Dr. Hardy obtained his Ph.D. in 1990 from Syracuse University initially working in the area of computational chemistry, biophysics and computer-aided molecular modelling and design. Dr. Hardy has been working in the area of electronic communities and conferencing since 1994. He has organised close to 50 international virtual conferences in the area of the chemical, life and medical sciences. He has also developed technology solutions for internet-based conferencing, tutor-supported e-learning, laboratory automation systems and computational chemistry and informatics. Dr. Hardy was a National Research Fellow at the FDA Center for Biologics and Evaluation, a Hitchings-Elion Fellow at Oxford University and CEO of Virtual Environments International.
He recently chaired the EU-supported Eurotron Virtual Conferences in Glycobiology, and is currently managing the Knowledge Management in Pharma
& Life Sciences Hub. He lives in Switzerland where he works with Douglas Connect in the provision of virtual conferencing, community and knowledge management solutions for the life science, pharma and healthcare sectors. He also works closely with Colayer, a Swiss company dedicated to the development of knowledge-sharing collaborative software and social software.

Scientific Communication References

1. Hardy, BJ, Doughty, SW; Parretti, MF; Tennison, J; Finn, BE; Gardner, K. Internet conferences in NMR spectroscopy. Prog. Nucl. Magn. Reson. Spectrosc. 1997, 31, 107-117.
2. Hardy, BJ; Doughty, SW; Parretti, MF; Richards, WG; Tennison, J. First Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society Electronic Conference. J. Mol. Graph. 1997, 15, 141-144
3. Hardy, BJ, Doughty, SW; Parretti, MF; Tennison, J; Wilson, IBH. Internet conferences in glycobiology. Glycobiology, 1997, 7, R9-R12
4. Robinson, AJ; Hardy, BJ. Builder, an interactive molecular construction utility - Structural modelling using virtual reality on the web. Theochem-J. Mol. Struct., 1996, 368, 111-117.
5. Hardy, BJ; Wilson, IBH. Virtual resource development in the glycosciences, Glycoconjugate Journal, 1996, 13, 865-872.
6. Wilson, IBH, Hardy, BJ. Glycoscience and the Internet. Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology, 1996, 8, 301-310.
7. Hardy, BJ; Sweet, D. Virtual conferences. Trends in Cell Biology, 1996, 6, 363-365.
8. Hardy, BJ; Robinson, A; Doughty, S; Findsen, LA; Towell, ER; Towell, JF; Wilson, IBH. A new direction in conferencing: the First Electronic Glycoscience Conference. Trends in Biochemical Science, 1996, 21, 31-33.
9. Greene, RG; Hardy, BJ; Smith, SJ. Graduate education: Adapting to current realities, Issues in Science and Technology, 1996, 12, 59-66.
10. Hardy, BJ. Virtual Conferences on the Internet. TRP3, 1996, 10-11.
11. Hardy, BJ. Electronic Conferencing in Computational Chemistry. Chemical Design & Automation News, 1995, 16-23.
12. Hardy, BJ; Orzack, S. Fostering Young Investigators. Science, 1994, 266 (5187), 953-954.