Dr Sally Bennett PhD, MEng (Hons), AMRINA
Visiting Fellow
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Dr Sally Bennett is a Visiting Fellow within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Sally is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Engineering and the Environment. Her speciality is experimental and numerical hydrodynamics. In particular she is interested in freak or abnormal waves and their influence on marine structures, and novel instrumentation methods for experimentation.
Career History:
Sally graduated in 2007 with a first class MEng (Hons) in Ship Science (Yacht and Small Craft) from the University of Southampton. During her undergraduate studies she undertook two technical placements, at the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 2004 and Lloyd’s Register in 2005.
She started her PhD in 2007 at the University of Southampton, funded by the Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust, which investigated the influence of rogue waves on travelling ships. She was awarded her PhD in 2011 at which point she was appointed Research Fellow on the Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust/Lloyd’s Register Foundation funded project Performance of Ships in Abnormal Waves. This project used analytical, experimental and numerical methods to evaluate the motions and loads experienced by a ship when travelling in abnormal waves.
In April 2014 she was appointed a New Frontiers Fellow in the Fluid-Structure Interactions Group at University of Southampton. She is currently conducting research into experimental hydrodynamics, freak waves, experimental and numerical hydroelasticity, damaged ships and novel experimental techniques.
