Cate Macinnis-Ng

Catriona M. O. Macinnis-Ng is a New Zealand ecologist, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in the effects of climate change, especially drought, on plants. She has been awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, the Roger Slack Award, and the Miriam Dell Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring.

Academic career

Macinnis-Ng completed her undergraduate training in Sydney, before undertaking a PhD titled In situ monitoring of toxic pollutant impacts on the photosynthesis of the seagrass Zostera capricorni Aschers at the University of Technology Sydney. Macinnis-Ng held several research fellowships in Australia, before returning to New Zealand with her family in 2010. She joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 2015, rising to full professor in 2024.

Macinnis-Ng is a principal investigator in the Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence.

Honours and awards In 2014, Macinnis-Ng was awarded a University of Auckland Early Career Research Excellence Award. She was awarded the Roger Slack Award in 2016 by the New Zealand Society of Plant Biologists. In 2023 she received the Miriam Dell Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring from the New Zealand Association for Women in Science.

Selected works