Biography:Risa Wechsler
Risa Wechsler | |
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| Born | Seattle, Washington (state) , United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, cosmology, astrophysics |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Website | risawechsler |
Risa H. Wechsler is an American physicist and Professor of Physics at Stanford University and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.[1] She is the director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.[2] She is an Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2017 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2020. [3] [4]
A cited expert in cosmology, large-scale structure, and galaxy formation,[5] her interests are astrophysics and dark matter and energy.[3] She was the Co-Spokesperson of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Collaboration[6] until mid-2018 and has played a leading role in the Dark Energy Survey.[7]
She has appeared on the BBC show Horizon: The Mystery of Dark Energy,[8] the Science Channel's Space's Deepest Secrets: Secret History of the Big Bang[9] and on the PBS show Science Bytes: Dark Matters.[10]
In 2019, she collaborated on an exhibit with the artist Oxossi Ayofemi at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. [11]
Education
She earned her S.B. in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 and her Ph.D from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2001.[1] She was a NASA Hubble Fellow at the University of Chicago from 2003-2006.[12]
Publications
A list of Wechsler's publications can be found here.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Risa Wechsler". stanford.edu. https://profiles.stanford.edu/risa-wechsler.
- ↑ Gnida, Manuel. "Risa Wechsler named director of KIPAC". https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2018-07-31-risa-wechsler-named-director-kipac.aspx.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "SLAC's Risa Wechsler named American Physical Society Fellow". eurekaalert.org. October 1017. https://www.eurekalert.org/features/doe/2017-10/dnal-srw102417.php.
- ↑ "AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows". aaas.org. November 2020. https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-leading-scientists-elected-2020-fellows.
- ↑ "Risa Wechsler". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=83Ahn20AAAAJ&hl=en.
- ↑ "DESI Team". https://desi.lbl.gov/trac/wiki/PublicPages/Contacts.
- ↑ "Dark matter map puts Big Bang theory on trial". http://www.kavlifoundation.org/science-spotlights/new-map-dark-matter-puts-big-bang-theory-trial#.Wq3qV62ZPdQ.
- ↑ "BBC Horizon: The Mystery of Dark Energy". http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0761llv.
- ↑ "Science Channel Space's Deepest Secrets: Secret History of the Big Bang". https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/spaces-deepest-secrets/full-episodes/secret-history-of-the-big-bang.
- ↑ "PBS Science Bytes: Dark Matters". http://www.sciencebytes.org.
- ↑ "In That Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art—Oxossi Ayofemi and Risa Wechsler". https://www.thecjm.org/exhibitions/105.
- ↑ "Hubble Fellows". https://nhfp.stsci.edu/hubble-fellows.
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