After receiving her Bachelor's from Harvard in psychology and devoting her early career to education, Wendy was drawn back into her own academic pursuits to fulfill a childhood dream. In 2020, she received a Masters in physics & astronomy from SFSU, working under Dr. Joseph Barranco and using computational fluid dynamics to model planetesimal formation. She remained an active teacher and served as her department's Cal-Bridge Tutor.

In 2021, she began her PhD in astrophysics, joining Vera Gluscevic’s cosmology research group at USC to explore theories in which dark matter interacts with Standard Model particles. She is currently putting constraints on dark matter interactions with radiation in the early Universe (photons and neutrinos) using Milky Way satellite abundance data.

Wendy is available for public outreach and middle/high school visits, and has a great love of engaging minds of all ages with the beauty and grandeur of the cosmos. She leverages her background in psychology and 15+ years of teaching experience to make topics accessible. She aspires to evoke the awe and perspective inherent in a life lived among endless cosmic wonders, enigmas and (an estimated) two hundred billion trillion stars.