Women in Science Promoting Energy Research (WISPER)

The IOM3 Energy Materials Group sponsored also by other learned societies is organising a 1-day meeting to celebrate Emerging Female Leaders in Energy, “Women in Science Promoting Energy Research (WISPER)”.  The meeting will be held at the IOP headquarters, 37 Caledonian Rd, London N1 9BU, on 21 May 2025.   We will be inviting 9 excellent emerging females to speak about their research and a key note speaker.

We will host a poster session at the event, where female PhD students and postdocs will present their work.  We will also have roundtable discussion at the meeting, featuring high profile people to discuss their career experiences. The panel will include an industry leader from Applied Materials, Dr. Connie Wang and a Fellow of Los Alamos Lab, and visiting Prof. at Oxford, Prof. John Singleton.  We will have lunch and an evening catered reception.

Keynote speaker

 

Professor Dame Julia King

Professor Dame Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Chairs the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee. She also Chairs the Carbon Trust, Frontier IP, and the Adaptation Committee of the Climate Change Committee.  She is non-executive director of Orsted and Ceres Power.  She was vice-chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016.