Professor Malcolm Smyth is and Irish chemist. He is also the dean of the Faculty of Science & Health at Dublin City University, in Dublin, Ireland. Smyth is also the president of the Analytical Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and is the first analytical chemist from the Republic of Ireland to hold the position. He has received awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the SAC Gold Medal for Analytical Chemistry from the Analytical Division of the RSC.