Mark Smith | |
|---|---|
| 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]