Neil Harrison achieved a degree in Pure and Applied Physics at Salford University, UK, and went on to work in the space industry for Marconi Space and the German Space Operations Centre near Munich, working on various satellite and NASA space shuttle programmes. He then worked as a consultant for DEC, Compaq and HP at Annecy in the French Alps, engaged in developing and troubleshooting complex systems. (Biography continues below.)
He created and was CEO of a number of companies involved in consultancy in the telecoms and networks fields, creating various intelligent communications devices for DEC, Compaq and HP. As part of this work, he travelled around Europe and the rest of the world, with interesting missions in Moscow, Australia and the USA.
His first published book was in the High Horizons series and appeared in 2016, followed in 2017 by High Horizons in Switzerland. In 2019 his first major scientific work, The Evolution of Europeans, was published by Algora Publishing, New York. He now has eight titles to his name, three of which have been translated into French.
In his spare time, he acts in films, alongside such well known personalities as Roman Polanski, Mickey Rourke etc., and in TV series, as well as practising fly-fishing, turning fruit wood bowls, ski mountaineering and mountain biking.