Katie J. Field
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University of Sheffield
University of Sheffield
Katie Jayne Field | |
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| Born | Wiltshire, England |
| Alma mater | Durham University University of Sheffield |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Leeds University of Sheffield |
| Thesis | The Functional Significance of Genetic Diversity in Plants : an Environmental Metabolomics Approach (2008) |
Katie Jayne Field is a British bioscientist who is professor of Plant Soil Processes at the University of Sheffield. Her research considers the interactions of plants with fungi and their environment. In 2025, she was named in one of the inaugural cohorts of Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellows.
Field grew up in Wiltshire, England.[1] Her parents are both keen gardeners, and she became interested in plants at an early age.[1] She earned her undergraduate degree in plant sciences at Durham University, where she was lectured by botanist Phil Gates.[1] She became interested in a career in plant biology, motivated by understanding how plants interact with organisms and their changing environments.[2] She started researching mycorrhiza. She moved to the University of Sheffield for her doctoral research, where she studied genetic diversity in plants.[1] To understand the functional significance of this genetic diversity she used environmental metabolomics.[3] She remained in Sheffield as a postdoctoral researcher, where was supported by Natural Environment Research Council and worked in the Department of Plant Sciences.[1]
