Jess Wade

Jess Wade
Wade in 2017
Born Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade
Education South Hampstead High School[1]
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Alma mater Imperial College London (MSci, PhD)
Known for Plastic electronics
Public engagement
WISE Campaigning
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions Imperial College London
Thesis Nanometrology for controlling and probing organic semiconductors and devices (2016)
Doctoral advisor Ji-Seon Kim[2]
Influences Angela Saini[3]
Lesley Cohen
Jenny Nelson[4]
Website makingphysicsfun.com
imperial.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).[5] She also carries out public engagement work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly in the promotion of physics to girls. In 2017, Wade won the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) Robin Perrin Award for Materials Science and in 2018 she won the Institute of Physics (IOP) Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize.

Education

Wade was educated at South Hampstead High School, graduating in 2007.[6] 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.[2][7] Her thesis was on nanometrology in organic semiconductors and 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[8][9] working with Alisdair Campbell and Matt Fuchter.[5]

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,[10] 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][11] 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.[12][13][14]

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.[15] 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. In 2015 Wade won the science engagement activity I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here![16] and received £500, which she used to run a greenlight4girls Day in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London.[17]

Wade serves on the IOP London and South East Committee,[18] the IOP Women in Physics Committee[19] and the Juno transparency and opportunity committee at Imperial.[20] She cites her influences as Lesley Cohen, Jenny Nelson[4] and Angela Saini, particularly her book Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story.[3] Her work outreach has been covered by the BBC,[21] Sky News,[22] HuffPost,[11] ABC News,[23] Physics World,[24] El País,[13] CNN[14] and The Guardian.[3][25][26]

Awards

Wade has received awards for contributions to science, science communication, diversity, and inclusion. She was awarded the Imperial College's Julia Higgins Medal 2017[27][28] in recognition for her work to support gender equality. Wade has received the Robert Perrin Award for Materials Science[29][30] from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the IOP Jocelyn Bell-Burnell Award for Women in Physics 2016,[7] the IOP Early Career Physics Communicator Prize 2015,[31] and the Imperial College Union Contribution to College Life 2015.[32] 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.[33]

In 2018, Wade won the Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize for "acting as an internationally-recognised ambassador for STEM".[34]. 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".[35] She was invited to Science Foo Camp at the Googleplex in California in 2017.[36]

References

  1. 1 2 Anon (30 October 2017). "A Day in the Life of a Physicist at Imperial College, London". independentschoolparent.com. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  4. 1 2 Anon (2018). "Jess Wade profile Diverse@Imperial". Archived from the original on 2018-07-16.
  5. 1 2 "Dr Jessica Wade: Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics". imperial.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-05-18.
  6. ↑ Anon (2018). "SHHS Motivational Monday: Scientist Dr Jess Wade | News | South Hampstead High School". shhs.gdst.net. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  7. 1 2 Anon (2016). "Early career researcher wins the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Medal and Prize". iop.org. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  8. ↑ "Experimental Solid State Physics - Research groups - Imperial College London". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  9. ↑ Jess Wade publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. ↑ "Fox's 'Hidden Figures' inspires historic State Department program to support women in STEM around the world". Impact.21.cf.com. 2 November 2017.
  11. 1 2 "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.
  12. ↑ Anon (2017). "Jess Wade - CSHL WiSE". cshlwise.org. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Harbour. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  13. 1 2 Martín, Bruno (2018-07-08). "La mujer que añade una científica cada día a la Wikipedia". elpais.com (in Spanish). El País. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
  14. 1 2 Zdanowicz, Christina (2018). "A physicist has written more than 280 Wikipedia entries to elevate women in science". cnn.com. CNN. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
  15. ↑ "Program of 21. Deutsche Physikerinnentagung (21st German Conference of Female Physicists)" (PDF). German Physical Society. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  16. ↑ Anon (2015). "And the winner is... - Colour Zone". imascientist.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  17. ↑ Jess Wade (2015). "G4G DAY @ IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON". makingphysicsfun.com. Retrieved 2018-08-16.
  18. ↑ Anon (2018). "IOP London and South East Committee". iop.org. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  19. ↑ Anon. "IOP Women in Physics Committee". iop.org. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  20. ↑ "Juno Committee". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  21. ↑ "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.
  22. ↑ "Dr Jess Wade on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  23. ↑ News, A. B. C. (26 July 2018). "This researcher writes Wikipedia pages for women in science". ABC News. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  24. ↑ 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.
  25. ↑ Charman-Anderson, Suw (25 July 2018). "Five amazing female scientists you've probably never heard of - Suw Charman-Anderson". the Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  26. ↑ Noor, Poppy (29 July 2018). "Wikipedia biases". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  27. ↑ "Julia Higgins Medal and Awards". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  28. ↑ "Imperial College". 23 November 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  29. ↑ "Imperial College". 21 April 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  30. ↑ "IOM3 Awards 2017 | IOM3". iom3.org. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  31. ↑ Anon (2015). "PhD student wins Early Career Physics Communicator Award". iop.org. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  32. ↑ Wagle, Kunal (2015). "Felix is shortlisted for Club of the Year at Imperial College Union Awards 2015". Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  33. ↑ 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.
  34. ↑ "2018 Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize". Institute of Physics. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  35. ↑ Elsharbaty, Samir (2018). "Farkhad Fatkullin named Wikimedian of the Year for 2018". blog.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia Foundation.
  36. ↑ "A Collective Noun for Science #SciFoo 2017 - Digital Science". Digital-science.com. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
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