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

Albania

Algeria

Argentina

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 (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
  • 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
  • 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

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

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 (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

Germany

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

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

South Korea

Switzerland

Taiwan

Tanzania

Trinidad and Tobago

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

Astronomy

Other fields of study

Venezuela

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

Vietnam

Zambia

Zimbabwe

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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