Professor David Smith

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Professor David Smith
BA, PhD(Cantab)

Professorial Teaching Fellow

Office S224
Cantock's Close,
Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TS
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 928 8163
david.m.smith@
bristol.ac.uk

Biography

David Smith was born and brought up in Durham. As an undergraduate, he studied Natural Sciences at Girton College, Cambridge, where he remained to perform research in infrared laser spectroscopy, being awarded his PhD in 1992.

Following post-doctoral work at the Universities of Birmingham and Southampton, he was appointed to a lectureship in the School of Chemistry at the University of Exeter in 1997. Whilst in Exeter, he acted as undergraduate admissions tutor for four years and was involved in undergraduate teaching at all levels, in just about every area of physical chemistry. His interests and experience in undergraduate teaching ...

Recent publications

Shallcross, D, Allan, N, Shallcross, K, Croker, S, Smith, D, May, P, Harrison, T & J, PG 2011, ‘Solving the maths problem in chemistry: the impact of a pre-university maths summer school’. Higher Education academy UK Physical Sciences Centre
Dulai, A, Bod, Hd, Hanton, M, Smith, D, Downing, S, Mansell, S & Wass, D 2009, ‘C-Substituted Bis(diphenylphosphino)methane-Type Ligands for Chromium-Catalyzed Selective Ethylene Oligomerization Reactions’. Organometallics, vol 28., pp. 4613 - 4616

School of Chemistry

Professor David Smith