transparency
  • Behavioural operations: Modeling and prediction of human behaviour

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Krish Vithana PhD, MBA, FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Human Capital Accounting
  • Corporate Governance 
  • Environmental Social and Governance Research

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Kyle Bottrill

Senior Research Fellow – ORC advanced

Research interests

  • Optical technologies
  • Wideband transmission on a hollow-core fiber
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Professor Laura Costanzo

Dean of USBS

Research interests

  • Entrepreneurship and strategic behaviour of family businesses and SMEs
  • Sustainable entrepreneurship
  • Social entrepreneurship

Accepting applications from PhD students

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