Paddy Nixon
Paddy Nixon | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Education | 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).
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. Prior to that he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Tasmania.