Ian Randal Fisher is a

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-based British

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and Director of the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials at

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Ian R. Fisher was born and educated in the

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. He did his undergraduate study at the School of Physics and Space Research at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

in England from 1989 to 1992. He graduated with a BSc in

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from Birmingham University in 1993. He was a research assistant at the New Zealand Institute for Industrial Research, in

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, in 1993. He did his PhD at the

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, in England from 1993 to 1996. Fisher was appointed Director of the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials at

, in the

in 2013. He was also appointed Professor of Applied Physics at

in 2013. He heads the Fisher Research Group at the Gaballe Laboratory. Ian Fisher receives funding from the

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(DOE) to support his research in the synthesis and physical properties of exotic new materials. Fisher was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2014. He received the Dean's award for Distinguished Teaching in 2004.

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