Prof. Alastair Smith,
CEO
Alastair is the chief executive and one of the founders of Avacta. He has a degree and PhD in Physics from Manchester University and, after working in the US for a period, took up a position at Leeds University in 1995. Alastair has spent the last 10 years developing new biophysical technologies and applying them to problems in structural molecular biology. At the age of 38 he was awarded a Chair of Molecular Biophysics for this work and he also holds the Directorship of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics at Leeds University. He co-founded Avacta in January 2004.
