sentences:  He then became the first chaired professor in computational biology in Germany, when appointed at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 1998.In October 2006 Smith became the first Governor's Chair at the University of Tennessee and also Director of the UT/ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.His move to Tennessee arose from the presence at ORNL of world-class supercomputing capabilities,  and the Spallation Neutron Source, as the combination of neutron scattering with computer simulation has been a sustained interest of his.