Annual EDI Lecture 2024

Professor Dame Athene Donald is a leader in the field of soft matter and biological physics, including polymers, biopolymers and, most recently, cellular biophysics. In addition to her research, she has had many leadership roles including within the University of Cambridge, where she is currently Master of Churchill College, the Royal Society and the European Research Council. She has a longstanding commitment to gender equality in STEM and has received a Times Higher Education Lifetime Achievement Award for her ‘indefatigable and pioneering’ efforts to push gender equality to the top of the science policy agenda.