Yasmeen Asali
Astronomy, Yale University
Research Focus
About Yasmeen
I’m a PhD candidate in Astronomy at Yale University. I work with the SAGA Survey on characterizing star formation in satellite galaxies around Milky Way analogs. I care deeply about mentoring, pedagogy, and public education, and I work as a McDougal Graduate Teaching Fellow at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale. I graduated from Columbia University in 2020 with a BA in Astrophysics and Departmental Honors in Physics. As an undergraduate, I was a member of the LIGO Collaboration and my research focused on gravitational wave astrophysics. In my free time, I love solving sudoku puzzles and caring for my plant collection.
Honors
2022 - GPPD Career Development Grant, POD Network
2019 - ACM-W Scholarship for Women in Computing
Education
Master's
Astronomy (M.Phil.), Yale University, 05/2022
Astronomy (M.S.), Yale University, 05/2022
Bachelor's
Columbia University, 05/2020
