Trista Vick-Majors is an American Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at Michigan Tech.

Vick-Majors earned her PhD in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from Montana State University in 2016.

[2] Vick-Majors’ MSc work focused on the responses of heterotrophic microorganisms to the onset of the polar night in Antarctica,[3][4] while her PhD focused on microbial ecology and biogeochemistry in Subglacial Lake Whillans and under the McMurdo Ice Shelf.

[5][6] Vick-Majors is a biogeochemist and microbial ecologist with interests in carbon biogeochemistry, polar environments, aquatic ecology, and subglacial ecosystems.

[22] In 2015, she received the American Society for Microbiology Travel Award ($500) and the Institute on Ecosystems Graduate Research Fellow ($750).