People & Vacancies

Vacancies

Please contact us for more information regarding PhD, internship and Post-doc opportunities.

The Team

Blair Thornton	Professor of Marine Autonomy Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science (FEPS) School of Engineering Department of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering (CMEE) Groups & Institutes: In situ and Remote Intelligent Sensing (IRIS) CoE Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute (SMMI) Maritime Robotics Laboratory Autonomous systems SRG Teaching: SESS6072 Maritime Robotics (lab video) SESS6070 Offshore Engineering & Analysis FEEG1003 ThermoFluids Roles and responsibilities Director of Research for CMEE (see trailer) Co-director of IRIS Centre of Excellence (see trailer) Deputy Head of Maritime Engineering Group Editorial roles Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Guest Editor of Field Robotics Journal Marine Robotics Special Issue
Adrian Bodenmann	Senior Research Assistant Teaching contributions: SESS6072 Maritime Robotics Laboratories SESS6070 Offshore Engineering & Analysis Laboratories
Dr Miquel Massot	Senior Research Fellow Teaching contributions: SESS6072 Maritime Robotics Tutorials
Jennifer Walker	PhD (2017 start: NEXUS and LTDS) Student poster winner: UT2019 Taiwan 3 minute thesis competition 2019: UoS finalist and People choice award winner
Jin Wei Lim	PhD (2017 start: LTDS ) Student poster winner: Oceans 2018 Kobe, Japan
David Stanley	PhD (2018 start: CTD-SIS)
Jose Cappelletto	PhD (2019 start: Industry sponsor Sonardyne Int. Ltd. and LTDS)
Emma Curtis	PhD (2020 start: NERC Inspire) ' '
Cailei Liang	PhD (2023 start: CSC Scholarship)
Sam Simmons	CMMI Marine Robotics Research Technician (2022 start)

Alumni

Jonathan Boschen-Rose	Research Technician (2020-2021)
Dr Takaki Yamada	PhD (2018 -2021: Japanese government scholarship)
Michael Leat (MEng 2019)	UG project (2018) on Analysis of Uncertainty in Laser-Scanned Bathymetric Map (conference paper here) awarded the 2018 SMI Donald Maxwell Award

Team members during 2021 awayday to GoApe: (Top from left) Takaki Yamada, Blair Thornton, Jonathan Boschen-Rose, (Bottom from left) David Stanley, Miquel Massot-Campos, Emma Curtis, Jenny Walker, Jose Cappelletto, Adrian Bodenmann

Team members in 2019 onboard DY109/BioCam on RRS Discovery. Bottom row from left (UoS) David Stanley, Takaki Yamada, Blair Thornton, Jose Cappelletto, Adrian Bodenmann, Miquel Massot Campos and top row from left (NOC MARS) Richard Austin-Berry, Phil Bagley, Rachel Marlow, Eoin O Hobain, Owain Shepherd

Team members on board the Falkor, FK180731

Team members in 2018 onboard the R/V Falkor, FK180731, Left to right: Tomoko Takahashi, Kazunori Nagano, Jennifer Walker, Adrian Bodenmann, Tetsu Koike, Blair Thornton, Miquel Massot, Jin Wei Lim, Yuya Nishida, Kiminori Shitashima