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Ian Main
Born	United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of St Andrews Durham University University of Edinburgh
Awards	Louis Néel Medal (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Seismology
Institutions	University of Edinburgh

Ian Graham Main is a British geophysicist. He is a Professor of Seismology and Rock Physics at the University of Edinburgh.

Main completed undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of St Andrews. He received a MSc from Durham University in 1980, and earned his PhD in Seismology from the University of Edinburgh in 1986. He joined Reading University as a lecturer in Geophysics in 1985, and returned to Edinburgh in 1989; he was subsequently appointed Reader in 1996, and to a personal chair in Seismology and Rock Physics in 2000.

In 1997, Main delivered the Bullerwell Lecture of the British Geophysical Association. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). He was awarded the Louis Néel Medal of the European Geophysical Society in 2014, and gave the Ed Lorenz lecture in Non-linear Geophysics at the centennial meeting of the American Geophysical Union in 2019.