Ian Walmsley
Ian Alexander Walmsley FRS 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.
Walmsley was educated at Imperial College London, and The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester. He received the Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science in 2011 and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2012 for his contributions to quantum optics and ultrafast optics, including his development of the spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction technique.
In March 2018 it was announced that Walmsley had been appointed provost of Imperial College London, succeeding James Stirling on 1 September 2018.
