Jess M. Clough

Jess M. Clough is a group leader at the Adolphe Merkle Institute in Fribourg, Switzerland. She completed her undergraduate studies in Natural Sciences (Chemistry) at the University of Cambridge, U.K. in 2012, and obtained her Ph.D. in 2016 on mechanically induced chemiluminescence in polymers, supervised by Prof. Rint Sijbesma at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. As a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Joris Sprakel at Wageningen University, she investigated colloidal photonic materials for use as pigments. In 2020, she began an independent Women in Science (WINS) research fellowship within the group of Prof. Christoph Weder, awarded by the NCCR for Bio-Inspired Materials. Her current research is focused on developing optical probes for deformation in polymeric materials.