Hannah Buckley is a New Zealand ecologist, professor, and Head of School of Science at Auckland University of Technology, specialising in biological variation in community ecological diversity through time and space.
Buckley completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours at Victoria University of Wellington and then a PhD titled Structure of vascular plant, epiphytic lichen, ground beetle (Carabidae), and diatom (Bacillariophyceae) communities in south-central Alberta, Canada at the University of Alberta.
[2] Buckley then joined the faculty of Lincoln University, where she rose to associate professor.
During this time she was awarded a Bullard Fellowship at Harvard University, where she and her husband Brad Case researched spatial patterns in co-occurrence of species in forest plots with Aaron Ellison.
[3][4] Buckley then moved to the Auckland University of Technology, becoming Head of School of Science in March, 2020, and Professor of Ecology in 2022.