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title: "Risa Wechsler"
description: "Cosmologist, Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Professor at Stanford and SLAC, with leadership roles in the Dark Energy Survey, DESI and the Rubin Observatory LSST."
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# Risa Wechsler

> Directory entry from Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/people/risa-wechsler), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work. Roles and affiliations as published.

- **Role:** Advisors/network list; listed 2025 journal contributor
- **Affiliation:** Stanford / SLAC (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Director)
- **Group:** Advisors & network

Cosmologist, Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Professor at Stanford and SLAC, with leadership roles in the Dark Energy Survey, DESI and the Rubin Observatory LSST. Listed in the journal credits as a 2025 contributor, but no work under her byline is in the corpus.

_Directory generated 2026-09-06._