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Professor Graham P. Smith is a leading academic in astrophysics and astronomy at the University of Birmingham's School of Physics and Astronomy. He holds a Professorship and oversees roles such as Undergraduate Programme Lead for Physics and Astrophysics. His research focuses on gravitational lensing, galaxy clusters, cosmology, and multi-messenger astronomy, with pioneering contributions to projects like the Local Cluster Substructure Survey (LoCuSS). He has held honorary positions at Caltech and the University of Bradford’s School of Management.
Smith received a BA in Physics from the University of Oxford (1991), qualified as a Chartered Accountant (1994), then pivoted to academia with a PhD in Astrophysics from Durham University (2002). He was a Royal Society University Research Fellow (2005–2008) and has been recognized with awards including the Royal Astronomical Society’s Fowler Award (2007) and the Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship (2021).
His research interests include gravitational lensing of explosive transients, multi-messenger astronomy, and cosmological studies using the Vera Rubin Observatory. He leads collaborations such as the Rubin/LSST Strong Lensing Science Collaboration and the 4MOST Strong Lensing Spectroscopic Legacy Survey. Smith’s work bridges observational astronomy, computational modeling, and theoretical cosmology.
He has served on panels for funding bodies like the Royal Society, STFC, and international agencies, and actively contributes to academic governance through roles like Director of the University of Birmingham Observatory (2012–2016) and Co-Chair of the Rubin/LSST Strong Lensing Science Collaboration.
