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Professor Paul Smith is Professor of Neuropharmacology in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Otago. He holds a BA(Hons), PhD from the University of Sydney (1987), Graduate Diploma in Applied Statistics, Master of Applied Statistics (Hons), and DSc in Vestibular Neuroscience from the University of Otago (2014). His career at the University of Otago began in October 1987 as a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, conducting research on neural mechanisms of vestibular compensation in collaboration with Cynthia Darlington, funded by a grant from the New Zealand Medical Research Council. In 1995, he was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and promoted to Professor with a personal chair in 1999. He contributes to teaching neuropharmacology, including the course PHAL423 Neuropharmacology.