Sally Oey

University of Michigan

Sally Oey is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Astronomy at the University of Michigan. She specializes in the study of massive stars and their feedback effects on host galaxy ecosystems. Oey is a graduate of the University of Arizona (Ph.D. 1995) and held prize postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, and Space Telescope Science Institute. She is the 1999 winner of the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy.  Oey has served on the AAS Board of Trustees, and chaired the Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Science Definition Working Group that recommended ULLYSES, the observatory’s largest Director’s Discretionary Program. She also served on the Gemini Observatory Board of Directors. In the public sphere, Oey organized Michigan Dark Skies, a community group that combats light pollution and developed a local lighting ordinance.