Marla Geha is a professor and astrophysicist at Yale University. Her research is focused on understanding how the smallest known galaxies formed, and using these galaxies to understand the nature of dark matter and the underlying cosmology of the Universe. She obtained her B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell University and her PhD in Astrophysics from University of California Santa Cruz. She is on the executive board of the Warrior Scholar Project and runs the Research Experience for Veteran Undergraduates (REVU) summer research program. She has received various honors including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship and most recently was awarded the Dylan Hixon '88 Prize for teaching excellence in the natural sciences at Yale.