List of female scientists in the 21st century explained
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 active in the 21st century.
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
- 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
Barbados
- Velma Scantlebury (born 1955), first woman of African descent to become a transplant surgeon in the U.S.
Belgium
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 (born 1945), neurologist, astronaut, educator
- Kirsten Bos, physical anthropologist, molecular paleopathologist
- Lindsay Cahill, chemist
- Juliet Daniel (fl. from 2001), focus on cancer biology
- Martine Dorais, plant physiology, organic horticulture
- Laura Ferrarese, astronomer
- Roberta Gilchrist (born 1965), Canadian archaeologist specializing in medieval Britain
- Sheena Josselyn, Canadian neuroscientist
- Francesca M. Kerton, chemist
- Julia Levy (born 1934), microbiologist, immunologist, entrepreneur
- Mary MacArthur (1904–1959), botanist, cytologist
- Deborah Martin-Downs, aquatic biologist, ecologist
- Diane Massam, linguist
- Natalie Panek, mechanical engineer and space scientist
- Elizabeth Pattey, agricultural meteorologist
- Heather Pringle, writer on archaeology
- Kathleen I. Pritchard, 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 (born 1958), cell biologist
- Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein, animal ethologist
- Sara Seager (born 1971), Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist
- Felicitas Svejda (1920–2016), horticulturalist
- Sandra Witelson, neuroscientist
- Rachel Zimmerman (born 1972), Canadian-born space scientist
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 (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
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic
- Eva Syková (born 1944), neuroscientist researching spinal cord injury
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Finland
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, 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 (1942–2014), paleobiologist specializing in lacustrine sediments
- Laurence Lanfumey (born 1954), French neuroscientist
- Dominique Langevin (born 1947), physical chemist
- Claudine Rinner (born 1965), amateur astronomer
- Martine Tabeaud (born in 1951) French geographer, specialist in climatology
- 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 (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
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 (1947–2021), Indian biochemist developing anticancer drugs
- Seema Bhatnagar (born 1971), Indian scientist, working in the field of anticancer drug discovery
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 (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
- 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
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 (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
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
- Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye, pharmacologist
- Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe (born 1962), geologist specializing in palynology and sedimentology
- Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi, environmental biochemist, Oréal-Unesco award in 2013
- Grace Oladunni Taylor (born 1937), Nigerian chemist, 2nd woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science
- Omowunmi Sadik (born 1964), chemist, educator
- Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi (born 1939), botanist and environmental archaeologist
- Felicity Okpete Ovai (born 1961), engineer, civil servant, politician
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
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 (born 1955), microbiologist, ministerial official, writer
South Korea
- Ahn In-Young, Antarctic researcher and benthic ecologist
- Chang Kyongae, (born 1946), astrophysicist
- Cho Yoon-kyoung, interdisciplinary researcher
- Choi Sookyung, particle physicist
- Chung Kwang Hwa (born 1948), physicist and president of the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, and Korean Vacuum Society
- Jun Mikyoung, statistician
- Kim Eun-Ah (born 1975), condensed matter physicist
- Kim Ju-Lee (born 1969), mathematician, educator, now in the United States
- Kim V. Narry (born 1969), biochemist and microbiologist
- Lee Hong Kum, Antarctic researcher
- Lee Jung-Min, medical oncologist and physician-scientist
- Lim Hyesook (born 1963), electronics engineer, served as Minister of Science and ICT
- Oh Hee, (born 1969), mathematician
- Paik Hanhee, experimental quantum computing researcher
- Park So-Jung (born 1972), chemist
- Park Sukyung (born 1973), mechanical engineer, served as Science and Technology Advisor to President Moon Jae-in from 2020 to 2022
- Pi So-Young (born 1946), physicist
- Seo Eun-Suk (born 1971), astrophysicist
- Soh Chunghee Sarah, sociocultural anthropologist
- Yu Myeong-Hee (born 1954), South Korean microbiologist
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
- Denise P. Barlow (1950–2017), British geneticist
- Gillian Bates (born 1956), 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 Coleman (born 1956), Scottish electrical engineer, educator
- Mandy Chessell (born c.1965), British computer scientist with IBM
- Jenny Clack (1947–2020), paleontologist, expert on the "fish to tetrapod" evolutionary transition
- Bryony Coles (born 1946), British prehistoric archaeologist
- Janet Darbyshire, British epidemiologist, CBE (2010)
- Annette Dolphin (born 1951), 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 (born 1953), 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 (born 1978), 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
- Sarah Pett, British medical researcher, immunopathologist, and COVID-19 researcher
- 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
- Amanda Bosh (fl 1990s), American observational astronomer
- Luisa Rebull (fl 2010s), American astrophysicist
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
- Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976), Belarusian-American cognitive scientist
- Stephanie Burns (born 1955), organosilicon chemist, business executive
- L. Jean Camp (graduated 1988), computer security expert, professor
- Lu Chen (born 1972), 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
- Katherine Freese (born 1957), theoretical astrophysicist, American professor of physics
- Elizabeth Gershoff, 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
- 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
- Dina Katabi (born 1970), professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
- Cynthia Keppel, nuclear physicist
- Ann Kiessling (born 1942), American reproductive biologist, educator
- Maria Kovacs, psychologist, educator
- Cynthia Larive, American bioanalytical chemist
- Emily Levesque (born 1984), 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
- Catherine A. Lozupone (born 1975), American microbiologist, working on the gut microbiome, who developed the UniFrac algorithm
- Annie Luetkemeyer (born 1972), American physician and medical COVID-19 researcher
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Karin Rodland (born 1949), cancer cell biologist; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; 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
- 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
- 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, 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, American neuroscientist
- 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
- 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
- Amy Proal (fl 2010x), American microbiologist
Venezuela
- Mayly Sánchez (born 1972), astrophysicist studying neutrinos, awarded the US PECASE Prize in 2011
Vietnam
Zambia
Zimbabwe
See also
References
- Web site: . Akademik Asociuar Afërdita Veveçka . akad.gov.al . . 20 October 2018 . https://archive.today/20181020152029/http://www.akad.gov.al/ash/asambleja/te-ndare-jeta?id=280 . 20 October 2018 . Tirana, Albania . Albanian . 2017 . Academic associate Afërdita Veveçka.
