Here in The Rose Woman Podcast, we explore different themes of liberation in various forms. Today, we are focusing on the liberation found in celebrating the achievements of women scientists and scientists of color through storytelling. Our guest, Dr. Jessica Wade, is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, physicist, and lecturer in Functional Materials at Imperial College London.

Her research considers new materials for optoelectronic, spintronic, and quantum devices, with a focus on chiral molecular materials.

She was previously an Imperial College Research Fellow in SPIN-Lab at Imperial, which is led by Professor Sandrine Heutz. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Fuchter and Campbell groups at Imperial College London, where she optimized these chiral systems to absorb/emit circularly polarized (CP) light for CP OLEDs and OPDs. For her PhD, Jess concentrated on organic photovoltaics and the development of advanced characterization techniques to better understand molecular packing under the supervision of Dr. Ji-Seon Kim.

She is involved with several science communication and outreach initiatives, committed to improving diversity in science, both online and offline. Since the start of 2018, she has written thousands of Wikipedia biographies highlighting women scientists' achievements.

In this episode, we cover:

Jessica’s Journey into Physics
Advocacy for Diversifying Academia
Recognizing and the Impact of Unconscious Bias
Algorithm in Recruitment Processing
Thoughts on Today’s Education Systems
Initiative to write Wikipedia biographies for women scientists
The Power of Images
Addressing the lack of diversity in Academic Science
Career pathways of scientists
Pioneer women scientists and their contributions
Jessica’s Research on chiral molecules and its applications
Integration of Science and Art as a whole

Helpful links:

Dr. Jessica Wade - Physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College London. Follow her on Twitter
Karin Kimbrough
Rosalind Franklin
Dorothy Hodgkin
June Lindsey
William Bragg
Quantum day at Imperial College
Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small by Jessica Wade
Upcoming Events with Christine
Subscribe to Christine’s Substack

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