Jennifer McKinley

Jennifer McKinley is a scientist from Northern Ireland, UK. She is currently a Reader at the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast. Her main areas of research interest include geostatistics, GIS, soil geochemistry, forensics geoscience, weathering. She is the elected president of International Association for Mathematical Geosciences for the period during 2016–2020. She was awarded Chartered Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 2009, a Fellowship awarded competitively.

In May 2024 she resigned as President of the Governing Council of the Chinese Government funded Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) initiative (source: https://www.iugs.org/dde).

Education BSc (Hons) in Geology, 1984, Queen's University Belfast PGCE, 1985, Queen's University Belfast PhD in Geology, 2001, Queen's University Belfast

Employment 2016–Present: Reader, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast 2010 – 2016: Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP) Queen's University Belfast 2004 – 2010: Lecturer, School of GAP, Queen's University Belfast 2001 – 2004: EPSRC Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of GAP, Queen's University Belfast 1995 – 1998: Associate Lecturer, Open University Belfast 1985 – 1987: Teacher, Regent House Grammar school, Newtownards, Co Down

Books Alastair Ruffell, Jennifer McKinley, "Geoforensics", John Wiley & Sons, 2008, p. 340.