Gimhan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University. His expertise includes the broad areas of quantity surveying, project management, megaprojects, system dynamics, and systems thinking. His educational qualifications are as follows:

His current role primarily involves the following responsibilities:

Teaching: BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying/Construction Project Management programmes

• Modules - Cost Control Principles (Y1); Cost Modelling and Measurement (Y2); Measurement and Cost Evaluation (Y3); Shaping Tomorrow Together (Y1), Design Project (Y4)
• Dissertation Supervision - BSc and MSc research dissertations

Administrative: BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying/Construction Project Management programmes

• UG Admissions Tutor - assisting the UG recruitment teams on offers for potential applicants, planning and scheduling departmental open-day activities, liason with the marketing team on public outreach activities
• Year 01 Co-ordinator - planning and scheduling departmental induction activities for new and returning students, student-staff co-ordination on Y1 student matters and feedback
• Athena Swan committee member - Co-lead of action points for increasing the female student numbers in CPM/QS

Research

• Current Research Projects: 
  • Principal investigator - Net-zero carbon and the project manager: readiness, challenges, and pathways for the delivery of carbon-free major projects - Funded by the Association for Project Management (APM), UK 

• PhD/EngD Supervision (Ongoing):
  • Baisil Varghese Oommen - Use of DNNs in post-contract cost estimating for construction contractors in the UAE
  • Abubakar Bagudo Muhammad - Improving cost estimation of oil and gas megaprojects using a RCF-Bayesian framework
  • Abubakar Sadiq Tukur - Assessment of the regulatory and policy challenges for delivering telecommunication megaprojects in Nigeria
  • Tony Osifo - Integration of data analytics in oil and gas megaprojects in Nigeria
  • Adedoyin Ibosiola - Environmental, social, and governance policies for energy megaprojects in Nigeria
  • Hayford Pittri - BIM-enabled Blockchains for embodied carbon tracking within the supply chains of construction projects
  • Mohammed Adamu Duhu (2nd) - Cost optimization of Nigerian oil and gas megaprojects

• System dynamics and systems thinking for complex problems in the built environment
• Cost overruns in megaprojects
• Behavioural project management
• AI, digital twins, and blockchain in construction
• Net-zero carbon and delivery of megaprojects/major programmes
• Methodological developments in qualitative research
• Learning and teaching advancements in the built environment