Home Welcome to the Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics Group at Heriot-Watt University, headed by Prof. Dave Townsend. News Dave gives invited talk at Royal Society meeting in Edinburgh 19 February 2026 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 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