Gerry McCormac

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Outreach and Economic Development

Professor Gerry McCormac has an externally focused role, with the emphasis on raising Queen’s local, national and international profile. He has responsibility for developing networks and alliances to further the University’s goals and for strengthening relationships with all key stakeholders to ensure they are informed about the University’s contribution to the community.

Professor of Scientific Archaeology at Queen’s, Gerry McCormac is the author of over 70 papers on Carbon Dating and Upper Atmospheric Physics and has held major grants from Research Councils in the UK and NASA in the US. He is a frequent contributor to regional newspapers, TV and radio, and contributes to a range of organisations within his specialist field, including the Research Councils, English Heritage, Historic Scotland and the Royal Irish Academy. In 2000, he led the team that won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education.

Professor McCormac has been a member of the CBI Council for Northern Ireland and has served on many boards including Opportunity Now (BIC Gender Initiative), Sentinus (Science, Engineering and Technology for Schools) and others associated with community and voluntary programmes.

His vision is "to see Queen’s as an internationally recognised university positioned within the top 100 universities in the world."