Risa Wechsler
Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) and Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
Professional and Biographical Information
- SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1996
- PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz 2001
- Research Fellow, University of Michigan 2001-2003
- Enrico Fermi/ Hubble Fellow, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago 2003-2005
- Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics Fellow, University of Chicago 2003-2006
- Stanford University
- Assistant Professor 2006 - 2013
- Associate Professor 2013-2019
- Chair, Physics Department Committee on Equity & Inclusion 2016 - 2019
- Professor 2019 -
- SLAC
- Assistant Professor 2006-2013
- Head, KIPAC Theory Group 2009 -
- Associate Professor 2013-2019
- Assistant Director of Scientific Programs, KIPAC 2013 - 2018
- Co-Spokesperson, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) 2014 - 2018
- Fundamental Physics Directorate Management Team 2018 -
- Professor 2019 -
- Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology 2018 -
- Member, Board on Physics and Astronomy, National Academy of Sciences 2021 -
- Advisory Board, NOIRLab 2020 -
- Board of Fund Managers, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge 2020 -
- Board of Trustees, Aspen Center for Physics 2020 -
- Scientific Advisory Committee, Rubin Observatory / LSST 2016 -
- General Member, Aspen Center for Physics 2015 -
- Advisory Board, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics 2015 - 2019
- Member, High Energy Physics Advisory Panel 2015 - 2018
Honors and Awards
- Enrico Fermi Fellow, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago 2003-2005
- Hubble Fellow, NASA 2003-2006
- Frederick E. Terman Fellow, Stanford University 2006-2012
- Hellman Faculty Scholar, Stanford University 2008
- Nina C. Crocker Faculty Scholar, Stanford University 2013-2016
- Fellow, American Physical Society 2017
- Stanford Fellow, Stanford University 2019-2021
- Gregory Amadon University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, Stanford University 2020
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020
- Distinguished Alumna, University of California, Santa Cruz 2022
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2023
Publications
Presentations
- Dr. Risa Wechsler on the nature of the Universe. Discovery Retreats
- TEDx-Youth @ Castilleja
- Dr. Risa Wechsler on "Are we alone in the Universe?" Discovery Retreats
- Galactic Halos. SETI Talks
- Dark Energy. What the ...? SLAC Public Lecture 2007
- The Search for Dark Matter and What We've Found So Far. TED @ NAS 2019
- Mapping the Dark Cosmos. KITP Friends, 2017
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