Chris Smith, The Naked Scientist

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 is the former producer and presenter of The Nature Podcast, for the journal Nature.

Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists is now one of the world's most downloaded science podcasts. It was also the first 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.

Books
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. In the pipeline are several new titles with publishers in the UK and Australia.

Awards
His work on the Naked Scientists also won Chris the Bioscience Federation Prize for Science Communication, 2006.