Timo Hannay is managing director of Digital Science in London

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, United Kingdom

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, which provides software and services aimed at scientific researchers and research administrators. He formerly worked for Nature

Nature (journal)

Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...

, which, like Digital Science is owned by Macmillan Publishers

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Hannay is a recognized expert on online publishing, web-enabled science and social bookmarking

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. He was the publishing director of Web Publishing at Nature Publishing Group

Nature Publishing Group

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, managing Nature.com, naturejobs.com, natureevents.com, Nature Methods

Nature Methods

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 and Nature Protocols

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. In addition to his work at Nature, he is the co-organiser, with Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly

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 and Chris DiBona

Chris DiBona

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 of Science Foo Camp

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Education and employment

Originally trained as a neurophysiologist and biochemist, Hannay has worked at The Economist

The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...

 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 holds a D.Phil. in neurophysiology

Neurophysiology

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 from the University of Oxford

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 and an undergraduate degree in biochemistry

Biochemistry

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 from Imperial College London

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Timo Hannay was depicted by Jorge Cham

Jorge Cham

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 in PhDComics

Piled Higher and Deeper

Piled Higher and Deeper - Life in Academia , is a newspaper and web comic strip written and drawn by Jorge Cham that follows the lives of several grad students...

 in a comic titled Nature

Nature (journal)

Nature, first published on 4 November 1869, is ranked the world's most cited interdisciplinary scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2010 Journal Citation Reports...

 vs Science

Science (journal)

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 vs Open Access.

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