# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sarafina-nance
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:44:17.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sarafina-nance"
name: "Sarafina Nance"
slug: "sarafina-nance"
description: "Sarafina El-Badry Nance is an Egyptian-American astrophysicist and science communicator. She was formerly a graduate student in the Department of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and has now graduated. Her research investigates supernovae and their applications to cosmology. Nance is known for her use of social media, in particular Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn where she discusses astrophysics and activism. She is also an advocate for women's health and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Her memoir Starstruck was published in 2023."
tagline: "Astrophysicist, STEM advocate and science communicator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sarafina_Nance_on_James_Davenport.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           39.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.611592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/starstrickenSF"
    handle:    "starstrickenSF"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/starstrickensf/"
    handle:    "starstrickensf"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarafinanance/"
    handle:    "sarafinanance"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://starafina.com"
sources:
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    title: "Sarafina Nance"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarafina_Nance"
    title: "Sarafina Nance"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarafina_Nance"
    title: "Sarafina Nance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "சாராபினா நான்சி"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سرافینا نینس"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump