This is a list of notable women scientists active in the 21st century.

Albania

* Mimoza Hafizi (born 1962), Albanian physicist *

Laura Mersini-Houghton Laura Mersini-Houghton (''née'' Mersini) is an Albanian-American cosmologist and theoretical physicist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a proponent of the multiverse hypothesis and the author of a theor ...

, cosmology and theoretical physicist * Afërdita Veveçka Priftaj (1948–2017), Albanian physicist

Argentina

* Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón (born 1954), urban anthropologist studying poverty *

Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini Zulma Nélida Brandoni de Gasparini (born 15 May 1944) is an Argentinian paleontologist and zoologist. She is known for discovering the fossils of the dinosaur '' Gasparinisaura'', which was named after her. Work Born in the city of La Plata, ...

(born 1944), Argentine paleontologist and zoologist *

Constanza Ceruti María Constanza Ceruti (born 11 January 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an anthropologist and mountaineer from Argentina, who has done more than 80 field surveys, most of them as part of National Geographic teams in Andean regions of Argent ...

(born 1973), Argentine archaeologist and anthropologist * Rachel Chan (graduated 1988), led group of research scientists to create more drought resistant seed in Argentina *

Perla Fuscaldo Elba Perla Fuscaldo (born 1941) is an Argentinian Egyptologist, specialist in the ceramics of Ancient Egypt. Life She graduated in 1967 in history from the University of Buenos Aires and obtained her PhD in 1978 under the supervision of Argent ...

(born 1941), Argentine egyptologist

Armenia

* Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan (born 1928), botanist and mycologist; major contributor to knowledge of the flora of her native Armenia * Ninet Sinaii, epidemiologist

Australia

* Anne Astin (graduated 1976), biochemist active in dairy development *

Katherine Belov Katherine Belov (born 1973) is an Australian geneticist, professor of comparative genomics in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Pro Vice Chancellor of Global Engagement at the University of Sydney. She is head of the Australasi ...

(born 1973), Australian geneticist, Tasmanian devil cancer researcher *

Suzanne Cory Suzanne Cory (born 11 March 1942) is an Australian molecular biologist. She has worked on the genetics of the immune system and cancer and has lobbied her country to invest in science. She is married to fellow scientist Jerry Adams, also a W ...

(born 1942), Australian molecular biologist * Jean Finnegan, Australian scientist, researches flowering processes and epigenetic regulation in plants *

Gisela Kaplan Gisela Kaplan is an Australians, Australian ethologist who primarily specialises in ornithology and primatology. She is a professor emeritus in animal behaviour at the University of New England (Australia), University of New England, Australia ...

, ornithologist and primatologist noted for her research in animal cognition, communication and vocal behaviour of primates and specifically native Australian birds. * Naomi McClure-Griffiths (born 1975), American-Australian astrophysicist. Discovered a new arm of the Milky Way galaxy *

Jessica Melbourne-Thomas Jessica Melbourne-Thomas is a marine, Antarctic and climate change scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia. Her research focuses on climate change, its effects on the marine environment, and ho ...

(graduated 2002), marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller with the Australian Antarctic Division *

Sue O'Connor Sue O'Connor is an Australian archaeologist and Distinguished Professor in the School of Culture, History & Language at the Australian National University. Her research focuses primarily on the evidence of Pleistocene settlement and early huma ...

Australian archaeologist, discovered the world's oldest fish hooks which were found in an adult female's grave * Lesley J Rogers (born 1943), Australian ethologist and neuroscientist, expert in brain laterality * Una M. Ryan (born 1966), patented DNA test identifying protozoan parasite ''Cryptosporidium'' *

Helen Alma Newton Turner Helen Alma Newton Turner (15 May 1908 – 26 November 1995) was an Australian geneticist and statistician. She was a leading authority on sheep genetics and worked at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) for ...

(1908–1995), geneticist and statistician, expert on sheep genetics *

Carden Wallace Carden Crea Wallace ( fl. 1970–) is an Australian scientist who was the curator/director of the Museum of Tropical Queensland from 1987 to 2003. She is an expert on corals having written a "revision of the Genus '' Acropora''". Wallace was ...

(fl. 1970–), marine biologist and museum director, expert on corals *

Leonie Walsh Leonie Walsh is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences, and was the first Lead Scientist in Victoria, from 2013 to 2016, as well as the inaugural Women in STEMM Ambassador and the first women president of Australasian ...

, first Lead Scientist of Victoria *

Rachel Webster Rachel Lindsey Webster (born 3 July 1951), is an Australian astrophysicist who became the second female professor of physics in Australia. Her main focus areas are extragalactic astronomy and cosmology; she researches black holes and the first ...

(born 1951), astrophysicist, educator * Mary E. White (1926–2018), paleobotanist

Austria

* Elisabeth Binder (graduated 1995), Austrian neuroscientist specializing in anxiety disorders * Claire F. Gmachl (born 1967), Austrian-born American electrical engineer, educator *

Lisa Kaltenegger Lisa Kaltenegger (4 March 1977 in Kuchl nearby Salzburg) is an Austrian astronomer with expertise in the modeling and characterization of exoplanets and the search for life. On July 1, 2014, she was appointed Associate Professor of Astronomy at ...

(born 1977), Austrian astronomer, educator *

Christine Mannhalter Christine Mannhalter is an Austrian molecular biologist and hematologist who is a Professor of Molecular Diagnostics at the Medical University of Vienna. She has been a vice-president at the Austrian Science Fund since 2010 and took over its inte ...

(born 1948), molecular biologist *

Elisabeth Ruttkay Elisabeth Ruttkay (18 June 1926 – 25 February 2009) was a Hungarian-born, naturalized Austrian citizen, who was an archaeologist specializing in New Stone Age and Bronze Age studies in Austria. She was the winner of both the Lower Austria Pro ...

(1926–2009), Austrian Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeologist *

Eva Schönbeck-Temesy Univ. Prof. Dr. Eva Schönbeck-Temesy (August 16, 1930 – August 27, 2011) was an eminent, Austrian botanist of Hungarian descent who made notable contributions to Karl Heinz Rechinger's magisterial Flora Iranica. Life and career The fourth dau ...

(1930–2011), Hungarian-born Austrian botanist

Barbados

* Velma Scantlebury (born 1955), first woman of African descent to become a transplant surgeon in the U.S.

Belgium

Ingrid Daubechies Baroness Ingrid Daubechies ( ; ; born 17 August 1954) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician. She is best known for her work with wavelets in image compression. Daubechies is recognized for her study of the mathematical methods that enhance ...

(born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician *

Véronique Dehant Véronique Dehant is a Belgian geodesist and geophysicist. She specializes in modeling the deformation of the Earth's interior in response to the planet's rotation and the gravitational forces exerted upon it by the Sun and Moon. She has used si ...

(born 1959), geodesist and geophysicist *

Véronique Gouverneur Véronique Gouverneur (born 8 November 1964 in Geel, Belgium) is the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Prior to the Waynflete professorship, she held a tutorial fellowship ...

(born 1964), chemist, educator, specializing in organic fluorine compounds *

Yaël Nazé Yaël Nazé (born 1976) is a Belgian astrophysicist who works at the University of Liège. She specializes in massive stars and their interactions with their surroundings. Biography She came from what she described as a poor part of Belgium w ...

, Belgian astrophysicist specializing in massive stars

Bolivia

* Sonia Alconini (born 1965), Bolivian archaeologist of the Formative Period of the Lake Titicaca basin * Kathrin Barboza Marquez (born 1983), Bolivian biologist specializing in bat research

Brazil

* Mariza Corrêa (1945–2016), anthropologist, sociologist * Livia Eberlin analytical chemist, co-inventor of the MassSpec pen * Fátima Ferreira (born 1959), biologist, physician, educator, now vice-rector at the University of Salzburg specializing in molecular allergology * Dorath Pinto Uchôa (1947–2014), archaeologist * Lúcia Mendonça Previato (born 1949), biologist * Alba Zaluar (1942–2019), anthropologist specializing in urban anthropology * Mayana Zatz (born 1947), molecular biologist and geneticist

Canada

* Karen Bailey, plant pathology * Karen Beauchemin (born 1956), ruminant nutrition research *

Roberta Bondar Roberta Lynn Bondar (; born December 4, 1945) is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. After more than a decade as head of an international space medicine ...

(born 1945), neurologist, astronaut, educator *

Kirsten Bos Kirsten Bos is a Canadian physical anthropologist. She is Group Leader of Molecular Palaeopathology at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Her research focuses on ancient DNA and infectious diseases. Education Bos obtained ...

, physical anthropologist, molecular paleopathologist * Lindsay Cahill, chemist * Juliet Daniel (fl. from 2001), focus on cancer biology * Martine Dorais, plant physiology, organic horticulture *

Laura Ferrarese Laura Ferrarese is a researcher in space science at the National Research Council of Canada. Her primary work has been performed using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. Early life and career Laura ...

, astronomer *

Roberta Gilchrist Roberta Lynn Gilchrist, FSA, FBA (born 28 June 1965) is a Canadian-born archaeologist and academic specialising in the medieval period, whose career has been spent in the United Kingdom. She is Professor of Archaeology and Dean of Research at ...

(born 1965), Canadian archaeologist specializing in medieval Britain * Sheena Josselyn, Canadian neuroscientist * Francesca M. Kerton, chemist *

Julia Levy Julia Levy (born May 15, 1934) is a Canadian microbiologist, immunologist, educator and entrepreneur. Early life and education The daughter of Guillaume Albert and Dorothy Frances Coppens, she was born Julia Coppens in Singapore. In 1940, her f ...

(born 1934), microbiologist, immunologist, entrepreneur * Mary MacArthur, botanist, cytologist *

Deborah Martin-Downs Deborah Martin-Downs is a Canadian aquatic biologist who specializes in fish and their environments. She has worked in ecology and conservation for over 30 years in Toronto both as a consultant and as director of the Toronto and Region Conservat ...

, aquatic biologist, ecologist *

Diane Massam Diane Massam is a Canadian linguist. She earned her PhD in linguistics under Noam Chomsky in 1985 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She held a position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto from 1989 until he ...

, linguist * Elizabeth Pattey, agricultural meteorologist * Heather Pringle, writer on archaeology * Kathleen I. Pritchard (born 1956), oncologist, breast cancer researcher and noted as one of Reuter's most cited scientists * Line Rochefort, Canadian ecologist * Francine Saillant (born 1953), anthropologist, writer *

Sandra Schmid Sandra Louise Schmid (born March 7, 1958 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is the first Chief Scientific Officer of the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub. She is a Canadian cell biologist by training; prior to her move to CZI, she was Professor and Chair of th ...

(born 1958), cell biologist * Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein, animal ethologist *

Sara Seager Sara Seager (born 21 July 1971) is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is known for her work on extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. She is the aut ...

(born 1971), Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist *

Felicitas Svejda Felicitas Svejda (November 8, 1920 – January 19, 2016) was a federal scientist in Canada who developed roses that could survive Canada's short growing season and bitter winter conditions. She led the rose-breeding program at the Central Experim ...

(1920–2016), horticulturalist * Sandra Witelson, neuroscientist *

Rachel Zimmerman Rachel Zimmerman Brachman (born Zimmerman; 1972) is a Canadian-born space scientist and inventor. She invented the "Blissymbol Printer" in 1984, making it simple for users with physical disabilities to communicate. A user can choose various B ...

(born 1972), Canadian-born space scientist

Chile

* Ligia Gargallo, chemist, educator * Paula Jofré, astronomer and astrophysicist *

María Teresa Ruiz María Teresa Ruiz (born 24 September 1946) is a Chilean astronomer who was the first woman to receive Chile's National Prize for Exact Sciences, the first female recipient of a doctorate in astrophysics at Princeton University, and the first w ...

astronomer * Veronica Vallejos, marine biologist and Antarctic researcher *

Ana Vásquez-Bronfman Ana Vásquez-Bronfman (18 December 1931 – 18 November 2009) was a Chilean Jewish sociologist and writer. Exiled from the country during the military dictatorship in 1973, she relocated to Paris, where she worked as a professor and researcher a ...

(1931–2009), Chilean-French sociologist

China

Margaret Chan Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, (born 21 August 1947) is a Chinese-Canadian physician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China from 2006–2017. Chan previously served ...

(born 1947), Chinese (Hong Kong), health specialist, director-general of the World Health Organization * Zeng Rong, biochemist specializing in proteins * Jian Xu, CTO at IBM, software engineer * Zhao Yufen (born 1948), chemical engineer *

Qian Zhengying Qian Zhengying (; 4 July 1923 – 22 October 2022) was a Chinese hydrologist and politician. Biography She was born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. Her father trained as an engineer in the United States before returning to China; some sources re ...

(born 1923), Chinese hydrologist and politician *

Lü Zhi Lu, Lü, or LU may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Lu (music), Tibetan folk music * Lu (duo), a Mexican band ** ''Lu'' (album) * Character from Mike, Lu & Og * Lupe Fiasco or Lu (born 1982), American musician * Lebor na hUidre, a manuscrip ...

(born 1965), giant panda expert and conservationist *

Tu Youyou Tu Youyou (; born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist. She discovered artemisinin (also known as , ) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, sa ...

, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist

Colombia

* Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez (born 1981), marine biologist studying flat worms and stem cell regeneration *

Ana Maria Rey Ana Maria Rey is a Colombian theoretical physicist, professor at University of Colorado at Boulder, a JILA fellow, a fellow at National Institute of Standards and Technology and a fellow of the American Physical Society. Rey was the first Hispan ...

(born 1976/1977), theoretical physicist

Croatia

Snježana Kordić Snježana Kordić (; born 29 October 1964) is a Croatian linguist. In addition to her work in syntax, she has written on sociolinguistics. Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive langua ...

(born 1964), linguist * Nina Marković, physicist and professor

Cuba

* Herminia Ibarra, economist

Czech Republic

Eva Syková Eva Syková (born 1944) is a Czech neuroscientist whose research focused on the origins, mechanisms and maintenance of ionic and volume homeostasis in the central nervous system and the role of extrasynaptic transmission, spinal cord injury. She ...

(born 1944), neuroscientist researching spinal cord injury

Denmark

Anja Cetti Andersen Anja Cetti Andersen (born 25 September 1965) is an astronomer and astrophysicist from Hørsholm, Denmark. Life She received her BSc in 1991, MSc in astronomy in 1995, and her PhD in 1999, from the University of Copenhagen. Her thesis was titled ...

(born 1965), astronomer, astrophysicist *

Lene Hau Lene Vestergaard Hau (; born November 13, 1959) is a Danish physicist and educator. She is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard University. In 1999, she led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose–E ...

(born 1959), physicist * Signe Normand (born 1979), biologist, ecologist, educator

Dominican Republic

Idelisa Bonnelly Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi (10 September 1931 – 3 July 2022) was a Dominican Republic, Dominican marine biologist who is considered the "mother of marine conservation in the Caribbean". She was the founder of the study of biology in the Dom ...

(born 1931), marine biologist who created first sanctuary in the North Atlantic for humpback whales * Aída Mencía Ripley, clinical psychologist

Finland

* Tuija I. Pulkkinen (born 1962), Finnish space scientist

France

* Anne Dejean-Assémat (born 1957), biologist researching liver cancer * Hélène Bergès (born 1966), director of the Plant Genomic Resources Center (CNRGV), plant geneticist *

Rut Carballido Lopez Rut Carballido Lopez also spelled Carballido-Lopez is a Spanish-born microbiologist and research team leader in France. She won an Irène-Joliot-Curie Prize in 2015. Biography Carballido Lopez left her home in Spain for Lyon, France, at the a ...

, Spanish-born microbiologist and research director in Paris * Merieme Chadid (born 1969), Astronomer, Explorer and Astrophysicist * Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 1967), mathematician * Catherine Feuillet (born 1965), French molecular biologist who was the first scientist to map the wheat chromosome 3B *

Françoise Gasse Françoise Gasse (; born 1942; died 22 April 2014) was a French paleobiologist, paleoclimatologist and paleohydrologist. She specialized in environmental phenomena and more specifically the study of lacustrine sediments from ancient lakes in Afr ...

(1942–2014), paleobiologist specializing in lacustrine sediments * Laurence Lanfumey (born 1954), French neuroscientist * Dominique Langevin (born 1947), physical chemist *

Claudine Rinner Claudine Rinner (born 1965) is a French amateur astronomer from Ottmarsheim in Alsace, France. She is an observer at Ottmarsheim Observatory and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who received the Edgar Wilson Award for her discoveries ...

(born 1965), amateur astronomer * Fabiola Terzi (born 1961), physician-scientist * Aurore Avarguès-Weber (born 1983), cognitive neuroscientist

Germany

* Andrea Ablasser (born 1983), German immunologist working in Switzerland * Katrin Amunts (born 1962), prominent neuroscientist involved in brain mapping *

Ulrike Beisiegel Ulrike Beisiegel (born 23 December 1952) is a German biochemist and university professor who in 2011 became the first woman to serve as president of the University of Göttingen, founded in 1737. Her research on liver fats and disease was honored ...

(born 1952), German biochemist, researcher of liver fats and first female president of the University of Göttingen *

Sibylle Günter Sibylle Günter (born 20 April 1964) is a German theoretical physicist researching tokamak plasmas. Since February 2011, she has headed the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. In October 2015, she was elected a member of the Academia Europa ...

(born 1964), theoretical physicist researching tokamak plasmas *

Hanna von Hoerner Hanna von Hoerner (14 November 1942 – 4 July 2014) was a German astrophysicist. She founded the company von Hoerner & Sulger which produces scientific instruments, notably cosmic dust analyzers used on space missions by European Space Agency ( ...

(1942–2014), astrophysicist * Eva-Maria Neher (born 1950), German biochemist, microbiologist *

Nina Papavasiliou Nina Papavasiliou is an immunologist and Helmholtz Professor in the Division of Immune Diversity at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany. She is also an adjunct professor at the Rockefeller University, where she was previously ...

, immunologist *

Elisabeth Piirainen Elisabeth Piirainen, (née Dörrie, born 1943 in Hannover, – December 29, 2017), was a German linguist and philologist. After studying linguistics (including German language and Dutch studies) in Münster, Amsterdam, and Helsinki, she received he ...

(1943–2017), philologist * Ilme Schlichting (born 1960), biophysicist * Brigitte Voit (born 1963), chemist

Greece

* Lydia Kravraki, computer scientist, professor at Rice

Guadeloupe

Dany Bébel-Gisler Dany Bébel-Gisler (7 April 1935 – 28 September 2003) was an Afro-Guadeloupean writer and sociolinguist who specialized in Antillean Creole and ethnology. She was one of the first linguists to defend the preservation and teaching of Creole lan ...

(1935–2003), Guadeloupean sociolinguist and ethnographer

Hungary

* Katalin Balázsi (born 1978), material scientist researching

nanomaterials * Nanomaterials describe, in principle, materials of which a single unit is sized (in at least one dimension) between 1 and 100 nm (the usual definition of nanoscale). Nanomaterials research takes a materials science-based approach to na ...

and ceramics

India

* Joyanti Chutia (born 1948), work spans both centuries, focusing on physics * Seetha Coleman-Kammula (born 1950), Indian chemist and plastics designer, turned environmentalist * Paramjit Khurana (born 1956), Indian biologist specializing in plant biotechnology * Shobhana Narasimhan (graduated 1983), Indian physicist, professor of theoretical sciences in Bangalore *

Priyamvada Natarajan Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan is a professor in the departments of astronomy and physics at Yale University. She is noted for her work in mapping dark matter and dark energy, particularly with her work in gravitational lensing, and in models d ...

(graduated 1993), Indian-born American astronomer, educator * Manju Ray (born 1947), Indian biochemist developing anticancer drugs * Seema Bhatnagar (born 1971), Indian scientist, working in the field of anticancer drug discovery * Harsha Kharkwal (born 1976), Indian scientist, working in the field of natural products chemistry, drug discovery, drug delivery and applied carbohydrate chemistry * Neelam Sangwan (born 1966), Indian biologist, working on medicinal plants, professor and dean of research at Central University of Haryana

Indonesia

* Adi Utarini (born 1965), Indonesian public health researcher who works on disease control of dengue fever * Elizabeth A. Widjaja (born 1951), Indonesian researcher of bamboo taxonomy *

Karlina Leksono Supelli Karlina Leksono Supelli (born 15 January 1958 in Jakarta) is an Indonesian philosopher and astronomer. One of Indonesia's first female astronomers, she received her bachelor's degree in Astronomy at ITB and MSc in Space Science from the Univers ...

(born 1958), Indonesian philosopher and astronomer * Pratiwi Sudarmono (born 1952), Indonesian professor of microbiology at the University of Indonesia *

Rose Amal Rose Amal (born 1965) is an Australian chemical engineer, currently serving as Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where she is the director of the ...

(born 1965), Indonesian-Australian chemical engineer *

Soejatmi Dransfield Soejatmi Dransfield (born 1939) is an Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos and currently honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Early life Soejatmi Soenarko was born in Nganjuk, Indonesia ...

(born 1939), Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos * Tri Mumpuni (born 1964), Indonesian independent researcher, social entrepreneur, philanthropist, social activist, and micro-hydropower inventor

Iran

Maryam Mirzakhani Maryam Mirzakhani ( fa, مریم میرزاخانی, ; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ...

(1977–2017), Iranian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University * Saba Valadkhan (born 1974), Tehran Education:Columbia University an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University * Ālenush Teriān (1920–2011), Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist and is called 'Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy' * Mina J. Bissell, Iranian-American biologist known for her research on breast cancer * Pardis C. Sabeti (born 1975), Iranian-American computational biologist, medical geneticist and evolutionary geneticist * Roxana Moslehi, genetic epidemiologist, researching cancer and cancer precursors *

Anousheh Ansari Anousheh Ansari ( fa, انوشه انصاری ; née Raissyan; born September 12, 1966) is an Iranian American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Her previous business accomplishments include serving as co-founder and CEO o ...

(born 1966), Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems *

Reihaneh Safavi-Naini Reihaneh "Rei" Safavi-Naini ( fa, ريحانه صفوی نائينی ) is the NSERC/Telus Industrial Research Chair and the Alberta Innovates Strategic Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada. Education Reihaneh ...

, AITF Strategic Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada

Iraq

* Lihadh Al-Gazali (born 1950), geneticist, established a registry for congenital disorders in the United Arab Emirates

Israel

Osnat Penn Osnat Penn ( he, אסנת פן), born in 1981, is an Israeli computational biologist whose work focuses on molecular evolution, cell research, and immunoinformatics. She is the third Israeli scientist in three years to win the UNESCO-L’Oréal f ...

, Israeli computational biologist *

Ada Yonath Ada E. Yonath ( he, עדה יונת, ; born 22 June 1939) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular ...

(born 1939), Israeli crystallographer * Idit Zehavi (born 1969), Israeli astrophysicist

Italy

* Maria Abbracchio (born 1956), Italian pharmacologist who works with purinergic receptors and identified GPR17; on Reuter's most cited list since 2006 *

Daria Guidetti Daria Guidetti (born 1978) is an Italian astrophysicist linked to the INAF. She studied astronomy at the University of Bologna and is a member of the astronomy club at Montelupo ( it, Gruppo Astrofili Montelupo). The Minor Planet Center credi ...

, astrophysicist with the

INAF The National Institute for Astrophysics ( it, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, or INAF) is an Italian research institute in astronomy and astrophysics, founded in 1999. INAF funds and operates twenty separate research facilities, which in turn ...

* Chiara Nappi (graduated 1976), Italian particle physicist active in the US * Elisa Oricchio (born 1979), discovered that the protein EphA7 activates the tumor suppressor gene for patients with follicular lymphoma

Latvia

* Emīlija Gudriniece (1920–2004), Latvian chemist and academic

Luxembourg

* Christiane Linster (born 1962), behavioral neuroscientist

Madagascar

* Julie Hanta Razafimanahaka, conservation biologist

Morocco

* Merieme Chadid (born 1969), astronomer, explorer, and astrophysicist *

Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli (born 12 May 1954) is a Moroccan Professor of nuclear physics, at the faculty of science within thMohammad V University of Rabat. She won the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science for her work on the Higgs Boson ...

(born 1954), known for her contribution to the proof of existence for the Higgs Boson

Netherlands

Corinne Hofman Corinne Lisette Hofman FBA (born 10 July 1959) is a Dutch professor of Caribbean Archaeology at Leiden University since 2007. She was a winner of the 2014 Spinoza Prize. Hofman was born in Wassenaar. She obtained a PhD at Leiden University in ...

(born 1959), Dutch archaeologist

New Zealand

Margaret Brimble Dame Margaret Anne Brimble (née MacMillan, born 20 August 1961) is a New Zealand chemist. Her research has included investigations of shellfish toxins and means to treat brain injuries. Early life, family, and education Brimble was born in A ...

(born 1961), chemist, researching shellfish toxins * Gillian Wratt (born 1954), botanist and Antarctic researcher

Nigeria

* Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye, pharmacologist *

Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe is a geologist from Ubiaja in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State. She was born August 1962 She specialises in palynology and sedimentology, and is Professor of Geology in the Department of Geosciences ...

, geologist specializing in

palynology Palynology is the "study of dust" (from grc-gre, παλύνω, palynō, "strew, sprinkle" and '' -logy'') or of "particles that are strewn". A classic palynologist analyses particulate samples collected from the air, from water, or from deposit ...

and sedimentology * Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi, environmental biochemist, Oréal-Unesco award in 2013 * Grace Oladunni Taylor, Nigerian chemist, 2nd woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science *

Omowunmi Sadik Omowunmi "Wunmi" A. Sadik (born 19 June 1964) is a Nigerian professor, chemist, and inventor working at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She has developed microelectrode biosensors for detection of drugs and explosives and is working on the de ...

(born 1964), chemist, educator * Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi, botanist and environmental archaeologist *

Felicity Okpete Ovai Felicity Okpete Ovai (born 1961) is an engineer and academic from Degema, Rivers State in Nigeria. A member of the Rivers State People's Democratic Party, she was the first woman to be appointed Commissioner of Works, serving from 2003 to 2006. ...

, engineer, civil servant, politician

Norway

* Tine Jensen (born 1957), psychologist specializing in psychological trauma

Pakistan

* Sara Gill, Pakistani transgender activist and physician

Peru

* Virginia Vargas (born 1945), sociologist, writer

Portugal

* Mónica Bettencourt-Dias (born 1974), biochemist and microbiologist * Maria Manuel Mota (born 1971), malariologist and executive director of the Instituto de Medicina Molecular,

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

Russia

* Eugenia Kumacheva, Russian-born chemist, since 1995 teaching in Canada

Saudi Arabia

* Suhad Bahajri (graduated 1975), chemist * Samira Islam (active since 1971), pharmacologist, educator

Serbia

* Nataša Pavlović (graduated 1996), mathematician

Singapore

* Gloria Lim (born 1930), Singaporean mycologist, first woman Dean of the University of Singapore * Lisa Ng, virologist

South Africa

* Renée Hložek (born 1983), cosmologist and professor of physics *

Valerie Mizrahi Valerie Mizrahi (born 1958) is a South African molecular biologist. Biography The daughter of Morris and Etty Mizrahi, she was born in Harare, Zimbabwe and was educated there. Her family is a Sephardi Jewish family from the Greek island of Rh ...

(born 1958), molecular biologist * Tebello Nyokong (born 1951), South African chemist and cancer researcher *

Jennifer Thomson Jennifer Ann Thomson (16 June, 1947) is a South African microbiologist, author and most notably an expert on and proponent of the agricultural benefit of Genetically modified organisms (GMO). Thomson was born in Cape Town, South Africa and she ...

(born 1947), microbiologist

Spain

* Margarita Salas (1938–2019), biochemist, author * Cari Borrás, medical physicist * Mercedes Fernández-Martorell (born 1948), anthropologist, educator * María José García Borge (born 1956), nuclear physicist * Carme Torras (born 1956), computer scientist specialising in robotics *

Carmen Vela Carmen Vela Olmo (born 25 March 1955) is a Spanish entrepreneur, researcher and former Secretary of Ministry of Economy and Finance (Spain), State of Investigation, Development and Innovation.

(born 1955), microbiologist, ministerial official, writer

South Korea

* Ju-Lee Kim (born 1969), mathematician, educator, now in the United States * Myeong-Hee Yu (born 1954), South Korean microbiologist

Switzerland

Silvia Arber Silvia Arber (born 1968 in Geneva) is a Swiss neurobiologist. She teaches and researches at both the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel Switzerland. Life Silvia Arber ...

(born 1968), neuroscientist * Anita Studer (born 1957), ornithologist and environmentalist

Taiwan

* Chung-Pei Ma (born 1966), astrophysicist, now in the United States

Tanzania

* Agness Gidna, paleontologist

Trinidad and Tobago

* Michelle Antoine, neuroscientist * Jo-Anne Sewlal (1979-2020), arachnologist

Turkey

Ayşe Erzan Ayşe Erzan (born 1949) is a Turkish theoretical physicist. She has received a number of awards including a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 2003 and a Rammal Award in 2009. Biography Ayşe Erzan was born in 1949 in Ankara. Following ...

(born 1949), theoretical physicist

Ukraine

Svitlana Mayboroda Svitlana Mayboroda (born 1981) is a Ukrainian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Minnesota.. Research Mayboroda's research concerns harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, including boundary va ...

(born 1981), mathematician, educator, researching harmonic analysis and partial differential equations

United Kingdom

* Denise P. Barlow (1950–2017), British geneticist * Gillian Bates, British botanist, educator, Fellow of the Royal Society (2007) * Alex Bayliss British archaeologist * Sue Black (born 1962), British computer scientist *

Jocelyn Bell Burnell Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (; Bell; born 15 July 1943) is an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. The discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in ...

(born 1943), astrophysicist who discovered radio pulsars * A. Catrina Bryce (born 1956), Scottish electrical engineer, educator * Mandy Chessell (born c.1965), British computer scientist with IBM *

Jenny Clack Jennifer Alice Clack, (''née'' Agnew; 3 November 1947 – 26 March 2020) was an English palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist. She specialised in the early evolution of tetrapods, specifically studying the "fish to tetrapod" transition: ...

(born 1947), paleontologist, expert on the "fish to tetrapod" evolutionary transition * Bryony Coles (born 1946), British prehistoric archaeologist * Janet Darbyshire, British epidemiologist, CBE (2010) *

Annette Dolphin Annette Catherine Dolphin (born 1951) is a Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London (UCL). Education Dolphin was educated at the University of Oxford where she was a ...

, British pharmacologist *

Shahina Farid Shahina Farid is a British archaeologist who is best known for her work as Field Director and Project Coordinator at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. She is currently the scientific dating coordinator for Historic England. Early ...

, British archaeologist, best known for her work as Field Director and Project Coordinator at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey * Maria Fitzgerald, British neuroscientist *

Jane Goodall Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Seen as the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best kn ...

(born 1934), British primatologist and anthropologist *

Monica Grady Monica Mary Grady, CBE (born 15 July 1958 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK), is a leading British space scientist, primarily known for her work on meteorites. She is currently Professor of Planetary and Space Science at the Open University and is al ...

(born 1958), British space scientist *

Emily Grossman Emily Grossman (born 7 July 1978) is a science communicator and populariser, was a resident expert on ''The Alan Titchmarsh Show'', and has been a panellist on the Sky1 television show ''Duck Quacks Don't Echo''. She has hosted events and given ...

(born 1978), British cancer researcher and science popularist *

Helena Hamerow Helena Francisca Hamerow, FSA (born 18 September 1961) is an American-born archaeologist, best known for her work on the archeology of early medieval communities in Northwestern Europe. She is Professor of Early Medieval archaeology and former ...

(born 1961), British archeologist and specialist in medieval archaeology *

Joanne Johnson Joanne S. Johnson (born 1977, Birmingham, née Garner) is a geologist and Antarctic scientist, who has worked for British Antarctic Survey (BAS) since 2002. She works in the palaeoenvironments, ice sheets and climate change team and is best ...

(born 1977), geologist, Antarctic scientist *

Tara Keck Tara Keck (born November 26, 1978, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American-British neuroscientist and Professor of Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, at University College London working in the Department of Neuroscien ...

, American-British neuroscientist * Rachel McKendry (born 1973), chemist and digital public health pioneer *

Linda McDowell Linda Margaret McDowell (born 1949) is a British geographer and academic, specialising in the ethnography of work and employment. She was Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2016. Early life and education McDowell s ...

(born 1949), British geographer, writer * Jane E. Parker (born 1960), British botanist who researches the immune responses of plants * Emma Parmee, British chemist who was one of the leads in the discovery and development of sitagliptin * Tracey Reynolds (born 1970s), British sociologist * Margaret Stanley, British virologist, OBE (2004) * Jean Thomas (born 1942), Welsh biochemist, educator * Miriam Tildesley (1883–1979), English anthropologist *

Karen Vousden Karen Heather Vousden, CBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci (born 19 July 1957) is a British medical researcher. She is known for her work on the tumour suppressor protein, p53, and in particular her discovery of the important regulatory role of Mdm2, a ...

(born 1957), British medical researcher * Christine Williams (graduated 1973), British nutritionist, educator

United States

Astronomy

Carolyn Porco Carolyn C. Porco (born March 6, 1953) is an American planetary scientist who explores the outer Solar System, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She led the imaging scienc ...

(born 1953), American planetary scientist *

Debra Elmegreen Debra Meloy Elmegreen (born November 23, 1952 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American astronomer. She was the first woman to graduate from Princeton University with a degree in astrophysics, and she was the first female post-doctoral researcher a ...

(born 1952), astronomer, educator *

Jill Tarter Jill Cornell Tarter (born January 16, 1944) is an American astronomer best known for her work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Tarter is the former director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Cha ...

(born 1944), American astronomer, educator * Joy Crisp (graduated 1979), American planetary scientist * Linda Spilker (born 1955), American planetary scientist * Lucy-Ann McFadden (born 1952), astronomer *

Maria Zuber Maria T. Zuber (born June 27, 1958) is an American geophysicist who is the vice president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also holds the position of the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics in the Department ...

(born 1958), American planetary scientist *

Martha P. Haynes Martha Patricia Haynes (born 24 April 1951) is an American astronomer who specializes in radio astronomy and extragalactic astronomy. She is the distinguished professor of arts and sciences in astronomy at Cornell University.Pamela Gay Pamela L. Gay (born December 12, 1973) is an American astronomer, educator, podcaster, and writer, best known for her work in astronomical podcasting and citizen science astronomy projects. She is a senior education and communication specialist ...

(born 1973), American astronomer *

(born 1972), Canadian-born space scientist *

Sandra Faber Sandra Moore Faber (born December 28, 1944) is an American astrophysicist known for her research on the evolution of galaxies. She is the University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works ...

(born 1944), American professor of astronomy

Other fields of study

* Athena Aktipis (born c.1981), American professor of evolutionary biology and psychology * Alice Alldredge (born 1949), American oceanographer and researcher of marine snow, discover of Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) and demersal zooplankton * Ilkay Altintas (born 1977), Turkish-American supercomputing and high performance computing research scientist * Aprile D. Benner, American professor of human development and family sciences *

Lera Boroditsky Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976) is a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition. She is one of the main contributors to the theory of linguistic relativity. She is a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell Scholar, recipient of ...

(born c.1976), Belarusian-American cognitive scientist * Amy E. Bryan, American professor of human development and family sciences *

Stephanie Burns Stephanie A. Burns (born January 24, 1955) is an American organosilicon chemist and businesswoman, who served as president and CEO of Dow Corning from 2003 to 2011. She has also served as honorary president of Society of Chemical Industry. Early ...

(born 1955), organosilicon chemist, business executive * L. Jean Camp (graduated 1988), computer security expert, professor * Lu Chen, Chinese-born American neuroscientist * Anne Churchland, American neuroscientist * Sylvia Earle (born 1935), marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer * Deborah Estrin (born 1959), American computer scientist, educator * Karen L. Fingerman, American professor of human development, family sciences, and psychology *

Katherine Freese Katherine Freese (born 8 February 1957) is a theoretical astrophysicist. She is currently a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics. She is known for her work ...

, theoretical astrophysicist, American professor of physics * Elizabeth Gershoff, American professor of human development and family sciences * Marci E. Gleason, American professor of human development and family sciences * Candace S. Greene (graduated 1976), American anthropologist,

National Museum of Natural History The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. In 2021, with 7 ...

Jane Grimwood Jane Grimwood is a British microbiologist. Early life and education Grimwood was born in England. Her father was a chemist, and she always wanted to be a scientist as a child. Grimwood was awarded her B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Microbiology from the Univ ...

, microbiologist, from 2000 worked on the Human Genome Project at Stanford * Lisa Gunaydin, neuroscientist and professor * Gail Hanson (born 1947), American experimental particle physicist, educator * Nancy L. Hazen-Swann, American professor of human development and family sciences * Gabriele C. Hegerl (born 1962), climatologist researching natural variability and attribution of climate change *

Patricia Hersh Patricia Lynn Hersh (born 1973) is an American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. Her research concerns algebraic combinatorics, topological combinatorics, and the connections between combinatorics a ...

(born 1973), mathematician, educator, researching algebraic and topological combinatorics * Valerie Horsley, American biologist * Aletha C. Huston, American professor of child development *

Shirley Ann Jackson Shirley Ann Jackson, (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to have earned a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

(born 1946), American nuclear physicist * Alice K. Jacobs, American cardiologist, president of the

American Heart Association The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and death ...

(2004) * Deborah Jacobvitz, American ecologist * Karen C. Johnson (born 1955), American physician and clinical trials specialist who is one of Reuter's most cited scientists *

Rosemary Joyce Rosemary A. Joyce (born 1956) is an American anthropologist and social archaeologist who has specialized in research in Honduras. They were able to archeologically confirm that chocolate was a byproduct of fermenting beer. She is also an expert in ...

(born 1956), American archaeologist who uncovered chocolate's archaeological record and studies Honduran pre-history *

Renata Kallosh Renata Elizaveta Kallosh uk, Рената Єлизавета Каллош; born 1943) is Ukrainian-American a theoretical physicist. She is a Professor of Physics at Stanford University, working there on supergravity, string theory and inflatio ...

(born 1943), Russian-born American theoretical physicist, educator * Cyndy Karras, American professor of human and child development *

Dina Katabi Dina Katabi ( ar, دينا قَتابي) is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center. Academic biography Katabi received a bachelor's degree from the ...

(born 1971), professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT * Cynthia Keppel, nuclear physicist *

Ann Kiessling Ann A. Kiessling is an American reproductive biologist and a researcher in human parthenogenic stem cell research at The Bedford Research Foundation. She was an associate professor in teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School (Brigham and Wome ...

(born 1942), American reproductive biologist, educator * Su Yeong Kim, American professor of human development and family sciences * Karrol A. Kitt, American professor of human development and family sciences *

Maria Kovacs Maria Kovacs is an American psychologist and academic. She is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is the developer of the Children's Depression Inventory. Biography Kovacs earned an und ...

, psychologist, educator * Amber Kreischer, American professor of human development and family sciences * Cynthia Larive, American bioanalytical chemist *

Emily Levesque Emily Levesque (born 1984) is an American astronomer and assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. She is renowned for her work on massive stars and using these stars to investigate galaxy formation. In ...

, American astrophysicist * J. Virginia Lincoln (1915–2003), physicist *

Mariangela Lisanti Mariangela Lisanti (born September 2, 1983) is an American theoretical physicist and an Associate Professor of physics at Princeton University. Her work focuses on understanding dark matter and dark energy using tools developed through artificial ...

(born 1983), American theoretical physicist * Anna Suk-Fong Lok, Chinese/American hepatologist, wrote WHO and AASLD guidelines for liver disease in emerging countries * Elma I. Lorenzo-Blanco, American professor of human development and family sciences * Catherine A. Lozupone (born 1975), American microbiologist, working on the gut microbiome, who developed the UniFrac algorithm *

Silvia Maciá Silvia Maciá (born 1972) is an American marine biologist and professor of biology at Barry University in Miami Shores, FL. Her research interests involves both laboratory and field work addressing pipefish mating behavior, seagrass community ec ...

(born 1972), marine biologist * Carolyn M. Mazure (born 1949), medical researcher * Sally McBrearty, American palaeoanthropologist and Palaeolithic archaeologist * Lauren Meyers, American professor of integrative biology *

Jill Mikucki Jill Ann Mikucki is an American microbiologist, educator and Antarctic researcher, best known for her work at Blood Falls demonstrating that microbes can grow below ice in the absence of sunlight. She is a leader of international teams studying ...

(graduated 1996), microbiologist, Antarctic researcher *

Barbara Haviland Minor Barbara Haviland Minor is an American chemical engineer who has worked at DuPont (between 1981 and 2015) and Chemours (since 2015). She develops new refrigerants to be used in air conditioning and refrigeration systems, in Europe, North Americ ...

, chemical engineer * Marianne V. Moore (graduated 1975), aquatic ecologist *

Yolanda T. Moses Yolanda Theresa Moses (born 1946) is an anthropologist and college administrator who served as the 10th president of City College of New York (1993–1999) and president of the American Association for Higher Education (2000–2003). Early life ...

(born 1946), anthropologist, educator * Elizabeth Munoz, American professor of human development and family sciences * Catherine J. Murphy (born 1964), American chemist * Alison Murray (scientist) (graduated 1989), biochemist, Antarctic researcher * Elizabeth Nance, American chemical engineer * Anna Nagurney (active since 1996), Ukrainian-American mathematician specializing in operations management * Ann Nardulli (1948–2018), American endocrinologist * Elly Nedivi, American neuroscientist * Lisa Neff, American professor of human development and family sciences *

Ann Nelson Ann Elizabeth Nelson (April 29, 1958 – August 4, 2019) was a particle physicist and professor of physics in the Particle Theory Group at the University of Washington from 1994 until her death. Nelson received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2 ...

(1958–2019), American particle physicist * Anne B. Newman (born 1955), US geriatrics and gerontology expert *

Lina Nilsson Lina Therese Nilsson (born 17 June 1987) is a Swedish retired footballer who played for FC Rosengård and the Sweden national team. Normally a full-back, she can also play as a wide midfielder. She joined Malmö FF Dam in 2006 and has remained ...

, biomedical engineering * Karen Oberhauser (born 1956), conservation biologist working with monarch butterflies * Sarah D. Ozuna, American professor of human development and family sciences * Lara L. Pauley, American professor of human development and family sciences * Nataša Pavlović, psychologist *

E. Gail de Planque Eileen Gail de Planque (also Eileen Gail de Planque Burke, best known as E. Gail de Planque; 1944 – September 8, 2010) was an American nuclear physicist. An expert on environmental radiation measurements, she was the first woman and first ...

(1944–2010), nuclear physicist specializing in environmental radiation * Eva J. Pell (born 1948), American biologist, plant pathologist *

Helen Quinn Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn (born 19 May 1943) is an Australian-born particle physicist and educator who has made major contributions to both fields. Her contributions to theoretical physics include the Peccei–Quinn theory which implies a corres ...

(born 1943), Australian-born American particle physicist *

Lisa Randall Lisa Randall (born June 18, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist working in particle physics and cosmology. She is the Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science on the physics faculty of Harvard University. Her research includes the funda ...

(born 1962), American particle physicist, educator *

Rebecca Richards-Kortum Rebecca Richards-Kortum (born April 14, 1964) is an American bioengineer and the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University. She is a professor in the departments of Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and she is t ...

(born 1964), American bioengineer, professor at Rice *

Geraldine L. Richmond Geraldine Lee Richmond (born January 17, 1953 in Salina, Kansas) is an American chemist and Physical chemistry, physical chemist who is serving as the Under Secretary of Energy for Science in the US Department of Energy. Richmond was confirmed to ...

(born 1953), American physical chemist, professor at University of Oregon, previous president of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

* Karin Rodland (graduated 1974), cancer cell biologist;

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) is an honor accorded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to distinguished persons who are members of the Association. Fellows are elected ...

; Laboratory Fellow of the U.S. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Una Ryan, (born 1941), Malaysian born-American, heart disease researcher, biotech vaccine and diagnostics maker/marketer *

(born 1964), Nigerian-born chemist, Bioanalytical chemistry * Linda Saif (graduated 1969), American microbial scientist, researching virology and immunology * Sandra Saouaf, American immunologist researching autoimmune disease * Velma Scantlebury see Barbados * Hazel Schmoll (1890–1990), American botanist * Christine Siddoway (born 1961), Antarctic geologist * Caroline M. Solomon, deaf oceanographer and winner of the 2017 Ramón Margalef Award for Excellence in Education * Carsen Stringer, American computational neuroscientist *

Sharon Stocker Sharon (Shari) Stocker is an American archaeologist who is best known, along with her husband, archaeologist Jack L. Davis, for leading an international team of researchers who discovered a previously undisturbed tomb of a Bronze Age warrior in ...

, known for discovery of

Griffin Warrior Tomb The Griffin Warrior Tomb is a Bronze Age shaft tomb dating to around 1450 BC, near the ancient city of Pylos in Greece. The grave was discovered by a research team sponsored by the University of Cincinnati and led by husband-and-wife archaeologi ...

* Catherine A. Surra, American professor of human development and family sciences * Elizabeth C. Theil (graduated 1962), research into iron deficiency anemia * Sabrina Thompson (born 1985), American aerospace engineer and founder of fashion brand Girl in Space Club *

Krystal Tsosie Dr. Krystal Tsosie (Diné) is a Navajo geneticist and bioethics, bioethicist at Arizona State University and activist for Indigenous data sovereignty. She is also an educator and an expert on genetic and social identities. Her advocacy and acade ...

, geneticist and bioethicist known for promoting Indigenous data sovereignty and studying genetics within Indigenous communities * Kay Tye (born c. 1981), American neuroscientist *

Gina G. Turrigiano Gina G. Turrigiano is an American neuroscientist, and is the Levitan Chair of Vision Science at Brandeis University. Turrigiano is known for her pioneering work on the mechanisms that allow brain circuits to remain both flexible and stable. Tu ...

, American neuroscientist * Fatima A. Varner, American professor of human development and family sciences *

Lydia Villa-Komaroff Lydia Villa-Komaroff (born August 7, 1947) is a molecular and cellular biologist who has been an academic laboratory scientist, a university administrator, and a business woman. She was the third Mexican-American woman in the United States to r ...

(born 1947), American molecular biologist *

Elisabeth Vrba Elisabeth S. Vrba (born 17 May 1942) is a paleontologist at Yale University who developed the turnover-pulse hypothesis. Education Vrba earned her Ph.D. in Zoology and Palaeontology at the University of Cape Town, in 1974. Vrba studied zoolog ...

(born 1942), American paleontologist *

Nora Volkow Nora Volkow (born 27 March 1956) is a Mexican-American psychiatrist. She is currently the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Early life and education Born in Mexico ...

(born 1956), Mexican-American psychiatrist * Elizabeth M. Ward, American epidemiologist and head of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Research Department of the American Cancer Society *

Rachel Ward Rachel Claire Ward (born 12 September 1957) is an English-Australian

, American mathematician * Christina Warinner, American anthropologist best known for her research on ancient microbiomes * Petra Wilder-Smith (born 1958), American dentistry and cancer researcher * Hannah Williamson, American professor of human development and family sciences *

Phyllis Wise Phyllis M. Wise (Chinese name 王斐丽) is a biomedical researcher. Most recently, she is currently serving as the inaugural Chief Executive Officer and President of Colorado Longitudinal Study. Family and education Wise is the daughter of M ...

(graduated 1967), American biologist, educator * Catherine G. Wolf (1947–2018), American psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction * Kakani Katija Young (born 1983), American bioengineer *

Hua Eleanor Yu Hua Eleanor Yu is the inaugural Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Professor in tumor immunotherapy at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California. In addition, she co-leads the Cancer Immunotherap ...

, cancer researcher

Venezuela

* Mayly Sánchez (born ca. 1975), astrophysicist studying neutrinos, awarded the US PECASE Prize in 2011

Vietnam

* Phạm Thị Trân Châu (born 1938), biochemist * Hoang Thi Than (born 1944), Vietnamese geological engineer and archaeologist

Zambia

* Nsofwa Petronella Sampa, psychological counselor and HIV activist.

Zimbabwe

* Idah Sithole-Niang (born 1957), biochemist focusing on cowpea production and disease

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