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Jess Wade
Jessica Wade in 2017
Born
Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade

1988 or 1989 (age 34–35)[5]
EducationSouth Hampstead High School[6]
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Alma materImperial College London (MSci, PhD)
Known forPlastic electronics
Public engagement
WISE Campaigning
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsImperial College London
ThesisNanometrology for controlling and probing organic semiconductors and devices (2016)
Doctoral advisorJi-Seon Kim[2]
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/jessica.wade

Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade is a British physicist and early career researcher in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London. Her research investigates polymer-based light emitting diodes (LEDs).[7] She also carries out public engagement work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly in the promotion of physics to girls. Wade won the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Robin Perrin Award for Materials Science in 2017, the Institute of Physics (IOP) Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize in 2018[8] and was included in Nature's 10 people who mattered in science in 2018.[1]

Education

Wade was educated at South Hampstead High School, graduating in 2007.[9] She then undertook a foundation course in Art and Design at the Chelsea College of Art and Design,[6] 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,[2][10] where her thesis on nanometrology in organic semiconductors was supervised by Ji-Seon Kim.[2]

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[11][12] working with Alasdair Campbell and Matt Fuchter.[7] Her research has been published in scientific journals such as the Journal of Physical Chemistry C,[13] the Journal of the American Chemical Society,[14] the Journal of Materials Chemistry,[15][16] ACS Nano,[17] Advanced Functional Materials,[18] The Journal of Chemical Physics,[19] Advanced Electronic Materials,[20] ChemComm[21] and Energy & Environmental Science.[22] She has co-authored research papers with James Durrant,[22][21][19][16], Henning Sirringhaus,[14] Jenny Nelson,[17] Donal Bradley,[15][20] and Ji-Seon Kim.[13]

Public engagement and outreach

Wade has contributed to public engagement to increase gender equality in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. She represented the UK on the United States Department of State funded International Visitor Leadership Program Hidden No More,[23] and served on the WISE Campaign Young Women’s Board and Women's Engineering Society (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".[3][24] She estimates that £5m or £6m is spent in the UK to promote a scientific career for women but with little measurement of the results.[3] 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.[25][26][27]

Wade coordinated a 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.[28] Wade also supports 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 has funded with grants from the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Biochemical Society.[8] In 2015 Wade won the science engagement activity I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here![29] and received £500, which she used to run a greenlight4girls Day in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London.[30]

Wade serves on the IOP London and South East Committee,[31] the IOP Women in Physics Committee[32] and the Juno transparency and opportunity committee at Imperial.[33] She cites her influences as Sharmadean Reid, Lesley Cohen, Jenny Nelson[4] and Angela Saini, particularly her book Inferior.[3] Her outreach work has been covered by the BBC,[5][34] Sky News,[35] HuffPost,[24] ABC News,[36] Physics World,[37] El País,[26] CNN,[27] Nature,[1][38] and The Guardian.[3][39][40]. In 2018, Wade created over 450 Wikipedia biographical articles of minorities to raise the profile of minorities in STEM.[41]

Awards and honours

Wade has received awards for contributions to science, science communication, diversity, and inclusion. Wade has received the Robert Perrin Award for Materials Science[42][43] from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the IOP Jocelyn Bell-Burnell Award for Women in Physics 2016,[10] and the IOP Early Career Physics Communicator Prize 2015.[44] At Imperial College she has received the Imperial College Union award for contribution to college life in 2015,[45] and the Julia Higgins Medal in 2017 in recognition of her work to support gender equality.[46][47] 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.[48] She was invited to Science Foo Camp at the Googleplex in California in 2017.[49]

In December 2018, Wade was named as one of Nature's 10 people who mattered in science during 2018.[1] In the same year, Wade won the Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize for "acting as an internationally-recognised ambassador for STEM"[50] and received an "honourable mention" in the Wikimedian of the Year award by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, for her "year long effort to write about underrepresented scientists and engineers on Wikipedia".[51]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Gibney, Elizabeth; Callaway, Ewen; Cyranoski, David; Gaind, Nisha; Tollefson, Jeff; Courtland, Rachel; Law, Yao-Hua; Maher, Brendan; Else, Holly; Castelvecchi, Davide (2018). "Ten people who mattered this year". Nature. 564 (7736): 325–335. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07683-5.
  2. ^ a b c Wade, Jessica Alice Feinmann (2016). Nanometrology for controlling and probing organic semiconductors and devices. imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). hdl:10044/1/56219. OCLC 1065331693. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.733084. Free access icon
  3. ^ a b c d e Devlin, Hannah (24 July 2018). "Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed". theguardian.com. London: The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  4. ^ a b Anon (2018). "Jess Wade profile Diverse@Imperial". Archived from the original on 16 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b Jackson, Marie; Scott, Jennifer (2018). "Women in science: 'We want to be accepted into the club'". bbc.co.uk. BBC News.
  6. ^ 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)
  7. ^ a b "Dr Jessica Wade: Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics". imperial.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 May 2018.
  8. ^ a b 2018 Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize Institute of Physics
  9. ^ Anon (2018). "SHHS Motivational Monday: Scientist Dr Jess Wade | News | South Hampstead High School". shhs.gdst.net. Retrieved 22 February 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  10. ^ a b Anon (2016). "Early career researcher wins the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize". iop.org. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Experimental Solid State Physics - Research groups - Imperial College London". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  12. ^ Jess Wade publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  13. ^ a b Wade, Jessica; Wood, Sebastian; Collado-Fregoso, Elisa; Heeney, Martin; Durrant, James; Kim, Ji-Seon (2017). "Impact of Fullerene Intercalation on Structural and Thermal Properties of Organic Photovoltaic Blends". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121 (38): 20976–20985. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b05893. ISSN 1932-7447.
  14. ^ a b Fei, Zhuping; Boufflet, Pierre; Wood, Sebastian; Wade, Jessica; Moriarty, John; Gann, Eliot; Ratcliff, Erin L.; McNeill, Christopher R.; Sirringhaus, Henning; Kim, Ji-Seon; Heeney, Martin (2015). "Influence of Backbone Fluorination in Regioregular Poly(3-alkyl-4-fluoro)thiophenes". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137 (21): 6866–6879. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b02785. ISSN 0002-7863.
  15. ^ a b Wade, Jessica; Steiner, Florian; Niedzialek, Dorota; James, David T.; Jung, Youngsuk; Yun, Dong-Jin; Bradley, Donal D. C.; Nelson, Jenny; Kim, Ji-Seon (2014). "Charge mobility anisotropy of functionalized pentacenes in organic field effect transistors fabricated by solution processing". Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 2 (47): 10110–10115. doi:10.1039/C4TC01353K. ISSN 2050-7526.
  16. ^ a b Razzell-Hollis, Joseph; Wade, Jessica; Tsoi, Wing Chung; Soon, Ying; Durrant, James; Kim, Ji-Seon (2014). "Photochemical stability of high efficiency PTB7:PC70BM solar cell blends". Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2 (47): 20189–20195. doi:10.1039/C4TA05641H. ISSN 2050-7488.
  17. ^ a b James, David T.; Frost, Jarvist M.; Wade, Jessica; Nelson, Jenny; Kim, Ji-Seon (2013). "Controlling Microstructure of Pentacene Derivatives by Solution Processing: Impact of Structural Anisotropy on Optoelectronic Properties". ACS Nano. 7 (9): 7983–7991. doi:10.1021/nn403073d. ISSN 1936-0851.
  18. ^ Kim, Ji-Hoon; Wood, Sebastian; Park, Jong Baek; Wade, Jessica; Song, Myungkwan; Yoon, Sung Cheol; Jung, In Hwan; Kim, Ji-Seon; Hwang, Do-Hoon (2016). "Optimization and Analysis of Conjugated Polymer Side Chains for High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells". Advanced Functional Materials. 26 (10): 1517–1525. doi:10.1002/adfm.201504093. ISSN 1616-301X. Closed access icon
  19. ^ a b Wade, Jessica; Wood, Sebastian; Beatrup, Daniel; Hurhangee, Michael; Bronstein, Hugo; McCulloch, Iain; Durrant, James R.; Kim, Ji-Seon (2015). "Operational electrochemical stability of thiophene-thiazole copolymers probed by resonant Raman spectroscopy". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 142 (24): 244904. doi:10.1063/1.4923197. ISSN 0021-9606.
  20. ^ a b Kang, Chan-mo; Wade, Jessica; Yun, Sumin; Lim, Jaehoon; Cho, Hyunduck; Roh, Jeongkyun; Lee, Hyunkoo; Nam, Sangwook; Bradley, Donal D. C.; Kim, Ji-Seon; Lee, Changhee (2016). "1 GHz Pentacene Diode Rectifiers Enabled by Controlled Film Deposition on SAM-Treated Au Anodes". Advanced Electronic Materials. 2 (2): 1500282. doi:10.1002/aelm.201500282. ISSN 2199-160X.
  21. ^ a b Beatrup, Daniel; Wade, Jessica; Biniek, Laure; Bronstein, Hugo; Hurhangee, Michael; Kim, Ji-Seon; McCulloch, Iain; Durrant, James R. (2014). "Polaron stability in semiconducting polymer neat films". ChemComm. 50 (92): 14425–14428. doi:10.1039/C4CC06193D. ISSN 1359-7345. Closed access icon
  22. ^ a b Wood, Sebastian; Wade, Jessica; Shahid, Munazza; Collado-Fregoso, Elisa; Bradley, Donal D. C.; Durrant, James R.; Heeney, Martin; Kim, Ji-Seon (2015). "Natures of optical absorption transitions and excitation energy dependent photostability of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based photovoltaic copolymers". Energy & Environmental Science. 8 (11): 3222–3232. doi:10.1039/C5EE01974E. ISSN 1754-5692. Closed access icon
  23. ^ "Fox's 'Hidden Figures' inspires historic State Department program to support women in STEM around the world". Impact.21.cf.com. 2 November 2017.
  24. ^ a b "Physicist Writes 270 Wikipedia Profiles In Less Than A Year So Female Scientists Get Noticed". Huffingtonpost.co.uk. 24 July 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  25. ^ Anon (2017). "Jess Wade - CSHL WiSE". cshlwise.org. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Harbour. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  26. ^ a b Martín, Bruno (8 July 2018). "La mujer que añade una científica cada día a la Wikipedia". elpais.com (in Spanish). El País. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  27. ^ a b Zdanowicz, Christina (2018). "A physicist has written more than 280 Wikipedia entries to elevate women in science". cnn.com. CNN. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  28. ^ "Program of 21. Deutsche Physikerinnentagung (21st German Conference of Female Physicists)" (PDF). German Physical Society. Retrieved 9 October 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  29. ^ Anon (2015). "And the winner is... - Colour Zone". imascientist.org.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  30. ^ Jess Wade (2015). "G4G DAY @ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON". makingphysicsfun.com. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
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  32. ^ Anon. "IOP Women in Physics Committee". iop.org. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  33. ^ "Juno Committee". Imperial College London. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  34. ^ "Cartoon by Jess Wade - Biased Science, as interpreted and illustrated by audience member Jess Wade - The Everyday Effect of Unconscious Bias, All in the Mind - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  35. ^ "Dr Jess Wade on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  36. ^ Anon (26 July 2018). "This researcher writes Wikipedia pages for women in science". abcnews.go.com. ABC News. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  37. ^ Tesh, Sarah; Wade, Jess (2017). "Look happy dear, you've just made a discovery". Physics World. 30 (9): 31–33. doi:10.1088/2058-7058/30/9/35. ISSN 0953-8585. Closed access icon
  38. ^ Wade, Jess; Zaringhalam, Maryam (2018). "Why we're editing women scientists onto Wikipedia". nature.com. Springer Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05947-8.
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  48. ^ Anon (17 February 2016). "What Jess Wade did with her prize money... - About I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here". imascientist.org.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  49. ^ "A Collective Noun for Science #SciFoo 2017 - Digital Science". Digital-science.com. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  50. ^ "2018 Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
  51. ^ Elsharbaty, Samir (2018). "Farkhad Fatkullin named Wikimedian of the Year for 2018". blog.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia Foundation.
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