Margaret Collinson


Margaret E. Collinson is a paleobotanist at Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom.

Career

Her career has led her to leadership of the Plant Paleobiology Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and wide-ranging within plant Paleobotany as evidenced by her publications. They particularly include consideration of geochemical signatures of oxygen, biomolecules and other elements; the paleoclimate and floral assemblages; pollen and other tissues; and evolution in ancient plants.
She has been president of the International Organization of Paleobotany, a Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding Member of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. In 2015 she was awarded Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America.

Selected publications

She is the author or co-author of over 180 scientific publications. Among her most significant publications are: