Mark Smith | |
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President and Vice-Chancellor University of Southampton | |
Assumed office 1 October 2019 | |
Preceded by | Christopher Snowden |
Vice-Chancellor Lancaster University | |
In office 1 January 2012 –30 September 2019 | |
Preceded by | Paul Wellings |
Succeeded by | Andrew John Schofield |
Deputy Vice-Chancellor University of Warwick | |
In office 1 May 2010 –31 December 2011 | |
Succeeded by | Koen Lamberts |
Personal details | |
Born | Mark Edmund Smith |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Churchill College,Cambridge University of Warwick |
Salary | £332,000 (2022–23) [1] |
Awards | Fellow of the Institute of Physics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Materials physics |
Thesis | A high resolution multinuclear magnetic resonance study of ceramic phases (1987) |
Mark Edmund Smith, CBE , FInstP (born March 1963) is a British physicist,academic,and academic administrator. He specialises in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and materials physics. Since October 2019,he has been the President and Vice-Chancellor of University of Southampton,having previously held the office of Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University,and Professor of Solid State NMR in its Department of Chemistry since 2012. He has previously lectured at the University of Kent and the University of Warwick. [2]
Smith was born and brought up in Suffolk,England. [3] studied natural sciences at Churchill College,Cambridge,and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. [4] He undertook postgraduate research in physics at the University of Warwick,graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. [5]
Smith began his career as an application scientist and worked for Bruker Analytische Messtechnik (part of the Bruker Corporation) in Germany. [5] He then worked as a research scientist in the Division of Materials Science at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. [3]
Smith's research specialises in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and materials physics. [6] [4]
In 1992,Smith returned to England and began his academic career,having been appointed a lecturer at the University of Kent. [4] He was later promoted to reader in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. [3]
In 1998,Smith moved to the University of Warwick where he had been appointed a reader in its Department of Physics. [6] [7] He was later promoted to Professor of Physics. [3] He was appointed Chair of the Faculty of Science in 2005 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research in 2007. [4] On 1 May 2010,he was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC),making him the second most senior academic at the University of Warwick. [8] As DVC,he deputised for the Vice-Chancellor of the university when needed,and was in charge of all academic resourcing issues (with a budget of £240 million),of human resources and of the university's capital program. [7] [8]
On 5 August 2011,Smith was announced as the next Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University. [9] He took up the post on 1 January 2012,becoming the university's sixth Vice Chancellor since it was established. [9] [7] [3] He was also appointed Professor of Solid State NMR in the Department of Chemistry. [7] He was paid £271,000 in 2012/13 academic year and £281,000 in 2013/14 academic year. [10]
In April 2019,it was announced that Smith would be moving to the University of Southampton as its next President and Vice-Chancellor. He took up the appointments on 1 October 2019. [11]
Outside of his university work,Smith has held a number of appointments. In 2012 and 2013,he chaired a review into the content of A-Levels. [12] From 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2015,he was a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales. [5] In December 2014,he became a trustee of Jisc (previously called the Joint Information Systems Committee). [13] As of March 2015 [update] ,he is the Chair of the Board of the Higher Education Careers Service Unit. [14] He is also currently Chair of Advance HE's Board of Directors. [15]
Smith is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP). [4] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to research and higher education. [16]
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