Cross section: Athene Donald – Science Weekly podcast

Hannah Devlin sits down with experimental physicist Athene Donald to explore her work in polymers and role as an advocate for gender equality in science

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In a career that spans more than three decades, Professor Dame Athene Donald - an experimental physicist at the University of Cambridge and master of Churchill College - has turned her mind to the likes of crash helmets, starch and more recently, protein. Something of a renegade, much of her career has seen her attempt to apply the ordered rules of physics to complex and unruly biological systems. But where did it all begin for her? How hard was it to build a career as one of the only females in the field? And how important are women like in her in the fight for gender equality in science?