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

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Professor Dave White PhD (Cantab), FREng, FICE, FTSE, FRINA, FIEAust

Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics

Research interests

  • Offshore renewable energy - wind, tidal and wave
  • Geotechnical modelling of foundations, anchoring systems and subsea cables
  • Site characterisation - in situ and laboratory testing

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Dr David Evans

Royal Society University Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Cenozoic palaeoclimate and palaeoceanography
  • Biomineralisation
  • The geochemistry of low-temperature minerals

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor David Harrowven

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Organic synthesis
  • Natural products total synthesis
  • Radical and diradical chemistry
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Professor David Owen

Professor in Politics

Research interests

  • 1) Post-Kantian social and political philosophy from Nietzsche to Foucault, and the Frankfurt School.
  • 2) The Ethics and Politics of Migration
  • 3) Democratic Theory and Practice

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Professor David Richards BEng MSt PhD CEng FICE

Professor in Ground Engineering
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Professor David Sear

Professor
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Professor Denis McManus

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Ethics and Philosophy of Mind
  • The philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein 

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Professor Diana Baralle B.Sc., M.B.B.S, M.D, FRCP

Head of School

Research interests

  • RNA
  • Splicing
  • Genomics

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Mr Dickon Buckland

Principal Research Fellow
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Dr Dina Lupin BA, LLB, LLM, PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Environmental and human rights law
  • Silencing
  • Epistemic injustice

Accepting applications from PhD students

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