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Jess Wade
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British physicist, Wikimedian, and campaigner for gender inclusion in science
Key facts
- Born
- Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade , Manchester , England
- Education
- South Hampstead High School , Chelsea College of Arts
- Alma mater
- Imperial College London ( MSc , PhD )
- Known for
- Plastic electronics Public engagement WISE Campaigning
- Awards
- Rosalind Franklin Award (2024) Royal Society University Research Fellowship (2024) British Empire Medal (2019) Nature's 10 (2018) I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! (2016)
- Fields
- Materials science , Chiral materials , Circular polarisation
- Institutions
- Imperial College London
- Thesis
- Nanometrology for controlling and probing organic semiconductors and devices (2016)
- Doctoral advisor
- Ji-Seon Kim
- Website
- profiles .imperial .ac .uk /jessica .wade
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- physicist
- Employer
- King's College London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- physics
- Official website
- profiles.imperial.ac.uk/jessica.wade
- Image
- APS 2019 - 1 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Jess Wade
- date of birth
- 1988-00-00
- name in native language
- Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade
- member of
- Women's Engineering Society
- influenced by
- Angela Saini
- social media followers
- 5531
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Encyclopedic overview
Jess Wade is a British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London, specialising in Raman spectroscopy. Her research investigates polymer-based organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Her public engagement work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) advocates for women in physics as well as tackling systemic biases such as gender and racial bias on Wikipedia.
Early life and education
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