Chris Smith (science communicator)
Dr Chris Smith - "the Naked Scientist" - is a medical doctor and a clinical lecturer in virology at Cambridge University. He is also a science radio broadcaster and writer, and presents the Naked Scientists on the BBC, a programme which he founded in 2001.
He appears each Monday morning on BBC Radio Five Live's Up All Night programme, every Friday morning on Australia's ABC Radio National Breakfast show, with an update of the week's science news, and contributes to Robyn Williams' "The Science Show" on the same station. He also produces and presents The Nature Podcast, for the journal Nature.
He recently published Naked Science, his first book, which is an anthology of science stories based on the material presented on The Naked Scientists over the last three years.