Biography

David Tolfree, a professional physicist and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Physics, has forty years’ R&D and senior management experience working for the UK’s Atomic Energy Authority and Science Research Councils (SRCs). In the late 1990s he was head of the EPSRC’s Daresbury Laboratory’s European Office and its Research Services. He was also a consultant to a UK Government Dept for the exploitation of micro-nanotechnologies, and one of the founders of MANCEF and the UK Institute of Nanotechnology. In 1999 he co-foundered Technopreneur Ltd, a consultant company for the exploitation of emergent technologies. He is currently the European Vice President of MANCEF International and its Executive Director, and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the magazine CMM International. David has organised, chaired and been a speaker at over 42 international conferences on micro-nano and emerging technologies. He has 186 publications that include books, newspaper, journal and magazine articles and conference proceedings.

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Research Interest

David has organised, chaired and been a speaker at over 42 international conferences on micro-nano and emerging technologies. He has 186 publications that include books, newspaper, journal and magazine articles and conference proceedings.