Chris Smith is a medical consultant in clinical microbiology and virology at Cambridge University and its teaching hospital, Addenbrooke's. Chris is a member of the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), which offers accessible, affordable, part-time courses covering a range of disciplines. He is also a Fellow Commoner at Queens' College, Cambridge.

Chris laid the foundations for the Naked Scientists radio show, podcast and website back in 1999. 

Previously, Chris also created the Royal Society of Chemistry's "Chemistry World" and "Chemistry in its Element" podcasts, he founded and presented the first 100 episodes of the Nature Podcast for the journal Nature, and he has since also launched "The eLife Podcast" for the eLife open access online journal.

Chris has published 4 popular science books internationally; one of them - Crisp Packet Fireworks (now re-published under the title "BOOM!"), was co-authored with fellow Naked Scientist Dave Ansell.