09/2012 – present Bairen Research Professor ! ! ! ! Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences 09/2009 – 08/2012 Bairen Research Professor ! ! ! ! Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), Peking University 05/2007 – 09/2009 Postdoctoral Research Associate ! ! ! ! Institute of Astronomy (IoA), University of Cambridge 11/2004 – 04/2007 Postdoctoral Research Associate ! ! ! ! Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen 10/2003 – 10/2004 Postdoctoral Research Associate ! ! ! ! Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester 09/2000 – 09/2003 Ph.D entitled ‘Gravitational microlensing within our Galaxy’ !!!! Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester 1995 – 1999 ! ! MSci Mathematical Physics ! ! ! ! School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham TEACHING EXPERIENCE PhD Supervision (Beijing: 2009 - ) As part of the GREAT network (a Marie Curie RTN focussed on Gaia), I am lead supervisor for a PhD student on a project investigating the evolution of the Milky Way disc. I am also involved in co-supervising a number of PhD students in Beijing. I already have one paper from this (Wang & Smith 2011) and am working on further papers. Many of these students have presented work at international conferences. Galaxies Lecture Course (Beijing: 2011) Jointly gave an introductory graduate lecture course entitled ‘Galaxies’. This course, which is offered by the Chinese Academy of Science, is open to graduate students from across Beijing and typically consists of around 40 students. My contribution totalled 12.5 hrs contact time. Undergraduate Project Supervision (Cambridge: 2008-2009) (i) Independently supervised a finalyear undergraduate student on a six month research project. He utilised the latest data from the RAVE spectroscopic survey to investigate kinematics of stars in the solar neighbourhood. (ii) Independently supervised an undergraduate student who worked at the IoA over the Summer vacation. She undertook an analysis of disc kinematics using SDSS data, which has been published as Smith, Whiteoak & Evans (2012) with my student as second author. Undergraduate Tutor (Cambridge: 2008-2009) Supervised five pairs of third-year undergraduate students for a course on “Stellar Dynamics and the Structure of Galaxies”. This involved a series of five one-hour tutorials plus marking of scripts. I also had to devise and conduct a revision tutorial as preparation for their exam. I received feedback showing that the students were very happy with my performance. Joint Supervisor For “Klein Onderzoek” Project (Groningen: 2007) Jointly supervised an undergraduate student on a six-month research project entitled “Distance determination for RAVE stars using stellar models”. The work has been published in A&A (Breddels et al. 2010). Martin C. Smith Curriculum Vitae 1 NOTABLE RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS Publications. I have 35 refereed papers, 12 of which are first-author publications, with a total of over 1,000 citations (after excluding the SDSS and RAVE data release papers). All published papers can be downloaded from the ADS link here: http://tinyurl.com/mcs-pub. Generate funds and develop my own research group. My time in China has allowed me to develop the skills necessary to become a successful faculty member. I have been awarded a significant amount of grants (over 350k GBP), which has enabled me to build a small group consisting of one postdoc (Faccioli; 2011-2012) one graduate student (Molloy; 2011-2015) and a number of other shared graduate students (Zhu, Du, Wang). In the past two years these graduate students have published one paper and a further two papers are currently in draft form. I have also worked with close to 10 undergraduate students, taking lead supervision duties for around half of them - this has produced two papers (Breddels et al. 2010; Smith, Whiteoak & Evans 2012). I have worked with various Chinese students and aim to continue working with them upon moving to the UK, e.g. by pursuing exchange visits and sharing students. Institutional development. Due to the relative youth of the Kavli Institute in Beijing, there have been many opportunities to help mould its development. I have been actively involved in many facets, participating in the graduate student working group and leading an effort to oversee the development of the postdoc program. Before this, while at Cambridge, I instigated and chaired a bi-weekly discussion group for the graduate students involved in local group research, in order to improve their ability to communicate and increase their level of interaction with each other and the postdocs. I have also chaired a number of seminar series at the various institutes which I have worked. Invited speaker for a number of meetings and colloquia. Throughout my career I have given over 30 talks at conferences, workshops and colloquia, and have been invited to give a review talk at an upcoming IAU Symposium. Observational expertise. In recent years I have also begun to develop my skills as an observational astronomer, leading two programs which have recently been awarded time: a photometric project on CFHT in Hawaii and a multi-object spectroscopic project on MMT in Arizona. These two programs have been carried out using Chinese time, which I would continue to pursue with my collaborators in China. Research connections, both within China and abroad. My time in China has given me a great opportunity to make ties with the important surveys that are being led here. The most prominent of these is the LAMOST spectroscopic project, for which I am PI of the project "6D kinematics of the solar neighbourhood". I am also involved in a number of other international partnerships, most-notably I am playing a leading role in Peking University’s involvement in a Marie Curie FP7 Initial Training Network (GREAT), which is designed to coordinate the scientific exploitation of the Gaia mission and is bringing in 200K GBP to Peking University over the next four years. Other working group that I am involved in include the "Gaia-ESO survey" team (PI Gerry Gilmore, University of Cambridge), which is large spectroscopic survey which will be carried out on the VLT over the coming 4 years. Lead scientific organiser of the conference “Chemistry, dynamics and structure of the Milky Way” (07/2010). Lead scientific organiser of the large international Summer KIAA Workshop. I took charge of assembling the list of invited speakers, deciding which contributed talks to allocate, constructing the program and the general running of the meeting. I also gave the closing remarks. Public Engagement. I have carried out a range of outreach activities, including involvement in press releases based on my papers, giving and arranging talks to general audience, and participating in a work-shadowing scheme for high-school pupils.