Daniela Rhodes is a group leader in the Structural Studies Division of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. Dr. Rhodes obtained her PhD in 1982 from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge University and has remained there, obtaining tenure in 1987. Research in the Rhodes laboratory focuses on chromatin and telomere structure. She has provided some of the first structural information on the telomeric capping structure by deciphering how telomeric proteins such as of yeast Rap1p and human TRF1 and TRF2 recognize and bind telomeric DNA. Throughout her career she has made many contributions to the understanding of chromatin structure and function, most recently on the structure of “30nm” fibre, and on how histone post-translational modifications are recognize and regulate compaction. She was elected EMBO Member in 1996 and Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007.