Jim Al-Khalili
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Al-Khalili in 2014
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| Born | Jameel Sadik Al-Khalili 20 September 1962 Baghdad, Iraq |
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| Residence | Southsea, Hampshire, United Kingdom | ||
| Citizenship | British | ||
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| Alma mater | University of Surrey (BSc, PhD) | ||
| Thesis | Intermediate Energy Deuteron Elastic Scattering from Nuclei in a Three-Body Model | ||
| Doctoral advisor | Professor Jeff Tostevin | ||
| Known for | The Life Scientific | ||
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| Spouse | Julie Frampton | ||
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Jameel Sadik “Jim” Al-Khalili OBE (Arabic: جميل صادق الخليلي; born 20 September 1962) is a British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is currently Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey. He has presented a number of science programmes on BBC television and is a frequent commentator about science in other British media. In 2014 Al-Khalili was named as a RISE (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers) leader by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). He was President of the British Humanist Association between January 2013 and January 2016.
Born in Baghdad in 1962 to an Iraqi father and an English mother, Al-Khalili settled permanently in the UK in 1979. After completing his A-levels in 1982, he studied physics at the University of Surrey and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1986. He stayed on at Surrey to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy degree in nuclear reaction theory, which he obtained in 1989, rather than accepting a job offer from the National Physical Laboratory.
In 1989, Al-Khalili was awarded a Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) postdoctoral fellowship at University College London, after which he returned to Surrey in 1991, first as a research assistant, then as a lecturer. In 1994, Al-Khalili was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Advanced Research Fellowship for five years, during which time he established himself as a leading expert on mathematical models of exotic atomic nuclei. He has published widely in his field.
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