ByElizabeth Tasker

Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist at Hokkaido University in Japan. She spends her days building universes in her computer and wondering exactly when she'll learn enough Japanese that the canteen will stop being a bigger mystery than her research.

  1. As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we will be running a ton of wonderful one-off pieces by female scientists of all shapes and sizes and fields and education levels, which we are sure you will enjoy. They’ll live here, so you can always find them. Most recently: Parasite Tales for Every Occasion. This column is sponsored by the author herself, who nicely waived her fee. It was an epic battle.

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