Biography:Risa Wechsler

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Short description: American physicist

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.

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