Christine Maggs joined Bournemouth University as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science & Technology in April 2015 from Queen's University Belfast where she held the role of Head of the School of Biological Sciences and Professor of Phycology. She was appointed to Queen's in 1995 and has held the roles of Lecturer, Reader and Director of Research before taking on the role of Head of the School of Biological Sciences and Professor of Phycology. Max Hommersand is professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina. His area of research is the morphology, systematics and biography of the marine algae, with emphasis on the red algae. He has a world-wide collection of over thirty thousand specimens of marine algae for use in developmental studies.
