List of female scientists in the 21st century

Albania

• Mimoza Hafizi Albanian physicist
• Laura Mersini-Houghton, cosmology and theoretical physicist
• Afërdita Veveçka Priftaj Albanian physicist

  Argentina

• Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón urban anthropologist studying poverty
• Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini, Argentine paleontologist and zoologist
• Constanza Ceruti, Argentine archaeologist and anthropologist
• Rachel Chan, led group of research scientists to create more drought resistant seed in Argentina
• Perla Fuscaldo, Argentine egyptologist

  Armenia

• Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan botanist and mycologist; major contributor to knowledge of the flora of her native Armenia.
• Ninet Sinaii, epidemiologist

  Australia

• Anne Astin, biochemist active in dairy development
• Katherine Belov, Australian geneticist, Tasmanian devil cancer researcher
• Suzanne Cory, 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, American-Australian astrophysicist. Discovered a new arm of the Milky Way galaxy
• Jessica Melbourne-Thomas,, 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, Australian ethologist and neuroscientist, expert in brain laterality
• Una M. Ryan, patented DNA test identifying protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium
• Helen Alma Newton Turner, geneticist and statistician, expert on sheep genetics
• Carden Wallace, marine biologist and museum director, expert on corals
• Rachel Webster, astrophysicist, educator
• Mary E. White, paleobotanist

  Austria

• Elisabeth Binder, Austrian neuroscientist specializing in anxiety disorders
• Claire F. Gmachl, Austrian-born American electrical engineer, educator
• Lisa Kaltenegger, Austrian astronomer, educator
• Christine Mannhalter, molecular biologist
• Elisabeth Ruttkay, Austrian Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeologist
• Eva Schönbeck-Temesy Hungarian-born Austrian botanist

  Barbados

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

  Belgium

• Ingrid Daubechies, Belgian physicist and mathematician
• Véronique Dehant, geodesist and geophysicist
• Véronique Gouverneur, chemist, educator, specializing in organic fluorine compounds
• Yaël Nazé, Belgian astrophysicist specializing in massive stars

  Bolivia

• Sonia Alconini, Bolivian archaeologist of the Formative Period of the Lake Titicaca basin
• Kathrin Barboza Marquez, Bolivian biologist specializing in bat research

  Brazil

• Mariza Corrêa, anthropologist, sociologist
• Livia Eberlin analytical chemist, co-inventor of the MassSpec pen
• Fátima Ferreira, biologist, physician, educator, now vice-rector at the University of Salzburg specializing in molecular allergology
• Dorath Pinto Uchôa, archaeologist
• Lúcia Mendonça Previato, biologist
• Alba Zaluar, anthropologist specializing in urban anthropology
• Mayana Zatz, molecular biologist and geneticist

  Canada

• Karen Bailey, plant pathology
• Karen Beauchemin, ruminant nutrition research
• Roberta Bondar, neurologist, astronaut, educator
• Kirsten Bos, physical anthropologist, molecular paleopathologist
• Juliet Daniel, focus on cancer biology
• Martine Dorais, plant physiology, organic horticulture
• Laura Ferrarese, astronomer
• Roberta Gilchrist, Canadian archaeologist specializing in medieval Britain
• Sheena Josselyn, Canadian neuroscientist
• Julia Levy, microbiologist, immunologist, entrepreneur
• Mary MacArthur, botanist, cytologist
• Deborah Martin-Downs, aquatic biologist, ecologist
• Diane Massam, linguist
• 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, anthropologist, writer
• Sandra Schmid, cell biologist
• Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein, animal ethologist
• Sara Seager, Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist
• Felicitas Svejda, horticulturalist
• Sandra Witelson, neuroscientist
• Rachel Zimmerman, Canadian-born space scientist

  Chile

• Ligia Gargallo, chemist, educator
• Veronica Vallejos, marine biologist and Antarctic researcher
• Ana Vásquez-Bronfman Chilean-French sociologist
• Maria Teresa Ruiz astronomer

  China

• Margaret Chan, Chinese health specialist, director-general of the World Health Organization
• Zeng Rong, biochemist specializing in proteins
• Jian Xu, CTO at IBM, software engineer
• Zhao Yufen, chemical engineer
• Qian Zhengying, Chinese hydrologist and politician
• Lü Zhi, giant panda expert and conservationist

  Colombia

• Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez, marine biologist studying flat worms and stem cell regeneration
• Ana Maria Rey, theoretical physicist

  Croatia

• Snježana Kordić, linguist
• Nina Marković, physicist and professor

  Cuba

• Herminia Ibarra, economist

  Czech Republic

• Eva Syková, neuroscientist researching spinal cord injury

  Denmark

• Anja Cetti Andersen, astronomer, astrophysicist
• Lene Hau, physicist
• Signe Normand, biologist, ecologist, educator

  Dominican Republic

• Idelisa Bonnelly, marine biologist who created first sanctuary in the North Atlantic for humpback whales
• Aída Mencía Ripley, clinical psychologist

  Finland

• Tuija I. Pulkkinen, Finnish space scientist

  France

• Anne Dejean-Assémat, biologist researching liver cancer
• Merieme Chadid, Astronomer, Explorer and Astrophysicist
• Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, mathematician
• Catherine Feuillet, French molecular biologist who was the first scientist to map the wheat chromosome 3B
• Françoise Gasse, paleobiologist specializing in lacustrine sediments
• Laurence Lanfumey, French neuroscientist
• Dominique Langevin, physical chemist
• Claudine Rinner, amateur astronomer
• Aurore Avarguès-Weber, cognitive neuroscientist

  Germany

• Andrea Ablasser, German immunologist working in Switzerland
• Katrin Amunts, prominent neuroscientist involved in brain mapping.
• Ulrike Beisiegel, German biochemist, researcher of liver fats and first female president of the University of Göttingen
• Sibylle Günter, theoretical physicist researching tokamak plasmas
• Hanna von Hoerner, astrophysicist
• Eva-Maria Neher, German biochemist, microbiologist
• Nina Papavasiliou, immunologist
• Elisabeth Piirainen, philologist
• Ilme Schlichting, biophysicist
• Brigitte Voit, chemist

  Greece

• Lydia Kravraki, computer scientist, professor at Rice

  Guadeloupe

• Dany Bébel-Gisler, Guadeloupean sociolinguist and ethnographer

  India

• Joyanti Chutia, work spans both centuries, focusing on physics
• Seetha Coleman-Kammula Indian chemist and plastics designer, turned environmentalist
• Paramjit Khurana, Indian biologist specializing in plant biotechnology
• Shobhana Narasimhan, Indian physicist, professor of theoretical sciences in Bangalore
• Priyamvada Natarajan, Indian-born American astronomer, educator
• Manju Ray, Indian biochemist developing anticancer drugs
• Seema Bhatnagar,, Indian scientist, working in the field of Anticancer Drug Discovery.

  Iran

• Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University
• Saba Valadkhan,Tehran Education:Columbia University an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University.
• Ālenush Teriān, 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, Iranian-American computational biologist, medical geneticist and evolutionary geneticist
• Roxana Moslehi, genetic epidemiologist, researching cancer and cancer precursors
• Anousheh Ansari, 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, geneticist, established a registry for congenital disorders in the United Arab Emirates

  Israel

• Osnat Penn, Israeli computational biologist
• Ada Yonath, Israeli crystallographer
• Idit Zehavi, Israeli astrophysicist

  Italy

• Maria Abbracchio, 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, Italian particle physicist active in the US
• Elisa Oricchio, discovered that the protein EphA7 activates the tumor suppressor gene for patients with follicular lymphoma

  Latvia

• Emīlija Gudriniece, Latvian chemist and academic

  Luxembourg

• Christiane Linster, behavioral neuroscientist

  Morocco

• Merieme Chadid, Astronomer, Explorer and Astrophysicist
• Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli,, known for her contribution to the proof of existence for the Higgs Boson.

  Netherlands

• Corinne Hofman, Dutch archaeologist

  New Zealand

• Margaret Brimble,, chemist, researching shellfish toxins.
• Gillian Wratt,, botanist and Antarctic researcher.

  Nigeria

• Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye, pharmacologist
• Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe
• Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi, environmental biochemist, Oréal-Unesco award in 2013
• Grace Oladunni Taylor, Nigerian chemist, 2nd woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science
• Omowunmi Sadik, chemist, educator
• Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi
• Felicity Okpete Ovai

  Norway

• Tine Jensen, psychologist specializing in psychological trauma

  Peru

• Virginia Vargas, sociologist, writer

  Portugal

• Mónica Bettencourt-Dias biochemist and microbiologist
• Maria Manuel Mota malariologist and executive director of the Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon

  Russia

• Eugenia Kumacheva, Russian-born chemist, since 1995 teaching in Canada

  Saudi Arabia

• Suhad Bahajri, chemist
• Samira Islam, pharmacologist, educator

  Serbia

• Nataša Pavlović, mathematician

  Singapore

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

  South Africa

• Renée Hložek, cosmologist and professor of physics
• Valerie Mizrahi, molecular biologist
• Tebello Nyokong, South African chemist and cancer researcher
• Jennifer Thomson, microbiologist

  Spain

• Margarita Salas, biochemist, author
• Mercedes Fernández-Martorell, anthropologist, educator
• María José García Borge, nuclear physicist
• Carme Torras, computer scientist specialising in robotics
• Carmen Vela, microbiologist, ministerial official, writer

  South Korea

• Ju-Lee Kim, mathematician, educator, now in the United States
• Myeong-Hee Yu, South Korean microbiologist

  Switzerland

• Silvia Arber, neuroscientist
• Anita Studer, ornithologist and environmentalist

  Taiwan

• Chung-Pei Ma, astrophysicist, now in the United States

  Turkey

• Ayşe Erzan, theoretical physicist

  Ukraine

• Svitlana Mayboroda, mathematician, educator, researching harmonic analysis and partial differential equations

  United Kingdom

• Denise P. Barlow, British geneticist
• Gillian Bates, British botanist, educator, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Alex Bayliss British archaeologist
• Sue Black, British computer scientist
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell astrophysicist who discovered radio pulsars
• A. Catrina Bryce, Scottish electrical engineer, educator
• Mandy Chessell, British computer scientist with IBM
• Jenny Clack, paleontologist, expert on the "fish to tetrapod" evolutionary transition
• Bryony Coles British prehistoric archaeologist
• Janet Darbyshire, British epidemiologist, CBE
• 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, British primatologist and anthropologist
• Monica Grady, British space scientist
• Emily Grossman, British cancer researcher and science popularist
• Helena Hamerow, British archeologist and specialist in medieval archaeology
• Joanne Johnson, geologist, Antarctic scientist
• Tara Keck, American-British neuroscientist
• Rachel McKendry, chemist and digital public health pioneer
• Linda McDowell, British geographer, writer
• Jane E. Parker, 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
• Margaret Stanley, British virologist, OBE
• Jean Thomas, Welsh biochemist, educator
• Miriam Tildesley, English anthropologist
• Karen Vousden, British medical researcher
• Christine Williams, British nutritionist, educator

  United States

Astronomy

• Carolyn Porco, American planetary scientist
• Debra Elmegreen, astronomer, educator
• Jill Tarter, American astronomer, educator
• Joy Crisp, American planetary scientist
• Linda Spilker, American planetary scientist
• Lucy-Ann McFadden, astronomer
• Maria Zuber, American planetary scientist
• Martha P. Haynes, American astronomer specializing in radio astronomy
• Pamela Gay, American astronomer
• Rachel Zimmerman, Canadian-born space scientist
• Sandra Faber, American professor of astronomy

  Other Fields of Study

• Athena Aktipis, American professor of evolutionary biology and psychology
• Alice Alldredge, American oceanographer and researcher of marine snow, discover of Transparent Exopolymer Particles and demersal zooplankton
• Ilkay Altintas, Turkish-American supercomputing and high performance computing research scientist
• Aprile D. Benner, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Lera Boroditsky, Belarusian-American cognitive scientist
• Amy E. Bryan, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Stephanie Burns, organosilicon chemist, business executive
• L. Jean Camp, computer security expert, professor
• Lu Chen, Chinese-born American neuroscientist
• Anne Churchland, American neuroscientist
• Sylvia Earle, marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer
• Deborah Estrin, American computer scientist, educator
• Karen L. Fingerman, 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
• Marci E. Gleason, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Candace S. Greene, 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, American experimental particle physicist, educator
• Nancy L. Hazen-Swann, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Gabriele C. Hegerl, climatologist researching natural variability and attribution of climate change
• Patricia Hersh, mathematician, educator, researching algebraic and topological combinatorics
• Valerie Horsley, American biologist
• Aletha C. Huston, American professor of child development
• Shirley Ann Jackson, American nuclear physicist
• Alice K. Jacobs, American cardiologist, president of the American Heart Association
• Deborah Jacobvitz, American ecologist
• Karen C. Johnson American physician and clinical trials specialist who is one of Reuter's most cited scientists
• Rosemary Joyce, American archaeologist who uncovered chocolate's archaeological record and studies Honduran pre-history
• Renata Kallosh, Russian-born American theoretical physicist, educator
• Cyndy Karras, American professor of human and child development
• Dina Katabi, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
• Cynthia Keppel, nuclear physicist
• Ann Kiessling, American reproductive biologist, educator
• Su Yeong Kim, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Karrol A. Kitt, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Maria Kovacs, psychologist, educator
• Amber Kreischer, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Cynthia Larive, American bioanalytical chemist
• Emily Levesque, American astrophysicist
• J. Virginia Lincoln, physicist
• Mariangela Lisanti, American theoretical physicist
• Anna Suk-Fong Lok, Chinese/American hepatologist, wrote WHO and AASLD guidelines for liver disease in emerging countries
• Elma I. Lorenzo-Blanco, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Catherine A. Lozupone, American microbiologist, working on the gut microbiome, who developed the UniFrac algorithm
• Silvia Maciá, marine biologist
• Carolyn M. Mazure, medical researcher
• Sally McBrearty, American palaeoanthropologist and Palaeolithic archaeologist
• Lauren Meyers, American professor of integrative biology
• Jill Mikucki, microbiologist, Antarctic researcher
• Marianne V. Moore, aquatic ecologist
• Yolanda T. Moses, anthropologist, educator
• Elizabeth Munoz, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Alison Murray , biochemist, Antarctic researcher
• Elizabeth Nance, American chemical engineer
• Anna Nagurney, Ukrainian-American mathematician specializing in operations management
• Ann Nardulli,, American endocrinologist
• Elly Nedivi, American neuroscientist
• Lisa Neff, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Ann Nelson, American particle physicist
• Anne B. Newman, US geriatrics and gerontology expert
• Lina Nilsson, biomedical engineering
• Karen Oberhauser, conservation biologist working with monarch butterflies
• Sarah D. Ozuna, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Lara L. Pauley, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Nataša Pavlović, psychologist
• E. Gail de Planque, nuclear physicist specializing in environmental radiation
• Eva J. Pell, American biologist, plant pathologist
• Helen Quinn, Australian-born American particle physicist
• Lisa Randall, American particle physicist, educator
• Rebecca Richards-Kortum, American bioengineer, professor at Rice
• Una Ryan,, Malaysian born-American, heart disease researcher, biotech vaccine and diagnostics maker/marketer
• Omowunmi Sadik, Nigerian-born chemist, Bioanalytical chemistry
• Linda Saif, American microbial scientist, researching virology and immunology
• Sandra Saouaf, American immunologist researching autoimmune disease
• Velma Scantlebury see Barbados
• Hazel Schmoll, American botanist
• Christine Siddoway, 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
• Catherine A. Surra, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Elizabeth C. Theil, research into iron deficiency anemia
• Kay Tye, American neuroscientist
• Gina G. Turrigiano, American neuroscientist
• Fatima A. Varner, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Lydia Villa-Komaroff, American molecular biologist
• Elisabeth Vrba, American paleontologist
• Nora Volkow, 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, American dentistry and cancer researcher
• Hannah Williamson, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Phyllis Wise, American biologist, educator
• Catherine G. Wolf, American psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction
• Kakani Katija Young, American bioengineer
• Hua Eleanor Yu, cancer researcher

  Venezuela

• Mayly Sánchez astrophysicist studying neutrinos, awarded the US PECASE Prize in 2011

  Vietnam

• Phạm Thị Trân Châu, biochemist
• Hoang Thi Than, Vietnamese geological engineer and archaeologist

  Zambia

• Nsofwa Petronella Sampa, psychological counselor and HIV activist.

  Zimbabwe

• Idah Sithole-Niang, biochemist focusing on cowpea production and disease