Ian Smail

Ian Smail
Born
Ian Robert Smail
NationalityBritish
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge (MA)
Durham University (PhD)
AwardsPhilip Leverhulme Prize (2001)
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2013)
Herschel Medal (2025)
Scientific career
InstitutionsDurham University
ThesisGravitational lensing by rich clusters of galaxies (1993)
Doctoral advisorRichard Ellis
Websiteastro.dur.ac.uk/~irs/

Ian Robert Smail is a British astrophysicist. He is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Durham University Department of Physics, based in the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, itself part of the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics.

He has been ranked as one of the most highly-cited researchers in Space Sciences.