Cait MacPhee

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. In 2006 she moved to the University of Edinburgh, where she became Professor of Biological Physics in 2011.[2]

Cait MacPhee
Alma mater	University of Melbourne
Known for	Biological Physics
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Edinburgh

MacPhee's research into the Bs1a 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.[7] In 2016 she was selected as a finalist for the BBSRC Innovator of the Year competition.[8] In 2018 she was awarded the Gabor Medal of the Royal Society.[9]

References

1. "Cait MacPhee: Physics and Life Sciences". School of Physics and Astronomy. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
2. MacPhee, Cait. "About me". University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
3. "Slow-melting ice cream ingredient discovered by scientists". BBC News. 31 August 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
4. "Longer lasting ice-cream developed by scientists". The Guardian. 31 August 2015. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
5. Feltman, Rachel (31 August 2015). "This protein may be the key to slow-melting ice cream". The Washington Post. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
6. Matthews, David (31 December 2015). "New Year Honours 2016: Paul Curran knighted and five professors appointed dames". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
7. "RSE welcomes 56 new Fellows" (PDF) (Press release). Royal Society of Edinburgh. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
8. "2016 BBSRC Innovator of the Year finalists announced". Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. 6 April 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
9. "Gabor Medal winner 2018". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 July 2018.