Prof Dame Athene Donald, DBE, FRS's Biography

Prof Dame Athene Donald, DBE, FRS's Professional Career

Career

postdoctoral assoc Dept of Materials Sci and Engrg Cornell Univ 1977-81, SERC fell Dept of Metallurgy and Materials Sci Univ of Cambridge 1981-83, res fell Cavendish Lab Cambridge 1983-85, prof of experimental physics Dept of Physics Univ of Cambridge 1998- (lectr 1985-95, reader in experimental physics 1995-98); memb: OST Foresight Technol Panel on Food/Drink 1994-97, Biology Neutron Advsy Panel 1995-99, EPSRC Coll 1995-, Large Scale Structures Instr Beam Scheduling Panel 1996-99, Prog Mgmnt Ctee for LINK Prog on Competitive Industrial Materials from Non-Food Crops 1997, Editorial Bd Polymer Int 1998-, BBSRC Agrifood Ctee 1999-2002, Governing Cncl and Science Sub-Ctee IFR 1999-2003, Advsy Bd Jl Macromolecular Sci 1999-, Editorial Advsy Bd Int Jl of Biological Macromolecules 1999-, Steering Advsy Ctee ISIS 2nd Target Station 2002-, EPSRC Physics SAT 2002-04, BBSRC Strategy Bd 2003-04, 2008 RAE Physics Sub Panel, Int Scientific Ctee ESPCI Paris 2006-, Steering Ctee UKRC4SetWomen 2007-08; chm BBSRC JREI Ctee 1999-2000, chair BBSRC Ctee C 2010-11, chair REF Physics Pilot Panel 2010, chair Educn Ctee Royal Soc 2011-; ed-in-chief European Physics Jl E 1999-2004, symposium organiser on Materials Sci of Food MRS Boston 1998-99; chair Athena Forum 2009- (dep chair 2008-09), CaSE Advsy Cncl 2011-; Charles Vernon Boys Prize Inst of Physics 1989, Samuel Locker Award in Physics 1989, Rosenhain Medal and Prize Inst of Materials 1995, William Hopkins Prize Cambridge Philosophical Soc 2003, Mott Medal and Prize Inst of Physics 2005, Bakerian Prize lectr Royal Soc 2006, Laureate for Europe L'Oreal/UNESCO for Women for Science Awards 2009, Faraday Medal Inst of Physics 2010; fell Robinson Coll Cambridge, memb Cncl Univ of Cambridge 2009-; hon degrees: Univ of East Anglia 2012, Univ of Exeter 2012; fell APS, FInstP, FRS 1999 (memb Cncl 2004-06)

Prof Dame Athene Donald, DBE, FRS's Publications

Books and Publications

Liquid Crystalline Polymers (with A H Windle, 1992, 2 edn 2006), Starch: Structure and Function (1997 and 2001); also author of over 270 papers in learned jls and numerous book chapters and reviews

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