Katharine Michie

Katharine Arwen Michie
Alma mater	University of Sydney (BSc, PhD)
Occupation(s)	Structural biologist, biochemist, physicist
Years active	2005–present
Known for	Research on Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) complexes and bacterial cytokinesis; Director of Structural Biology X-ray Facility at University of New South Wales

Katharine Arwen Michie is a distinguished Australian expert in structural biology, biochemistry, and physics. In 2005, she was honored as a Fellow by the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards and the following year, 2006, she received a Marie Curie International Research Fellowship. Presently, Michie directs the Structural Biology X-ray Facility at the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, University of New South Wales, located in Sydney.

Biography

Michie earned both her BSc with Honours and her PhD from the University of Sydney. Following her recognition with the L'Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship in 2005, she dedicated five years to research at the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) in Cambridge. There, her work concentrated on Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) complexes and their involvement in chromosome architecture. In 2006, she was awarded a Marie Curie Incoming Postdoctoral Fellowship to extend her investigations into SMC proteins and bacterial cytokinesis, resulting in multiple first-author publications. Between 2007 and 2010, Michie held a research associate position at St John's College, Cambridge before advancing to Investigator Scientist at the Medical Research Council. She returned to Australia in 2012, initially affiliating with the University of Sydney. In 2015, she transitioned to UNSW as Senior Research Associate within the Protein Structure Laboratory and currently oversees its Structural Biology X-ray Facility.