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J. McCormac is a prominent observational astronomer specializing in exoplanet detection, robotic telescope systems, and the search for habitable worlds around ultracool dwarf stars. McCormac has been a central contributor to the SPECULOOS (Search for Habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) project, a cutting-edge network of six 1-meter robotic telescopes targeting approximately 1,200 of the smallest, nearest ultracool dwarfs — stars so diminutive that even Earth-sized planets transiting them could potentially have their atmospheres characterized by next-generation observatories like the James Webb Space Telescope. His most cited work, a 2020 paper on the SPECULOOS ultracool dwarf transit survey, has garnered 105 citations, with foundational 2018 papers describing the telescope network accumulating a further 76 citations. McCormac also played a role in developing NGTS (Next Generation Transit Survey), a ground-based robotic survey at ESO Paranal designed to detect sub-Neptune and super-Earth mass planets around bright stars. Spanning both the Southern and Northern Observatories, his contributions have collectively helped establish a global infrastructure dedicated to uncovering rocky, potentially habitable exoplanets orbiting our nearest stellar neighbors.