# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-walmsley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:31:31.152Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-walmsley"
name: "Ian Walmsley"
slug: "ian-walmsley"
description: "Ian Alexander Walmsley is Provost of Imperial College London where he is also Chair of Experimental Physics. He was previously pro-vice-chancellor for research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford, and a professorial fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He is also director of the NQIT hub within the UK National Quantum Technology Programme, which is led by the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He will return to Oxford from October 2025 as Director of the Oxford Quantum Institute."
tagline: "British physicist"
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birthDate: "1960-01-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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    title: "Уолмсли, Иэн"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump