Christine Maggs

Maggs graduated with a Botany degree from St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1978^[1] and a PhD from National University of Ireland, Galway in 1983.^[1][5]

Maggs worked as a postdoc at the Atlantic Research Laboratory, Nova Scotia, Canada and Queen's University Belfast (the latter on an Advanced Natural Environment Research Council Fellowship), before taking up a post as a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast in 1995. Her main research interests are molecular systematics of seaweeds with particular interests in alien marine algae and plants,^[7] biological conservation, and sustainable seaweed exploitation. The majority of her publications focus on red algae (Rhodophyta),^[8][9] although she has also published on brown algae^[10] and green algae, notably showing that Linnaeus was correct in his assertion that the genera Ulva and Enteromorpha were not distinct.^[11] She has described two new orders (Ahnfeltiales^[12] and Atractophorales^[8]) of alga, and three new families (Ahnfeltiaceae,^[12] Atractophoraceae,^[8] and Haemeschariaceae^[13]). She has published over a hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers.^[14]

She has written three books on seaweeds: Seasearch Guide to Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland,^[15] Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland,^[16] and Seaweeds of the British Isles.^[17]