Gerry McCormac
| Gerry McCormac | |
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 Professor Gerry McCormac | |
| Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Stirling | |
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Assumed office 1 May 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Christine Hallet |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 August 1958 Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland |
| Residence | Stirling |
| Profession | Physicist |
Professor Gerry McCormac, FSA, FRSA, FHEA (born 1 August 1958) is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Stirling.[1][2] He is a physicist whose specialist fields are Space physics and Radiocarbon dating.[3][4] Previous roles include Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Queen's University Belfast[5] and Vice-Chairman of Invest Northern Ireland. He chaired a review of teacher employment for the Scottish Government in 2011.[6]
Early life
He was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on 1 August 1958, the eldest of seven children of Francis McCormac and Jean Heaney.[7]
Career
He gained a BSc (Hons) degree in Physics and Geology in 1980 from the CNAA at the Ulster Polytechnic. In 1984, he received a PhD degree in Upper Atmosphere Physics from the CNAA at the University of Southampton and Ulster Polytechnic. He became a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan in 1984 and worked on the NASA Dynamics Explorer program until 1990.
Between 1990 and 2001 he was director of the high-precision carbon dating laboratory at Queen's University Belfast. He became Head of the School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology in 1997 and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Queen's from 2001 to 2010. As PVC, he had responsibility for Academic and Financial Planning, Economic Development and External Affairs. He served on the Northern Ireland (NI) Committee of the Institute of Directors, the NI Economic Development Forum, the NI Science and Industry Panel (MATRIX) and the boards of both the NI Science Park and Business in the Community. He was a Director and Chair of the Management Board of Queen's University's commercialisation company, QUBIS.
He is currently a member of Universities Scotland, Universities UK, The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Executive Committee and chair of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association (UCEA) Scottish Committee.
Among published works
- Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD: A Chronological Framework" with Bayliss, Hines, Nielsen and Scull ISBN 9781909662063 (2013)
- Science and Stonehenge: Dating Stonehenge" with Bayliss and Bronk Ramsey ISBN 9780197261743 (1998)
References
- ↑ "Professor Gerry McCormac". University of Stirling. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
- ↑ "Belfast professor is new Stirling University principal". Daily Record. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
- ↑ "Carbon dating and the Jersey case". BBC. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
- ↑ "Radiocarbon Calibration". University of Oxford. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
- ↑ "Professor Gerry McCormac". Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
- ↑ "Review of Teacher Employment in Scotland". Scottish Government. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
- ↑ "People of today: Gerry McCormac". Debrett's. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
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| Preceded by Christine Hallet |
Vice-chancellor of the University of Stirling May 2010–present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |