Paddy Nixon | |
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6th Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra | |
In office 6 April 2020 – 15 December 2023 | |
Chancellor | Tom Calma |
Preceded by | Deep Saini |
Succeeded by | Lucy Johnston (interim) |
5th Vice-Chancellor and President of Ulster University | |
In office July 2015 – February 2020 | |
Chancellor | James Nesbitt |
Preceded by | Richard Barnett |
Succeeded by | Paul Bartholomew |
Personal details | |
Born | Liverpool, England |
Alma mater | University of Liverpool (BS) University of Sheffield (PhD) Trinity College Dublin (MA) |
Profession | Academic Distributed Computing Researcher |
Paddy Nixon is a computer scientist and former Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra (2020–2023).[1][2][3][4][5]
From July 2015 to February 2020, Nixon was Vice-Chancellor and President of Ulster University and on the board of Universities UK, chair of Universities Ireland and was on the Northern Ireland Council of the Confederation of British Industry.[6] Prior to that he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Tasmania.