| RefNo | EC/2024/44 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Maher, Barbara Ann: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 21 April 2024 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Barbara Maher as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citation giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Barbara Maher is a world leader in environmental magnetism. Her work has demonstrated that ultrafine magnetic particles and their properties can be used as ‘tracers’ at all length scales, creating a powerful, new window on key environmental processes. She has spear-headed fundamental contributions to understanding fine-particle magnetism in contemporary and geological environmental materials - soils, sediments, aeolian dusts, and particulate air pollution. She pioneered the quantification of the links between nanomagnet formation in soils and Quaternary palaeoclimate (specifically, monsoonal rainfall). In a worldwide first, she led the team which recently discovered toxic, externally sourced magnetite and co-associated metal-bearing pollution nanoparticles in human brains; critically, identifying exposure to vehicle- and industry-derived, metal-rich nanoparticles as a potential environmental risk factor for neurodegenerative disease. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |