Shelley Wright

Shelley Wright is an observational and experimental astrophysicist who enjoys building optical and infrared instruments for telescopes, and studying galaxies and supermassive black holes near and far. She specializes in designing and using astronomical instruments that make use of adaptive optics, with a particular focus on techniques using integral field spectrographs. She is a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) researcher and instrumentalist. She is Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics at University of California, San Diego. She is the Principal Investigator of the UC San Diego Optical and Infrared Laboratory.