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  1. Shelley Wright is an observational and experimental astrophysicist who studies galaxies and black holes with adaptive optics and integral field spectrographs. She is also a SETI researcher and instrumentalist, and the Principal Investigator of the Optical and Infrared Laboratory at UCSD.

  2. Mar 28, 2022 · Dr. Shelley Wright is an optical and near-infrared SETI instrument developer and researcher. She will receive the Drake Award, named after Frank Drake, the father of scientific SETI research, on May 12, 2022.

  3. Mar 29, 2022 · Shelley Wright is the 2022 Drake Award recipient for her contributions to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). She leads the Optical and Infrared Laboratory at UC San Diego, where she develops innovative instruments to detect interstellar communication.

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  5. Nov 2, 2023 · Shelley Wright is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC San Diego who specializes in SETI and UAP research. She discusses her career, the panel's objectives and the future of unexplained anomalous phenomena.

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    Shelley Wright is an observational and experimental astrophysicist. Wright focuses on understanding how galaxies and supermassive black holes form and evolve over cosmic time, using innovative instrumentation with integral field spectrograph coupled with adaptive optics. Wright also designs and builds advanced near-infrared and optical astronomical...

    University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship 2011 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship 2009-2011

    "Providing stringent star formation rate limits of z 2 QSO host galaxies at high angular resolution" Vayner, Andrey; Wright, Shelley A.; Do, Tuan; Larkin, James E.; Armus, Lee; Gallagher, Sarah C., ApJ, arXiv:1410.4229 "The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: Overview of Innovative Science Programs" Wright, Shelley, + IRIS science team, 2...

  6. Shelley Wright is an observational and experimental astrophysicist. Wright focuses on understanding how galaxies and supermassive black holes form and evolve over cosmic time using innovative instrumentation with integral field spectrograph coupled with adaptive optics.

  7. Nov 3, 2023 · November 3, 2023. Michelle Franklin, UC San Diego. Credit: iStock/JaysonPhotography. UC San Diego Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Shelley Wright has a lifelong love of outer space. She’s made a career of building state-of-the-art telescopes that can study everything from black holes to “technosignatures” from alien civilizations.

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