Catherine Ann Hobbs FIMA CMath (born 1968) is a British mathematician and educator working as a professor and Academic Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing at Coventry University.

She has a strong interest in science policy, particularly relating to encouraging and supporting women in STEM fields.

She attended the University of Warwick 1986–1989 for her first degree, where her tutors Christopher Zeeman and Caroline Series both encouraged her to consider postgraduate study.

She has worked in applications of geometry to robotics, numerical computation of highly oscillatory integrals and dynamical systems.

[14] She has developed mentoring schemes, run outreach activities and organised conferences and lectures to provide examples of role models to younger women.