Philip N. Smith

Bio

Dr. Phil Smith is originally from Paducah, Kentucky where he graduated from Saint Mary High School.  Dr. Smith’s undergraduate degree in chemistry and biology was completed at Murray State University in 1989.  After working in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries for three years, Phil began his graduate work at Clemson University’s Institute of Wildlife and Environmental Toxicology.  He then transferred to Texas Tech University in 1997.  His dissertation research was done near his home in western Kentucky at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant where he examined rodent and raccoon exposure and responses to polychlorinated biphenyls and metals.  He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Environmental Toxicology from Texas Tech in 2000. 

Dr. Smith then joined The Institute of Environmental & Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech as a Research Assistant Professor.  In 2002, Dr. Smith was appointed Assistant Professor and has since advanced to Associate Professor.  Dr. Smith is an ecotoxicologist whose research interests center on ecological and physiological characteristics of organisms, populations, and environments that contribute to contaminant exposure and adverse effects.  His research examines exposure and pathways of contaminant exposure among mammals, birds, and a variety of aquatic organisms, trophic-level transfer of environmental contaminants, and physiological and population-level responses to contaminant exposure. 

Dr. Smith is married and has two wonderfully exuberant boys…

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