Mark Smith (physicist)

Mark Smith
President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton
Assumed office
1 October 2019
Preceded byChristopher Snowden
Vice Chancellor of the Lancaster University
In office
1 January 2012 – 30 September 2019
Preceded byPaul Wellings
Succeeded byAndy Schofield
Personal details
BornMark Edmund Smith
EducationChurchill College, Cambridge (BSc)
University of Warwick (MSc, PhD)
AwardsFellow of the Institute of Physics
Scientific career
FieldsMaterials physics
Institutions
ThesisA High Resolution Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Ceramic Phases (1987)
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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.