Prior to joining the Faculty of Engineering in August 2013, Nic Smith was Head of Biomedical Engineering at Kings College, London and before that Professor of Computational Physiology at the University Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford. He is a Honorary Consultant at Guys and St Thomas' Hospital London and a Fellow of the Newton Institute University of Cambridge. 

Professor Smith leads a computational modelling group which is currently a central contributor to the European based Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Project. He has authored over 150 peer reviewed journal publications, 300 conference publications and is on the editorial board for the international peer review journals including the Journal of Physiology, Microcirculation, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing and International journal of Computational Methods in Bioengineering. He is the lead-author on several patent applications filed with the United States and European Patent Offices, which outline intellectual property covering the development of anatomically based physiological models and specific applications.

Qualifications:
BE(Hons), PhD