Dr Stephanie Merry is Sector Advisor in marine renewables for the Renewable Energy Association in London. She is also Director of Focus Offshore Ltd, a technical consultancy specialising in marine renewable energy. Prior to setting up this company, she worked as principle engineer in the Submarine Hydrodynamics Group at the Defence and Evaluation Research Agency (DERA), Haslar. From 1990 to 1996 she was employed as a lecturer in Marine Technology at the University of Southampton, where her role was to integrate students and staff from the Engineering Faculty into the world-renowned Southampton Oceanography Centre (now the National Oceanographic Centre).

An interest in energy efficiency and renewable energy stems from her time in the Department of Ocean Engineering at Florida Atlantic University, USA, where she organised the 1st International Submarine Races - a design, build and test competition for small, human-powered submersibles – which demonstrated the advantages of efficient engineering. She was Technical Monitor to the judging panel for the 2nd event in 1991 and led the British challenge for the competition in 1993.

She holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and an MSc in Oceanography from the University of Southampton.