Jim Al-Khalili

Biography

Jim Al-Khalili is a renowned Iraqi-British theoretical physicist and science populariser. He has held professorships at the University of Surrey, where he chairs in public engagement in science, and has been a regular broadcaster and presenter on BBC radio and television. Al-Khalili was named an EPSRC RISE leader in 2014 and served as President of Humanists UK from 2013 to 2016. He is a frequent commentator on science in various British media outlets.