Michelle Joyce

Michelle Joyce assumed the role of Vice President for Institutional Research, Innovation, and Strategy in August 2026. In this role, Joyce serves as the President’s principal advisor on institutional strategy, planning and performance assessment and oversees the University’s central institutional research function, ensuring the integrity and strategic use of data.

Prior to this role, Joyce served as Associate Vice President in Development, leading campaign administration, Corporate & Foundation Relations (CFR), and Academic Advancement. Joyce partnered with leaders across the University to identify, articulate and enable their strategic priorities in her role managing For Good, the largest campaign in Notre Dame’s history. Joyce also served as the Development liaison to the Office of the Provost. Joyce previously led CFR as Executive Director and Foundation Relations as Senior Director. These positions followed her work as a Foundation Relations Director, focusing on the colleges of science and engineering. Joyce has led proposal development for large, multi-stakeholder strategic initiatives.

Before her role in Development, Joyce served as a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for twelve years as the Associate Director of the Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics Facility. During her time in the department, she created and served as the founding director of the ND LIGHTS program, which provided under-resourced schools with laboratory instrumentation through a science course she developed and taught to undergraduate students.

Joyce earned her B.S. in chemistry from Notre Dame in 1999 and her Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Duke University in 2003. Michelle and her husband Tim, who is also a class of 1999 alumnus, have two children, Ian and Analiese.