![Portrait of IAN WALMSLEY](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/medien/4/bilder/fw2023_circle_ian_walmsley.jpg?h=a0841472&itok=sCGFq8Yj)
Jury Chair
Imperial College London
Ian Walmsley
- 2023
- Speaker
- Circle
- 2024
- Jury
- Physical Sciences
- 2023
- Jury
- Physical Sciences
- 2018
- Jury
- Physical Sciences
Professor Ian Walmsley FRS is a prominent physicist known for his contributions to the field of quantum optics and quantum technologies. He currently serves as the Provost of Imperial College London, where he has played a key role in advancing research and education in science, engineering, medicine and business. He is also Chair of Experimental Physics at Imperial and is the chair and co-founder of ORCA Computing. Professor Walmsley graduated from Imperial College London with first-class honours in physics in 1980 and completed his PhD at the University of Rochester. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and Optica; of which he was elected President in 2018.