(Robert) Timo Hannay (born 1968) is the founding Managing Director of School Dash Limited, an education technology company based in

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. Prior to SchoolDash, Hannay was the founding managing director of

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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 ''

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,'' which was owned by

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until the merger of Springer and Macmillan to form

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in 2015.

Education

Hannay was educated at

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

where he graduated with a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.S., B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Scienc ...

degree in

Biochemistry Biochemistry, or biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology, a ...

. He went on to complete a

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degree at the

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which was awarded for his research in

neuroplasticity Neuroplasticity, also known as neural plasticity or just plasticity, is the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through neurogenesis, growth and reorganization. Neuroplasticity refers to the brain's ability to reorganize and rewir ...

of the

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s from the supervised by Alan Larkman in 1994.

Career

Hannay is a non-executive director of

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and director of School Dash Limited. He was previously a director of Write Latex Limited (creators of the

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editor overleaf.com) and Symplectic Limited. Hannay has worked at ''

The Economist ''The Economist'' is a British newspaper published weekly in printed magazine format and daily on Electronic publishing, digital platforms. It publishes stories on topics that include economics, business, geopolitics, technology and culture. M ...

'' and as a management consultant at

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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

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. He was the publishing director of Web Publishing at

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, managing Nature.com, naturejobs.com, natureevents.com, ''

Nature Methods ''Nature Methods'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering new scientific techniques. It was established in 2004 and is published by Springer Nature under the Nature Portfolio. Like other ''Nature'' journals, there is no external edi ...

'' 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 tec ...

''. In addition to his work at Nature, he was the co-organiser, with

Tim O'Reilly Timothy O'Reilly (born 6 June 1954) is an Irish-American author and publisher, who 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 Co ...

and

Chris DiBona Chris DiBona ('cdibona', born October 1971) is the former director of open source at Google from August 2004Di ...

Science Foo Camp Science Foo Camp (scifoo) is an annual interdisciplinary scientific unconference organized by O'Reilly Media, Digital Science, and Alphabet Inc., based on an idea from Linda Stone. Inspired by Foo Camp, a conference on emerging technology, Science ...

Awards and honours

Hannay was awarded the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) award for innovation in publishing in 2005 and a

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in 2008. Hannay was depicted by

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in the ''

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titled ''

'' vs ''

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'' vs

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References

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