Chris Hauton

Professor Chris Hauton is a leading academic and Head of School at the University of Southampton, specializing in marine invertebrate immunology and environmental physiology. He holds a PhD and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the Malaysian Business Administration. His research focuses on shrimp health, deep-sea mining ecological risks, and climate change impacts on marine organisms. Notable contributions include developing the 'Chingri Shrimp App' for Bangladeshi farmers and leading the MIDAS Project on deep-sea mining risks.

Education details are not explicitly stated, but his professional activities include editorial roles for journals like Developmental and Comparative Immunology and membership in funding panels such as NERC and BBSRC. He actively supervises PhD students in Ocean & Earth Science and INSPIRE programs.

• Research Themes: Aquaculture Sustainability, Marine Pathogen Dynamics, Environmental Toxicology
• Key Projects: MIDAS (EC FP7), WAVES, BEcoWIND
• International Collaboration: India, Bangladesh, UN ISA engagements

He chairs the UK-India Aquaculture Hub’s Shellfish Health Workgroup and contributed to the Royal Society’s Foresight report on the Future of the Sea.