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Professor Alan Smith is a Professor of Biopolymer Science in the Department of Pharmacy within the School of Applied Sciences at the University of Huddersfield. He serves as Director of the Biopolymer Research Centre and is a member of the Institute of Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention. Smith graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Biochemical Science from the University of Salford in 1997 and earned his PhD from Cranfield University, where he developed polysaccharide substitutes for gelatin in pharmaceutical capsule production under the supervision of Prof. Ed Morris. Following his doctorate, he worked for two years as a formulation scientist in the pharmaceutical industry and then as a polysaccharide chemist at Industrial Research Limited in Wellington, New Zealand. Upon returning to the UK, he held research fellow positions at the University of Birmingham School of Dentistry, Aston University School of Pharmacy—focusing on 3D cell scaffolds and polysaccharide-based drug delivery systems—and later in the tissue regeneration and interface laboratory in Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. He joined the University of Huddersfield as Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics in March 2011, was promoted to Reader in 2016, and to Professor in 2018.