Professor Dame Athene Donald - Physics in the World Around Us

Title: Physics in the World Around Us
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Abstract: My research career has been in soft matter physics, the physics of materials all around us such as food, plastics and paint. Materials that deform on a timescale that humans can see and feel. I will discuss what makes soft matter so fascinating and how it links into many biological situations, from protein aggregation to cellular behaviour. Over the last decade or so, I have increasingly been involved with science policy, and I will also explore why it makes sense for more scientists to enter this arena, when so much of our lives are impacted by science.


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About the speaker: Dame Athene Donald is Emeritus Professor of Experimental Physics. She did her first and second degrees in Cambridge. After 4 years postdoctoral experience in the USA she returned to Cambridge. She became a Professor in 1998 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999. Her research is in the general field of soft matter and physics at the interface of biology; she has published over 250 papers in these fields. She has been an outspoken champion of women in science.

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