Summary
Jess is an Imperial College Research Fellow investigating spin selective charge transport through chiral systems in the Department of Materials. Broadly speaking, her research considers new materials for optoelectronic devices, with a focus on chiral organic semiconductors. She currently works in SPIN-Lab at Imperial, which is led by Professor Sandrine Heutz. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Fuchter and Campbell groups at Imperial College London, where she optimised these chiral systems such that can absorb/emit circularly polarised (CP) light for CP OLEDs and OPDs. For her PhD Jess concentrated on organic photovoltaics and the development of advanced characterisation techniques to better understand molecular packing under the supervision of Dr Ji-Seon Kim.
Outside of the lab, Jess is involved with several science communication and outreach initiatives. She is committed to improving diversity in science, both online and offline, and since the start of 2018 has written the Wikipedia biographies of women and people of colour scientists every single day.
Publications
Journals
Wan L, Wade J, Wang X, et al., 2022, Engineering the sign of circularly polarized emission in achiral polymer – chiral small molecule blends as a function of blend ratio, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Vol:10, ISSN:2050-7526, Pages:5168-5172
Ward MD, Wade J, Shi X, et al., 2022, Highly selective high-speed circularly polarized photodiodes based on π-conjugated polymers, Advanced Optical Materials, Vol:10, ISSN:2195-1071
Wade J, 2021, Sticky: the Secret Science of Surfaces, Physics World, Vol:34, ISSN:0953-8585, Pages:48-49
Armani AM, Jackson C, Searles TA, et al., 2021, The need to recognize and reward academic service, Nature Reviews Materials, Vol:6, ISSN:2058-8437, Pages:960-962
Laidlaw B, Eng J, Wade J, et al., 2021, On the factors influencing the chiroptical response of conjugated polymer thin films, Chemical Communications, Vol:57, ISSN:1359-7345, Pages:9914-9917