The Suffrage Science award is a prize for women in science, engineering and computing founded in 2011, on the 100th anniversary of

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by the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS). There are three categories of award: #

life science Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for growth, reaction to stimuli, metabolism, energy t ...

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engineering Engineering is the use of scientific method, scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad rang ...

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physical science Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science. It in turn has many branches, each referred to as a "physical science", together called the "physical sciences". Definition Physi ...

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mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

and

computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, e ...

. The life sciences award was founded in 2011. Every year there are 10 laureates from research backgrounds and one laureate for communication. The engineering and physical sciences award was founded in 2013. Every year there are 12 laureates from areas spanning

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

and more. The math and computing award was launched on Ada Lovelace Day, 2016. Every year there are five laureates from mathematics, five laureates from computing and one laureate for

science communication Science communication is the practice of informing, educating, raising awareness of science-related topics, and increasing the sense of wonder about scientific discoveries and arguments. Science communicators and audiences are ambiguously def ...

and the

public awareness of science Public awareness of science (PAwS) is everything relating to the awareness, attitudes, behaviors, opinions, and activities that comprise the relations between the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organization. ...

Laureates

Laureates have included:

2021

Engineering and Physical Sciences winners are: Dr_Hayaatun_Sillem

* , European Space Agency, The Netherlands *

Syma Khalid Syma Khalid is a British biophysicist who is a Professor of Computational Microbiology in at the University of Oxford. She was awarded the Suffrage Science award for engineering and physical sciences in 2021. Early life and education Khalid grew ...

, University of Southampton, UK *

Natalie Stingelin Natalie Stingelin (also published under Natalie Stutzmann and Natalie Stingelin-Stutzmann), Fellow of the Materials Research Society and Royal Society of Chemistry (), is a materials scientist and current chair of the School of Materials Science ...

, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * , Leiden University, The Netherlands *

Hayaatun Sillem Hayaatun Sillem (née Is’harc) is the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Education Sillem attended Godolphin and Latymer School. She earned a master's degree in biochemistry from the University of Oxford in 19 ...

, CBE, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK *

Ruth Cameron Ruth Cameron is an American record producer and jazz vocalist. Biography Cameron came from a musical family, but first acted in theaters in North America and Europe. After marrying bassist Charlie Haden, she was his manager and co-produced many ...

, University of Cambridge, UK * , Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden * , Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Spain * Samaya Nissanke, University of Amsterdam and Nikhef, The Netherlands * Gerjo van Osch, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands *

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, McGill University, Canada *

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, University of Ghana, Ghana

2020

Life Sciences award winners are: * ,

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* , University of Toronto, Canada *

Elspeth Garman Elspeth Frances Garman is professor of molecular biophysics at the University of Oxford and a former President of the British Crystallographic Association. She is also Senior Kurti Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. The "Garman limit" ...

, University of Oxford, UK * Veronique Miron, University of Edinburgh, UK * , I-STEM, France *

Zena Werb Zena Werb (24 March 1945 – 16 June 2020) was a professor and the Vice Chair of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco. She was also the co-leader of the Cancer, Immunity, and Microenvironment Program at the Hellen Diller Fa ...

, University of California, San Francisco, USA *

Samantha Joye Samantha "Mandy" Joye is an American oceanographer who is well known for her work studying the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She is a professor (Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences) at the University of Georgia in the Department o ...

, University of Georgia, USA *

Gisou van der Goot Françoise Gisou van der Goot (born 19 September 1964 in Tehran) is a Swiss-Dutch cell biologist. She is a professor and the Vice President for Responsible Transformation at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Career Gisou van der ...

, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland *

Karalyn Patterson Karalyn Eve Patterson, is a British psychologist in Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. She is a specialist in cognitive neuropsychologyand an Emeritus Fellow of Darwin Co ...

, University of Cambridge, UK * , University of Texas Austin, USA * Claudia Mazzà, University of Sheffield, UK Wendy_Mackay

Maths and Computing award winners are: * , Cardiff University * , Lancaster University, UK, and ENSIIE, France *

Apala Majumdar Apala Majumdar is a British applied mathematician specialising in the mathematics of liquid crystals. She is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde. Education and career Majumdar did her undergraduate studies at the ...

, University of Strathclyde * ,

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

* Sara Lombardo,

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

* Wendy Mackay, Inria, Paris-Saclay, France *

Yvonne Rogers Yvonne Rogers is a British psychologist and computer scientist. She serves as director of the Interaction Centre at University College London. She has authored or contributed to more than 250 publications. Her book ''Interaction Design: Beyond ...

, University College London *

Alexandra Silva Alexandra Silva (born 1984) is a Portuguese computer scientist and Professor at Cornell University. She was previously Professor of Algebra, Semantics, and Computation at University College London. Awards and honours Silva won a Philip Leverhu ...

, University College London * Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London * Sue Sentance, King’s College London

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Anne-Marie Imafidon Anne-Marie Osawemwenze Ore-Ofe Imafidon (born 24 June 1990) is a British-Nigerian computer scientist. Imafidon founded and became CEO of Stemettes in 2013, a social enterprise promoting women in STEM careers. She was a computing, mathematics a ...

, STEMettes

2019

Engineering and Physical Sciences * Moira Jardine * Sarah Harris *

Róisín Owens Róisín Owens is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her research investigates new engineering technology for biological applications with ...

* Tiny de Keuster Universiteit Gent *

Karen Holford Karen Margaret Holford (born 1962) is a Welsh engineer, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Cranfield University. She was formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Cardiff University. She is also a former Pr ...

Serena Best Serena Michelle Best , is a British academic, and the Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. Best has a BSc from the University of Surrey, and a PhD from the University of London. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy ...

* Tara Garnett * Isabel Palacios *

Amina Helmi Amina Helmi (6 October 1970) is an Argentine astronomer and professor at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Education Helmi was educated at Leiden University where she was awarded a PhD in 2000 ...

* Sue Kimber * Marzieh Moosavi-Nasab *

Melinda Duer Melinda Jane Duer is Professor of Biological and Biomedical Chemistry in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and was the first woman to be appointed to an academic position in the dep ...

2018

Life sciences: *

Cathy Price Catherine J. "Cathy" Price is a British neuroscientist and academic. She is a professor of cognitive neuroscience and director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. Her overarching research goal is to prov ...

* * Claire Rougeulle * Denise Head * Jenny Martin * Anna Wu * Mikala Egeblad * * Anat Mirelman *Elizabeth Bradbury *

Susan M. Gaines Susan M Gaines is an American writer. She is the author of the novels ''Accidentals'' (2020) and ''Carbon Dreams'' (2001), and co-author with Geoffrey Eglinton and Jurgen Rullkötter of the science book '' Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Re ...

Maths and Computing * * Tereza Neocleous *

Nina Snaith Nina Claire Snaith is a British mathematician at the University of Bristol working in random matrix theory and quantum chaos. Education Snaith was educated at the University of Bristol where she received her PhD in 2000 for research supervised b ...

* Daniela De Angelis * Eugenie Hunsicker *

Sally Fincher Sally A. Fincher (born 1959) is a British Computer Scientist and Emerita Professor of Computing Education at the University of Kent. She was awarded the Suffrage Science award in 2018 the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer ...

Julie McCann Julie Ann McCann is a British computer scientist who is a professor at Imperial College London. She is the leader of the Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and was awarded the Suffrage Science ...

Jane Hillston Jane Elizabeth Hillston (born 1963) is British professor of Quantitative Modelling and Head of School in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Early life and education Hillston received a BA in Mathematics from the U ...

Ursula Martin Ursula Hilda Mary Martin (born 3 August 1953) is a British computer scientist, with research interests in theoretical computer science and formal methods. She is also known for her activities aimed at encouraging women in the fields of comput ...

Hannah Dee Hannah-Mary Dee is a British cognitive scientist and computer scientist specialising in computer vision, with specialisms in plant science, navigation, art, and medical imaging. In 2014, she was one of 30 women identified by the British Comp ...

* Vicky Neale

2017

Engineering * Lyndsay Fletcher * *

Rylie Green Rylie Green is an Australian biomedical engineer who is a Professor at Imperial College London. She works on bioactive conducting polymers for applications in medical electronics. Education Green is Australian. She received her PhD in neur ...

* *

Sheila Rowan Sheila Anne "Stretch" Rowan (April 22, 1940 – August 2, 2014) was a Canadian curler from Saskatoon. Rowan was born in Young, Saskatchewan where she grew up before moving to Plenty, Saskatchewan in 1953 and Saskatoon in 1955 where she graduate ...

* Cathy Holt * * Marta Vicente-Crespo *

Marileen Dogterom Marileen Dogterom (born 20 November 1967, in Utrecht) is a Dutch biophysicist and professor at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology. She published in Science, Cell, and Nature and is notable for her research of th ...

* Sheila MacNeil * Zohreh Azimifar *

Sharon Ashbrook Sharon Elizabeth Marie Ashbrook (born 26 January 1975) is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. Her research is focused on the application of multinuclear solid-state NMR spectroscopy techniques as well as the combina ...

2016

Life sciences: * Kia Nobre *

Lori Passmore Lori Anne Passmore is a Canadian/British cryo electron microscopist and structural biologist who works at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge. She is known for her work on mul ...

* Déborah Bourc'his * Uraina Clark * Michelle James * * Corinne Houart * Sally John * Catherina Becker *

Pippa Goldschmidt Pippa Goldschmidt is a British fiction writer, formerly based in Edinburgh, Scotland but now living in Germany. Education Goldschmidt has a background in science, having completed an undergraduate degree in physics with astronomy at the Univer ...

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* Christl Donnelly *

Jane Hutton Jane Luise Hutton is a British medical statistician. Her research interests include meta-analysis, survival analysis, and ethics in mathematics, and she has participated in highly-cited studies on autism and cerebral palsy. She is a professor of ...

Frances Kirwan Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, (born 21 August 1959) is a British mathematician, currently Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry. Education Kirwan was educ ...

Sylvia Richardson Sylvia Therese Richardson is a French/British Bayesian statistician and is currently Professor of Biostatistics and Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge. In 2021 she became the president of the Royal Statistical ...

Gwyneth Stallard Gwyneth Mary Stallard is a British mathematician whose research concerns complex dynamics and the iteration of meromorphic functions. She is a professor of pure mathematics at the Open University. Education and career Stallard read mathematics ...

* Ann Blandford *

Muffy Calder Dame Muffy Calder (née Thomas; born 21 May 1958) is a Canadian-born British computer scientist, Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering, and Professor of Formal Methods at the University of Glasgow. From 2012 to 2015 she ...

Leslie Ann Goldberg Leslie Ann Goldberg is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.. Her research concerns the design and analysis of algorithms for random sampling and approximate combinatorial enumerat ...

Wendy Hall Dame Wendy Hall (born 25 October 1952) is a British computer scientist. She is Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Early life and education Wendy Hall was born in west London and educated at Ealing Grammar ...

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Celia Hoyles Dame Celia Mary Hoyles, ( French; born 18 May 1946) is a British mathematician, educationalist and Professor of Mathematics Education at University College London (UCL), in the Institute of Education (IoE). Early life and education Celia Mary F ...

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Marta Kwiatkowska Marta Zofia Kwiatkowska is a Polish theoretical computer scientist based in the United Kingdom. Kwiatkowska is Professor of Computing Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, England, and a Fellow of Tri ...

Emma McCoy Emma Joan McCoy is the Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education and a Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has acted as a mathematics subject expert for discussions on reform of the Na ...

2015

Lucie Green Lucinda "Lucie" May Green (born c. 1975) is a British science communicator and solar physicist. Green is a Professor of Physics and a Royal Society University Research Fellow (previously the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow) at Mullard Sp ...

* * * Susan Condor , Loughborough *

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* Ruth Wilcox, Leeds *

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* , Curie institute * Alicia El Haj *

Tamsin Edwards Tamsin Edwards is a British climate scientist and lecturer at King's College London. She is a popular science communicator and writes for the Public Library of Science (PLOS). Early life and education Edwards became interested in physics afte ...

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2014

Irene Tracey Irene Mary Carmel Tracey (born 30 October 1966) is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford and former Warden of Merton College, Oxford. She is also Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences an ...

* Shannon Au *

Anne Ferguson-Smith Anne Carla Ferguson-Smith (born 23 July 1961) is a mammalian developmental geneticist. She is the Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and International Partnerships at the University of Cambridge. Formerly ...

* Xiaomeng Xu * Jane Endicott * Sarah Bohndiek * *

Kate Storey Kate Gillian Storey is a developmental biologist and head of Division of Cell & Developmental Biology at University of Dundee. Early education Storey went to Parliament Hill School, a comprehensive school in north London and attended the sixt ...

* Eleftheria Zeggini * *

Jennifer Rohn Jennifer Leigh Rohn (born 1967 in Stow, Ohio) is a British-American scientist and novelist. She is a cell biologist at University College London, editor of the webzine ''LabLit.com'' and founder of the ''Science is Vital'' organization that campa ...

2013

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Julia Higgins Dame Julia Stretton Higgins (née Downes; born 1 July 1942) is a British polymer scientist. Since 1976 she has been based at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, where (since 2007) she is professor and senior r ...

Molly Stevens Molly Morag Stevens is Professor of Biomedical Materials and regenerative medicine and Research Director for Biomedical Materials Sciences in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London.

Lesley Yellowlees Lesley Jane Yellowlees, (born 1953) is a British inorganic chemist conducting research in Spectroelectrochemistry, Electron transfer, Electron transfer reactions and Electron paramagnetic resonance, Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) Spectro ...

* Eileen Ingham * Jennifer Nichols *

Sally Macintyre Dame Sarah Jane Macintyre (born 1949), known as Sally Macintyre, is a British medical sociologist. She is a professor emerita (formerly professor of social and public health sciences) at the University of Glasgow. In 1998 she was awarded an O ...

Susan Gathercole Susan Elizabeth Gathercole was the Unit Director at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. from 2011 until 2018. She is a research psychologist, best known for her studies into working memory deficits in children. She has worked extensively w ...

* Clare Elwell *

Petra Schwille Petra Schwille (born 25 January 1968 in Sindelfingen) is a German professor and a researcher in the area of biophysics. Since 2011, she has been a director of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Bi ...

Maggie Aderin-Pocock Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock (; born 9 March 1968) is a British space scientist and science educator. She is an honorary research associate of University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy. Since February 2014, she has co- ...

Kathy Sykes Katharine Ellen Sykes (born 20 December 1966) is a British physicist, broadcaster and Professor of Sciences and Society at the University of Bristol. She was previously Collier Professor of Public Engagement in Science and Engineering, from 20 ...

2012

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* Emily Holmes * Tracey Barett * Nicole Soranzo * Bianca Acevedo * Francoise Barre-Sinoussi * Elizabeth Murchison *

Edith Heard Edith Heard (born 1965) is a British-French researcher in epigenetics and since January 2019 has been the Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). She is also Professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of ...

* Marysia Placzek *

Sarah Teichmann Sarah Amalia Teichmann (born 1975) is a German scientist who is head of cellular genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and a visiting research group leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She serves as director of resear ...

Christiana Ruhrberg Christiana Ruhrberg is a German-British cell biologist who is Professor of Neuronal and Vascular Biology, University College London. She looks to understand how cells interact during the development and disease of mammals. Early life and educa ...

2011

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Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (born 11 August 1974) is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and co-director of the Wellcome Trust PhD Programme in Neuroscience at University College London Sarah Jayne Blake ...

* Mary Collins * Sally Davies * Helen Fisher * Vivienne Parry * Sohaila Rastan *

Elizabeth Robertson Elizabeth Jane Robertson is a British developmental biologist based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. She is Professor of Developmental Biology at Oxford and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. She is ...

Janet Thornton Dame Janet Maureen Thornton, (born 23 May 1949) is a senior scientist and director emeritus at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). She is one of the world's leading researcher ...

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References

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