# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nigel-shadbolt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:59:44.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nigel-shadbolt"
name: "Nigel Shadbolt"
slug: "nigel-shadbolt"
description: "Sir Nigel Richard Shadbolt is Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Tim Berners-Lee. He is also a visiting professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Shadbolt is an interdisciplinary researcher, policy expert and commentator. His research focuses on understanding how intelligent behaviour is embodied and emerges in humans, machines and, most recently, on the Web, and has made contributions to the fields of psychology, cognitive science, computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence, computer science and the emerging field of web science."
tagline: "Prinicipal of Jesus College, Oxford; Professor of Computer Science; Chairman of the Open Data Institute"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nigel_Shadbolt_Royal_Society.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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birthDate: "1956-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "Nigel_Shadbolt"
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    url:       "https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nigel.shadbolt"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump