Sean Gourley
New Zealander, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, PhD in Physics specializing in 'networks and complexity', just finished a research fellowship at Oxford in the quantitative analysis of war and terrorism.
| Headline: | Scientist |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://www.twitter.com/sgourley |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Computing, Financial, Media, Nanotech |
| Skills: | Business, Design, Entrepreneurship, Management, Product design, Writing |
| Location: | Oxford |
| Groups: | Global Entrepreneurship Week , South Park Portfolio Competition |
| Visas: | Europe, United States and New Zealand/Australia |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Offering Expertise, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects |
| Tags: | Artificial Intelligence, complexity, conflict, data analysis, data mining, Strategy, track and field, war |
| Schools: | University of Canterbury, Christchurch, University of Oxford |
FEATURED STARTUP
YouNoodle
YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Said Business School Oxford |
| Position: | Research Fellow |
| Time period: | October 2006 - April 2008 |
| Description: | Conducted novel research into the quantitative analysis of wars and terrorism |
| Employer: | NASA |
| Position: | Scientist |
| Time period: | June 2004 - January 2005 |
| Description: | Research into the design of self repairing nanocircuits |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Oxford |
| Time period: | 2002 - 2007 |
| Degree: | Physics: Complex Systems, PhD |
| University: | University of Canterbury, Christchurch |
| Time period: | 2001 - 2002 |
| Degree: | Physics: Nanotechnology, MSc |
PUBLICATIONS
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Track and Field, Decathlon, Surfing |
| Awards: | Rhodes Scholarship
TED fellow 2009 |
Sean's Startups (1)
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YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
Sean is Following (287)
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HealthcareMagic.com
Health 2.0, Live Chat with Doctors... Bridging the gap between Healthcare Services and India... HealthcareMagic is the world's first portal allowing a live interaction between doctors and patients over Internet and phone.
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Pixy
Pixy is an internet startup changing the world by bringing together photographers to share and sell their work through their own digital photography blogs.
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Slide
New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.
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Wigitize.com
Turn any data feed to an embeddable widget. This project was part of an article demonstrating how to build a .com in 24 hours: http://dominiek.com/articles/2008/1/6/building-a-com-in-24-hours
Sean's Contacts (86)
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Ralitza Iankova
What does it take to make it? With hard work there's no stopping, it only takes time to make it happen.
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Ash Rust
Engineer at OneRiot
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Shaherose Charania
Connectivity leads to productivity, progress and sustainability. I believe in the power of communications technologies to save the world..!