(Robert) Timo Hannay (born 1968)
[ is the founding Managing Director of School Dash Limited,][ an education technology company based in ]London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
. Prior to SchoolDash, Hannay was the founding managing director of Digital Science
Digital Science (or Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd) is a technology company with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.
The company focuses on strategic investments into startup companies that support the research lifecycle.
Histo ...
in London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
, United Kingdom
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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
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physics, physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomenon, phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. ...
,'' which was owned by Macmillan Publishers
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until the merger of Springer and Macmillan to form Springer Nature
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in 2015.
Education
Hannay was educated at Imperial College London
Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...
where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
degree in Biochemistry
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. He went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy
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degree at the University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
which was awarded for his research in neuroplasticity
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of the hippocampus
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of laboratory rat
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s from the supervised by Alan Larkman in 1994.[ ]
Career
Hannay is a non-executive director
A non-executive director (abbreviated to non-exec, NED or NXD), independent director or external director is a member of the board of directors of a corporation, such as a company, cooperative or non-government organization, but not a member of the ...
of SAGE Publications
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It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books ...
and director of School Dash Limited.[ He was previously a director of Write Latex Limited][ (creators of the ]LaTeX
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In nature, latex is found as a milky fluid found in 10% of all flowering plants (angiosperms ...
editor overleaf.com) and Symplectic Limited.[
Hannay has worked at '']The Economist
''The Economist'' is a British weekly newspaper printed in demitab format and published digitally. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture. Based in London, the newspaper is owned by The Econo ...
'' and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company
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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
Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social ...
. He was the publishing director of Web Publishing at Nature Publishing Group
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, managing Nature.com, naturejobs.com, natureevents.com, ''Nature Methods
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'' and ''Nature Protocols
''Nature Protocols'', published by the Nature Publishing Group, is an on-line scientific journal publishing methods in a recipe-style format. The journal was launched in June 2006 and the content includes both classical methods and cutting-edge te ...
''. In addition to his work at Nature, he was the co-organiser, with Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly (born 6 June 1954) is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates). He popularised the terms open source and Web 2.0.
Education and early life
Born in County Cork, Ireland, Tim O'Reilly moved to San Francisco, C ...
and Chris DiBona
Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) was the director of open source at Google from August 2004 until January of 2023.
The open source team at Google oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through pro ...
of Science Foo Camp
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.
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
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in 2008. Hannay was depicted by Jorge Cham
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in the ''Piled Higher and Deeper
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'' webcomic
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Webcomics can be co ...
titled ''Nature
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'' vs ''Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
'' vs Open Access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
.
References
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English science writers
Science journalists
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
1968 births