The Team
Our Expert Team
The CNT team is formed by experts with a vast experience in innovation management support of multinational companies, SMEs and research institutions, individually or in European & UK funded consortiums, especially related to commercialisation of nanomaterials.
If you would like for your organisation to have a virtual exhibition booth in one of our existing exhibition halls or pavilions, or if you would like us to prepare a dedicated exhibition hall or exhibition pavilion, related to your project or thematic of your interest, we invite you to contact us. We would be happy to arrange for one of our experts to contact you to discuss how we can build a dedicated virtual exhibition space for you, according to your needs.
Dr Bojan Boskovic is a Founder, Managing Director and Principal Consultant of the company. He has more than 20 years of hands-on experience with carbon nanomaterials and composites from industry and academia in the UK and Europe. Previously, he worked as a R&D Manager at Nanocyl, one of leading carbon nanotube Dmanufacturing companies in Europe. He also worked on carbon nanotube synthesis and applications as a Principal Engineer-Carbon Scientist at Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems, as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, and as a Senior Specialist at Morgan Advanced Materials. During his PhD studies at the University of Surrey he invented low temperature synthesis method for production of carbon nanomaterials that has been used as a foundation patent for the start-up company Surrey Nanosystems. He was a member of the Steering and Review Group for the Mini-IGT in Nanotechnology that advised the UK Government on the first nanotechnology strategy policy document.
Dr Boskovic was working as an advisor for the European Commission (EC) on Engineering and Upscaling Clustering and on setting up of the European Pilot Production Network (EPPN) and European Materials Charaterisation Cluster (EMCC). He has experience in exploitation and dissemination management on a number of FP7 and H2020 European projects, including UltraWire, NanoLeap, OYSTER, M3DLoC, Genesis, nTRACK, APOLO, TriAnkle, Carbo4Power, DOME 4.0 and NanoMECommons, and also in UK Government Innovate UK funded projects, such as UltraMAT and GRAPHOSITE. He is also a leader of a private Nano-Carbon Enhanced Materials (NCEM) consortium and Advanced Materials for Additive Manufacturing (AMAM) consortium. Dr Boskovic has experience of advising VC investors with their investments of over $20M to nanomaterials-based product development companies.
Dr Ana Bankovic Cassidy is a Senior Innovation Manager at CNT Ltd. At the CNT Ltd she has been working for more than four years on customised patent landscaping, technology monitoring and market research reports, preparation of the Impact section of the Horizon Europe and Innovate UK proposals and exploitation, dissemination and innovation management tasks in the projects She has wide project management, innovation management, business architecture development and computation modelling experience. Ana graduated from the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade Serbia, winning the award for the best BSc (Honors) Thesis of the year 2007. The main aim of her PhD study and further research was to identify and explain specific kinetic phenomena that occur in positron transport in electric and magnetic field due to non-conservative nature of positronium formation. Ana applied the basic phenomenology of charged particle swarms to study the interaction of positrons with biologically relevant molecules, in order to develop and establish a benchmark for Monte Carlo codes used in positron emission tomography (PET) modelling. Her research activities were undertaken in Centre for Non-Equilibrium Processes at the Institute of Physics in Belgrade, Serbia, a large interdisciplinary group with interests ranging from theoretical, numerical and experimental studies of low temperature plasmas, to studies of positron swarms and their applications, modelling particle detectors and conducting experiments at applying plasma physics methodologies to medicine and biological applications. As a Visiting Researcher at the Open University, Milton Keynes in 2014/15, she worked on quantum chemistry treatment of positron interactions with atoms and molecules using the UKRmol quantum chemistry software.
ALEXANDER RAMOVIC ROJAS received a BSc Physics from Bristol University in 2016. Since then, he has worked at PatSnap for approximately 2 years, consulting existing clients and speaking to potential new ones on their IP and R&D strategy. This involved providing better understanding of patent data and how it should be used to inform R&D pathways. After leaving PatSnap, he received a master’s in environmental engineering at UCL. Here he completed his dissertation on infusing graphene oxide in concrete and studying how it affects its mechanical properties such as compressive, flexural and chloride penetration tests. Furthermore, through an internship at Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology, he gathered information on the future of nanomaterials and additive manufacturing within the built environment and construction industry. Since then, he worked as an environmental consultant for buildings conducting, energy and heat analyses before re-joining the Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology team in the position of Innovation and Investment Consultant working part-time since August 2021
Dr Karen Brace joined CNT as an Innovation Consultant in February 2022. Karen graduated from Imperial College with a BSc. in Chemistry (First Class with Honours). As part of her degree, she completed a 1-year ERASMUS research project at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle in Paris. She has a PhD in electrochemistry from the University of Southampton. Her dissertation focused on bio-membrane electrodes for the electrochemical detection of phospholipase enzymes. Following her PhD, she spent 2 years in Kenya as a high school science teacher for Voluntary Services Overseas. On returning to the UK, she took up postdoctoral positions at the University of Southampton in both combinatorial electrocatalysis discovery for fuel cells in collaboration with Johnson Matthey and in liquid crystal templated nanostructures for supercapacitor, battery and solar cell applications. She joined Ilika in 2004 as a senior scientist working on high throughput catalyst deposition and screening for fuel cell applications for both commercial and EU funded projects. She worked at C-Tech Innovation Ltd as a project manager on numerous UK and EU funded projects in energy and renewables including fuels cells, electric vehicle batteries, redox flow batteries, ionic liquids and metal finishing. Project included both lab and pilot scale processes. Karen has also worked as an independent electrochemistry consultant primarily in the field of batteries and fuel cells.
Mónica Spreadbury is a bilingual (Spanish and English) Senior Administrative Officer at the CNT Ltd with large experience gained within a variety of organisations in the private and public sector, both internationally and in the UK. In CNT Ltd. she has been working for NCEM and AMAM private consortiums, UK funded Projects and EC projects preparing Open Day Workshops, meeting agenda, coordinating administrative activities, communicating with project partners and meeting guests and speakers, facilitating and supervising exhibition stands and taking care of the registration desk. She has also been responsible for managing the websites and developing the virtual exhibitions. Before joining CNT Ltd she worked as a Regional Service Assistant/Officer for the British Council in Cambridge and for the BirdLife International, as Office Manager in the Americas Division (Ecuador) and as a regional co-ordinator of the World Bird Festival (UK). She joined CNT in August 2014.
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