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Risa Wechsler
Assistant Professor

E-mail: risa@slac.stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 926-3621
Group: KIPAC Physics Dept

Education

S.B., 1996, Physics, MIT; Ph.D. 2001, Physics, UC Santa Cruz.

Professional Academic History

Research Fellow, University of Michigan, 2001-2003; Hubble Fellow, University of Chicago, Kavli Insitute for Cosmological Physics, 2003-2006; Assistant Professor, Stanford Physics, SLAC, KIPAC, 2006-present.  

Awards and Honors

Fermi Fellowship, Enrico Fermi Institute, 2003 – 2005; Hubble Fellowship, NASA/STScI, 2003 – 2006; Arthur H. Compton Lecturer, Enrico Fermi Institute, Spring 2005; Terman Fellow, Stanford, 2006-2008; Hellman Faculty Scholar, Stanford, 2008.  

Research Areas

Theoretical Cosmology and Astrophysics; Galaxy formation and properties, large-scale structure, galaxy clusters, history and structure of dark-matter halos, cosmological constraints, dark matter and dark energy.

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Last update on 24 Sep 2008 by A. Rutherford