Mary Morgan-Richards | |
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.jpg) Mary Morgan-Richards in 2019 | |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Evolutionary biology |
| Institutions | Massey University |
| Thesis | |
| Website | evolves |
Mary Morgan-Richards is a New Zealand biologist, and as of 2019 is a full professor at Massey University.[1]
In 1995, Morgan-Richard's completed a PhD thesis titled 'Weta Karyotypes: the Systematic Significance of Their Variation' at the Victoria University of Wellington. Between 1996 and 2003, she worked at the University of St Andrews, University of Otago, the Natural History Museum, London, and the University of Canterbury successively. In 2005 Morgan-Richards moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor in 2018.[1]
Morgan-Richard's research has focused on topics in evolutionary biology such as speciation[2][3] and hybridisation,[4][5] as well as conservation biology, using population genetics,[6] and phylogenetic methods.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Native New Zealand invertebrates including wētā,[5][8][10][13][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] stick insects,[4][23] and snails[6][11][12][14][15][24] are often the subject of her research. She has scientifically described multiple species of wētā.[16][21][25] Morgan-Richard's phylogenetic research has also focused on birds and their parasites.[7][9][26]
