Contact Professor Barry Park
Background
Professor Park owns GBP Consulting Ltd and conducts projects for academic and commercial clients. Within SWEE he was part of two externally funded projects. He is a Senior Associate Tutor for an MSc course on Nanotechnology for Medicine and Healthcare at University of Oxford where he lectures on applications of nanomaterials and on the regulatory environment for their commercialisation including risk management. From 2009 until March 2014, he was also Theme Manager for Chemical and Consumer Products for the UK’s Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network. Prior to 2009, he was COO at Oxonica plc and a Director of several of Oxonica’s subsidiaries with responsibility for quality, intellectual property and regulatory affairs and managed product development programmes to product launch. He previously managed projects in R&D and was technical manager for compound manufacturing for Raychem Limited.
He has a BSc in Applied Chemistry and PhD in Polymer Chemistry from University of Strathclyde.