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

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Dr Erisa Karafili

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Formal methods techniques applied to security problems
  • Attributing and investigating Cyber Attacks
  • Threat Models for IoT devices and Hybrid systems

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Esther Sumner

Associate Professor
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Dr Fangsheng Ge PhD

Lecturer in Management Science

Research interests

  • Maritime Transportation
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Mathematical/Statistical modelling

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Miss Fatima Ozcan

Research interests

  • Maritime Law
  • Marine Insurance Law
  • Cyber Insurance Law
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Professor Felix Eigenbrod

Professor of Applied Spatial Ecology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Felix Pedrotti

Senior Research Assistant

Research interests

  • Development of new techniques in recording underwater environments
  • Combining terrestrial and underwater datasets
  • Visualisation of digital datasets
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Miss Fiona Woods

Research interests

  • Restoration ecology
  • Ecosystem functions and services
  • Nutrient remediation
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Professor Fiona Woollard

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood/ Parenthood
  • Normative Ethics.
  • Applied Ethics.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Frank McGroarty

Chair in Computational Finance & FinTech

Research interests

  • Empirical Market Microstructure
  • Computational Finance
  • Systematic Mispricing

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Fraser Sturt

Deputy Director SMMI

Research interests

  • Maritme Archaeology
  • Geomatics
  • Evaluation methods

Accepting applications from PhD students

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