Patrick Courtney Sila

Dr Patrick Courtney has 20 years’ industrial experience in the development of technology notably in the areas of sensing and robotics with a special focus on technology transfer. He has worked as director for global firm PerkinElmer, as well as at Sartorius and Cap Gemini, with spinouts, SMEs and clients in the life science and healthcare sectors. He has a long involvement in EU and national programmes, leads a European working group on analytical laboratory robotics and is member of board of directors of SiLA (Standards in Laboratory Automation). He holds an MBA with a PhD in Robotic Engineering/Molecular Biology, and has 100 publications and ten patents. Dr. Courtney can be contacted at: patrick.courtney@tec-connection.com.