Gerry McCormac
| Gerry McCormac | |
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| Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Stirling |
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Assumed office 1 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Christine Hallet |
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1 August 1958 Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
| Spouse(s) | Louise Gormley |
| Children | Three sons |
| Residence | Stirling, Scotland |
| Alma mater | Ulster Polytechnic (BSc, PhD) |
| Profession | Physicist, academic administrator |
| Website | https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/senior-officers-of-the-university/gerry-mccormac/ |
Gerry McCormac, FRSE, FSA, FRSA, FHEA (born 1 August 1958) is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Stirling. He is a physicist whose specialist fields are Space Physics and Carbon Dating. He is a member of the advisory board of the International College for Liberal Arts at Yamanashi Gakuin University in Japan. Previous roles include Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Queen's University Belfast and Vice-Chairman of Invest Northern Ireland. He chaired a review of teacher employment for the Scottish Government in 2011.
He was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on 1 August 1958, the eldest of seven children of Francis McCormac and Jean Heaney.
He graduated in Physics and Geology (1980) and obtained a PhD in Physics (1984) from Ulster Polytechnic, before becoming a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan. There he conducted research on the NASA Dynamics Explorer satellite program. He specialised in remote sensing of the atmosphere using Fabry–Pérot interferometers to measure thermospheric wind speeds and temperatures to assess their relationship to the Interplanetary Magnetic Field. Between 1990 and 2001, he was Director of the High-Precision Carbon Dating Facility at Queen's University Belfast and a lecturer and senior lecturer in Environmental Monitoring. During this period, he founded the Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork (CAF) and the Centre for the Climate, Environment and Chronology (Chrono Centre). He was a member of the Archaeology Committee of the Royal Irish Academy. He carbon dated monuments of international importance for English Heritage, Historic Scotland and the Environment and Heritage Service including; Stonehenge, the Pazyryk burials in Siberia, Seahenge near Sandringham, the Dover Bronze Age Boat, Sutton Hoo and New Grange.
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