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  • Comment: I don't see strong evidence for a pass as either an academic or a general pass. For academic, WP:NPROF, she has one highly cited paper, but that is a team effort so it's impact is less. Beyond that her citations are modest, and I see no indications of major awards here or in her CV. For general, WP:GNG, we need at least three articles about her, not mentions in news articles on astronomy, see WP:42. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:36, 4 August 2026 (UTC)
Wright in 2023 during a public meeting of the NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team at NASA Headquarters

Shelley A. Wright is an American astrophysicist and Physics professor at University of California, San Diego. Wright is known for her work in optical and infrared astronomical instrumentation, experimental work in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) field, and studies in galaxy formation and evolution.

Education and early career

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Wright received her Physics B.S. from UC Santa Cruz in 2001. She became interested in SETI shortly before that, when she met astrophysicists Frank Drake and Dan Werthimer at an astrobiology conference. Drake was later an advisor for Wright's undergraduate thesis work at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California.[1] Wright was a Support Astronomer for the Issac Newton of Telescopes, Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in 2001 - 2002. She received her Astronomy Ph.D. from UCLA in 2008. Wright was awarded the NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2012; UC Irvine)[2] for her observational studies in galaxy formation and evolution. Wright was previously a professor at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at University of Toronto (2012 – 2015), where she worked on NIROSETI.[3]

Research and career

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Wright is an advocate for supporting the SETI and technosignature field and increasing national research interest and funding. In 2016, Wright testified on the state of SETI to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the United States House of Representatives.[4] Wright leads NIROSETI and PANOSETI,[5]two optical and near-infrared programs at Lick Observatory.[6][7][8] Wright was awarded the SETI Institute Drake Award in 2022 in recognition of her career-long optical and infrared SETI work.[9] In 2022, NASA's Science Mission Directorate appointed Wright as one of the panel members of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Independent Study.[10]

Wright specializes in near-infrared cameras and integral field spectrographs that operate behind adaptive optics and uses them to study black holes[11] and galaxies 10 billion light years away.[12] Wright is among the list of women in leadership positions on astronomical instrumentation projects. Wright is the Principal Investigator of Liger, a future instrument for W. M. Keck Observatory adaptive optics.[13] Wright serves as the Project Scientist of IRIS, a planned first-light instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope.[14]

Media appearances

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Wright has participated in news articles, radio interviews, and TV shows on astrophysics and SETI, including Quirks & Quarks CBC Radio (March 2015)[15], CCTV Film (September 2015)[16], TVO Kids Canada (February 2016)[17], Planète+ Film Documentary France (November 2016)[18], Science Magazine (September 2022)[19], NPR Blue Dot (May 2022)[20]

Personal life

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Wright is married to the American astrophysicist Quinn Konopacky.

References

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  1. ↑ Davis, Jason (October 25, 2017). "Is There Anybody out There?". The Planetary Society. Retrieved 2026-01-13.
  2. ↑ "Physics & astronomy postdocs receive Hubble fellowships". UC Irvine News. 2009-03-23. Retrieved 2026-01-13.
  3. ↑ "Researchers Develop New Extraterrestrial Life Detector". The UCSD Guardian. April 1, 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
  4. ↑ Joint Space Subcommittee and Research and Technology Subcommittee Hearing - Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Astrobiology, 114th Congress, July 12 2016 https://republicans-science.house.gov/2016/7//joint-space-subcommittee-and-research-and-technology-subcommittee-hearing
  5. ↑ Goldsmith, Jan (December 4, 2024). "Someone San Diego Should Know: Shelley Wright". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved July 15, 2025.
  6. ↑ Wright et al. 2014, "A near-infrared SETI experiment: instrument overview", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9147, doi:10.1117/12.2055616
  7. ↑ Maire et al. 2019, "Search for Nanosecond Near-infrared Transients around 1280 Celestial Objects", The Astronomical Journal, Volume 158, Issue 5, article id. 203, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab44d3
  8. ↑ Wright et al. 2019, "Panoramic SETI: An all-sky fast time-domain observatory", Astro2020: Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, APC white papers, no. 264; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 51, Issue 7, id. 264 (2019)
  9. ↑ News release: "Shelley Wright to Receive SETI Institute's 2022 Drake Award", March 28, 2022 https://www.seti.org/press-release/shelley-wright-receive-seti-institutes-2022-drake-award
  10. ↑ News release: "NASA Announces Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Study Team Members", October 2022 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-announces-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-study-team-members/
  11. ↑ Robvins, Gary (November 18, 2018). "Awash in money, UC San Diego enjoys a golden age in research". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved January 13, 2026.
  12. ↑ Hall, Jenny (June 6, 2013). "Building better telescopes, understanding diabetes and stroke". U of T News. University of Toronto. Retrieved January 13, 2026.
  13. ↑ Wright et al. 2024, "Liger at W.M. Keck Observatory: overall design and science drivers", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 13096, id. 130960G 38 pp. (2024).
  14. ↑ Wright et al. 2016, "The infrared imaging spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: latest science cases and simulations", Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 9909, id. 990905 15 pp. (2016).
  15. ↑ Quirks & Quarks, "New SETI Strategies: Looking for Lasers", CBC RADIO, April 4, 2015 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-quarks-for-april-4-2015-1.3019735
  16. ↑ CCTV Film News "The search for extraterrestrials gets major investment", September 2015 http://america.cgtn.com/2015/09/17/the-search-for-extraterrestrials-gets-major-investment
  17. ↑ "Now you know", TVO Kids, Canada, Episode: "Aliens", February 2016, http://tvokids.com/preschool/now-you-know
  18. ↑ Planète+ Film Documentary Espace, l'odyssée du futur, November 2016 http://www.planeteplus.com/pid5936-inedits-planete.html?news=1418797
  19. ↑ Science Magazine, "Listen Up", September 10, 2020 https://www.science.org/news/2020/09/how-big-money-powering-massive-hunt-alien-intelligence
  20. ↑ NPR Blue Dot, Podcast May 6, 2022 https://www.mynspr.org/show/blue-dot/2022-05-06/blue-dot-a-conversation-with-frank-drake-award-winning-seti-astronomer-shelley-wright
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