Athene Donald#
| Membership Number: | 2684 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://people.bss.phy.cam.ac.uk/~amd3 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Master of Churchill College
- 1981 - 2014 Fellow of Robinson College
- 1998 Professor of Experimental Physics, Department of Physics
- 2003 - 2010 Deputy Head (with responsibility for Finance and Resources from 2005 - 2010)
- 1995 - 1998 Reader in Experimental Physics, University of Cambridge
- 1985 - 1995 Lecturer in the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
- 1983 - 2005 Royal Society 1983 Research Fellowship held at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1981 - 2003 SERC Fellowship held at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Cambridge
- 1977 - 1981 PDRA Cornell University (Department of Materials Science and Engineering),
Fields of Scholarship
- Biological and soft systems
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Charles Vernon Boys Prize of the Institute of Physics.
- 1989 Samuel Locker Award in Physics (University of Birmingham; £5000)
- 1995 Rosenhain Medal and Prize (Institute of Materials)
- 1999 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2003 William Hopkins Prize of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
- 2005 Mott Medal of the Institute of Physics
- 2006 Bakerian Lecturer of the Royal Society
- 2009 L’Oreal/UNESCO For Women for Science Awards
- 2009 Founders’ Prize, Polymer Physics Group of the Institute of Physics
- 2010 Fellow of the Science Museum, London
- 2010 IOP Faraday Gold Medal
- 2010 Mott Lecturer for the IOP's Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Division
- 2010 Appointed DBE in the Birthday Honours
- 2011 UKRC Women of Outstanding Achievement Award: Lifetime Achievement
- 2012 Honorary DSc’s from Exeter University and UEA
- 2013 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Science
- 2013 One of MRC’s Suffrage Science winners for 2013
- 2013 Honorary DSc from University of Sheffield
- 2014 Rideal Prize Lecturer of the SCI
- 2014 Honorary DSc from Swansea University and UCL
- 2014 Appeared in Science Council’s top 100 UK practising scientists (in Communicator category)
- 2014 Campbell Lecturer University of Southampton
- 2014 Lewis Elton Lecture, University of Surrey
- 2015 Geiringer Lecture Harvard University
- 2015 Honorary DSc’s from Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Heriot Watt
- 2015 Rothamsted lecture
- 2015 - 2016 President of the British Science Association
- 2016 Listed in the Sunday Times Debrett's 500 list of influential Britons
- 2016 James Callaghan Memorial Lecture, University of Swansea
- 2016 Honorary DSc from University of Leeds
- 2017 Honorary Doctor of Laws from University of Bath
