Shelley Wright
UCSD Optical and Infrared Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
Research Focus
About Shelley
Shelley Wright is an Associate Professor in Physics at UC San Diego in the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences. Her research focuses on developing innovative astronomical instrumentation and observations using some of the world’s largest optical telescopes. Shelley specializes in near-infrared cameras and spectrographs, and studying distant galaxies and supermassive black holes. She is currently the Project Scientist for the first-light instrument IRIS for the future Thirty Meter Telescope and Principal Investigator for Liger a next-generation W. M. Keck Observatory instrument. Shelley has also been involved with Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) instrumentation and searches for over a dozen years.
Honors
Hellman Fellowship
Education
Postdoc
University of California, Berkeley, 12/2011
University of California, Irvine, 08/2009
Ph.D.
Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, 08/2008
Bachelor's
Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 06/2001
