Jessamyn Fairfield
Jessamyn Fairfield is a Fellow at the African Tech Futures Lab. She is a lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences and the School of English, Media and Creative Arts at the University of Galway, leading research and practice on the intersection between science and the performing arts. She is also an improviser, writer, and performer. She founded Bright Club Ireland, a research comedy variety night which has held over a hundred events across Ireland and trained hundreds of academics in standup comedy. She believes in democratising knowledge, and has co-created improvised and dance theatre pieces to explore nanoscience, neuroscience, and climate action with communities around the world.
Jessamyn holds a PhD and an MS in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Writing from the University of Galway, and a BA in Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
