Nationality British Residence London, United Kingdom Role Publisher | Name Timo Hannay Doctoral advisor Alan Larkman Academic advisor Alan Larkman | |
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Institutions digital-science.com
Nature (journal)
McKinsey & Company
Macmillan Publishers Alma mater University of Oxford (DPhil)
Imperial College London (BSc) Thesis Quantal analysis of synaptic plasticity in the rat hippocampus (1994) Known for digital-science.com
Connotea
Science Foo Camp Education Imperial College London, University of Oxford | ||
Timo hannay digital science talks about new ways to research
(Robert) Timo Hannay is the founding Managing Director of SchoolDash, an education technology company based in London. Prior to SchoolDash, Hannay was the founding managing director of Digital Science in London, United Kingdom where he ran the company from its foundation in 2010 until 2015. Digital Science was founded to provide software and services aimed at scientific researchers and research administrators. Prior to Digital Science, he worked for Nature, which was owned by Macmillan Publishers until the merger of Springer and Macmillan in 2015.
Contents
- Timo hannay digital science talks about new ways to research
- Disruption in the Publishing Industry Digital Analytics the Future Session One
- Education
- Career
- Awards and honours
- References
Disruption in the Publishing Industry: Digital, Analytics & the Future - Session One
Education
Hannay was educated at Imperial College London where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry. He went on to study for a PhD in neuroplasticity of the hippocampus of laboratory rats from the University of Oxford supervised by Alan Larkman.
Career
Hannay has worked at The Economist and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Japan and joined Nature's Tokyo office in 1998. He moved to London in 2000.
Hannay is a recognized expert on online publishing, web-enabled science and social bookmarking. He was the publishing director of Web Publishing at Nature Publishing Group, managing Nature.com, naturejobs.com, natureevents.com, Nature Methods and Nature Protocols. In addition to his work at Nature, he is the co-organiser, with Tim O'Reilly and Chris DiBona of Science Foo Camp.
Awards and honours
Hannay was awarded the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) award for innovation in publishing in 2005 and a Webby Award in 2008.
Hannay was depicted by Jorge Cham in the Piled Higher and Deeper webcomic titled Nature vs Science vs Open Access.