People
Our team is made up of a diverse range of people from early career scientists to those with decades of experience and accolades, students, apprentices and visiting researchers. Our operations staff also play a crucial part in supporting our science and facilities. If you would like to be part of PML please visit our vacancies page or follow us on Twitter to be kept up-to-date with new opportunities.
I love doing research because it’s like detective work but without the blood. I like trying to find the little clues to how Nature works – clues that are often scattered, well hidden, but sometimes blindingly obvious yet ignored. For me this quest often involves first thinking of ways to build really big datasets, for example piecing together multiple studies into a meta-analysis, or mining old historical data sets and compiling them to build long time series.
Dr Angus AtkinsonMarine Ecologist
People directory
Nick Buckland OBE
Board Member
Mark Butcher
Board Member
Professor Lucy Carpenter MBE FRS
Board Member
Dr Véronique Garçon
Board Member
Nigel Godefroy FCA
Board Member
Paul James
Board Member
Professor Tim Jickells OBE
Board Member
Dr Bev MacKenzie
Board Member
Professor Ralph Rayner
Board Member
Janice Timberlake
Chair of the Board
Professor Icarus Allen
Chief Executive of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and PML Applications Ltd
Roslyn Gardner
Personal Secretary and Science Support Office Manager
Duncan McFarlane
Legal Contracts Officer
dmc@pml.ac.uk
Beverly Tremain
Director of Operations & Company Secretary
Professor Steve Widdicombe
Director of Science and Deputy Chief Executive
Professor Nicola Beaumont
Head of Science - Sea and Society
nijb@pml.ac.uk
Jerry Blackford
Head of Science: Marine Systems Modelling Group
jcb@pml.ac.uk
Ben Calton
Head of Geospatial Applications
bac@pml.ac.uk
Professor Steve Groom
Head of Science - Earth Observation
sbg@pml.ac.uk
Professor Pennie Lindeque
Head of Science: Marine Ecology and Biodiversity
pkw@pml.ac.uk
Dr Tim Smyth
Head of Science - Marine Biogeochemistry and Observations
tjsm@pml.ac.uk
Dr Ruth Airs
Marine Biogeochemist and Head of Postgraduate Studies
ruai@pml.ac.uk
Dr Yuri Artioli
Marine Ecosystem Modeller
yuti@pml.ac.uk
Dr Angus Atkinson
Marine Ecologist
aat@pml.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth C. Atwood
Earth Observation Data Analyst
liat@pml.ac.uk
Dr Katie Awty-Carroll
Environmental Intelligence Data Scientist
kawc@pml.ac.uk
Dr Muchamad Al Azhar
Ocean Modeller
maz@pml.ac.uk
Dr Heather Baxter
Project Manager
heba@pml.ac.uk
Dr Michael Bedington
Modeller
mbe@pml.ac.uk
Amanda Beesley
Zooplankton analyst
abee@pml.ac.uk
Professor Tom Bell
Ocean/atmosphere biogeochemist
tbe@pml.ac.uk
Dr Lauren Biermann
Earth Observation Scientist
lbi@pml.ac.uk
Dr Zara Botterell
Marine biologist
zab@pml.ac.uk
Dr Sarah Breimann
Analytical chemist
sabr@pml.ac.uk
Dr Stefanie Broszeit
Marine ecosystem services researcher
stbr@pml.ac.uk
Ian Brown
Marine Chemist
iaian2@pml.ac.uk
Dr Ruth Calder-Potts
Project Manager
ruca@pml.ac.uk
Dr Andrei Chuprin
Programmer
ach@pml.ac.uk
Dr Stefano Ciavatta
Merit Scientist in Marine Ecosystem Modelling
avab@pml.ac.uk
Dr James Clark
Marine Ecosystem Modeller
jcl@pml.ac.uk
Dr Dan Clewley
Earth Observation Research Software Engineer
dac@pml.ac.uk
Dr Matthew Cole
Senior Marine Ecologist and Ecotoxicologist
mcol@pml.ac.uk
Dr Rachel Coppock
Marine Ecologist
rac@pml.ac.uk
Dr Giorgio Dall'Olmo
Earth Observation Scientist
gdal@pml.ac.uk
Dr Lee de Mora
Marine Ecosystem Modeller
ledm@pml.ac.uk
Dr Marius Dewar
Modeller
made@pml.ac.uk
James Dingle
Earth Observation Data Analyst
jad@pml.ac.uk
Andrew Edwards-Jones
Social Scientist
aej@pml.ac.uk
Elaine Fileman
Plankton Ecologist
ese@pml.ac.uk
Dr Helen Findlay
Biological Oceanographer
hefi@pml.ac.uk
Dr James Fishwick
Head of Smart Sound Plymouth and Head of Operations and Technology, Western Channel Observatory
jrfi@pml.ac.uk
Professor Kevin Flynn
Marine Plankton Ecologist
kjf@pml.ac.uk
Dr Elizabeth Gabe-Thomas
Environmental Psychologist
egt@pml.ac.uk
Dr Giovanni Galli
Modeller
gig@pml.ac.uk
Carolyn Harris
Analytical Chemist
caha@pml.ac.uk
Jessica Heard
Project Manager
jessh@pml.ac.uk
Dr Frances E. Hopkins
Marine biogeochemist
fhop@pml.ac.uk
Dr Ben Howey
Earth Observation Data Analyst
beh@pml.ac.uk
Dr Thomas Jackson
Remote Sensing and Ocean Optics Scientist
thja@pml.ac.uk
Dr Molly James
Marine Ecosystems Modeller
moja@pml.ac.uk
William Jay
Airborne Earth Observation Data Analyst
wja@pml.ac.uk
Oban Jones
Marine Science and Technology Technician
obj@pml.ac.uk
Dr Bror Jonsson
Senior scientist
brj@pml.ac.uk
Dr Thomas Jordan
Earth Observation Scientist
tjor@pml.ac.uk
Dr Susan Kay
Numerical Modeller
suka@pml.ac.uk
Dr Vassilis Kitidis
Marine biogeochemist
vak@pml.ac.uk
Christina Kong
Postgraduate Fellowship
chko@pml.ac.uk
Dr Gemma Kulk
Phytoplankton physiologist
gku@pml.ac.uk
Dr Andrey Kurekin
Coastal Ocean Colour scientist
anku@pml.ac.uk
Dr Peter Land
Remote Sensing Scientist
peland@pml.ac.uk
Dr Angus Laurenson
Scientific Python Guru
anla@pml.ac.uk
Dr Gennadi Lessin
Marine System Modeller
gle@pml.ac.uk
Dr Junfang Lin
Earth Observation Scientist
junl@pml.ac.uk
Dr Xiaohan Liu
Earth Observation Scientist
liux@pml.ac.uk
Jennifer Lockett
Senior Impact Manager
jelo@pml.ac.uk
Dr Océane Marcone
Social Science Researcher
ocm@pml.ac.uk
Dr Nicola Martin
Senior Earth Observation Research Software Engineer
nima@pml.ac.uk
Dr Victor Martinez-Vicente
Bio-optical oceanographer
vmv@pml.ac.uk
Aser Mata
Earth Observation Scientist
asm@pml.ac.uk
Andrea McEvoy
Benthic Ecologist
ajmc@pml.ac.uk
Louise McNeill
Benthic Ecologist and Faunal Taxonomist
clmc@pml.ac.uk
Thomas Mesher
Macrofaunal Ecologist
thm@pml.ac.uk
Dr Peter Miller
Marine Earth Observation Scientist
pim@pml.ac.uk
Dr David Moffat
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Data Scientist
dmof@pml.ac.uk
Joana Nunes
Benthic Ecologist
jonu@pml.ac.uk
Benjamin O'Driscoll
Data Visualisation and GIS Developer
bod@pml.ac.uk
Silvia Pardo
Earth Observation Scientist
spa@pml.ac.uk
Dr Helen Parry
Molecular Biologist and Physiologist
hech@pml.ac.uk
Dr Dale Partridge
Modeller
dapa@pml.ac.uk
Christine Pascoe
Ecotoxicologist
ckh@pml.ac.uk
Jani Pewter
Instrument and Data Technician
Dr Helen Powley
Modeller
hpo@pml.ac.uk
Dr Graham Quartly
Physical oceanographer (Remote sensing)
gqu@pml.ac.uk
Dr Ana M Queirós
Marine and Climate Change Ecologist
anqu@pml.ac.uk
Dr Andy Rees
Marine biogeochemist
apre@pml.ac.uk
Dr Olivia Rendón
Environmental Economist
ore@pml.ac.uk
Dr Mahasweta Saha
Marine Chemical Ecologist
msa@pml.ac.uk
Dr Sevrine Sailley
Ecosystem modeller
sesa@pml.ac.uk
Dr Shubha Sathyendranath
Merit Remote Sensing Scientist
ssat@pml.ac.uk
Dr Nick Selmes
Earth Observation Scientist
nse@pml.ac.uk
Professor Stefan Simis
Earth Observation Scientist (inland/coastal waters)
stsi@pml.ac.uk
Dr Jozef Skakala
Ecosystem modeller
jos@pml.ac.uk
Darren Snee
Data and Web Services Engineer
dsn@pml.ac.uk
Dr Paul J. Somerfield
Ecologist
pjso@pml.ac.uk
Emma Sullivan
Earth Observation Scientist
emsu@pml.ac.uk
Dr Karen Tait
Microbial Ecologist
ktait@pml.ac.uk
Dr Liz Talbot
Marine Ecologist
sat@pml.ac.uk
Dr Glen Tarran
Marine microbial ecologist
gat@pml.ac.uk
Dr Varunan Theenathayalan
Earth Observation Scientist
vath@pml.ac.uk
Dr Gavin H. Tilstone
Bio-optical oceanographer
ghti@pml.ac.uk
Dr Ricardo Torres
Systems Modeller Data Assimilation
rito@pml.ac.uk
Dr Carol Turley
Head of International Affairs
ct@pml.ac.uk
Peter Walker
Remote Sensing scientist
petwa@pml.ac.uk
Dr Mark Warren
Remote sensing scientist
mark1@pml.ac.uk
Joanna Warwick
Post-doctoral researcher
jwd@pml.ac.uk
Michael Wathen
Research Software Engineer
miwa@pml.ac.uk
Dr Stephen Watson
Ecosystems Services Scientist
stw@pml.ac.uk
Claire Widdicombe
Plankton Ecologist
clst@pml.ac.uk
Dr Robert Wilson
Ecosystem Modeller
rwi@pml.ac.uk
E. Malcolm S. Woodward
Chemical oceanographer
emsw@pml.ac.uk
Dr Ming-Xi Yang
Chemical Oceanographer
miya@pml.ac.uk
Sophie Armitage
Student Intern
soar@pml.ac.uk
Bailey Biggar
MRes student
bbig@pml.ac.uk
Shauna Corr
PhD student
shco@pml.ac.uk
Emilie Courtecuisse
PhD student
emc@pml.ac.uk
Patrick Downes
PhD Student
pad@pml.ac.uk
Heather Emberson-Marl
MSc student
heem@pml.ac.uk
Daniel Ford
PhD Student
dfo@pml.ac.uk
Hannah Green
PhD Student
Agathe Hellich
Research assistant/intern
aghe@pml.ac.uk
Anneliese Hodge
MRes student
aho@pml.ac.uk
George Manville
PhD student
Hayley McIlwraith
PhD student
Francesco Pallottino
PhD Student
fpa@pml.ac.uk
Paula Pereira
Research intern
ppe@pml.ac.uk
Emily Robinson
MSc student
emro@pml.ac.uk
Oliver Thomas
PhD student
olth@pml.ac.uk
Jasmin Urwick
PhD student
jaur@pml.ac.uk
Chris Walkinshaw
PhD Student
chw@pml.ac.uk
Sian Coughlin
Head of Financial Services
Jacqueline Cullum
Accounts Officer
Justine Dolling
Financial Controller
Samantha Farrell
Contracts Administrator
Mihaela Panaete
Accounts Officer
Dean Richards
Finance Manager
Marta Weremczuk
Accounts Officer
James Lord
Fundraising Development Officer
jal@pml.ac.uk
Dr Rachael Beale
Science Facilities Manager
rbea@pml.ac.uk
Graham Beddoe
Quality Manager
grb@pml.ac.uk
Lee Merchant
Buildings and Facilities Manager
lmer@pml.ac.uk
Valerie Barlow
Human Resources Officer
Julia Davy
Head of Human Resources
Maddie Ford
Human Resources Administrator
Elizabeth Hamilton
Human Resources Manager
Suzi Shepherd
Human Resources Administrator
SuSh@pml.ac.uk
Joe Bishop
Windows server systems & infrastructure specialist
Liam Gilbard
System and Applications Developer
Gary Holder
Head of ITG
John Jury
IT Customer Support Specialist
Daniel Oxenbury
Linux Support and Network Development Officer
Thecla Keizer
Deputy Head International Office & International Marketing and Business Development Executive
tke@pml.ac.uk
Dr Carol Turley
Head of International Affairs
ct@pml.ac.uk
Dawn Ashby
Senior Communications Officer
daas@pml.ac.uk
Kelly-Marie Davidson
Senior Communications Officer
kdav@pml.ac.uk
Daniel Jones
Head of Marketing & Communications
dajo@pml.ac.uk
Thecla Keizer
Deputy Head International Office & International Marketing and Business Development Executive
tke@pml.ac.uk
Jon White
Webmaster
jowa@pml.ac.uk
Ben Calton
Head of Geospatial Applications
bac@pml.ac.uk
Samuel Fawcett
Applied Research Assistant
saf@pml.ac.uk
Tim Fileman
Business Development Manager
twf@pml.ac.uk
Stuart Heale
Applied Marine Technician
sthe@pml.ac.uk
Kim Hockley
Project Manager
khock@pml.ac.uk
Maria Igoshina
Project Management and Administrative Support
mai@pml.ac.uk
Dr Dimitrios Kaloudis
Research Scientist
dka@pml.ac.uk
Dr Tom Vance
Research and Development Manager
thva@pml.ac.uk
Anna Yunnie
Senior Applied Scientist (Marine Biologist & Ecologist)
anyu@pml.ac.uk
Professor Jim Aiken
PML Fellow
ja@pml.ac.uk
Professor Manuel Barange
PML Fellow
maba@pml.ac.uk
Dr Peter Claridge
PML Fellow
pnc@pml.ac.uk
Professor Bob Clarke
PML Fellow, PRIMER-E
krc@pml.ac.uk
Sarah Dashfield
PML Fellow
sldas@pml.ac.uk
Professor Stephen de Mora
PML Fellow
sjdm@pml.ac.uk
Dr Joanna L Dixon
PML Fellow
jod@pml.ac.uk
Dr Roger Harris
PML Fellow
rph@pml.ac.uk
Dr Anthony Hawkins
PML Fellow
ajsh@pml.ac.uk
Professor Tom Hutchinson
PML Fellow
thom1@pml.ac.uk
Professor Carole Llewellyn
PML Fellow
call@pml.ac.uk
Dr David Lowe
PML Fellow
dml@pml.ac.uk
Professor Fauzi Mantoura
Honorary PML Fellow
rfcm@pml.ac.uk
Professor Michael Moore
PML Fellow
mnm@pml.ac.uk
Sarah Nelms
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
san@pml.ac.uk
Professor Philip Nightingale
PML Fellow
pdn@pml.ac.uk
Professor Jan Pentreath
PML Fellow
jpen@pml.ac.uk
Professor Robin Pingree
PML Fellow
rdp@pml.ac.uk
Dr Marie-Fanny Racault
PML Honorary Fellow, based at University of East Anglia
Assistant Professor Dionysios Raitsos
PML Fellow
dra@pml.ac.uk
Professor James Readman
PML Fellow
jwre@pml.ac.uk
Dr Rebecca Shellock
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
res@pml.ac.uk
David Smith
PML Fellow
djds@pml.ac.uk
Dr Emily Stebbings
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
emst@pml.ac.uk
Professor Arnold Taylor
PML Fellow
aht@pml.ac.uk
Dr Reg Uncles
PML Fellow
rju@pml.ac.uk
Dr Richard Warwick
PML Fellow
rmw@pml.ac.uk
Professor Andrew Watson
PML Fellow
Professor John Widdows
PML Fellow
jwid@pml.ac.uk
Fiona Beckman
POGO Communications Officer
fbe@pml.ac.uk
Karolina Iwaniak
POGO Accounts Officer
kiw@pml.ac.uk
Laura Ruffoni
POGO Administrative Assistant
laru@pml.ac.uk
Dr Sophie Seeyave
POGO Chief Executive Officer
ssve@pml.ac.uk
Graham Beddoe
Quality Manager
grb@pml.ac.uk
Louise Baker
Receptionist
loba@pml.ac.uk
Stephanie Raw
Receptionist
sra@pml.ac.uk
Christina Devereux
Science Support Administrator
chpb@pml.ac.uk
Suzanne Hawkins
Science Support Administrator
suh@pml.ac.uk
Geri Laing
Science Support Office Administrator
gebr@pml.ac.uk
Josie Ashford
Cleaner
joas@pml.ac.uk
Michael Ashford
Laboratory Cleaner
mias@pml.ac.uk
Louise Baker
Receptionist
loba@pml.ac.uk
Tristan Jaycock
Marine engineer
trj@pml.ac.uk
Lee Merchant
Buildings and Facilities Manager
lmer@pml.ac.uk
Andrew Pawley
Engineer
scme@pml.ac.uk
Andrew Perkin
Manager/Skipper
ajpe@pml.ac.uk
Georgina Ramm
Maritime Apprentice
gra@pml.ac.uk
Stephanie Raw
Receptionist
sra@pml.ac.uk
Anthony Staff
Deputy Services Manager
ajst@pml.ac.uk
Gary Stevens
Skipper/Mate
gstev@pml.ac.uk
Mark Wilson
Technical Services Assistant
mawi@pml.ac.uk