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.

Education

Basu 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

In 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

Basu 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]