southampton

Institute for Life Sciences

Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 430 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Interested in joining us? Please see details about current academic recruitment opportunities here.

Professor Simon Coles

Professor of Structural Chemistry

Research interests

The work we do is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary and can broadly be split into three overlapping themes:
1) National Crystallography Service (NCS, www.ncs.ac.uk) & Physical Sciences Data-science Service (PSDS, www.psds.ac.uk) These national centres provide centralised facilities for UK researchers at a level that is beyond that achievable in any single institution. The NCS provides data collection and crystal structure analysis for the UK chemistry community. It also performs projects based on more advanced techniques, involving a dedicated team of experts employing cutting edge techniques and the use of very high-powered laboratory diffractometers or the UK synchrotron, Diamond. The PSDS provides national-level access to databases and is building infrastructure on top of these to drive and support data-driven approaches to scientific discovery.
2) Structural Chemistry We have an interest in determining the mechanisms of solid-state reactions and transformations and use a variety of diffraction and physical characterisation methods for this. Other work focuses on discovering and investigating structure-property relationships, the determination of charge densities and their properties and 'value-added' quantum mechanical calculations to compute properties from crystal structures. We also collaborate with other disciplines in a number of areas such as macromolecular crystallography (Biology), crystal growth (biology) and CT imaging (Engineering).

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Tel: +44 23 8059 6721

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Professor Simon Cox

Head of Department

Research interests

My research focusses on computational tools, technologies and platforms and how they enable interdisciplinary problems to be solved in engineering and science.His team in the Computational Engineering and Design Group is applying and developing high performance and cloud computing in a variety of collaborative interdisciplinary computational science and engineering projects. These include:
High Performance and novel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and commercial distributed computing - which led to a spin out companyApplied computational algorithms Computational electromagnetics– which led to the formation of a spin-off company.New algorithms such as meshless methods and fast solvers.Data Management Simon is also Director of the Microsoft Institute for High Performance computing where he demonstrates why, where and how current and future Microsoft tools and technologies can be exploited to enable engineering and scientific research to deliver faster, cheaper and better results.

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Tel: +44 23 8059 3116

Dr Sofia Michopoulou PhD

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Tel: +44 2381206628

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Professor Sonia Zakrzewski

Prof of Bioarchaeology & BioAnthropology

Research interests

bioarchaeology and palaeopathology
disAbility, impairment, injury and disease
race, migration and mobility

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Tel: +44 23 8059 4778

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Dr Srinandan Dasmahapatra

Associate Professor

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Tel: +44 23 8059 4503

Professor Stefan Bleeck

Prof of Hearing Science and Technology

Research interests

The aim of my work is to understand how we hear sound and to use this knowledge to create bio-inspired solutions to enhance speech communication.
I have continuously worked on various aspects of hearing research and technology and have been principal investigator on various research grants (EU, EPSRCS, etc) with a value of more than £2M. I am team leader with an internationally recognised research programme to develop devices that help normal hearing and hearing-impaired people to communicate better in noise. Methodologies include brainstem physiology, neuronal simulations, deep learing, psychophysics, pupil tracking and other physiological measurements.

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Tel: +44 23 8059 6682

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Dr Stephan Onggo PhD, SFHEA

Professor of Business Analytics

Research interests

Simulation Modelling Methodology
Behavioural Modelling using Simulation
Simulation for real-time decision making (digital twin)

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Tel: +44 23 8059 4856

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Professor Stephen Beers

Professor of Immunology & Immunotherapy

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Tel: +44 23 81206639

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Professor Steve Darby

Associate Dean Research

Research interests

River and coastal flooding - relationships between geomorphology and flooding in rivers and deltas
Biogeomorphology - interactions between river processes and life
River bank erosion processes

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Tel: +44 23 8059 7347

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