in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, and earned her Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2001.
[1] She completed postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan Department of Physics from 2001 to 2003, and at the University of Chicago from 2003-2006, where she was a NASA Hubble Fellow in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics,[3][4][5] and an Enrico Fermi Fellow at the Enrico Fermi Institute.
[23][24] Sharing her expertise with the general public, Wechsler has conveyed her passion for physics in a range of media.
[32] In 2012, she spoke on the PBS series Science Bytes: Dark Matters[33][34] Wechsler also collaborated with the artist Oxossi Ayofemi on an art exhibit entitled Black Matter, exhibited from July 2018 to January 2020 at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
The show combined discussions about the elusive nature of the universe's dark matter with notions of presence and absence in African American culture.