List of female scientists in the 21st century

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See also: List of female scientists before the 20th century and List of female scientists in the 20th century

This is a list of notable women scientists who have been around in the 21st century.

Albania[]

Argentina[]

  • Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón (born 1954) urban anthropologist studying poverty
  • Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini (born 1944), Argentine paleontologist and zoologist
  • Constanza Ceruti (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 (born 1941), Argentine egyptologist

Armenia[]

Australia[]

  • Anne Astin (graduated 1976), biochemist active in dairy development
  • Katherine Belov (born 1973), Australian geneticist, Tasmanian devil cancer researcher
  • Suzanne Cory (born 1942), Australian molecular biologist
  • Jean Finnegan, Australian scientist, researches flowering processes and epigenetic regulation in plants
  • Gisela Kaplan, 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, (graduated 2002), marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller with the Australian Antarctic Division
  • Sue O'Connor 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 (1908–1995), geneticist and statistician, expert on sheep genetics
  • Carden Wallace (fl. 1970–), marine biologist and museum director, expert on corals
  • Leonie Walsh, first Lead Scientist of Victoria
  • Rachel Webster (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 (born 1977), Austrian astronomer, educator
  • Christine Mannhalter (born 1948), molecular biologist
  • Elisabeth Ruttkay (1926–2009), Austrian Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeologist
  • Eva Schönbeck-Temesy (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 (born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician
  • Véronique Dehant (born 1959), geodesist and geophysicist
  • Véronique Gouverneur (born 1964), chemist, educator, specializing in organic fluorine compounds
  • Yaël Nazé, 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[]

Canada[]

Chile[]

China[]

  • Margaret Chan (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 (born 1923), Chinese hydrologist and politician
  • Lü Zhi (born 1965), giant panda expert and conservationist

Colombia[]

  • Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez (born 1981), marine biologist studying flat worms and stem cell regeneration
  • Ana Maria Rey (born 1976/1977), theoretical physicist

Croatia[]

Cuba[]

Czech Republic[]

  • Eva Syková (born 1944), neuroscientist researching spinal cord injury

Denmark[]

Dominican Republic[]

  • Idelisa Bonnelly (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[]

Germany[]

  • Andrea Ablasser (born 1983), German immunologist working in Switzerland
  • Katrin Amunts (born 1962), prominent neuroscientist involved in brain mapping.
  • Ulrike Beisiegel (born 1952), German biochemist, researcher of liver fats and first female president of the University of Göttingen
  • Sibylle Günter (born 1964), theoretical physicist researching tokamak plasmas
  • Hanna von Hoerner (1942–2014), astrophysicist
  • Eva-Maria Neher (born 1950), German biochemist, microbiologist
  • Nina Papavasiliou, immunologist
  • Elisabeth Piirainen (1943–2017), philologist
  • Ilme Schlichting (born 1960), biophysicist
  • Brigitte Voit (born 1963), chemist

Greece[]

  • Lydia Kravraki, computer scientist, professor at Rice

Guadeloupe[]

Hungary[]

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 (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.
  • , (born 1976), Indian scientist, working in the field of Natural Products Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery and applied Carbohydrate Chemistry.

Iran[]

  • Maryam Mirzakhani (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 (born 1966), Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems
  • Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, 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, Israeli computational biologist
  • Ada Yonath (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, astrophysicist with the INAF
  • 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[]

Luxembourg[]

Madagascar[]

Morocco[]

Netherlands[]

New Zealand[]

  • Margaret Brimble, (born 1961), chemist, researching shellfish toxins.
  • Gillian Wratt, (born 1954), botanist and Antarctic researcher.

Nigeria[]

Norway[]

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

Pakistan[]

  • Sara Gill, Pakistani transgender activist and physician

Peru[]

Portugal[]

Russia[]

Saudi Arabia[]

Serbia[]

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 (born 1958), molecular biologist
  • Tebello Nyokong (born 1951), South African chemist and cancer researcher
  • Jennifer Thomson (born 1947), microbiologist

Spain[]

South Korea[]

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

Switzerland[]

Taiwan[]

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

Tanzania[]

Trinidad and Tobago[]

Turkey[]

Ukraine[]

  • Svitlana Mayboroda (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 (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 (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, British pharmacologist
  • Shahina Farid, 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 (born 1934), British primatologist and anthropologist
  • Monica Grady (born 1958), British space scientist
  • Emily Grossman (born 1978), British cancer researcher and science popularist
  • Helena Hamerow (born 1961), British archeologist and specialist in medieval archaeology
  • Joanne Johnson (born 1977), geologist, Antarctic scientist
  • Tara Keck, American-British neuroscientist
  • Rachel McKendry (born 1973), chemist and digital public health pioneer
  • Linda McDowell (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 (born 1957), British medical researcher
  • Christine Williams (graduated 1973), British nutritionist, educator

United States[]

Astronomy[]

  • Carolyn Porco (born 1953), American planetary scientist
  • Debra Elmegreen (born 1952), astronomer, educator
  • Jill Tarter (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 (born 1958), American planetary scientist
  • Martha P. Haynes (born 1951), American astronomer specializing in radio astronomy
  • Pamela Gay (born 1973), American astronomer
  • Rachel Zimmerman (born 1972), Canadian-born space scientist
  • Sandra Faber (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
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976), Belarusian-American cognitive scientist
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Stephanie Burns (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
  • , American professor of human development, family sciences, and psychology
  • Katherine Freese, theoretical astrophysicist, American professor of physics
  • Elizabeth Gershoff, American professor of human development and family sciences
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Candace S. Greene (graduated 1976), American anthropologist, National Museum of Natural History
  • Jane Grimwood, 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
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Gabriele C. Hegerl (born 1962), climatologist researching natural variability and attribution of climate change
  • Patricia Hersh (born 1973), mathematician, educator, researching algebraic and topological combinatorics
  • Valerie Horsley, American biologist
  • Aletha C. Huston, American professor of child development
  • Shirley Ann Jackson (born 1946), American nuclear physicist
  • Alice K. Jacobs, American cardiologist, president of the American Heart Association (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 (born 1956), American archaeologist who uncovered chocolate's archaeological record and studies Honduran pre-history
  • Renata Kallosh (born 1943), Russian-born American theoretical physicist, educator
  • , American professor of human and child development
  • Dina Katabi (born 1971), professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
  • Cynthia Keppel, nuclear physicist
  • Ann Kiessling (born 1942), American reproductive biologist, educator
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Maria Kovacs, psychologist, educator
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Cynthia Larive, American bioanalytical chemist
  • Emily Levesque, American astrophysicist
  • J. Virginia Lincoln (1915–2003), physicist
  • Mariangela Lisanti (born 1983), American theoretical physicist
  • Anna Suk-Fong Lok, Chinese/American hepatologist, wrote WHO and AASLD guidelines for liver disease in emerging countries
  • , 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 (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 (graduated 1996), microbiologist, Antarctic researcher
  • Barbara Haviland Minor, chemical engineer
  • Marianne V. Moore (graduated 1975), aquatic ecologist
  • Yolanda T. Moses (born 1946), anthropologist, educator
  • , 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
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Ann Nelson (1958–2019), American particle physicist
  • Anne B. Newman (born 1955), US geriatrics and gerontology expert
  • Lina Nilsson, biomedical engineering
  • Karen Oberhauser (born 1956), conservation biologist working with monarch butterflies
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Nataša Pavlović, psychologist
  • E. Gail de Planque (1944–2010), nuclear physicist specializing in environmental radiation
  • Eva J. Pell (born 1948), American biologist, plant pathologist
  • Helen Quinn (born 1943), Australian-born American particle physicist
  • Lisa Randall (born 1962), American particle physicist, educator
  • Rebecca Richards-Kortum (born 1964), American bioengineer, professor at Rice
  • Geraldine L. Richmond (born 1953), American physical chemist, professor at University of Oregon, previous president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Una Ryan, (born 1941), Malaysian born-American, heart disease researcher, biotech vaccine and diagnostics maker/marketer
  • Omowunmi Sadik (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, known for discovery of Griffin Warrior Tomb
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Elizabeth C. Theil (graduated 1962), research into iron deficiency anemia
  • Kay Tye (born c. 1981), American neuroscientist
  • Gina G. Turrigiano, American neuroscientist
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Lydia Villa-Komaroff (born 1947), American molecular biologist
  • Elisabeth Vrba (born 1942), American paleontologist
  • Nora Volkow (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, American mathematician
  • Christina Warinner, American anthropologist best known for her research on ancient microbiomes
  • Petra Wilder-Smith (born 1958), American dentistry and cancer researcher
  • , American professor of human development and family sciences
  • Phyllis Wise (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, cancer researcher

Venezuela[]

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

Vietnam[]

Zambia[]

  • Nsofwa Petronella Sampa, psychological counselor and HIV activist.

Zimbabwe[]

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

See also[]

  • 21st-century women scientists
  • Lists of women scientists
  • Women scientists by century

References[]

  1. ^ "Akademik Asociuar Afërdita Veveçka" [Academic associate Afërdita Veveçka]. akad.gov.al (in Albanian). Tirana, Albania: Academy of Sciences of Albania. 2017. Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
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