Give Me Inspiration! The Paradigm Shift with Professor Dame Carol Robinson

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• Dame Professor Carol Robinson
• Monday 12 October 2015, 17:30-19:00
• Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

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A series of conversations with distinguished academics hosted by Professor Dame Athene Donald.

What do academics actually do? What motivates them to get out of bed each morning and to deliver what is — or in many cases what isn’t – expected of them?

For a student setting out, the life of senior academics may seem very mysterious, particularly as many may end up taking on responsibilities and activities far removed from where an individual started. The trajectory from student to senior academic is rarely a straight line, with twists, setbacks, time out and/or opportunities (taken or declined) all to be combined with a personal life.

This series of conversations aims to explore the individual paths of some eminent academics who have made it to the top in their own particular ways. How have they found their own solutions to ‘life’, what tips do they wish they’d been given earlier on, and what might they view, retrospectively, with most pleasure or regret?

The first in this series will feature Professor Dame Carol Robinson, DBE FRS and L’Oreal Woman in Science 2015.

Carol Robinson is recognised for pioneering the use of mass spectrometry for her research into the 3D structure of proteins. Her most recent work is concerned with examining how small molecules, specifically lipids, impact on the structure and function of membrane assemblies.

Carol is a Royal Society Research Professor and Doctor Lee’s Professor of Chemistry Elect at the University of Oxford. She is the first woman to hold a Chair in Chemistry at the University of Oxford and was previously the first female Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

A graduate student at Churchill College, Cambridge, she completed her PhD in two years. Following an eight-year career break to begin raising her three children, she returned to research at Oxford, later becoming a titular professor in 1999.

In 2001 she moved to Cambridge to continue her research into mass spectrometry and was elected a Professorial Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004 and a Royal Society Research Professor in 2006. In 2009 she was elected Doctor Lee’s Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and in 2013 was awarded the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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