Nanotechnology Review                     

Meetings

Notes of the first and second meetings of the subgroup may be found here:

• First meeting of CST subgroup on Nanotechnology - 11th May 2006
  • External guests:
    • Professor Gabriel Aeppli, Director, London Centre for Nanotechnology
    • Brian Doble, Head of Engineering Policy, Royal Academy of Engineering
    • Richard Pitts, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Science and Innovation
    • Rachel Quinn, Head of Science Policy, Royal Society

• Second meeting of CST subgroup on Nanotechnology - 27th June 2006
  • External guests:
    • Christopher Snary and John Roberts, Chemicals and Nanotechnology Division, Defra
    • Doug Parr, Chief Scientist, Greenpeace
    • Michael Pitkethly, CEO, Cenamps

 

Seminar

On 4th September 2006 CST held a seminar at the Royal Academy of Engineering, which looked at recent developments in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The programme for the meeting can be found here.

A note of the seminar can be found here.

 

Visit to Germany

Members of the subgroup visited Germany on 9th-10th November 2006 and met representatives from the German Government, industry and academia.

• Programme of visit
• Note of visit

 

Further Stakeholder Meetings

In addition to the events detailed above, the subgroup has held additional meetings with a series of stakeholders to assist it in obtaining a comprehensive body of evidence for the Review.

• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• The European Commission Inter-Service Group on Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies
• The Health and Safety Executive
• The Nanotechnology Industries Association
• The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
• Oxonica
• Swiss Re
• Thomas Swan
• University of Birmingham