[1] She remained at QUT for her doctoral research, where she used ultrasound to investigate radiation sensitive polymer gels,[2] based at the Centre for Medical, Health and Environmental Physics.
She then moved to the Applied Optics group as part of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Grand Challenge in Regenerative Medicine.
[citation needed] Mather moved to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in 2008, where she worked developed acoustic methods to study hydrogels.
[3] Mather returned to the University of Nottingham in 2011, joining the Institute of Biophysics, Imaging and Optical Science (IBIOS) as an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellow.
[citation needed] By developing single molecule approaches Mather was able to image the proteins (ion channels) in their natural environment, which helps to understand various physiological processes.