Tamsin Mather

In 2016 Mather appeared on the BBC World Service discussing volcanoes and earthquakes. Mather was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific in 2017. She has taken part in Pint of Science, lectured at the Royal Institution and appeared on podcasts. She was a guest on The Infinite Monkey Cage alongside Jo Brand and Clive Oppenheimer in February 2018 and spoke at New Scientist Live in 2018.

She is interested in the role of volcanism in planetary scale processes. Her research has identified that volcanic vents perform nitrogen fixation and make it available to plants. Mather's research investigates volcanic plumes, the effects of volcanic emissions and aerosols on the environment, and the structure and stability of volcanoes. She has also studied the emissions from Buncefield fire at the Buncefield oil depot in 2005 and is interested in the mercury cycle, as well as other biogeochemical cycles.

In 2005 she served as a Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Fellow producing a POSTnote note on Carbon capture and storage, she served as co-editor-in-chief of Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2014-2019, served on the board of directors of the Geochemical Society 2017-2019, on the Natural Environment Research Council Science Board/Committee 2017-2021 and on the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program Science Advisory Group 2019-2022.

Tamsin Alice Mather MAE (born 1976) is a British Professor of Earth Sciences at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford and a Fellow of University College, Oxford. She studies volcanic processes and their impacts on the Earth's environment and has appeared on the television and radio.

Mather was born in Bristol on 15 December 1976, the daughter of William Mather and Felicity Mather. She was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where she was awarded a Master of Science degree in 1999, a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 2000 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2004. As an undergraduate she studied the Natural Sciences Tripos before switching to the History and Philosophy of Science for her MPhil (in the same MPhil class as Helen Macdonald) and Katherine Angel). She spent a year working abroad before returning to science for her PhD which was completed in the Department of Earth Sciences and investigated the chemistry of volcanic plumes in the troposphere. Her PhD involved working in Chile, Nicaragua and Italy.