Nima Golsharifi
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Nima Golsharifi is an engineer, inventor and author. He holds an MEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Southampton, an MSc in Nanotechnology from UCL and a PhD from UCL's Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He is a co-inventor on two granted US patents and the author of Dreamscape Code.
Engineering

Built by hand first

Mechanical engineering at Southampton taught him to design something, build it and watch it fail on the test rig. The Formula Student racing car made that literal: a car designed in CAD, then built and assembled by the team.

Nanotechnology

Down to the atom

An MSc in Nanotechnology at UCL moved the work from machines to materials: graphene–diamond structures, night-vision materials and supercapacitors, studied in the cleanroom one layer of atoms at a time.

Invention

From thesis to patents

His PhD at UCL turned nanodiamond into carbon nano-onions for energy storage. That line of work became patent filings in carbon materials and then in nuclear voltaic power: one US patent granted in 2025 and applications across nine families.

Building

Companies and code

He builds the software hands-on: more than 17,000 commits under his own account, across a post-quantum VPN, a browser, apps, finance infrastructure and an AI film studio.

Writing

Stories at human scale

Dreamscape Code, his first novel, follows a nurse into the worlds we enter in sleep. His next book, Gravity Doesn't Vote, is on its way from Tingle Press.

Milestones

Degrees, patents and books

  1. 2009

    MEng in Mechanical Engineering, University of Southampton, awarded 26 June 2009.

  2. 2011

    MSc in Nanotechnology, University College London, awarded 1 November 2011.

  3. 2018

    PhD, UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, 2018. Thesis: Carbon nano onions for the development of supercapacitors.

  4. Grand Finalist with Nano Diamond Battery (NDB) in Orano's start-up competition, "Let's reinvent nuclear industry together!", one of 14 start-ups in the final round.

  5. 2025

    Co-inventor, US Patent 12,394,534 B2, Nuclear voltaic power-source, granted 19 August 2025.

  6. 2026

    Author of Dreamscape Code, published by Tingle Press on 10 October 2026 in paperback, hardback and ebook, with an audiobook.

  7. 2026

    Co-inventor, US Patent 12,759,882 B2, Synthesis of carbon nano-onions by nanodiamond annealing and functionalization of carbon materials, granted 13 October 2026.

Off the clock

Chess, cars and calligraphy

  • Chess: second place in the London schools chess challenge
  • Mathematics: gold certificate in the UK Senior Mathematical Challenge, 2004
  • Motor racing
  • Calligraphy
  • Photography
  • Football, tennis and swimming
  • Mentoring young entrepreneurs

Work with Nima

Strategy sessions, advisory, software builds and speaking.

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