Theodore (Ted) Henry is a Professor of Environmental Toxicology in the Institute of Life and Earth Sciences School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure, and Society, at Heriot-Watt University (HWU, Edinburgh, Scotland); Adjunct Professor in The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture School of Natural Resources (UT, Knoxville, TN, USA); and Visiting Professor do Departamento de Química Analítica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil.

Director of the Centre for Master’s Training (CMT) within the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES), Kigali, Rwanda.  The ACES-CMT provides HWU MSc degrees targeted for emerging economies in the areas of renewable energy development and sustainable cooling and cold chain with individual elective courses provided by partner institutions within the ACES consortium.  His research interests within ACES are aligned with development of sustainable cooling and cold chains for fisheries (aquaculture and artisanal fisheries) from producer to consumer, and creating circular economies for plastics within these systems.  Ted is the Director of the HWU ENABLE Scholarship Program designed to enhance the ability of communities within emerging economies (currently: >40 scholars in Africa) to address United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs).  Recipients of ENABLE Scholarships complete HWU online MSc degree programs (Renewable Energy Development, Sustainable Cooling, Construction Project Management, and Real Estate) within an in-country program that provides professional network development, field/practical short courses, and partner collaborations (in-country small and medium enterprises, organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions). 

Biography: Ted was recruited on the Global Platform for Research Leaders and joined the School of Life Sciences (now the Institute of Life and Earth Sciences) at HWU in 2013.  In 2017, he was promoted to Professor of Environmental Toxicology.  He has served HWU on secondment as the Deputy Provost of HWU Malaysia; as Deputy Executive Dean and subsequently as Executive Dean of the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS); as lead of the EGIS Athena SWAN program; and lead of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Unit of Assessment 7 (Earth Systems and Environment).  Ted received a Bachelor of Arts (1992) in Aquatic Biology from the University of California Santa Barbara, and subsequently worked as a fisheries extension/rural community development agent in the Akebou region of Togo West Africa as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer (1992-1994). He received a Master of Science (1998) from the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures at Auburn University (AL) with thesis research on the aquatic toxicology of acid mine drainage mixing zones in warmwater streams. His doctoral research in the Fish Disease Laboratory at Auburn University investigated fish pathology associated with exposure to electric fields. He investigated the ecotoxicology of pharmaceutical substances as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and his first academic position was at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, where he continues as an Adjunct Professor. In 2008, he came to the UK as a Research Council of the UK Academic Fellow leading to a Readership appointment at the University of Plymouth before coming to HWU.