The Team
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 Dmanufacturing 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, nTRACK, APOLO, TriAnkle, Carbo4Power, DOME 4.0 and NanoMECommons, and also in UK Government Innovate UK funded projects, such as UltraMAT and GRAPHOSITE. He is also a leader of a private Nano-Carbon Enhanced Materials (NCEM) consortium and Advanced Materials for Additive Manufacturing (AMAM) consortium. Dr Boskovic has experience of advising VC investors with their investments of over $20M to nanomaterials-based product development companies.
Dr Ana Bankovic Cassidy
Senior Innovation Manager
Dr Ana Bankovic Cassidy is a Senior Innovation Manager at CNT Ltd. At the CNT Ltd she has been working for more than four years on customised patent landscaping, technology monitoring and market research reports, preparation of the Impact section of the Horizon Europe and Innovate UK proposals and exploitation, dissemination and innovation management tasks in the projects She has wide project management, innovation management, business architecture development and computation modelling experience. Ana graduated from the Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade Serbia, winning the award for the best BSc (Honors) Thesis of the year 2007. The main aim of her PhD study and further research was to identify and explain specific kinetic phenomena that occur in positron transport in electric and magnetic field due to non-conservative nature of positronium formation. Ana applied the basic phenomenology of charged particle swarms to study the interaction of positrons with biologically relevant molecules, in order to develop and establish a benchmark for Monte Carlo codes used in positron emission tomography (PET) modelling. Her research activities were undertaken in Centre for Non-Equilibrium Processes at the Institute of Physics in Belgrade, Serbia, a large interdisciplinary group with interests ranging from theoretical, numerical and experimental studies of low temperature plasmas, to studies of positron swarms and their applications, modelling particle detectors and conducting experiments at applying plasma physics methodologies to medicine and biological applications. As a Visiting Researcher at the Open University, Milton Keynes in 2014/15, she worked on quantum chemistry treatment of positron interactions with atoms and molecules using the UKRmol quantum chemistry software.
Dr Karen Brace
Innovation Consultant
Dr Karen Brace joined CNT as an Innovation Consultant in February 2022. Karen graduated from Imperial College with a BSc. in Chemistry (First Class with Honours). As part of her degree, she completed a 1-year ERASMUS research project at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle in Paris. She has a PhD in electrochemistry from the University of Southampton. Her dissertation focused on bio-membrane electrodes for the electrochemical detection of phospholipase enzymes. Following her PhD, she spent 2 years in Kenya as a high school science teacher for Voluntary Services Overseas. On returning to the UK, she took up postdoctoral positions at the University of Southampton in both combinatorial electrocatalysis discovery for fuel cells in collaboration with Johnson Matthey and in liquid crystal templated nanostructures for supercapacitor, battery and solar cell applications. She joined Ilika in 2004 as a senior scientist working on high throughput catalyst deposition and screening for fuel cell applications for both commercial and EU funded projects. She worked at C-Tech Innovation Ltd as a project manager on numerous UK and EU funded projects in energy and renewables including fuels cells, electric vehicle batteries, redox flow batteries, ionic liquids and metal finishing. Project included both lab and pilot scale processes. Karen has also worked as an independent electrochemistry consultant primarily in the field of batteries and fuel cells.
Dr Dalia Heggo
Technology and Innovation Consultant
Dalia Heggo is a chemical engineer and multidisciplinary researcher with 17 years of experience across academia and industry. Her work spans methane emissions, energy and environmental systems, green chemistry, advanced reactors, fuel cells, and data-driven engineering. She has worked in Egypt, Japan, and the UK, combining experimental design, modelling, and technical project development to solve complex industrial and environmental challenges. Dalia has contributed to projects with partners including BP and UNEP, and her published research covers methane emissions reconciliation, LNG emissions measurement, polymer electrolyte fuel cells, photocatalytic microreactors, and biomass gasification. She brings a strong track record in technical innovation, proposal development, and translating research into practical, high-impact applications.
Dalia completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, and as an intern at Tokyo Institute of Technology, where she filled a patent with Toshiba Materials company, and developed photocatalytic mini- and microreaction systems for greener chemical synthesis, combining reactor design, catalyst testing and characterisation, kinetic analysis, and process intensification with ANSYS Fluent CFD simulation of multiphase microreactor flow.
At Queen Mary University of London, she worked on methane emissions projects with BP and UNEP, using coding, MATLAB/Simulink, CFD modelling, and uncertainty analysis to support methane emissions reconciliation and improved monitoring design.
Yuliya Kharchenko
Innovation Consultant
Yuliya Kharchenko is an experienced Senior Project Manager, Innovation Consultant, and Adviser with expertise in delivering international innovation and business development initiatives, particularly within EU-funded programmes such as Horizon Europe. She specialises in guiding complex, multi-stakeholder projects from concept to market, supporting organisations in transforming innovative ideas into scalable, market-ready solutions.
Her professional background combines strong project management capabilities (PRINCE2 and Agile) with deep expertise in human capital management (MBA-HR, used to be an HR Director at AMACO – American Machinery Company), international logistics, marketing, communication, stakeholder engagement, and consortium coordination across industry, academia, and government. Yuliya has successfully led and delivered multiple work packages covering communication, dissemination, exploitation, IP management, and go-to-market strategies, consistently ensuring compliance, timely delivery, and measurable impact.
Yuliya brings a strategic and hands-on approach to innovation ecosystems, with proven experience in developing communication strategies, conducting market and user research, designing exploitation plans, and increasing visibility and outreach for innovative projects. She has contributed to securing funding proposals and improving operational efficiency through process optimisation and performance tracking.
In addition to her consulting work, she is an experienced Trainer, Facilitator and Business Coach, delivering international workshops on innovative thinking, business model development, and IP Management to students, startups, accelerators, and international project partners. She has been invited as a trainer to deliver the workshops for “Hackathon on Interoperability of Data Spaces and Digital Public Infrastructure”, “EU–India IDEATHON on Marine Plastic Pollution”, “Unite For Trade programme” and “Born Global Accelerator” led by Visionest Institute. The delegates have mastered the topics: “Innovative Thinking: methods and tools to boost the project”, “Ideation & Design Thinking tools”, “How to craft a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) and Commercial Offer that truly differentiates your business”, “Innovative thinking process as a creative function of the business”, “Exploitation strategy and IP Management plan for digital soutions”.
Her multidisciplinary background enables her to bridge the gap between technical innovation and commercial success.
Mónica Spreadbury
Senior Administrative Officer
Mónica Spreadbury is a bilingual (Spanish and English) Senior Administrative Officer 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. She has also been responsible for managing the websites and developing the virtual exhibitions. 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.