南アフリカ在住。Rhodes University(南アフリカ)博士研究員であり「the African Journal of Range and Forage Science」誌のプロダクション・エディター。広範囲な執筆経験があり、研究技術を植物DNA配列とPCR技術、植物細胞壁の顕微鏡検査、系統発生学的で表現学的なデータ分析方法、授粉生態学、組織学、細胞学、PAGE電気泳動と隔離と単糖類分析の分野をカバーするリサーチ・スキルを持つ。植物分類学、一般進化、キク科進化、生物地理学、形態学と生殖生物学（交雑）の進化、植物増殖システムと形態学の分野を担当。

Dr. McKenzie is a postdoctoral fellow, at Rhodes University, South Africa and is the Production Editor of the African Journal of Range and Forage Science. Dr. McKenzie has extensive writing experience and his research skill cover areas of plant DNA sequencing and PCR techniques, microscopy, phylogenetic and phenetic data analysis methods, pollination ecology, histology, cytology, PAGE electrophoresis, and the isolation and monosaccharide analysis of plant cell walls. Dr. McKenzie began as an editor with Edanz Editing in 2007band works in the fields of plant systematics and evolution in general, compositae evolution, biogeography, morphology and reproductive biology, hybridisation, plant breeding systems and morphology.