Timo Hannay
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Timo Hannay
| image = TimoHannayJI1.jpg
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| caption = Timo Hannay in 2009
| birth_name = Robert Timo Hannay
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1968}}{{cite web|publisher=Companies House|location=London|author=Anon|year=2017|website=companieshouse.gov.uk|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128151802/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/GKtNynDVeDP_H-g3B4as6h58Y4c/appointments|archivedate=2017-11-28|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/GKtNynDVeDP_H-g3B4as6h58Y4c/appointments|title=Robert Timo HANNAY}}
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| citizenship = British
| nationality = British
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| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
- School Dash Ltd.
- SAGE Publications{{cite web|title=Timo Hannay joins SAGE board|first=Benedicte|last=Page|year=2016|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/timo-hannay-joins-sage-board-321303|website=thebookseller.com|publisher=The Bookseller}}
- Write LaTeX Ltd.
- Symplectic Ltd.
- Digital Science
- Nature Publishing Group
- The Economist
- McKinsey & Company}}
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|
- Imperial College London (BSc)
- University of Oxford (DPhil)}}
| 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
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| known_for = {{Plainlist|
- Digital Science
- Connotea
- Science Foo Camp
- SchoolDash.com}}
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| awards = {{Plainlist|
- Webby Nominee (2009){{cite web|url=http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season%3D13 |title=13th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners |accessdate=4 October 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003222606/http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=13 |archivedate=3 October 2009 }} 13th Annual Webby Awards Nominees and Winners
- Webby Award (2008){{cite web|url=http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season%3D12 |title=Webby Nominees & Winners |accessdate=11 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100926024111/http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=12 |archivedate=26 September 2010 }} 12th Annual Webby Awards Nominees and Winners
- ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation{{cite web|url=http://www.alpsp.org/ForceDownload.asp?id=306|title=ALPSP awards 2005|website=alpsp.org|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117173443/http://www.alpsp.org/ForceDownload.asp?id=306|archivedate=17 January 2010|df=dmy-all}} (2005)}}
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| website = {{URL|schooldash.com/about.html}}
| footnotes =
| spouse = Kyoko Hannay{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
| children = Mia Hannay, Anabel Hannay, Clara Hannay{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
}}(Robert) Timo Hannay (born 1968) is the founding Managing Director of School Dash Limited,{{cite web|url=https://www.schooldash.com/about.html|website=schooldash.com|title=School Dash|author=Anon|year=2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34778514|website=bbc.co.uk|publisher=BBC|title=North-south divide mapped in GCSE results|first=Sean|last=Coughlan|year=2015|location=London}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/progress-is-impossible-without-change-a-post-from-timo-hannay/|website=digital-science.com|title=Progress Is Impossible Without Change |first=Timo|last=Hannay|year=2015}} Digital Science was founded to provide software and services aimed at scientific researchers and research administrators.{{cite web|url=http://www.digital-science.com/about/|website=digital-science.com/about|title=About Digital Science|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110323171057/http://www.digital-science.com/about/|archivedate=23 March 2011}} 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.{{twitter|name=timohannay}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Hannay | first1 = T. | title = A new kind of science? | journal = Nature Physics | volume = 7 | issue = 10 | pages = 742 | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1038/nphys2109|bibcode = 2011NatPh...7..742H | doi-access = free }}{{Cite journal| last1 = Hannay| first1 = Timo| year = 2009| journal = Learned Publishing| volume = 22| issue = 2| pages = 153–154| title = Walls come tumbling down | doi = 10.1087/2009210| doi-access = free}}{{Scopus id}}{{DBLP|name=Timo Hannay}}{{cite web|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/press-releases/corporate/springer-nature-created-following-merger-completion/256626|website=springer.com|title=SPRINGER NATURE created following merger completion|publisher=Springer Nature}}
Education
Hannay was educated at Imperial College London where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry.{{cite web|title=biographies |work=GreenLearn |url=http://www.publishinginnovation.com/biographies.html |accessdate=2009-09-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705004646/http://www.publishinginnovation.com/biographies.html |archivedate=5 July 2008 }}{{cite book |author=MacDonald, Matthew |title=Your brain: the missing manual |publisher=O'Reilly Media |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-596-51778-6 }} 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.{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|first=Robert Timo|last=Hannay|title=Quantal analysis of synaptic plasticity in the rat hippocampus (1994)|publisher=University of Oxford|date=1994|url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c03ced6-548b-4798-93f1-71ba54818b73|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.358564}}|website=ora.ox.ac.uk}} {{free access}}{{Cite journal
| last1 = Larkman | first1 = A.
| last2 = Hannay | first2 = T.
| authorlink2 = Timo Hannay
| last3 = Stratford | first3 = K.
| last4 = Jack | first4 = J.
| title = Presynaptic release probability influences the locus of long-term potentiation
| doi = 10.1038/360070a0
| journal = Nature
| volume = 360
| issue = 6399
| pages = 70–73
| year = 1992
| pmid = 1331808
| bibcode = 1992Natur.360...70L| s2cid = 4311210
| last1 = Hannay | first1 = T.
| authorlink1 = Timo Hannay
| last2 = Larkman | first2 = A.
| last3 = Stratford | first3 = K.
| last4 = Jack | first4 = J.
| title = A common rule governs the synaptic locus of both short-term and long-term potentiation
| journal = Current Biology
| volume = 3
| issue = 12
| pages = 832–841
| year = 1993
| pmid = 15335816 | doi=10.1016/0960-9822(93)90217-C
| s2cid = 20378786
}}
Career
{{As of|2017}} Hannay is a non-executive director of SAGE Publications and director of School Dash Limited. He was previously a director of Write Latex Limited (creators of the LaTeX editor overleaf.com) and Symplectic Limited.
Hannay has worked at The Economist and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Japan and joined Nature's Tokyo office in 1998.{{Cite journal
| last1 = Hannay | first1 = Timo
| author-link = Timo Hannay
| title = Tokyo HIV-contaminated blood product hearing
| journal = Nature Medicine
| volume = 1
| issue = 5
| pages = 396
| year = 1995
| pmid = 7585076
| doi=10.1038/nm0595-396a
| doi-access = free
| last1 = Li | first1 = J.
| last2 = Ning | first2 = Y.
| last3 = Hedley | first3 = W.
| last4 = Saunders | first4 = B.
| last5 = Chen | first5 = Y.
| last6 = Tindill | first6 = N.
| last7 = Hannay | first7 = T.
| authorlink7 = Timo Hannay
| last8 = Subramaniam | first8 = S.
| doi = 10.1038/nature01307
| title = The Molecule Pages database
| journal = Nature
| volume = 420
| issue = 6916
| pages = 716–717
| year = 2002
| pmid = 12478304
| bibcode = 2002Natur.420..716L| doi-access = free
| last1 = Schaefer | first1 = C. F.
| last2 = Anthony | first2 = K.
| last3 = Krupa | first3 = S.
| last4 = Buchoff | first4 = J.
| last5 = Day | first5 = M.
| last6 = Hannay | first6 = T.
| authorlink6 = Timo Hannay
| last7 = Buetow | first7 = K. H.
| doi = 10.1093/nar/gkn653
| title = PID: The Pathway Interaction Database
| journal = Nucleic Acids Research
| volume = 37
| issue = Database issue
| pages = D674–D679
| year = 2009
| pmid = 18832364
| pmc =2686461
}} He moved to London in 2000.{{cite web | title=Timo Profile | work=Connotea | url=http://www.connotea.org/wiki/User:timo | accessdate=2009-09-19 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091120213812/http://www.connotea.org/wiki/User:timo | archivedate=20 November 2009}}
Hannay is a recognized expert on online publishing,{{Cite journal | last1 = Hammond | first1 = T. | last2 = Hannay | first2 = T. | authorlink2 = Timo Hannay| last3 = Lund | first3 = B. | title = The Role of RSS in Science Publishing | doi = 10.1045/december2004-hammond | journal = D-Lib Magazine | volume = 10 | issue = 12 | year = 2004 | doi-access = free }}{{Cite journal| first1 = T.| first2 = T. | first3 = B.| first4 = J. | authorlink2 = Timo Hannay| title = Social Bookmarking Tools (I) | journal = D-Lib Magazine | volume = 11| issue = 4 | year = 2005| last1 = Hammond| doi = 10.1045/april2005-hammond| last2 = Hannay| last3 = Lund| last4 = Scott| doi-access = free}}{{Cite journal| first1 = B.| first2 = T.| first3 = M.| first4 = T. | title = Social Bookmarking Tools (II)| last1 = Lund | authorlink4 = Timo Hannay| journal = D-Lib Magazine | volume = 11| issue = 4 | year = 2005 | doi = 10.1045/april2005-lund| last2 = Hammond| last3 = Flack| last4 = Hannay| doi-access = free}} web-enabled science and social bookmarking.{{cite web | title=Read it, like it, list it, share it | publisher=Times Higher Education | date=6 March 2008| url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=400931 |website=timeshighereducation.com| accessdate=2009-09-23|first=Zoe|last=Corbyn}} 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.{{when|date=November 2017}}{{cite web | title=Networking Nature | date=8 May 2007| publisher=Der Spiegel | url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,483617,00.html|website=spiegel.de | accessdate=2009-09-20}}{{cite journal |last=Waldrop |first=Mitchell M. |date=May 2008 |title=Science 2.0 |journal=Scientific American |pages=73|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0 |accessdate=2009-09-20 |quote=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.}}{{cite web | title=Social Bookmarking: Mark It, Manage It, Share It | url=http://www.acenet.edu/AM/PrinterTemplate.cfm?Section=%20Home&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=16057 | work=American Counsel on Education | accessdate=2009-09-20}}{{cite web | title=Timo Hannay Profile | work=Nature Network | url=http://network.nature.com/people/timo/profile | accessdate=2009-09-19 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913080757/http://network.nature.com/people/timo/profile | archivedate=13 September 2009}}
=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.{{cite web|url=http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1208 |title=Nature vs Science vs Open Access, part 4|website=PhDcomics.com|first=Jorge|last=Cham|year=2010|publisher=Piled Higher and Deeper}}
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