Sophie Wuerger (1960 – January 3, 2024) was a color perception researcher and psychology professor at the University of Liverpool.
She obtained her PhD from New York University (NYU) in 1991, advised by Michael Landy and John Krauskopf.
Wuerger then completed two postdoc positions, at NYU and the Institute of Ophthalmology, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Keele.
During her NYU postdoc, she showed that the geometry of color space did not fit a simple Euclidean model.
[1] In 2020, Wuerger and her collaborators touched on American politics in their work when they analyzed Donald Trump's skin color from publicly available images.