Mark Smith (academic)
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Professor Mark Smith FInstP |
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| 6th Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University | |
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Assumed office 1 January 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Wellings |
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor University of Warwick |
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In office 1 May 2010 – 31 December 2011 |
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| Succeeded by | Koen Lamberts |
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| Born | Mark Edmund Smith |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Awards | Fellow of the Institute of Physics |
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Churchill College, Cambridge University of Warwick |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Materials physics |
| Institutions |
CSIRO University of Kent University of Warwick Lancaster University |
Mark Edmund Smith, FInstP is a British physicist, academic, and academic administrator. He specialises in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and materials physics. Since January 2012, he has been Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University. He is also Professor of Solid State NMR in Lancaster's Department of Chemistry. He previously lectured at the University of Kent and the University of Warwick.
Smith was born and brought up in Suffolk, England. studied natural sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge, and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He undertook postgraduate research in physics at the University of Warwick, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree.
Smith began his career as an application scientist and worked for Bruker Analytische Messtechnik (part of the Bruker Corporation) in Germany. He then worked as a research scientist in the Division of Materials Science at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia.
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