Catherine Elizabeth "Cait" MacPhee CBE FRSE FInstP FRSC is Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Edinburgh.
[1] After studying for her BSc in biochemistry and her PhD in medicine at the University of Melbourne she moved to the University of Oxford for postdoctoral research, where she was a research fellow at St Hilda's College, and subsequently held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship.
From 2001-2005 she was a Royal Society University Fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and held a research fellowship at Girton College and then a fellowship at King's College.
[2] MacPhee's research into the BslA protein from Bacillus subtilis, together with Nicola Stanley-Wall from the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, has been widely reported because of potential applications in the production of ice cream.
[3][4][5] She was appointed CBE in the 2016 New Year Honours "for services to women in physics",[6] and was subsequently elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.