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Jess Wade
Jess Wade in Chicago
Born
Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade
EducationSouth Hampstead High School[1]
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Alma materImperial College London (MSci, PhD)
Known forPlastic Electronics, Materials Science, Advocacy and Public Engagement
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsImperial College London
ThesisNanometrology for controlling and probing organic semiconductors and devices (2016)
Doctoral advisorJi-Seon Kim
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/jessica.wade

Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade is a British physicist and early career researcher at Imperial College London. Her research is on polymer-based, circularly polarising, light emitting diodes. She also carries out public engagement work in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, particularly in the promotion of physics to girls. In 2017, Wade won the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Robin Perrin Award for Materials Science and in 2018 she won the Institute of physics Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize.

Education

Wade was educated at South Hampstead High School, leaving in 2007.[2] She then undertook a foundation course in Art and Design at the Chelsea College of Art and Design,[1] and in 2012 completed a Master of Science (MSci) degree in Physics at Imperial College London. She continued at Imperial, completing her PhD in physics in 2016.[3][4] Her thesis was on nanometrology in organic semiconductors and Devices, and was supervised by Ji-Seon Kim within Imperial's Centre for Plastic Electronics.[3]

Research and career

As of 2018, Wade is a postdoctoral research associate in plastic electronics in the Solid-state physics Group at Imperial College London, focusing on developing and characterising light-emitting polymer thin films.[5][6]

Public engagement and outreach

Claire Murray, Alice White and Jessica Wade at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition admiring "Blackboard"

Wade has contributed to public engagement to increase diversity, and in particular gender equality, in STEM subjects. Wade represented the UK on the US State Department International Visitor Leadership Programme Hidden No More,[7] and held a position on the WISE Young Women’s Board and WES Council, working with teachers across the country through the 'Stimulating Physics Network' (including keynote talks at education fairs and teacher conferences). Wade has been critical of expensive campaigns to encourage girls into science where there is an implication that only a small minority would be interested, or that girls can study the "chemical composition of lipsticks and nail varnish".[8] Wade has made a large contribution to a Wikipedia campaign that encourages the creation of Wikipedia articles about notable female academics, in order to promote women role models in STEM.[9][10][11] Wade estimates that £5m or £6m is spent in the UK to promote a scientific career for women but with little measurement of the results.[8]

Wade coordinated a 55-person UK team for the 6th International Women in Physics Conference, resulting in an invitation to discuss the Institute of Physics (IOP) gender balance work in Germany. Wade also devotes a significant amount of her time to supporting the engagement of school students, through school activities and festivals, and the organisation of a series of events for girls at Imperial College London, which she funded through public engagement grants from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Biochemical Society.[citation needed]

Wade is a member of the IOP London and South East Committee,[12] the IOP Women in Physics Committee[13] and serves on the Departmental of Physics (Imperial College London) Juno Transparency and Opportunity Committee.[14]

Awards

Wade has received awards reflecting her contribution to science, science communication, diversity, and inclusion. She was awarded the Imperial College's Julia Higgins Medal 2017[15][16] in recognition for her work to support gender equality. Wade has received the Robert Perrin Award for Materials Science[17][18] from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the IOP Jocelyn Bell-Burnell Award for Women in Physics 2016,[4] the IOP Early Career Physics Communicator Prize 2015,[19] and the Imperial College Union Contribution to College Life 2015.[20] In 2015, Wade was the winner of the Colour Zone in I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here, an online science engagement project run by Mangorolla CIC.[21]

In 2018, Wade won the Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize for "acting as an internationally-recognised ambassador for STEM".[22] She received an "honourable mention" in the Wikimedian of the Year award in 2018 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, for her "year long effort to write about underrepresented scientists and engineers on Wikipedia".[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b Anon (30 October 2017). "A Day in the Life of a Physicist at Imperial College, London". independentschoolparent.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  2. ^ "SHHS Motivational Monday: Scientist Dr Jess Wade | News | South Hampstead High School". Shhs.gdst.net. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  3. ^ a b Wade, Jessica Alice Feinmann (2016). Nanometrology for controlling and probing organic semiconductors and devices. imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). hdl:10044/1/56219. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.733084. Free access icon
  4. ^ a b Physics, Institute of. "Early career researcher wins the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize". iop.org. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  5. ^ "Experimental Solid State Physics - Research groups - Imperial College London". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  6. ^ Jess Wade publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. ^ "Fox's 'Hidden Figures' inspires historic State Department program to support women in STEM around the world". 2 November 2017.
  8. ^ a b Devlin, Hannah (2018-07-24). "Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed". theguardian.com. London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  9. ^ Physics, Cold Spring Harbour. "Committee". cshlwise.org. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  10. ^ Martín, Bruno (2018-07-08). "La mujer que añade una científica cada día a la Wikipedia". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
  11. ^ Zdanowicz, Christina (2018). "A physicist has written more than 280 Wikipedia entries to elevate women in science". cnn.com. CNN. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  12. ^ Physics, Institute of. "Committee". Iop.org. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  13. ^ Physics, Institute of. "Committee". Iop.org. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  14. ^ "Juno Committee". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  15. ^ "Julia Higgins Medal and Awards". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  16. ^ "Imperial College". 23 November 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  17. ^ "Imperial College". 21 April 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2018. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  18. ^ "IOM3 Awards 2017 | IOM3". iom3.org. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  19. ^ Physics, Institute of. "PhD student wins Early Career Physics Communicator Award". Iop.org. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  20. ^ Wagle, Kunal M L (2015). "Felix is shortlisted for Club of the Year at Imperial College Union Awards 2015". Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  21. ^ Anon (2016-02-17). "What Jess Wade did with her prize money... - About I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here". imascientist.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-31.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  22. ^ "2018 Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  23. ^ "Farkhad Fatkullin named Wikimedian of the Year for 2018 – Wikimedia Blog". blog.wikimedia.org.


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