Christine Adair Maggs (born 8 June 1956) is a British phycologist.^[5] Formerly Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science & Technology at Bournemouth University,^[1] she was the first Chief Scientist of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, retiring in 2022. She is now an independent non-executive Director of Ocean Harvest Technology https://oceanharvesttechnology.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors/

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Maggs graduated with a Botany degree from St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1978^[1] and a PhD from National University of Ireland, Galway in 1983.^[1][5]

Maggs worked as a postdoc at the Atlantic Research Laboratory, Nova Scotia, Canada and Queen's University Belfast (the latter on an Advanced Natural Environment Research Council Fellowship), before taking up a post as a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast in 1995. Her main research interests are molecular systematics of seaweeds with particular interests in alien marine algae and plants,^[6] biological conservation, and sustainable seaweed exploitation. The majority of her publications focus on red algae (Rhodophyta),^[7][8] although she has also published on brown algae^[9] and green algae, notably showing that Linnaeus was correct in his assertion that the genera Ulva and Enteromorpha were not distinct.^[10] She has described two new orders (Ahnfeltiales^[11] and Atractophorales^[7]) of alga, and three new families (Ahnfeltiaceae,^[11] Atractophoraceae,^[7] and Haemeschariaceae^[12]). She has published over a hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers.^[13]

She has written three books on seaweeds: Seasearch Guide to Seaweeds of Britain and Ireland,^[14] Green seaweeds of Britain and Ireland,^[15] and Seaweeds of the British Isles.^[16]