Tel (65) 6040 7983
Email henrik.hesse@glasgow.ac.uk

Henrik specializes in aerial robotics, autonomous drones, and novel unmanned systems. He has 14+ years of experience advancing deployable autonomous systems – from theoretical foundations to field-tested robotics. For his work as Adjunct Associate Professor with the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Henrik works with the team from the Climate, Environment and Health Programme to develop drone solutions for environmental monitoring and surveying. He co-leads Project FireFly which aims to develop sensor solutions for automated wildfire monitoring and prevention in South-East Asia.

As Associate Professor and Programme Director for Aerospace Engineering at the University of Glasgow Singapore, Henrik manages the Aerospace Division in Singapore.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Adjunct)
• University of Glasgow, James Watt School of Engineering (Primary)

• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Internet of Things
• Remote Sensing
• AI-Based Prediction

• Ph.D. Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College London, 2013
• M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, University of Liverpool, 2009

• Associate Professor, University of Glasgow, 2024-present
• Assistant Professor, University of Glasgow, 2017-2024
• Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich, 2014-2016
• Research Associate, Imperial College London, 2013-2014

• Programme Director (Aerospace Engineering), University of Glasgow Singapore, 2020-present

• Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

• Le Breton, C., Laporta G.Z., Sallum, M.A.M, Hesse, H., Salgado-Lynn, M., Manin, B.O. and Fornace, K., “Advancing canopy-level entomological surveillance to monitor vector-borne and zoonotic disease dynamics,” Trends in Parasitology, Jan. 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2024.12.009.
• Puttapirat, P., Woradit, K., Hesse, H. and Bhatia, D. (2024) FireFly Project: UAV Development for Distributed Sensing of Forest Fires. In: International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Greece, Jun 2024, pp. 594-601. doi: 10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10556892
• Cham, X. T. et al. (2024) AI-Assisted Manual Segmentation Web Application for Geospatial Satellite and Imagery Data. In: IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, Portugal, Oct 2023. doi: 10.1109/WF-IoT58464.2023.10539446
• Yong, K. E., Hui Kieu, D. K., Goh, Y. K., Zhang, X., Loo, X. H., Tong, H. G., Yau, P. C., Seow, C. K., Fornace, K. and Hesse, H. (2024) Drone Navigation System for Autonomous Mosquito Sampling in Tree Canopies. In: IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, Portugal, Oct 2023. doi: 10.1109/wf-iot58464.2023.10539459
• Bhatia, D., Dhillon, A. S. and Hesse, H. (2024) Preliminary Design of an UAV Based System for Wildlife Monitoring and Conservation. In: International Conference on Aeronautical Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Oman, Oct 2023, pp. 51-63. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-7775-8_5
• Liu, J., Yik, W., Saw, B. and Hesse, H. (2022) Perching Drones for Distributed Communication Systems in IoT Applications. In: IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, Japan, Nov 2022, doi: 10.1109/wf-iot54382.2022.10152182
• Hesse, H., Polzin, M., Wood, T. A. and Smith, R. S. (2018) Visual motion tracking and sensor fusion for kite power systems. In: Schmehl, Roland (ed.) Airborne Wind Energy. Series: Green energy and technology. Springer, pp. 413-438. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-1947-0_17

For more information, please visit my page at the University of Glasgow: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/engineering/staff/henrikhesse/