Ian J. Thompson is a Nuclear Physicist in the Nuclear Data and Theory Group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, having until 2006 been Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey, UK. His research deals with coupled-channels and few-body models for nuclear structure and reactions, especially concerning halo nuclei. He has also written on the foundations of quantum mechanics and mind-body interactions. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and of the American Physical Society.