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.gov.scot.

View the organisation chart for an overview of the structure.

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