Jason Wright
Jason Wright
Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics | Penn State
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 (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) 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.
