Swati Ravi has been awarded a fully funded Physics Department Fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MiT), where she is pursuing a PhD in Astrophysics. She chose MIT because the Astrophysics program is closely aligned with her passion and aspirations in Observational Astronomy and Instrumentation. Interested in Dublin’s unique position as an aerospace subsystems engineering hub, Swati studied Space, Science and Technology at University College Dublin. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Astrophysics from Columbia University. She is the recipient of an international award, organized by Aviation Week Network, that recognizes the top 20 most promising aerospace students in their twenties. As a Science Research Fellow at Columbia, Swati participated in computational astrophysics research, working to model distant galaxies with high-resolution near-field stars. She developed an astronaut tool to help detect hazardous portions of handrails on the International Space Station. She did this in collaboration with NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory where her device was tested. She won first place for her paper about that project at the 2021 AIAA SciTech Forum, the world's largest conference for aerospace research and development. She also won the NASA Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science competition. She led a team of 25 students in designing a project to study the effects of microgravity on antibiotic resistance of bacteria. This project flew to the International Space Station in December 2021. Swati served as president of the Columbia Space Initiative, an aerospace engineering student club with 120 active members. Swati also oversaw Columbia University’s math and science tutoring outreach program with three New York City public schools, and she taught weekly math lessons to a group of 20 first through third-grade students in an after-school program targeted to low-income students in Harlem.