Merilyn Manley-Harris (born 1947 or 1948) is a New Zealand chemist, and is a professor emeritus at the University of Waikato, specialising in carbohydrate chemistry, particularly relating to mānuka honey.
Manley-Harris taught in England and Malta, before earning a Bachelor of Science degree at James Cook University in Australia.
[1] She taught chemistry at Townsville Grammar School, before completing a PhD, aged 45, titled Oligo- and polysaccharides formed during the thermolysis of sucrose at the University of Montana in 1993.
[1][2] Manley Harris then moved to the University of Waikato, where she was initially appointed jointly at Scion.
[7] While she is best-known for her work on honey, Manley-Harris has also researched how to use dental enamel to determine the origin of possums, the toxicity of karaka berries, antibiotic retention in soils and the structure of biochar.