Ben Mather
ARC Industry Fellow at University of Melbourne
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Mather is an ARC Industry Fellow and computational geophysicist with a decade of experience fusing geophysical and geochemical data into Earth evolution models. Based in Sydney, he combines a PhD in Geophysics and Geodynamics with hands-on Python development and a strong commitment to open-source tooling. His career bridges academia and industry—from postdoctoral research in Dublin and Sydney to geoscience work at BHP and research leadership at the University of Melbourne—enabling practical application of advanced models to real-world resource and Earth-system problems. Known for translating complex datasets into reproducible code, he brings both deep domain expertise and pragmatic software practice to multidisciplinary teams.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of MelbourneBachelor of Science (BSc), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, First class honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, First class honours at Monash University
Github Skills (110)
prediction-model10
cartesian10
wgs8410
forge10
abaqus10
conda10
curie10
particle10
routines10
geomorphology10
depth10
marine9
conda-forge9
utm9
nearest-neighbors9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brmather/Slab-Dip
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
Method to calculate slab dip using simple plate kinematic parameters
Contributions:12 releases, 6 PRs, 27 pushes in 3 years
parameterspythonplatemethodcalculate
brmather/pycurious
Feb 2018 - Jun 2022
Python package for computing the Curie depth from the magnetic anomaly
Contributions:7 releases, 30 PRs, 224 pushes in 4 years 3 months
anomalypythonmagneticconda-forgegeophysics
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