Jim Al-Khalili
Born: 1962-09-20 in Baghdad, Iraq
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jameel Sadik "Jim" Al-Khalili (Arabic: جميل صادق الخليلي; born September 20, 1962) is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist and science populariser. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey. He is a regular broadcaster and presenter of science programmes on BBC radio and television, and a frequent commentator about science in other British media.
Filmography
2025
- Secrets of the Brain as Self - Presenter
2024
- Cunk on Life as Self
2023
2022
2020
- Secrets of the Solar System as Narrator
2019
- Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World as Self - Presenter
2018
- Cunk on... as Self - Professor of Public Engagement in Science
- The Joy of AI as Self - Presenter
2017
- Gravity and Me: The Force That Shapes Our Lives as Himself - Presenter
- The Amazing World of Gravity
- Amazing Gravity as Self
- Unser Universum - Geburt und Untergang ... (Director)
2016
- The Beginning and End of the Universe as Himself - Presenter
- The Beginning and End of the Universe as Self
- Light and Dark as Self - Presenter
2015
- Britain's Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield as Himself - Presenter
2014
- The Secrets of Quantum Physics as Self - Presenter
2013
- The Science of Doctor Who as Self
2012
- The Science of Doctor Who
- Order and Disorder as Self - Presenter
2011
- Pointless Celebrities as Self
- A Night with the Stars as Self
- Everything and Nothing as Jim Al-Khalili
- A Night with the Stars as Participant
- Fukushima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?
- Everything and Nothing as Self - Presenter
- Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity as Self - Presenter
- Everything and Nothing ... (Presenter)
2010
- The Secret Life of Chaos as Himself - Presenter
- Between Now... and Now! Science and "The Time Monster" as Self
- Chemistry: A Volatile History as Self - Presenter
- Genius of Britain as Presenter
2009
- Science And Islam as Self - Presenter
2008
- Lost Horizons: The Big Bang as Guest Star
2007
- Atom as Presenter