Faculty

Jason Wright

Email: jtw13@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-8470
Office Address: 424 Davey Laboratory
Title: Professor
Unit: Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Webpage: https://science.psu.edu/astro/people/jtw13

Research Interests:

• Stellar Astrophysics
• Exoplanets
• SETI

About:

Jason Wright is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State who studies nearby stars and their planets, in addition to SETI. NPR commentator and astrobiologist Adam Frank has written that he “represents the tip of the spear of a new generation” of SETI researchers, having led two major SETI initiatives and written over a dozen papers on the topic in the past three years. He spent his 2016/7 sabbatical as the first Visiting Scientist at the UC Berkeley Breakthrough Listen SETI laboratory.

In 2019 he was awarded the Drake Award by the SETI Institute for his work in exoplanets and SETI.