Jessica Wen 🔸

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Current PhD student in Materials Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Co-founder of High Impact Engineers. Background in materials science and mechanical engineering. Also chat to me about community building, career decisions, etc.

Announcing the new Director of EA UK

Jessica Wen 🔸12 Feb 2026 12:26 UTC

78 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

High Impact Engineers is Transitioning to a Volunteer-Led Model

Jessica Wen 🔸2 Jul 2024 13:01 UTC

88 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

An Analysis of Engineering Jobs on the 80,000 Hours Job Board

Jessica Wen 🔸16 Feb 2024 16:02 UTC

45 points

5 comments9 min readEA link

(www.highimpactengineers.org)

How Engineers can Contribute to Progress Studies

Jessica Wen 🔸7 Feb 2024 20:45 UTC

21 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

How Engineers can Contribute to Global Heath and Development

Hugh Irving31 Jan 2024 14:22 UTC

24 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(www.highimpactengineers.org)

To Do a PhD, or Not to Do a PhD: That is the Question

Hugh Irving5 Dec 2023 17:21 UTC

15 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

How Engineers can Contribute to Reducing the Risks from Nuclear War

Jessica Wen 🔸12 Oct 2023 13:22 UTC

33 points

4 comments22 min readEA link

(www.highimpactengineers.org)

Far-UVC for clean indoor air (Vivian Belenky on the Engineered for Impact podcast)

Sean Lawrence13 Sep 2023 13:59 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(engineeredforimpact.show)

Jessica Wen’s Quick takes

Jessica Wen 🔸23 Aug 2023 20:03 UTC

5 points

6 comments EA link

STEM in Effective Altruism: STEM Community Builders Online Panel Recording

Jessica Wen 🔸14 Jun 2023 14:32 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(youtu.be)

How Engineers can Contribute to Alternative Proteins

Hugh Irving15 May 2023 19:28 UTC

14 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

How Can Engineers Do Impactful Work in Biosecurity?

Jessica Wen 🔸12 May 2023 10:44 UTC

29 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

How Engineers can Effectively Contribute to Tackling Climate Change

Jessica Wen 🔸8 May 2023 18:00 UTC

24 points

4 comments14 min readEA link

How Engineers can Contribute to Civilisation Resilience

Jessica Wen 🔸3 May 2023 14:22 UTC

41 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

Announcing Two Events around EAG London in Collaboration with the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Communities

Jessica Wen 🔸2 May 2023 9:14 UTC

23 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

On Philosophy Tube’s Video on Effective Altruism

Jessica Wen 🔸24 Feb 2023 23:01 UTC

104 points

49 comments3 min readEA link

Re-Announcing High Impact Engineers (FKA EA Engineers)

Jessica Wen 🔸29 Jul 2022 1:50 UTC

42 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

Announcing: EA Engineers

Jessica Wen 🔸4 Jul 2022 4:04 UTC

159 points

25 comments5 min readEA link