Sarah Al-Rashid (b. 1983, Riyadh) is a Saudi-born chronobiologist and science writer whose research focuses on artificial light at night and ecological physiology. She studied biology at King Saud University, earned an MSc in neuroscience at University College London, and completed a PhD in integrative biology at the University of Glasgow, where she used actigraphy and spectroradiometry to study melatonin rhythms in shift workers and urban bats. Al-Rashid has served as an advisor to DarkSky International and collaborated on field campaigns using NOAA VIIRS night-light data. A former lecturer at Sultan Qaboos University, she now directs the Night Ecology Lab at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus and contributes essays to Nature and Aeon. She divides her time between Cornwall and Muscat.
