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.

He is the Global Head of the HWU Institute of Life and Earth Sciences, which consists of >30 academic staff >50 research associates, technicians, and PhD students engaged in research, teaching and outreach activities.  Research is closed tied to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) and collectively investigates key areas of the biology of climate change, renewable and sustainable energy transition, host-pathogen environment interations aligned to the One Health Initiative, and collaboration with engineering disciplines to develop nature-based solutions for environmental challenges.  

Ted is the Founding Director of the HWU ENABLE Scholarship Program designed to enhance the ability of communities within emerging economies (currently: >50 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.