To arrange to speak with a member of the team, contact the Press Office: press@rmg.co.uk.

Meet the team

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Headshot of curator Aaron Jaffer

Dr Aaron Jaffer

Curator of World History and Cultures

Areas of expertise: Indian Ocean seafarers (Lascars), Black seafarers, Chinese seafarers, the British Empire.

Other topics of interest: Historic photographs, Japan, Barbary corsairs (Barbary pirates).

Media work:  History Hit, BBC Radio 4, Discovery Channel, national print.

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Headshot of curator Claire Warrior. She is wearing a navy and white striped top and a silver necklace

Dr Claire Warrior

Senior Curator of Content

Areas of expertise: Exploration; the Arctic and Antarctic, maritime history, museums, collecting and material culture

Other topics of interest: First Nations and Indigenous histories (North America), family history, memory and identity

Media work: BBC News, BBC Breakfast, Channel 4 News, Sunday Brunch, Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship, Museum Secrets, LBC, the Guardian, New Scientist, National Geographic

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Curator Katherine Gazzard standing in front of a grand portrait of a naval officer. Katherine is wearing glasses and a navy blouse decorated with red hearts

Katherine Gazzard

Curator of Art

Areas of expertise: Captain James Cook, Portraiture; specialising in Royal Navy, British art, naval uniform

Other topics of interest: Jane Austen, English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds

Media work: BBC Radio 4, History Hit, national print, Short History of…

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Headshot of curator Simon Stephens standing in front of the colonnades at Royal Museums Greenwich

Simon Stephens

Curator of Ship Models and Small Boats

Areas of expertise: Ship history, Spanish Armada, Shackleton and polar history

Other topics of interest: Pirates, model making including POW work, toys and kits, LEGO

Media work:  History Hit, BBC's Hidden Treasures of the National Trust, Salvage Hunters

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Curator Tim May stands in front of the National Maritime Museum. He is wearing a t-shirt featuring a type of map known as a 'Spilhaus projection'

Tim May

Curator of Maps and Mobilities

Areas of expertise:  Maps, charts, atlases, globes, and objects relating to the lived experience of migration.

Other topics of interest: Latin America, Indigenous encounters, decoloniality, ontological politics, queer arts and history.

Media work: Talk of the Thames podcast, international print.

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Headshot of Martin Salmon wearing a light pink shirt

Martin Salmon

Archivist and Curator of Manuscripts 

Areas of expertise: Pacific exploration, James Cook and Matthew Flinders, Nelson's Navy and battles, logbooks and naval records, archives and historical research, transcription, palaeography and interpretation, c17-20.

Other topics of interest:  Personal papers & Letters of ‘the lower deck’, post 1850 passenger journals and travel writing.

Media work: Guardian newspaper. Talks: BBC Cook 250th anniversary, Nelson Society, Australian and New Zealand High Commissioners.

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Headshot of curator Alex Grover. He has a light brown beard and hair, and is standing with a roll of paper under one arm

Alex Grover

Assistant Curator of Historic Photographs and Ship Plans

Areas of Expertise: Naval and merchant ship design, ship plans, SS Great Eastern, British polar photography, naval mutinies, ship badge design, World Wars, naval battles, Emma, Lady Hamilton. 

Other topics of interest: ArcticPolar exploration, warships, battlecruisers, shipwrecks, maritime disasters, John Dee.   

Media work: Local BBC, talks and conferences.