Tim Harper

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Tim Harper CEO Cientifica Ltd Tel [phone]
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Tim Harper is the founder President of London
based Cientifica Ltd, the world's leading source
of global business intelligence about
nanotechnologies. Tim has given over 100 invited
talks and keynote lectures on nanotechnologies,
ranging from scientific conferences to the boards
of Fortune 500 companies, and ranging from
economic implications to toxicology. He has been
published in journals ranging from
Nanotechnology and 'Nature to Microscopy and
Analysis, in addition to being extensively
quoted in media ranging from the Financial Times
and Economist to Time and Business Week.
He is also a co founder and director of UK based
optical nanoscopy company NanoSight, the Founder
and Executive Director of European NanoBusiness
Association and is an advisor to many
organizations around the globe including Oxford
and Cambridge Universities, the European
Commission, many of the worlds largest companies
and national governments from Austria to
Singapore. He is the co author of the
Nanotechnology Opportunity Report, described by
NASA as "the defining report in the field of
nanotechnology." In October 2002 Time Magazine
described Tim as "the face of European
nanotechnology" and profiled him in TIME
Magazine's Digital Europe Top 25, as one of
Europe's top 25 entrepreneurs. This was followed
in November by recognition in Small Times
Magazine who described Tim as "Europes
pre-eminent nanotech spokesman outside of
government." Since then, Cientifica has grown to
be the world's largest nanotechnologies
information, events and consulting company,
operating through offices in London, Madrid,
Oslo, Singapore and Mumbai. Tim also publishes,
and occasionally edits, the weekly nanotechnology
newsletter TNT Weekly which has been running
since 2000 and is widely read across the entire
nanotechnology community, from academics to
investors and contributes a column to the
Institute of Physics Nanotechweb site. Through
the Spanish subsidiary CMP Cientifica the company
also manages EU research programs ranging from
nanoelectronics to nanotoxicology. With a degree
in Physics from Coventry University, Tim was
formerly an engineer at the European Space
Agency's research and development centre in
Noordwijk, The Netherlands, where he managed the
micro and nanoscale characterization facility,
and published extensively on analytical
techniques and characterization of advanced
materials.