Jess Wade, Physicist at Imperial College London, giving a talk entitled "The magic of mirror molecules", on the Engineering Stage at New Scientist Live 2019
From wearable sensors to personalised medicines and solar panels, nanostructures made from functional molecules are already enhancing our lives. Nonetheless, science is still playing catchup as nature has been nailing nanostructures for hundreds of millions of years. Jess reveals that the most miraculous molecules of all exist a mirror image pairs; where the left and right-handed forms can have remarkable different material properties. Whether it is peacock feathers or butterfly wings, science can only aspire to manipulating matter at the subatomic scale. Jess is an excitable scientist with an enthusiasm for equality. She works in the physics department at Imperial College London, developing new materials for light emitting diodes. She has been involved in several projects to improve diversity in science. Jess won the Institute of Physics Early Career Communicator Prize in 2015, the Jocelyn Bell Burnell Award in 2016, and Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize in 2018 and the Institution of Materials, Mineral and Mining’s Robert Perrin Award in 2017 and the Imperial College Dame Julia Higgins Medal. Jess was selected by Nature as one of the 10 people who mattered in 2018. She is a keen Wikipedian, and every day helps to upload the biographies of women, LGBTQ+ and POC scientists – she’s made 700 so far. essica Alice Feinmann Wade BEM is a British physicist in the Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College research investigates polymer-based organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Her public engagement work in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), champions women in physics , and tackles gender bias on Wikipedia
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