"I feel a real commitment to leave the world a better place – and science a more empowering environment."

Jessica Wade is an award-winning physicist, wikipedian and campaigner for gender inclusion in science. She is a lecturer in Functional Materials at Imperial College London and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society.

Jess is committed to improving diversity in science, both online and offline. Every day since the start of 2018, she has been on a mission to add  biographies of women and people of colour in the sciences to Wikipedia. Her work on inclusivity has recieved many awards including Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize and as one of Nature's 10 people who matter in science in 2018.

"Mind-bogglingly impressive, Dr Jessica Wade is remarkably tricky to pin down." — Hush