Who to contact

If you know the name of the person you would like to contact, you can search for their contact details using the 'Search' option on the Staff Portal with 'Staff' box checked (staff access only). For general enquiries to the university see the main Heriot-Watt contact us page.

Engineering and Physical Sciences - Executive Dean

Executive Dean:  Prof. Igor Guz — i.guz@hw.ac.uk

Deputy Executive Dean:  Professor Vicki Stone, V.Stone@hw.ac.uk

School Associate/Assistant Executive Deans

Associate Executive Dean, Research and Impact:  Prof. David Bucknall — David.Bucknall@hw.ac.uk

Deputy Associate Executive Dean, Research and Impact:  Prof. Nicholas Leslie — N.R.Leslie@hw.ac.uk

Associate Executive Dean, Education and Student Life:  Prof. Paul Dalgarno — P.A.Dalgarno@hw.ac.uk

Deputy Associate Executive Dean, Education and Student Life:  Dr. Barbara Keating — B.Keating@hw.ac.uk

Associate Executive Dean, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship:  Prof. George Goussetis — G.Goussetis@hw.ac.uk

Assistant Executive Dean, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:  Dr Farnaz Mohsenpour — S.Mohsenpour@hw.ac.uk

Assistant Executive Dean, Quality: Prof. Mehdi Nazarinia — M.Nazarinia@hw.ac.uk

Director of Internationalisation: Dr Jonathan Swingler — J.Swingler@hw.ac.uk

Head of Operations: Claire Porter — C.Porter@hw.ac.uk

Finance Business Partner: Jeanette Alexander — J.Alexander@hw.ac.uk

HR Business Partner: Linda Cooper — L.Cooper@hw.ac.uk

Heads of Research Institutes

Institute of Chemical Sciences: Prof. Martin Paterson — M.J.Paterson@hw.ac.uk

Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering:  Professor Nik Willoughby — N.A.Willoughby@hw.ac.uk

Institute of Sensors Signals and Systems: Prof. Yves Wiaux — Y.Wiaux@hw.ac.uk

Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering: Prof. Susana Garcia — S.Garcia@hw.ac.uk

Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences: Prof. Patrik Öhberg — P.Ohberg@hw.ac.uk

Global Heads of Disciplines - (Senior Programme Directors)

Chemistry: Dr Hendrik Nahler — N.Nahler@hw.ac.uk

Chemical Engineering: Dr Robin Westacott — R.E.Westacott@hw.ac.uk

Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering: Dr Matt Dunnigan — M.W.Dunnigan@hw.ac.uk

Mechanical Engineering:  Dr Alan Faulkner-Jones — Alan.Faulkner-Jones@hw.ac.uk

Physics: Dr Richard McCracken — R.A.McCracken@hw.ac.uk

Brewing and Distilling: Prof. Dawn Maskell  — D.L.Maskell@hw.ac.uk

EPS Combined Studies: Dr Euan Brown — Euan.R.Brown@hw.ac.uk

Biosciences:  Dr Jane White - J.White@hw.ac.uk 

Postgraduate Teaching

Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes:   Dr Fadi Gaith — F.Ghaith@hw.ac.uk

Deputy Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes: Dr Calum Holmes — C.Holmes@hw.ac.uk

Postgraduate Research

Director of Postgraduate Research in EPS:   Prof. Scott Dalgarno

If you are interested in undertaking a 'PhD Degree by Research' then here are the research coordinators for our various subjects:

Institute of Chemical Sciences: 
Dr Filipe Vilela — f.vilela@hw.ac.uk

Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering: 
Dr Anitha Devadoss - A.Devadoss@hw.ac.uk

Institute of Sensors, Signals and Systems:
Dr Fernando Auat - F.Auat@hw.ac.uk

Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering: 
Dr Michael Crichton and Adam Stock - pgr.impee@hw.ac.uk

Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences:
Prof. Jonathan Leach — J.Leach@hw.ac.uk 

Or contact: pgr@eps.hw.ac.uk for general enquiries

Business Development Enquiries

Kevin McIver
Business Development Manager (Quantum & Photonics)
kevin.mciver@hw.ac.uk