Portfolio Recent Work and publications

MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST:

Unresolved stellar populations – Chemical evolution of galaxies – Young and intermediate- age massive star clusters

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION VISITS:

  • Invited Visiting Researcher:

    University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA (Summer 2021)
  • Invited Visiting Researcher:

    STScI – Baltimore, USA (spring 2020)
  • Invited Visiting Researcher:

    NYUAD – Abu Dhabi, UAE (winter 2019)
  • Invited Visiting Researcher:

    University of Padova – Padova, Italy (summer 2019)
  • Invited Visiting Researcher:

    ESO headquarters – Garching, Germany (summer 2019)
  • Invited Visiting Researcher:

    Liverpool John Moores University, UK (summer 2018)
  • Invited Visiting Scientist:

    Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), USA (summer 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018)
  • Invited Visiting Researcher:

    Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, USA (summer 2013, 2014 and 2015).

INTERNATIONAL LARGE TELESCOPE OBSERVATION EXPERIENCE:

  • (Co.I) Gemini - Chile:

    Cycle 2019A and Cycle 2019B
  • (P.I) VLT - Chile:

    Service mode – from April to October 2019
  • (P.I) SOAR telescope – La Serena, Chile:

    3 nights (remotely) – January 2018
  • Magellan telescope – Chile:

    2 nights (remotely) – November 2016
  • (P.I) SOAR telescope – La Serena, Chile:

    4 nights – December 2011
  • (P.I) Blanco 4-m telescope – La Serena, Chile:

    6 nights – February 2011
  • (P.I) Siding Springs 2.3 Telescope – Siding Spring Observatory, Australia:

    4 nights – November 2010
  • SOAR telescope – La Serena, Chile:

    6 nights – June 2010

Publications:

  • Randa Asad, S. Hernandez, A. As'ad, M. Molero, F. Matteucci, S. Larsen And Igor V. Chilingarian. Detailed Chemical Abundances of Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, The Astrophysical Journal, 2022
  • Randa Asad, Paul Goudfrooij And A.m. As'ad. On the precision of full-spectrum fitting of simple stellar populations - IV. A systematic comparison with results from colour-magnitude diagrams, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 2022
  • Randa Asad, Paul Goudfrooij, A. Mustafa, H. Almir, L. Begum, A. Aljasmi And O. Almatroushi. On the Precision of Full-spectrum Fitting of Stellar Populations. III. Identifying Age Spreads., May 2021
  • Paul Goudfrooij And Randa Asad. On the precision of full-spectrum fitting of simple stellar populations - II. The dependence on star cluster mass in the wavelength range 0.3-5.0 µm, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, February 2021
  • Randa Asad, Mikhail Kovalev, Ben Davies, Valentin Ivanov, Marina Rejkuba, Anais Gonneau, Svea Hernandez, Carmela Lardo And Maria Bergemann. Analysis of Red-Supergiants in VdBH-222, Astrophysical Journal, 2020
  • A. Milone, A. Marino, Da Costa, G. S., E. Lagioia, F. D'antona, P. Goudfrooij, H. Jerjen, D. Massari, A. Renzini, D. Yong, H. Baumgardt, G. Cordoni, E. Dondoglio, C. Li, M. Tailo, Randa Asad And E. Ventura. Multiple populations in globular clusters and their parent galaxies, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 2020
  • Randa Asad And Paul Goudfrooij. On the Accuracy of Full-spectrum Fitting of Simple Stellar Populations. I. Well-sampled Populations., Mnras, 2020
  • Nate Bastian, Christopher Usher, Sebastian Kamann, Carmela Lardo, Soren Larsen, Ivan Cabrera-ziri, William Chantereau, Silvia Martocchia, Maurizio Salaris, Ricardo Schiavon, Randa Asad And Michael Hilker. Searching for multiple populations in the integrated light of the young and extremely massive clusters in the merger remnant NGC 7252, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 2020
  • Nate Bastian, Christopher Usher, Sebastian Kamann, Carmela Lardo, Soren Larsen, Ivan Cabrera-ziri, William Chantereau, Silvia Martocchia, Maurizio Salaris, Ricardo Schiavon, Randa Asad And Michael Hilker. Multiple populations in integrated light spectroscopy of intermediate-age clusters, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 2019
  • Randa Asa'd And Cindy Gunn. Improving problem solving skills in introductory physics using Kahoot!, Physics Education, 1 September 2018
  • Igor Chilingarian And Randa Asa'd. Using Star Clusters as Tracers of Star Formation and Chemical Evolution: The Chemical Enrichment History of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Astrophysical Journal, 1 May 2018
  • Randa Asad, Alexandre Vazdekis, Miguel Cerviño, Noelia Noël, Michael Beasley And Mahmoud Kassab. Young LMC clusters: The role of red supergiants and multiple stellar populations in their integrated light and CMDs, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 2017
  • Randa Asad, Alexandre Vazdekis And Sami Zeinelabdin. Ages of LMC star clusters using ASAD_2, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 2016
  • Randa Asad. Analyzer of spectra for Age Determination (ASAD) - algorithm and applications, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 2014
  • Randa Asad, M. Hanson And Andrea Ahumada. An investigation of the use of synthetic spectra to find the ages of stellar clusters, Publications Of The Astronomical Society Of The Pacific, 1 November 2013
  • Randa Asad And M. Hanson. Investigating ageing methods of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters using integrated colours, Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 2012