Jesse Mitchell-Reiss

Hi, my name is Jesse Mitchell-Reiss. I am an undergraduate physics student at Reed College in my Junior year with research interests in atomic, molecular, and optical physics as well as condensed matter experiments.

I am currently working in the Heath Lab with Prof. Jennifer Heath on electronic properties and transport in 2D materials. I use optical microscopy to examine samples and am currently in the process of preparing samples which can be assembled into devices for analysis.

I am currently working on a project with Profs. Lindsey Novak and Isabelle Cohen of the Reed and University of Washington Economics departments, respectively, where my primary focus has been preparing geospatial datasets for analysis of the effects of cellular coverage on gender norms in Africa. My role in the project has largely been preparation of geospatial coverage datasets using R, unifying several historical datasets from different sources and in different formats to facilitate analysis by Lindsey and Isabelle. We hope that these data will show correlation between the extent of mobile coverage and various metrics for gender norms.