Ms Magdalena Upton

, Botany

Biography

Magda joined Trinity in September 2026 as Research Assistant: Curatorial Assistant in the Herbarium in the Discipline of Botany, School of Natural Sciences. She has three years of experience in herbarium curation and digitisation at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and South London Botanical Institute. In her role as Curatorial Assistant, she supports the work of curator Peter Moonlight, visiting researchers, and the ongoing digitisation project.
Magda holds a BSc in Ecology from the University of East Anglia, and has over a decade of experience in horticulture, plant variety rights, and ecological field research.