Heather Whitney
Dr Heather Whitney is a plant scientist at the University of Bristol. She works on the interactions between plants and animals and the strategies that plants use, including the many ways flowers can attract pollinators such as bumblebees, or leaves can repel herbivores such as locusts. She is particularly interested in the plant surface and how in some species it is modified so it can manipulate light, producing a form of colour called iridescence (which can also be seen on the surface of bubbles, peacock feathers and opals).
