Alison Heather

 
Alison Kay Heather is a New Zealand physiology academic and full professor at the University of Otago.
Academic career.
After obtaining her PhD in 1996 from the University of Sydney for a thesis entitled "Between feast and famine: adaptation of Escherichia coli to growth on low carbohydrate concentrations", Heather moved to the University of Technology Sydney, then to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.
Heather competes in ultra-long distance running events and triathlons. Her area of specialisation is the effect of sex hormones on non-reproductive tissues, which includes use of sex hormones and related substances in sports doping.