I'm a bit confused about her affiliations as that doesn't mention the Sinica Institute, but it could be out of date.
Her most recent preprint at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.04135 lists three:
1. Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan. I think this is their staff page: https://www.tiara.sinica.edu.tw/people.php . It doesn't list her.
2. Helsinki Institute of Physics. https://www.hip.fi/people/ says she's an Adj. Scientist
3. Bahamas Advanced Study Institute and Conferences, which I can find little about. (See https://en.everybodywiki.com/BASIC_(institute) , but the original Wikipedia article doesn't exist.) She's been affiliated with it for a couple of years. In 2023 https://phys.org/news/2023-10-theory-abell-hazy-askew-gravit... reports she co-authored a paper "proposing a new theory to explain the unique lensing seen with Abell 3827".
Arxiv.org has 35 papers from BASIC, and 6 of them have Wagner as an author.
This all suggests to me someone who is naturally aligned to heterodox theories.
Of which there are oodles in physics.
I'm a bit confused about her affiliations as that doesn't mention the Sinica Institute, but it could be out of date.
Her most recent preprint at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.04135 lists three:
1. Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan. I think this is their staff page: https://www.tiara.sinica.edu.tw/people.php . It doesn't list her.
2. Helsinki Institute of Physics. https://www.hip.fi/people/ says she's an Adj. Scientist
3. Bahamas Advanced Study Institute and Conferences, which I can find little about. (See https://en.everybodywiki.com/BASIC_(institute) , but the original Wikipedia article doesn't exist.) She's been affiliated with it for a couple of years. In 2023 https://phys.org/news/2023-10-theory-abell-hazy-askew-gravit... reports she co-authored a paper "proposing a new theory to explain the unique lensing seen with Abell 3827".
Arxiv.org has 35 papers from BASIC, and 6 of them have Wagner as an author.
This all suggests to me someone who is naturally aligned to heterodox theories.
Of which there are oodles in physics.