sentences:  In 2008, Smith was appointed "Honorarprofessor" (i.e., honorary professor) at the University of Heidelberg.Smith has performed and directed research in a wide variety of fields, ranging from physics and chemistry through to practical areas such as renewable energy, environmental science and medicine.He has made advances in the high-performance computer simulation of biological macromolecules, neutron scattering in biology, the physics of proteins, enzyme catalysis, bioenergy, environmental biogeochemistry, and early-stage drug discovery  , and in the latter his group has discovered experimentally-validated lead compounds for many different protein targets and for a variety of diseases such as diabetes, prostate cancer, bacterial infections and osteoporosis.