Athene Donald

Athene Donald

Professor Emerita in Experimental Physics and Master of Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Athene Donald is Professor Emerita in Experimental Physics and Master of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Other than four years postdoctoral research in the USA, she has spent her career in Cambridge, specializing in soft matter physics and physics at the interface with biology. She was the University of Cambridge's first Gender Equality Champion, and has been involved in numerous initiatives concerning women in science. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999 and appointed DBE for services to Physics in 2010.

Latest articles by Athene Donald

View of an unidentified chemist as she works with various flaks in a laboratory, May 23, 1958.

'The first author was a woman. She should be in the kitchen, not writing papers': Bias in STEM publishing still punishes women

By Athene Donald published

"What is the hard evidence, beyond anecdote and suspicion, that unconscious bias impacts on women's careers? Increasing numbers of studies show, in many different guises, just how potent such bias can be."

Human Behavior