Dr. Diem seeks to make physics and engineering more accessible to the general public, especially her research in fusion energy and plasma science through interactive talks, hands ons workshops and in print as both a technical expert in the news and providing background information for news and television. She has been trained in science communication at the Alan Alda Science Communication Boot Camp at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY.
In addition to individual public engagement events, she is the co-leader of the U.S. Fusion Outreach Team, a grassroots organization focused on reducing barriers to public engagement, co-launched the USFusionEnergy.org website and she’s leading the launch of an annual Fusion Energy Week to be celebrated around the world in 2024.
She routinely reviews articles, provide background information and quotes for significant fusion energy breakthroughs. For media inquiries, please email her at sjdiem(at)wisc.edu.
Media and public engagement:
Technical consult for NBC Studios Quantum Leap (2023)
Technical consult through the Science and Entertainment Exchange - videos available via the website
“Will Nuclear Fusion Ever Power the World?” Giz Asks article for Gizmoto (2021)
“Perseverance is the theme at PPPL’s annual Young Women’s Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics”, Jeanne Jackson Devoe (2021)
2021 Keynote Speaker for the Young Women's Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics sponsored by Princeton University
Congressional Briefing on the Future of Fusion Energy, Invited speaker (2021)
“Fusion Energy: Harnessing the Power of the Sun on Earth”, Wednesday Nite @ The Lab (2020)
“U.S. physicists rally around ambitious plan to build fusion power plant”, Science, A. Cho (2020)
“New engineering professor outsmarted doubters, and Twitter loves it”, featured article University of Wisconsin-Madison (2020)
Co-host of Science Night podcast
Guest host on Sisters of Sci-Fi podcast
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Traveling Science Fair - numerous events around Tennessee as well as the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, DC
Lecturer for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Summer Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI, DOE program)
Expanding Your Horizons - Hands-on science and technology workshop focusing on plasma physics presented to young women in 6th-10th grade
Developed “Making Fusion Work” - Hands-on workshop for high school science teachers that explored the variety of fields working to develop fusion energy with a fellow co-worker. If you are interested in the workshop material, please contact me via diems(at)fusion.gat(dot)com
Panelist at Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP)