Dr. Sarbani Basu

Biography

Sarbani Basu is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Astronomy at Yale University. Dr. Basu received her training in India and subsequently worked in the United Kingdom and Denmark before joining the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. She has been a faculty member at Yale since 2000. Dr. Basu specializes in the study of the Sun and stars using data from stellar oscillations, also known as star quakes. Her past research has been devoted to studying the details of the structure and dynamics of the Sun, which allowed her to contribute significantly to the solar neutrino problem and its implications in the standard model of particle physics and astrophysics. Her current research focuses on a variety of topics, including examining how the Sun varies on time scales that are relevant to society. Additionally, she uses solar oscillation data to analyze changes that take place in the Sun over periods of years and decades. Dr. Basu's work also involves studying stars, particularly exoplanet hosts, to determine their structure, age, and formation histories, with the aim of shedding light on the past and future of the Sun and the solar system. She has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and was awarded the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of India in 1996 for her contributions to the study of the structure and dynamics of the Sun. In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), a consortium of educational non-profit institutions that operate major publicly funded astronomical observatories.

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