Stacy Mader

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]

Stacy Mader
Born
Wyndham, Western Australia
NationalityAustralia
Alma materUniversity of Wollongong
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsCSIRO
Academic advisorsBill Zealey

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]

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]

Honors and awards
  • NASA Group Achievement Award (2003)[9]
  • NASA Group Achievement Award (2013)[10]
  • CSIRO Chairman’s Medal (2015)[11]
  • NASA Group Achievement Award (2019)[12]
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References
  1. "Stacy". Australian Indigenous Astronomy. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  2. "Indigenous astronomy". Pursuit. July 24, 2019. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  3. "https://twitter.com/stacy_mader". Twitter. Retrieved June 10, 2020. External link in |title= (help)
  4. "Jack Cusack Memorial Lecture 2016 - CSIRO". events.csiro.au. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  5. "From Wyndham, to Parkes and space…". News | The University Of Western Australia. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  6. "Dr Stacy Mader". people.csiro.au. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  7. Mader, Stacy (January 1, 2001). "Giant Herbig-Haro flows: identification and consequences". University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016.
  8. "NASA/ADS". ui.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  9. "NASA - Lending an Improved Ear". www.nasa.gov. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  10. "LinkedIn - Stacy Mader". LinkedIn. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  11. "Chairman's Medal". CSIROpedia. January 13, 2015. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  12. "https://twitter.com/stacy_mader/status/1189793925608792064". Twitter. Retrieved June 10, 2020. External link in |title= (help)
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