Heidy Mader
{{Short description|British physicist (1961–2022)}}
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| birth_place = RAF Cosford, Shropshire, England
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| fields = Volcanology, Glaciology
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| alma_mater = University of York (BSc 1985) University of Bristol (PhD 1991)
| thesis_title = Water veins in polycrystalline ice
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| doctoral_advisor = John Nye{{cite journal | doi=10.1098/rsbm.2020.0002 | title=John Frederick Nye. 26 February 1923—8 January 2019 | year=2020 | last1=Berry | first1=Michael | journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume=69 | pages=425–441 | s2cid=219546989 | doi-access=free }}
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Heidy M. Mader (1961 – 22 December 2022) was a British physicist and Professor at the University of Bristol{{cite web|url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/earthsciences/people/heidy-m-mader/index.html|title=Professor Heidy Mader - School of Earth Sciences|website=Bris.ac.uk|access-date=16 November 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/news/14/apr/page_63022.html|title=Public lecture series erupts on to the science scene for 2014|website=Iop.org|access-date=16 November 2018}} who specialised in the study of the flow of complex multiphase fluids, including magma in volcanic systems and ice.{{cite web|url=https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/confs/cuwip2017/speakers.html|title=CUWiP 2017 Oxford, UK - speakers|website=Physics.ox.ac.uk|access-date=16 November 2018}} She was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research from 2016-2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-volcanology-and-geothermal-research/editorial-board/heidy-mader|title=Heidy Mader|website=Journals.elsevier.com|access-date=16 November 2018}}
Early life
Heidy Mader was born at RAF Cosford to Eric and Renate (née Pitz) Mader. Her father was an officer in the RAF, while her mother, who originally came from Germany, was a teacher.{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/06/heidy-mader-obituary | title=Heidy Mader obituary | newspaper=The Guardian | date=6 March 2023 | last1=Llewellin | first1=Ed }}{{cite web|last1=Sparks|first1=Steve|author1-link=Robert Stephen John Sparks|title=Professor Heidy Mader, 1961-2022|url=https://bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/january/heidy-mader.html|website=University of Bristol|date=5 January 2023}}
For her secondary schooling, the family moved to Germany, where Mader became fluent in German and developed a passion for physics. She was the only girl in her year to take the subject at Abitur level.
Mader earned her Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of York in 1985. She earned her Doctorate of Philosophy in Physics from the University of Bristol in 1991.{{cite web |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0671-1711 |access-date=14 March 2021|title=ORCID }} Her dissertation was titled Water veins in polycrystalline ice.{{cite thesis |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.279759 |access-date=14 March 2021|title=Water veins in polycrystalline ice |year=1992 |publisher=University of Bristol |type=Ph.D |last1=Mader |first1=Heidy Marita }}
Career
Mader began her career as a Research Physicist in the Technical Development Department at Cadbury-Schweppes from 1985 to 1987. During her time there, she studied the flow of chocolate, including Wispa, an aerated chocolate bar.{{cite web |title=Speakers |url=https://confs.physics.ox.ac.uk/cuwip2017/speakers.html |website=CUWiP 2017 |access-date=14 March 2021}} From 1990–1992, she was employed as BP Venture Research Fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol. In 1992, she took up a Lectureship in Environmental Sciences at the University of Lancaster, before returning to Bristol as Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences in 1996. She was promoted to Professor in 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0671-1711|title=ORCID|website=orcid.org}}
Personal life and death
Mader married Jon Keating in 2009 and together they had three children. The eldest, Alex, died soon after birth.
Mader died from cancer on 22 December 2022, at the age of 61.
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~glhmm/|title=Heidy M Mader - Homepage|website=Seis.bristol.ac.uk|access-date=16 November 2018}}
- {{Google Scholar id | a7auUnMAAAAJ | Heidy M Mader }}
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Category:British women physicists
Category:Academics of the University of Bristol
Category:Alumni of the University of Bristol
Category:Alumni of the University of York
Category:People from Cosford, Shropshire
Category:Scientists from Shropshire
Category:British people of German descent
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