Marc Desmulliez
(Retired)
Heriot-Watt University
Prof. Marc Desmulliez, FRSE, FInstP, FIET, is the founder and manager of the £6M-funded Medical Device Manufacturing Center (www.mdmc.ac.uk) and Professor in Smart Systems Integration at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He is also the co-Lead of the £2.5M EPSRC-funded PBIAA THT (Tay Health Tech). He has held grants of compounded value of more than £52M as Lead or co-Lead, published over 518 journal papers or conference proceedings articles, and holds 10 patents and 3 Design Rights.
He spun out Microstencil Ltd in 2003, a spin-out company specialized in flip-chip bonding technology using stencil printing. The technology was transferred to a major stencil printing manufacturing equipment manufacturer in 2011 and now is used in all mobile phones in the world. His second company, Microsense Technologies Ltd, aims at non-destructive testing using microwave sensing. This initiative got him the shared £90K first prize in the Converge Challenge 2016, the most prestigious entrepreneurship award in Scotland. His research interests include medical devices, microwave sensing and bio-inspired manufacturing, more precisely the understanding and translation of natural processes to manufacturing principles, an arguably new topic of research in engineering.
Marc retired from Heriot-Watt University in August 2026.
“I am passionate about impact and translation for the benefits of society of research outputs funded by taxpayer money.”
