Dr Chris Smith - "the Naked Scientist" - is a medical doctor and a clinical lecturer in virology at Cambridge University where he is a fellow of Queens' College. He is also a science radio broadcaster and writer, and presents the Naked Scientists on the BBC, a programme which he founded in 2001.
In addition to the Naked Scientists, he appears each Monday morning on BBC Radio Five Live's Up All Night programme, and live every Friday morning on Australia's Radio National Breakfast, with an update of the week's science news. He is also a frequent contributor to Robyn Williams' "The Science Show" on the same station, and also appears on Johannesburg-based South African station TalkRadio 702 for thirty minutes every Friday morning with a half hour science news round up and listener phone-in.
Chris also founded and presented the first 100 episodes of the Nature Podcast for the journal Nature. This show was the first example of an international science journal producing an audio programme to supplement its printed content.
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The Naked Scientists is now one of the world's most downloaded science podcasts. It was also the first example of a BBC local and regional programme to be published as a podcast, and within its first twelve months received 2 million programme downloads. As of December 2009 the number of downloaded programme episodes exceeds 9 million internationally.
In September 2006 Chris published Naked Science, his first book, which is an anthology of science stories based on the material presented on The Naked Scientists. More recently, in September 2008, together with Naked Scientist colleague David Ansell he published "Crisp Packet Fireworks", a collection of 50 fun experiments to try at home. Crisp Packet Fireworks is currently on sale in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. In December 2008 Chris also published a sequel to "Naked Science", "The Return of the Naked Scientist", with Random House in Australia and New Zealand. He's now working on a fourth book, due out in 2009.
His work on the Naked Scientists also won Chris the Biosciences Federation Prize for Science Communication, 2006[1], the JOSH Award 2007[2], the Society for General Microbiology's Peter Wildy Prize 2008, the Royal Society Kohn Award 2008[3], the Best Radio Show Award at the Population Institute's 29th Global Media Awards, 2008[4], and the European Podcast Award for UK Non-Profit podcast.[5]
   | The Naked Scientists Podcast - - The Naked Scientists Naked Science Radio Show PODCAST - Stripping Down Science |
| | The Naked Scientists Website - The Naked Scientists Online, Science Podcast and Science Radio Show |
| | Bioscience Federation - Biosciences Federation - Home Page |
| | The Nature Podcast - Home : Nature podcast |
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