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List of female scientists in the 21st century

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

Albania

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Algeria

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Argentina

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Armenia

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Australia

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  • Carol Armour (fl. 2006), medical researcher specializing in asthma
  • Anne Astin (graduated 1976), biochemist active in dairy development
  • Katherine Belov (born 1973), Australian geneticist, Tasmanian devil cancer researcher
  • Phyllis Butow (fl. 2010s), medical researcher specializing in psycho.oncolocgy
  • Clara Chow (fl. 2020), medical researcher specializing in cardiovascular disease
  • Suzanne Cory (born 1942), Australian molecular biologist
  • Donna Cross (fl. 2011), medical researcher specializing in child heath
  • Hannah Dahlen (fl. 2008), medical researcher specializing in midwifery
  • Jean Finnegan, Australian scientist, researches flowering processes and epigenetic regulation in plants
  • Jane Hall (fl. 2016). health economist
  • Carolyn Geczy (fl. 2005), medical researcher in immunology
  • Bronwyn Hemsley (fl. 2008), medical researcher specializing in speech pathology
  • Camille Goldstone-Henry, Australian businesswoman and wildlife scientist
  • Felice Jacka (fl. 2017), medical researcher specializing in nutritional psychiatry
  • Cheryl Jones (fl 1994), medical researcher specializing in peaediatroc infectious diseases
  • Gisela Kaplan, ornithologist and primatologist noted for her research in animal cognition, communication and vocal behaviour of primates and specifically native Australian birds
  • Kate Leslie (born 1962), medical researcher specializing in anaesthesia
  • Lyn March (fl. 2004), medical researcher specializing in inflammatory arthritis
  • Naomi McClure-Griffiths (born 1975), American-Australian astrophysicist. Discovered a new arm of the Milky Way galaxy
  • Michelle Lincoln (fl. 1997), medical researcher specializing in health service delivery in rural communities
  • Jessica Melbourne-Thomas (born 1981), 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
  • Vanessa Pirotta (fl. 2020s), wildlife scientist employing innovative technologies
  • Carol Pollock (fl. 2021), medical researcher specializing in kidney health
  • Annamma Dorai Raj (1959–2024), rheumatologist
  • Helen Reddel (fl. 2000), researcher specializing in respiratory medicine
  • Lesley J Rogers (born 1943), Australian ethologist and neuroscientist, expert in brain laterality
  • Moninya Roughan (born 1974), physical oceanographer, expert in the dynamics and warming of the East Australian Current
  • Una M. Ryan (born 1966), patented DNA test identifying protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium
  • Cathie Sherrington (fl. 2010), geriatrician specializing in fall prevention
  • Justine R. Smith (fl. 2015), ophthalmic surgeon specializing in vision research
  • 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
  • Stephanie Watson (fl. 2021), medical researcher specializing in ophthalmology
  • Sarah Wayland (fl. 2005), social worker and health researcher
  • Rachel Webster (born 1951), astrophysicist, educator
  • Mary E. White (1926–2018), paleobotanist

Austria

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Barbados

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

Belgium

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Bolivia

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  • 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

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Canada

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Chile

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China

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  • 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 (1923–2022), Chinese hydrologist and politician
  • Lü Zhi (born 1965), giant panda expert and conservationist
  • Tu Youyou (born 1930), Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist

Colombia

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Croatia

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Cuba

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Czech Republic

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

Denmark

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Dominican Republic

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Finland

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France

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Germany

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Greece

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Guadeloupe

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Hungary

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India

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  • 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 (1947–2021), Indian biochemist developing anticancer drugs
  • Seema Bhatnagar (born 1971), Indian scientist, working in the field of anticancer drug discovery

Indonesia

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  • 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 (born 1958), Indonesian philosopher and astronomer
  • Pratiwi Sudarmono (born 1952), Indonesian professor of microbiology at the University of Indonesia
  • Rose Amal (born 1965), Indonesian-Australian chemical engineer
  • Soejatmi Dransfield (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

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  • 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

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

Israel

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Italy

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  • Maria Abbracchio (born 1956), Italian pharmacologist who works with purinergic receptors and identified GPR17; on Reuter's most cited list since 2006
  • Daria Guidetti (born 1978), astrophysicist with the INAF
  • Chiara Nappi (born 1951), 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

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Luxembourg

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Madagascar

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Morocco

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Netherlands

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New Zealand

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Nigeria

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Norway

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

Pakistan

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  • Sara Gill, Pakistani transgender activist and physician

Peru

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Portugal

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Russia

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Saudi Arabia

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Serbia

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Singapore

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

South Africa

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Spain

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South Korea

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Switzerland

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Taiwan

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Tanzania

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Trinidad and Tobago

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Turkey

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Ukraine

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United Kingdom

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United States

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Astronomy

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Other fields of study

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Venezuela

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  • Mayly Sánchez (born 1972), astrophysicist studying neutrinos, awarded the US PECASE Prize in 2011

Vietnam

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Zambia

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Zimbabwe

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See also

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References

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  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.