Professor Peter Smith

Career History

2011- 2023: Director. Institute for Life Sciences (IfLS), University of Southampton, UK.

2011-present: Professor of Life Sciences. School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, UoS.

2018-2019: Rosalind Franklin Institute, Harwell (RFI): Non-executive Director 2018 – 2021;

2021 – present: Rosalind Franklin Institute Audit and Risk committee 

2020 - present: EPSRC Value for Money Committee RFI

2013-present: Visiting Fellow, Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK.

2008-2011: Director. Cellular Dynamics Program, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), USA.

2008-2011: Adjunct Professor of Engineering (Research). Brown University, RI.

2002-2008: Director. Molecular Physiology Program, MBL, USA.

1999-2011: Senior Scientist, MBL, USA.

1996-2011: Director and Principal Investigator. NIH BioCurrents Research Center, MBL.

1994-1996: Director and PI. NIH Probe Facility, MBL.

1992-1993: Co-Director. NIH Probe Facility, MBL, USA. (With L. F. Jaffe).

1992-1999: Associate Scientist. MBL, USA.

1990-1991: Senior Scientific Officer and Lab. Leader. AFRC Laboratory of Molecular Signalling, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge and the Babraham Research Institute, UK.

1987-1990: Higher Scientific Officer. AFRC Unit of Insect Neurophysiology and Pharmacology, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.

1986-1991: Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, UK.

1985-1987: Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of Cambridge. Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge, UK.

1982-1984: Research Associate. University of Cambridge, Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge, UK (With J. E. Treherne).

1979-1982: Research Associate. University of Manchester, UK. (With D.M. Guthrie).

Selected Service and Civic Engagement

2020- present  Wessex Health Partners Steering Committee.

2020-2022   Wessex Health Partners Steering Group and start and finish planning group. Tasked with building the Discovery, Governance and Innovation template. Complete 2022 with the Partnership launched that year.

2022    Co-sponsor Life Science in the Central South: Southern Policy Centre Dir Prof John Denham

2020-2021    University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust COVID-19 Assessment Panel

2019-present    Secretary to Lockerley and East Dean Memorial Hall.

2019     Non-executive Director Renovos

2018-present    Regional Steering Committee BBSRC IKC National Biofilms Innovation Centre

2017-2018     Bioscience Representative to the regional Government Local Enterprise Partnership Innovation South Strategic Steering Group. Regional Industrial Policy.

2015-2016     Oversight for life sciences portfolio, Enterprise M3 and Solent LEPs

2013-2014    Oversight Board: Swindon and Wiltshire Health and Life Sciences Business Plan

2012-present    Joint Research Strategy Board, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton

2008-2011    Steering Committee, Brown Univ. and Women and Infants Hospital, Clinical Translational Science Initiative.

2008-2011     Advisory Committee, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia

2007-2011     Member, Institute for Molecular & Nanoscale Innovation, Division of Engineering, Brown Univ.

2001-2011     Member of the Astrobiology Program, MBL

2001 & 2002    Ad hoc Member of the Endocrinology Study Section NIH

2001       Steering committee for the MBL workshop on – Futures for Microscopy at the MBL

1999-present    Consultant, CIR Biomedical Technology and Engineering, Falmouth

1999-2011        Steering Committee for the consortium in biomedical engineering, Univ. of Rhode Island

1999-2010     Elected (3 terms) to the MBL Science Council

1998        Appointed to the Graduate Board of the University of Rhode Island

1997-2011       Consultant on NIH/NIDDK award Program Project Grant NIH DK 38452 Renal Unit Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University, Protein Transport P.I.: D. Brown

1996-2011    Chair, Optics Committee, Children’s School of Science, Woods Hole, MA

1996, 2003,    Special Study Section NIH: NCRR & NIBIB: 1996, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 (twice), and 2008 (twice).

1995-2011     Professor, (Adjunct) Zoology Dept., University Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I.

Education 

1991: MA Neurosciences. University of Cambridge, UK.
1976-1979: PhD Comparative Cardiovascular Physiology. University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
1972-1976: BSc Zoology (1st Class). University of Aberdeen, UK.