Sarbani Basu is an Indian astrophysicist and Professor at Yale University. She is on the board of directors of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Sarbani Basu | |
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| Alma mater | University of Madras University of Bombay |
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| Institutions | Yale University Queen Mary University of London |
Education
editBasu earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Madras in 1986.[1] She completed her graduate studies at the Savitribai Phule Pune University and University of Mumbai, gaining her PhD in 1993.[1]
Research
editIn 1993 Basu joined Queen Mary University of London as a postdoctoral researcher, before moving to the Aarhus University.[1] She won the 1996 M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of India.[2] In 1997 she joined Princeton University as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study.[1][3][4] In 2000 she was appointed Assistant Professor at Yale University, and promoted to Professor in 2005.[1] She won the 2002 Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship. She is interested in the structure and dynamics of the sun, and studies them using stellar oscillations.[5][6] By monitoring helioseismic inversions Basu determines what processes take place inside the sun.[7][8] She has written a book chapter about Helioseismology.[9]
Basu has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has a H-index of 82.[10] She also visits schools to discuss her research with young people.[11][12]
Honors and awards
editBasu was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015.[13] In 2017 she published "Asteroseismic Data Analysis Foundations and Techniques" with William Chaplin.[14] She won the American Astronomical Society's George Ellery Hale Prize in 2018 for her contributions to our understanding of the internal structure of the Sun.[15][16][17] She was presented with the award at the Triennial Earth-Sun Summit in Virginia.[18] She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.[19]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Sarbani Basu, CV". www.astro.yale.edu. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "Professor M. K. Vainu Bappu Gold Medal | Astronomical Society of India". www.astron-soc.in. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "Sarbani Basu". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ Kumar, Pawan; Basu, Sarbani (1999). "Line Asymmetry of Solar p-Modes: Properties of Acoustic Sources". The Astrophysical Journal. 519 (1): 396–399. arXiv:astro-ph/9808143. Bibcode:1999ApJ...519..396K. doi:10.1086/307369.
- ^ "Sarbani Basu". www.astro.yale.edu. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ Basu, Sarbani (2016). "Global Seismology of the Sun". Living Reviews in Solar Physics. 13 (1): 2. arXiv:1606.07071. Bibcode:2016LRSP...13....2B. doi:10.1007/s41116-016-0003-4. ISSN 2367-3648. S2CID 118486913.
- ^ "Sarbani Basu". Interseismology. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ Basu, Sarbani; Antia, H.M. (2008). "Helioseismology and solar abundances". Physics Reports. 457 (5–6): 217–283. arXiv:0711.4590. Bibcode:2008PhR...457..217B. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2007.12.002. ISSN 0370-1573. S2CID 119302796.
- ^ Basu, Sarbani (January 2014). Asteroseismology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 87–122. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139333696.005. ISBN 9781139333696.
- ^ "Sarbani Basu - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ School, Taft (24 January 2017), Morning Meeting, 1/24/17: Sarbani Basu, Professor of Astronomy, Yale University, retrieved 20 May 2018
- ^ "4/30/18: Public Evening Lecture: Dr. Sarbani Basu, Yale Univ". www.as.arizona.edu. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "Basu elected Fellow of AAAS". astronomy.yale.edu. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ Basu, Sarbani; Chaplin, William J. (5 September 2017). Asteroseismic Data Analysis. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691162928. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "Sarbani Basu wins 2018 George Ellery Hale Prize". YaleNews. 11 January 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "2018 Hale Prize for Solar Astronomy Goes to Sarbani Basu". www.spaceref.com. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ Staff Writer. "Yale Astronomer Sarbani Basu wins George Ellery Hale Prize". IndiaAbroad.com. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "Home - TESS 2018". connect.agu.org. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "AAS Fellows". AAS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.