Mark Smith (physicist)

Mark Smith
President and Vice-Chancellor
University of Southampton
Assumed office
1 October 2019
Preceded byChristopher Snowden
Vice-Chancellor
Lancaster University
In office
1 January 2012 – 30 September 2019
Preceded byPaul Wellings
Succeeded byAndrew John Schofield
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
University of Warwick
In office
1 May 2010 – 31 December 2011
Succeeded byKoen Lamberts
Personal details
Born
Mark Edmund Smith
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materChurchill College, Cambridge
University of Warwick
Salary£332,000 (2022–23)[1]
AwardsFellow of the Institute of Physics
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials physics
ThesisA high resolution multinuclear magnetic resonance study of ceramic phases (1987)
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with unknown parameter "workplaces"

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]

  1. ^ "Financial Statements 2022-2023" (PDF). University of Southampton. p. 30.
  2. ^ "Outrage at uni's choice to host in-person exams for few subjects 'picked at random'". 12 January 2022.