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Professor David K. Smith Highlights

Awards and Prizes

• Bob Hay Lectureship Award 2011
  This prestigious lectureship award is given to a younger chemist working in the area of macrocyclic and/or supramolecular chemistry in its widest sense.
• Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Award 2005
  Citation: ‘Distinguished as a lecturer with great commitment and enthusiasm whose teaching skills and innovation in the lecture and laboratory have had a notable impact on the success of undergraduates and the motivation of schoolteachers and their students’.

Highly cited independent research papers

• Dave's h index is currently 37 (5 January 2012).

Selected Invited lectures at international conferences

• RSC/CRSI/EPSRC Joint Meeting, Delhi, 2007
• International Dendrimer Symposium 5, Toulouse, 2007
• Nanoscale Chiralty Meeting, Sitges, Spain, 2007
• EU COST Meeting on Nanostructured Gels, Zagreb, Croatia, 2007
• Biodendrimer Meeting - Plenary Speaker - Lodz, Poland, 2008
• Royal Society Interdisciplinary Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 2008
• Symposium Organiser - EUChem 2, Turin, Italy, 2008
• University of Castellon, ICIQ Tarragona, Invited Lectures, Spain, 2009.
• International Supramolecular Chemistry Conference, Invited Speaker, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2009 
• 240th ACS Meeting, Boston, USA, 2010
• RSC/Unilever International Symposium on Functional Materials Science, Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai, China, 2010
• International Supramolecular and Macrocyclic Chemistry Conference, Brighton, UK, 2011
• ACS Meeting (2 invited lectures), Denver, USA, 2011 
  

Invited visiting professor

• Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006
• Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, 2005

Editor of two ‘Special Issues’ of Tetrahedron

• Recent Developments in Dendrimer Chemistry, 2003
• Low Molecular Weight Organic Gelators, 2007

Public Engagement

• Lectured to over twenty thousand A’ level students since 1999.
  Current lecture: Nanochemistry – Delivering New Medicines?
• Presentations at Cafe Scientifique on Nanomedicine
• Presentations at British Academy Festival of Science (2007).
• Current lectures: 'Nanochemistry - Delivering New Medicines?' and 'Marvellous Molecular Nanomaterials'
• Merchant Adventurers' Science Discovery Lecturer, 2010
• Dave has a YouTube channel for organic chemistry
  

European COST Network - TD0802 - Dendrimers in Biomedicine.

March 2009-February 2012 - Vice Chair