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Areas of Expertise: Volcanology and environmental geochemistry

Tamsin Mather is a professor at the University of Oxford. Tamsin uses satellite Earth Observation data in combination with other aerial and ground-based methods to study volcanic processes including deformation, degassing and environmental impacts. Her research is motivated by understanding volcanoes as hazards, resources and agents of local to planetary-scale environmental change or maintenance.

She completed her PhD in 2004 at the University of Cambridge and moved to Oxford in 2006 as a lecturer. She was made a full professor in 2014 and elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 2024. Tamsin works closely with collaborators around the world, including Latin America, north America, the Caribbean, Ethiopia, Iceland and Italy. Mather sits on several government advisory committees, works with venture capital and participates in promotion of public understanding of science via radio, podcasts, science festivals and books.

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ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4259-7303

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