Dr Dominic J Taunton BEng(Hons), PhD, MRINA, FHEA
Lecturer
Dr Dominic J Taunton is Lecturer within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Current position
Dr Taunton is currently a lecturer in the Fluid Structure Interactions Research Group and a member of the Performance Sports Engineering Laboratory. He is deputy admissions tutor for the Ship Science degree programme and area academic lead for the Austin Lamont towing tank.
Honours and awards
- 2009 Royal Institution of Naval Architects Medal of Distinction
- 2006 Lloyd's Register and Royal Institution of Naval Architects Ship Safety Award
- 2004 Royal Institution of Naval Architects Ian Telfer Prize
- 2001 Royal Institution of Naval Architects Calder Prize
Career history
Dr Taunton received a Bachelor of Engineering with honours (Ship Science) from the University of Southampton in 1997. A Ph.D. in high-speed craft seakeeping from the University of Southampton followed in 2001. He then worked as a research fellow on the EPSRC funded ships’ wash impact management (SWIM) project and then the EU PACSCAT river freighter project. He left academia to work as a senior naval architect at BMT SeaTech Ltd, a naval architecture consultancy company providing bespoke ship simulation products and vessel performance monitoring and analysis. He returned to the University of Southampton in 2006 to work on a project investigating the design of high performance marine craft limited by human performance. In 2008 he was appointed as Roberts Fellow in Hydrosciences and in a lecturer in 2011.