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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 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

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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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Professor Mario Brito

Professor

Research interests

  • Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Complex Systems 
  • Impact of Organizational Factors on Socio-technical Systems Risk
  • Root cause analysis and Accident Investigations

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Mark Sullivan

Associate Dean-Research

Research interests

  • Supernovae
  • Time domain astronomy
  • Cosmology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Martin Kunc

Professor in Business Analytics

Research interests

  • Business Analytics
  • Strategic Modelling
  • Scenario planning
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Professor Martin Solan

Professor of Marine Ecology

Research interests

  • Biodiversity ecosystem function bioturbation benthic ecology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Martin Warner PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • My research is focsued on enabling lifelong active living and healthy ageing through optimisi…
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  • I have a particular interest and expertise in biomechanics of the shoulder and upper limb whe…
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