Dr Nigel Pickett

Biography

Nanoco’s technology team is led by Nigel who is a co-founder of Nanoco and inventor of Nanoco’s key quantum dot scale up technology. In 2000 he moved to Manchester where he co-founded Nanoco Technologies in 2001. Nigel has co-authored over 70 academic papers, is an inventor on 150 patents and pending. He has a passion and experience in taking research work from the academic bench through to full commercialisation. Nigel graduated from Newcastle University in 1991 and chose to remain at Newcastle to pursue a PhD in the field of main group organometallics. After graduation in 1994 he undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at St. Andrews University, Scotland, in the field of precursor design for metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy (“MOVPE”) growth and synthesis of nanoparticles using chemical vapour deposition (“CVD”) techniques. In 1996 he won a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (“JSPS”) fellowship and spent the following year working at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan. In 1998 he became a research fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, working on the design and evaluation of precursors used in MOVPE.

Research Interest

Nanoco’s technology team is led by Nigel who is a co-founder of Nanoco and inventor of Nanoco’s key quantum dot scale up technology. In 2000 he moved to Manchester where he co-founded Nanoco Technologies in 2001. Nigel has co-authored over 70 academic papers, is an inventor on 150 patents and pending. He has a passion and experience in taking research work from the academic bench through to full commercialisation. Nigel graduated from Newcastle University in 1991 and chose to remain at Newcastle to pursue a PhD in the field of main group organometallics. After graduation in 1994 he undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at St. Andrews University, Scotland, in the field of precursor design for metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy (“MOVPE”) growth and synthesis of nanoparticles using chemical vapour deposition (“CVD”) techniques. In 1996 he won a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (“JSPS”) fellowship and spent the following year working at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan. In 1998 he became a research fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, working on the design and evaluation of precursors used in MOVPE.