Stacy Mader

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Stacy Mader
Born
NationalityAustralian
Alma mater University of Wollongong
Scientific career
Fields Astrophysics
Institutions CSIRO
Academic advisorsBill Zealey

Stacy Lyall Mader is an Australian astronomer. He is a Senior Experimental Scientist at CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, [1] and was the first Aboriginal Australian to obtain a PhD in astronomy. [2]

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Early life, education and research

Mader is a Gidja man [3] [4] from Wyndham, [5] in the Kimberly region of Western Australia. He received a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics from the University of Western Australia in 1993, [6] and then Masters (1995) and PhD (2000) degrees from the University of Wollongong. [6] His PhD thesis, entitled "Giant Herbig-Haro Flows: Identification And Consequences", studied outflows in star-forming regions. [7] His subsequent research has covered neutral and ionized gas in galaxies, protostars, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. [8] Mader was also part of the Voyager II and Mars missions in 2003/2004 respectively. [9]

Career

Mader joined CSIRO's Parkes Observatory in 1999. He supports astronomical observations and spacecraft tracking with Parkes, and observations with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder. [1]

Mader has programmed several astrophysics related tools, an example being a program to calculate the position of the sun, moon, and other planets and any given time. [10]

Honors and awards

Related Research Articles

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