Timo Hannay Explained

Timo Hannay
Birth Name:Robert Timo Hannay
Birth Date:[1]
Citizenship:British
Nationality:British
Thesis Title:Quantal analysis of synaptic plasticity in the rat hippocampus
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358564
Thesis Year:1994
Doctoral Advisor:Alan Larkman
Spouse:Kyoko Hannay
Children:Mia Hannay, Anabel Hannay, Clara Hannay

(Robert) Timo Hannay (born 1968)[1] is the founding Managing Director of School Dash Limited,[2] [1] [3] 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.[4] Digital Science was founded to provide software and services aimed at scientific researchers and research administrators.[5] Prior to Digital Science, he worked for Nature, which was owned by Macmillan Publishers until the merger of Springer and Macmillan to form Springer Nature in 2015.[6] [7] [8]

Education

Hannay was educated at Imperial College London where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry.[9] [10] He went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Oxford which was awarded for his research in neuroplasticity of the hippocampus of laboratory rats from the supervised by Alan Larkman in 1994.[11] [12] [13]

Career

Hannay is a non-executive director of SAGE Publications and director of School Dash Limited.[1] He was previously a director of Write Latex Limited[1] (creators of the LaTeX editor overleaf.com) and Symplectic Limited.[1]

Hannay has worked at The Economist and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Japan and joined Nature's Tokyo office in 1998.[14] [15] [16] He moved to London in 2000.[17]

Hannay is a recognized expert on online publishing,[18] [19] [20] web-enabled science and social bookmarking.[21] 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 was the co-organiser, with Tim O'Reilly and Chris DiBona of Science Foo Camp.[22] [23] [24] [25]

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.[26]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Companies House. London. Anon. 2017. companieshouse.gov.uk. https://web.archive.org/web/20171128151802/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/GKtNynDVeDP_H-g3B4as6h58Y4c/appointments. 2017-11-28. Robert Timo HANNAY.
  2. Web site: School Dash. schooldash.com. Anon. 2017.
  3. Web site: North-south divide mapped in GCSE results. bbc.co.uk. BBC. Sean. Coughlan. 2015. London.
  4. Web site: Progress Is Impossible Without Change . digital-science.com. Timo. Hannay. 2015.
  5. Web site: About Digital Science. digital-science.com/about. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110323171057/http://www.digital-science.com/about/. 23 March 2011.
  6. Hannay . T. . A new kind of science? . . 7 . 10 . 742 . 2011 . 10.1038/nphys2109. 2011NatPh...7..742H . free .
  7. Hannay. Timo. 2009. Learned Publishing. 22. 2. 153–154. Walls come tumbling down . 10.1087/2009210. free.
  8. Web site: SPRINGER NATURE created following merger completion. springer.com. Springer Nature.
  9. Web site: biographies . GreenLearn . 2009-09-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080705004646/http://www.publishinginnovation.com/biographies.html . 5 July 2008 .
  10. Book: MacDonald, Matthew . Your brain: the missing manual . O'Reilly Media . 2008 . 978-0-596-51778-6 .
  11. DPhil. Robert Timo. Hannay. Quantal analysis of synaptic plasticity in the rat hippocampus (1994). University of Oxford. 1994. . ora.ox.ac.uk.
  12. Larkman . A. . Hannay . T. . Timo Hannay. Stratford . K. . Jack . J. . Presynaptic release probability influences the locus of long-term potentiation . 10.1038/360070a0 . Nature . 360 . 6399 . 70–73 . 1992 . 1331808 . 1992Natur.360...70L. 4311210 .
  13. Hannay . T. . Timo Hannay. Larkman . A. . Stratford . K. . Jack . J. . A common rule governs the synaptic locus of both short-term and long-term potentiation . . 3 . 12 . 832–841 . 1993 . 15335816 . 10.1016/0960-9822(93)90217-C. 20378786 .
  14. Hannay . Timo . Timo Hannay. Tokyo HIV-contaminated blood product hearing . . 1 . 5 . 396 . 1995 . 7585076 . 10.1038/nm0595-396a. free .
  15. Li . J. . Ning . Y. . Hedley . W. . Saunders . B. . Chen . Y. . Tindill . N. . Hannay . T. . Timo Hannay. Subramaniam . S. . 10.1038/nature01307 . The Molecule Pages database . Nature . 420 . 6916 . 716–717 . 2002 . 12478304 . 2002Natur.420..716L. free .
  16. Schaefer . C. F. . Anthony . K. . Krupa . S. . Buchoff . J. . Day . M. . Hannay . T. . Timo Hannay. Buetow . K. H. . 10.1093/nar/gkn653 . PID: The Pathway Interaction Database . Nucleic Acids Research . 37 . Database issue . D674–D679 . 2009 . 18832364 . 2686461 .
  17. Web site: Timo Profile . Connotea . 2009-09-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091120213812/http://www.connotea.org/wiki/User:timo . 20 November 2009.
  18. Hammond . T. . Hannay . T. . Timo Hannay. Lund . B. . The Role of RSS in Science Publishing . 10.1045/december2004-hammond . D-Lib Magazine . 10 . 12 . 2004 . free .
  19. T.. T. . B.. J. . Timo Hannay. Social Bookmarking Tools (I) . D-Lib Magazine . 11. 4 . 2005. Hammond. 10.1045/april2005-hammond. Hannay. Lund. Scott. free.
  20. B.. T.. M.. T. . Social Bookmarking Tools (II). Lund . Timo Hannay. D-Lib Magazine . 11. 4 . 2005 . 10.1045/april2005-lund. Hammond. Flack. Hannay. free.
  21. Web site: Read it, like it, list it, share it . . 6 March 2008. timeshighereducation.com. 2009-09-23. Zoe. Corbyn.
  22. Web site: Networking Nature . 8 May 2007. . spiegel.de . 2009-09-20.
  23. Waldrop . Mitchell M. . May 2008 . Science 2.0 . Scientific American . 73. 2009-09-20 . Timo Hannay, head of Web publishing at the Nature Publishing Group in London… Meanwhile Hannay has been taking the Nature group into the Web 2.0 world aggressively..
  24. Web site: Social Bookmarking: Mark It, Manage It, Share It . American Counsel on Education . 2009-09-20.
  25. Web site: Timo Hannay Profile . Nature Network . 2009-09-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090913080757/http://network.nature.com/people/timo/profile . 13 September 2009.
  26. Web site: Nature vs Science vs Open Access, part 4. PhDcomics.com. Jorge. Cham. 2010. Piled Higher and Deeper.

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