Hadi Heidari

Professor Hadi Heidari is an Iranian-origin academic entrepreneur and the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Neuranics, a deep-tech semiconductor spinout from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He holds a PhD in electronics and has built his career at the intersection of nanoelectronics, biomedical engineering, and human-machine interfaces. As Professor of Nanoelectronics at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, he leads the Microelectronics Lab (meLAB), conducting pioneering research on integrated micro/nanoelectronics for wearable, implantable, and industrial applications — work that has attracted over £4 million in research funding from UKRI, the European Commission, the Royal Society, and the Scottish Funding Council.

Heidari co-founded Neuranics in 2021 alongside Professor Kia Nazarpour and Dr Siming Zuo, commercialising breakthrough spintronic magnetic sensor technology developed across the two Scottish universities. The company's Tunnelling Magnetoresistance (TMR) chip-scale sensors detect tiny magnetic signals from the human body — enabling applications in wearable health monitoring, gesture recognition, and extended reality (XR) hardware — all without skin contact and at room temperature. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh through the Saltire Fellowship, and has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications.

Under Heidari's technical leadership, Neuranics raised a £1.9 million pre-seed round in 2023 and followed with an $8 million seed round in 2025 led by Blackfinch Ventures. The company has won a prestigious CES Innovation Award and is actively collaborating with Tier-1 semiconductor and XR manufacturers globally, cementing Neuranics' position as a leader in magnetic sensing innovation emerging from Scotland's world-class university ecosystem.