Category Archives: Biological Physics

Lies, Damned Lies – and Rank-ordered Lists

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Athene Donald

The end of the year is traditionally the time for lists remembering the year just gone: lists of those who died (and, for so-called stars, their marriages and divorces too), events that happened, films that bombed or triumphed, public gaffes … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Wow Factor?

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Athene Donald

Where’s the Wow Factor? was a question posed at the Physics Meets Biology meeting in September in the context of teaching Biological Physics, as I discussed before.  I was reminded of this question while attending this year’s Institute of Physics … Continue reading →

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Physicists, Algae and Sustainability

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Athene Donald

A couple of weeks ago my university was able to announce a large new initiative, £20M to set up The Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability, funded by David Harding, the founder, chairman and head of research of Winton … Continue reading →

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Educational Breadth

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Athene Donald

I am now off to Paris for a 2 day meeting of the ESPCI International Advisory Committee. ESPCI Paris Tech (the École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, one of a group of institutions … Continue reading →

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Teachers, Careers and Chance

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Athene Donald

What gets one into working in an interdisciplinary field and what form does it take?  A researcher starts off trained in one field but then moves into interdisciplinary working via various routes. One can stay in one’s original field/department but … Continue reading →

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