Staff Directory

Find information on key SASA staff and their work through the links below. You can sort by first name or surname. Alternatively use the keywords search box or select a section from the drop-down box and click Apply.

Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of SASA staff.

Staff email addresses take the form: firstname.lastname followed by @sasa.gsi.gov.uk.

View the organisation chart for an overview of the structure.

First name	Surname	Job Title
Alex	Reid	Head of Genotyping
Alexandra	Schlenzig	Senior Plant Pathologist
Carol	Monie	Pesticide Usage Surveyor
Christophe	Lacomme	Senior Virologist
Craig	Douglas	Antibody Production Specialist
David	Kenyon	Head of Diagnostics, Wildlife & Molecular Biology
Elizabeth	Sharp	Senior Analyst
Emma	Back	Project Leader - Euphresco
Fiona	Highet	Senior Entomologist
Gerry	Saddler	Chief Plant Health Officer for Scotland and Head of SASA; Senior Management Team
Gill	Hartley	Senior Wildlife Biologist
Gillian	Musgrove	Seed Testing/Quality Manager
Gillian	Reay	Pesticide Usage Survey Manager
Heather	Owen	Scientific Manager (GM Team)
Jacqueline	Hughes	Head of Agricultural Science Delivery; Senior Management Team
Jason	Sumner-Kalkun	Molecular Entomologist - Project Leader
Johan	Wardlaw	Pesticide Usage Surveyor
John	Ellicott	SPCS Technical Manager
John	Kerr	(currently on secondment)
Jon	Pickup	Head of Virology & Zoology
Katherine	Lester	Project Leader - Euphresco
Kim	Davie	Potato Nematologist
Kirsty	Reid	Senior Analyst
Laura	Melton	Senior Analyst
Laura	Bowden	Seed Physiologist
Lucy	Webster	Senior Molecular Biologist - Wildlife DNA Forensics
Mairi	Carnegie	Assistant Zoology Manager
Marian	McEwan	Seed Pathologist
Mike	Parker	Head of Seed Certification
Mike	Taylor	Head of Chemistry
Ros	McHugh	Potato Pathology Manager
Support	Services	-
Susan	Ross	Quality Manager
Triona	Davey	Acting Head of Potato Branch
Valerie	Cockerell	Head of Official Seed Testing Station for Scotland
Vincent	Mulholland	Molecular Biology Unit Manager