Paula Reimer
Paula Jo Reimer is radiocarbon and archaeological scientist. Reimer is Director of the 14Chrono Centre for Climate, the Environment, and Chronology at Queen's University Belfast. Biography. Reimer has a BSc (1974) and MSc (1976) from Iowa State University. She was awarded her PhD from University of Washington in 1998. She worked at the Quaternary Isotope Lab at Washington from 1977 to 1998, after which she moved to Queen's University Belfast for a Postdoctoral fellowship in 1998–2001. This was followed by a second postdoctoral fellowship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2001 to 2004. She joined  the 14Chrono Centre at Queen's in 2004. Awards. Reimer was awarded the Lyell Medal from The Geological Society in 2013. She was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2014. In December 2020 Reimer was voted the 2021 'Archaeologist of the Year' in the annual Current Archaeology awards. in 2021 Reimer was the recipient of the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology from the Archaeological Institute of America in recognition of her "distinguished record of contributions to the advancement of archaeological science". Select publications. A full list of Reimer's publications can be found here. Paula Reimer Paula