Professor Nigel Peter Weatherill, BSc, PhD, DSc, FIMA, C.Math, FRAeS, C.Eng, C.Sci, FREng, FRSA, DL is the former Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Liverpool John Moores University (2011-2018).
He was Executive Director of the National Higher Education STEM Programme for England and Wales, and in 2016 was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant of Merseyside.
[6] Weatherill's main research interests are high speed compressible flows of relevance to aerospace engineering, as well as aspects of electromagnetism, environmental modelling and bio-engineering.
Afterwards he attended the University of Southampton where he obtained an undergraduate degree (First Class Honours) in Mathematics and Aeronautics.
After leaving University, Weatherill joined AWA's research team, developing mathematical models to predict the water quality in rivers and estuaries.
In 1986, Weatherill became a Research Fellow at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, spending a year in the US.
In September 2011, Weatherill was appointed Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU).
[25] In 2018, both Weatherill and LJMU's finance director resigned abruptly in controversial circumstances, the University declining to comment on the factors behind these two precipitous departures.