Researcher on boat preparing hydrophone for acoustic surveys of marine mammals in the Antartic
Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

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Meet our academic experts and learn more about their research.

Browse the list of our academic members to learn more about our expertise at the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI).

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Ambitious researchers and academics are invited to join our university as we further strengthen our reputation for education, research excellence and enterprise. We aim to tackle complex societal and environmental challenges and build on the University’s existing strengths.

Find out more about why this is such an exciting time to join the University of Southampton.

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control

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Professor Xize Niu

Professor of Biosensing&Microengineering

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Professor Yannis Ieropoulos PhD, MIET

Head of Department

Research interests

  • Environmental Engineering;
  • Bioelectrochemistry;
  • Autonomous Bio-Robotics;

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Dr Yao Zhang

Lecturer in Maritime Engineering

Research interests

  • Learning-based Control and optimization
  • Renewable energy
  • Control applications to marine systems (wave energy converters, launch and recovery systems, underwaters)

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mr Yi Wang

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Dr Yongqiang Liu

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment 
  • Biofilm 
  • Anaerobic digestion 

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Dr Yu (Jack) Gong

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Sustainable supply chain management
  • Supply chain innovation
  • Blockchain technology

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Dr Yue Wu

Reader

Research interests

  • Global supply chain and logistics
  • Maritime logistics
  • Container terminal operations

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Dr Yue Zhang

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Anaerobic digestion (AD) for organic waste management and renewable energy production, especially optimisation of digestion process e.g. via selective trace element supplementation, and manipulation of microbially-mediated pathways methanogenesis
  • Mixed-culture fermentation for bio-based chemical production with integration of downstream recovery processes, especially on selective carboxylic acid production from protein-rich wastes
  • CO2 biomethanisation, especially in-situ hydrogen addition new project to be created
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