Our Team…
The CNT Innovation team is formed of experts with a vast experience in innovation management support of multinational companies, SMEs and research institutions, individually or in European funded consortiums, especially related to commercialisation of nanomaterials.
Through the work that have been carried out at the sister company CNT Ltd in Cambridge, we have been involved in the following European funded projects:
UltraWire (www.ultrawire.eu), NanoLeap (www.nanoleap.eu) and current projects, EPPN Project (www.eppn.eu); n-TRACK (www.n-track.eu); Oyster (www.oyster-project.eu); M3DLoC (www.m3dloc.eu); Genesis (www.genesis-h2020.eu ; and Repair3D (www.repair3d.eu)
Dr Bojan Boskovic
Managing Director
Dr Bojan Boskovic is the 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 manufacturing 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 and nTRACK. Also in UK Government InnovateUK funded projects, such as UltraMAT and GRAPHOSITE He is also a leader of two private consortium: Nano-Carbon Enhanced Materials (NCEM) and Advance Materials for Additive Manufacturing (AMAM).
Dr Jelena Aleksic
Senior Innovation Manager
Dr Jelena Aleksic is a Senior Innovation Manager. She has extensive project management, R&D and teaching experience. At the CNT Ltd she has been working for more than four years on business development, preparation of customised patent landscaping and market research reports and EC FP7 and H2020 project innovation management and proposal preparation. She worked in many different industries including renewable energies, construction and social media.
While she was working as a scientific associate at the University of Applied Sciences in Stralsund, Germany she taught subjects Fluid Mechanics, Gas Dynamics and Mathematics. During her PhD in fluid mechanics related to crystal growth at the University of Rostock, Germany, she developed a new temperature measurement method for fluids based on thermochromic liquid crystals (TLC). Her thesis was awarded with the first prize at the South-eastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Orlando, FL, USA. She organised scientific conferences and edited an internationally published science magazine.
After moving to Spain, Jelena worked for LK Consultants in Gibraltar as consultant, site manager and quality control engineer on a £ 12 million luxury apartment project. In European Energy Project Consultancy in Benalmadena, Spain, she evaluated renewable energy investment projects and analysed market trends. She has wide knowledge in social media strategies and online marketing planning. Jelena is fluent in English, German, Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.
Dr Sofia Billett
Senior Innovation Consultant
Dr Sofia Billett is a Senior Innovation Consultant. She has extensive R&D, project management and regulatory experience. After graduating with an MPharm in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Porto in 1993, she completed an MSc in Analytical Chemistry (with distinction) and a PhD in Environmental Microbiology at the University of Aberdeen.
Sofia’s research focused on using novel biosensor technology coupled with strong analytical techniques to determine environmental toxicity and bioavailability of a range of contaminants. This included an industrial research project for ICI Paints to evaluate the bioremediation potential at a contaminated industrial site in Germany.
After a short post-doc she joined Remedios Ltd, a University of Aberdeen spin-off biotechnology company offering consultancy services in innovative biosensor technology, where she was involved in a variety of site-based projects in the area of contaminated land and with the oil and gas industry. Sofia joined the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) in 2003 specialising in contaminated land and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), providing expert, technical and professional advice in relation to risk assessment to planning authorities, Government, other environment agencies and NGOs.
Sofia worked as a Senior Scientist with SAFENANO at the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) from 2012-2017. Her work focused on undertaking on-site exposure measurements and characterisation of nanomaterials for research projects and commercial clients, and she was responsible for leading the safety and risk work package of the European project UltraWire.
Sofia is fluent in Portuguese and English.
Mónica Spreadbury
Senior Administrative Assistant
Mónica Spreadbury is a bilingual (Spanish and English) Senior Administrative Assistant 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/AMAM private consortium, UK funded Project 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. Before joining CNT Ltd she worked as a Regional Service Assistant/Officer for the British Council and for BirdLife International, as Office Manager in the Americas Division and as a regional co-ordinator of the World Bird Festival.
CNT Innovation SPRL/BVBA
Park Atrium
Rue des Colonies / Koloniënstraat 11
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Tel. +32 2 517 62 28
Email: info@cnt-innovation.com
Web: www.cnt-innovation.com
www.cnt-innovation.be
Company registered in Belgium No. 0723.767.874
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