Home Welcome to the Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics Group at Heriot-Watt University, headed by Prof. Dave Townsend. News Congratulations to Ross on winning an Outbound Research Programme award 16 January 2026 Congratulations to Ross on winning a poster prize at the Spectroscopy & Dynamics meeting at the University of Warwick 13 January 2026 Congratulations to Lewis on being awarded a talk at the Spectroscopy & Dynamics meeting at the University of Warwick 19 December 2025 Chris re-joins the group! 4 July 2025 David joins the group! 4 October 2024 Latest researchDecoupling structural molecular dynamics from excited state lifetimes using few-femtosecond ultraviolet resonant dispersive waves 13 November 2025Relaxation dynamics of aniline in methanol: the photoionization channel 7 August 2025Two decades of imaging photoelectron circular dichroism: from first principles to future perspectives 14 February 2025