Lorna Smith

Biography

Lorna J Smith is a Professor of Chemistry and the Peacock Tutorial Fellow at St. Hilda’s College. Her research uses a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches to characterise native and non-native protein folds. Lorna has a long-term collaboration with Wilfred van Gunsteren and co-workers at the ETH in Zurich where she was a visiting professor in 2010. From 1994-2001, Lorna was a Royal Society University Research Fellow and prior to that a Junior Research Fellow at St. Cross College Oxford. Both these fellowships were held in the Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences. Lorna studied for both her BA and D.Phil. in Chemistry at the University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall) and did her D.Phil. in the lab of Chris Dobson using 3D NMR techniques, which were at that time very new, to determine the structures of the proteins human interleukin-4 and hen lysozyme in solution.