Nick Wigginton, PhD

Nick Wigginton is an accomplished higher education administrator who focuses on developing innovative programs which further the research enterprise at the institutional level. As associate vice provost for research at Johns Hopkins University, he oversees the Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships Program, the Research Development Team, internal research funding awards programs, research communications, and research data and analytics.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Wigginton served as associate vice president for research–strategic initiatives at the University of Michigan. In that role, he developed and implemented programs and policies, and built new teams to increase the research competitiveness of Michigan’s research enterprise. Wigginton spent the 2019-2020 academic year at Stanford University working closely with its research office as part of the prestigious American Council of Education Fellows Program.

Wigginton graduated with a bachelor’s degree in geology from Michigan State University and received a PhD in geosciences from Virginia Tech. He was a postdoctoral scholar at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and a visiting researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. Before joining Michigan, Wigginton was a senior editor at Science, where he oversaw the selection and publication of manuscripts across a wide range of scientific disciplines.