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Jess Wade
Jessica Wade in 2017
Born	Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade 1988 or 1989 (age 35–36)
Education	South Hampstead High School Chelsea College of Art and Design
Alma mater	Imperial College London (MSci, PhD)
Known for	Plastic electronics Public engagement WISE Campaigning
Awards	Medal of the Order of the British Empire for services to Gender Diversity in Science (2019) Nature's 10 (2018) I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! (2016)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Imperial College London
Thesis	Nanometrology for controlling and probing organic semiconductors and devices (2016)
Doctoral advisor	Ji-Seon Kim
Website	imperial.ac.uk/people/jessica.wade

Jessica Alice Feinmann Wade BEM 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). She also carries out award-winning public engagement work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly in the promotion of physics to girls.

Education

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

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 working with Alasdair Campbell and Matt Fuchter. Her research has been published in scientific journals such as the Journal of Physical Chemistry C, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Journal of Materials Chemistry, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Advanced Electronic Materials, ChemComm and Energy & Environmental Science. She has co-authored research papers with James Durrant,, Henning Sirringhaus, Jenny Nelson, Donal Bradley, and Ji-Seon Kim. As of 9 May 2019, according to Web of Science, she was the sole author or a coauthor of 30 papers which were cited 372 times in total, and her H-index was 9.

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, 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". 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. Wade has made a large contribution to a Misplaced Pages campaign that encourages the creation of Misplaced Pages articles about notable female academics, in order to promote women role models in STEM.

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. She 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! and received £500, which she used to run a greenlight4girls Day in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London.

Wade serves on the IOP London and South East Committee, the IOP Women in Physics Committee and the Juno transparency and opportunity committee at Imperial. She cites her influences as Sharmadean Reid, Lesley Cohen, Jenny Nelson and Angela Saini, particularly her book Inferior. Her outreach work has been covered by the BBC, Sky News, HuffPost, ABC News, Physics World, El País, CNN, Nature, and The Guardian. Wade created over 450 Misplaced Pages biographical articles of minorities during 2018 to raise the profile of minorities in STEM.

Wade was interviewed as part of TEDx London Women, held on 1 December 2018.

Awards and honours

Wade has received several awards for contributions to science, science communication, diversity, and inclusion. In 2015, Wade was awarded the Institute of Physics Early Career Physics Communicator Prize 2015 and the Imperial College Union award for contribution to college life in 2015, and 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. The next year, Wade received the Institute of Physics's Jocelyn Bell-Burnell Award for Women in Physics 2016.

In 2017, Wade won the Robert Perrin Award for Materials Science from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and Imperial College's Julia Higgins Medal in 2017 in recognition of her work to support gender equality. She was invited to the interdisciplinary science conference Science Foo Camp 2017 at the Googleplex in California.

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

The Queen's Birthday Honours for 2019 gave Wade the British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to gender diversity in science. Imperial College's 2019 President's Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement awarded her the Leadership Award for Societal Engagement.

References

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2. ^ 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.
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12. Jess Wade publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
13. ^ 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. ^ 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. PMID 25994804.
15. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ 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. PMID 23919253.
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.
19. ^ 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" (PDF). The Journal of Chemical Physics. 142 (24): 244904–(1–6). Bibcode:2015JChPh.142x4904W. doi:10.1063/1.4923197. hdl:10044/1/24738. ISSN 0021-9606. PMID 26133454.
20. ^ 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 (2015). "1 GHz Pentacene Diode Rectifiers Enabled by Controlled Film Deposition on SAM-Treated Au Anodes" (PDF). Advanced Electronic Materials. 2 (2): 1500282 (1–7). doi:10.1002/aelm.201500282. ISSN 2199-160X.
21. ^ 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. PMID 25302346.
22. ^ 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.
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External links

• A voice for diversity in science Video of Wade's TEDxLondonWomen interview 1 December 2018

• 1980s births
• Living people
• British women physicists
• Alumni of Imperial College London
• 21st-century British physicists
• 21st-century women scientists
• People educated at South Hampstead High School
• Alumni of Chelsea College of Art & Design
• Misplaced Pages people
• Recipients of the British Empire Medal