CHRIS IMAFIDON

Chris Imafidon is a multi-award winning researcher and scientific pioneer. He is a member of the Information Age Executive Round-table forum - which is made up of the top 15 IT experts, decision-makers, CIOs, and executives in the UK. He is a consultant to government and industry leaders. He also has been a guest lecturer at the University of Oxford (Keble College) and a visiting Professor to various American Universities, including Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, SUNY, Georgetown, Miami, LSU, and has collaborated with scientists at Yale University. He continues to mentor postgraduate and undergraduate students at Imperial College, Cambridge, UCL and Kings College. He has served as head of the Management of Technology Unit at Queen Mary University of London.  Chris served on the Board of Governors, Woodford County High School (one of the nation's most successful schools) and he is currently an honorary member of the board of Excellence in Education programme (www.ExcellenceinEducation.org.uk)

In the early years of web commercialisation and usage, Chris pioneered the use of Internet-based technologies to start on-line publications. And current co-pioneering a more secured social media network for eruditional informatics (www.sleeky.net)

RESEARCH COVERAGE

Chris has made contributions and interview appearances on issues of learning, technology and educational achievements for the BBC, Sky News, and leading media outlets. His work, protégés, mentees, and students have been featured in major media outfits around the world, including  the BBC, CNN, ITV, Fox-News, Time Magazine, Sky News, Wall Street Journal, USA-Today, Newsweek, New York Times, Huffington Post, TV5,  Times, Guardian, Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Mirror, Sun, Voice, Express, Daily Star, Vancouver Sun, China Today, Loveworld TV (Sky Channel 586), NTA TV, Pretoria Times, India Today and many more (See www.imafidons.com). He has been described as an intellectual icon, and an international scholar by various leading media.

Chris Imafidon is rated as one of the most influential persons via social media (twitter @chrisimafidon). He has also been aired, recorded, web-casted, U-streamed and transmitted over multiple channels discussing learning, educational informatics, clinical informatics or computer security. He has mentored, and taught students who are widely regarded as geniuses after making them record breakers in all major examinations, including records in Technology and Mathematics beyond the current Guinness Book of World Records. His more mature students and mentees are captains of industry and academic leaders who regularly address NATO, and IEEE conferences. (http://twitter.com/ChrisImafidon)

AREAS OF CURRENT INTEREST

Clinical informatics, educational technology and computer security systems

AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT ON

Geofencing, Network security, Technology for learning, Knowledge acquisition,  Education, Genius, Exceptional ability and digital forensics.

RESEARCH THEME

Creative, Digital and Information Technology.

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