Date/Time: Tuesday 12 March 2024, 5.30pm

Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University

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All our events remain free and open to all, but pre-booking is required. Bookings for this lecture will open at 10.00am on 5 March. To reserve your place click the booking link below or telephone our booking voicemail line 0191 208 6136.

Chaired by Dr Greg Mutch, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow

Working together, physicists, chemists and materials scientists can create more efficient and sustainable technologies. Chiral molecular materials offer unparalleled opportunity in optoelectronic, spintronic and quantum technologies due to the unique combination of the optical, electronic, and magnetic properties. Technological breakthroughs of this scale are only possible when diverse teams of people work together, which means we need to do more to inspire, educate and celebrate scientists from all backgrounds.

Biography

Dr Jess Wade is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer in Functional Materials in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. Her research considers new materials for optoelectronic devices, with a focus on chiral organic semiconductors and how to optimise these chiral systems such that they can absorb/emit circularly polarised light as well as transport spin-polarised electrons. For her PhD Jess concentrated on new materials for photovoltaics and the development of advanced characterisation techniques to better understand their molecular packing. 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.