Affiliation: University of Essex, School of Life Sciences

Dr. Amanda Cavanagh is a lecturer in Plant Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Essex. Research in her laboratory is focused on biochemical and leaf-level responses of photosynthesis to abiotic stress under field and laboratory conditions. Dr. Cavanagh obtained her PhD at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, where she worked on Rubisco - the enzyme that feeds the world. During her postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she tested synthetic pathways that improve photosynthetic performance in crops under field and environmental stress conditions. She joined the University of Essex as a lecturer in Plant Sciences in 2020, where her research continues to explore the impacts of climate change on plant productivity and develop strategies to optimize crop performance in response to the changing climate .