10 Dr. Jassel Majevadia

Dr. Jassel Majevadia

Time period:

1986 – present

Subject:

Physics

Biography:

Jassel Majevadia was born in 1986 in London, England. She has Indian, Kenyan, and Ugandan ancestry, and maintains a keen interest in Indian culture and religion. She has attended many prestigious institutions for her secondary and postsecondary education, including her MPhys at the University of St Andrews, MSc at the Imperial College London in the Theory and Simulation of Materials Centre for Doctoral Training program, and a PhD at the Imperial College London for Theory and Simulation of Materials: Multiscale Modelling of Hydrogen in Zirconium. She has also been a science presenter for the TV series “Deadly Dilemmas” and “What on Earth.” According to her LinkedIn page, she is currently the principal data scientist/data science lead at Anglo American, a global mining company, where she manages a team of 15 data scientists. On her Twitter page, she introduces herself with the following,

“Data Scientist. Physicist. Saxophonist. Enthusiast.

Talked nuclear physics with a US President.

Deadly Dilemmas presenter on Discovery.”

and does not hesitate to use the platform to complain about public services and transportation, or calling out men for their rudeness and mansplaining string theory to a female theoretical physicist. The Royal Society describes her as someone who “eats nuclear equations for breakfast and plays the saxophone.“

Summary of her contributions:

Though only 35, Jassel has made many appreciable and unique contributions, including:

• research on the performance of zirconium alloys for the fuel cladding of nuclear reactors
• science presenter for the TV series “Deadly Dilemmas” and “What on Earth”
• award winning talks at the Universities Nuclear Technology Forum and the National Physical Laboratory
• participated in the Inspiring Scientists project, and was one of 30 participants at the BBC Academy Expert Women training day, selected from 2000 applicants
• founding member of Hermes Academy

Integration with the BC Secondary Science Curriculum:

Geology 12: Minerals, rocks, and earth materials form in response to conditions within and on the Earth’s surface and are the foundation of many resource-based industries.

BC Science 10: Nuclear energy and radiation

References:

British Library. (n.d.). Jassel Majevadia. https://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/interviewees/jassel-majevadia#

IMDb. (n.d.). Jassel Majevadia. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7088853/

The Royal Society. (2014). Facebook https://www.facebook.com/theroyalsociety/photos/physics-has-enabled-me-to-grow-its-also-a-cool-degree-to-have-she-eats-nuclear-e/768173849881819/

Jassel Majevadia. (n.d.). LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jassel-majevadia/?originalSubdomain=uk

Jassel Majevadia. (n.d.). Twitter. https://twitter.com/jazzmajevadia

The Royal Society. (2014). Inspiring Scientists: Jassel Majevadia’s story. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvDKWPmjeDs

Jassel Majevadia. (2009). Imperial College London. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/theory-and-simulation-of-materials/people/students/2009-entry/jassel-majevadia/

The Royal Society. (n.d.). Inspiring Scientists: Diversity in British Science. https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/diversity-in-science/inspiring-scientists/