Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili OBE is a professor of theoretical nuclear physics at the University of Surrey where he currently teaches and conducts research. He received his PhD in nuclear reaction theory in 1989 from Surrey before working as an SERC Postdoctoral Fellow at UCL. He returned to Surrey and was awarded a five year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship in 1994 before being appointed as a permanent member of staff in 1999. He was promoted to a dual chair in both physics and in public engagement in 2005. Despite his profile as a public scientist, as an author and broadcaster, Jim continues to teach undergraduate physics and carry out research. He has published over one hundred papers in nuclear reaction physics, quantum mechanics and quantum biology. He is a recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday medal, the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal and the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication.