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.

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).