# List of female scientists in the 21st century

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

## Albania

* Mimoza Hafizi (born 1962), Albanian physicist
* Laura Mersini-Houghton, cosmology and theoretical physicist
* Afërdita Veveçka Priftaj (1948–2017), Albanian physicist

## Algeria

* Yasmine Amhis (born 1982), French-Algerian physicist

## 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

* Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan (born 1928), botanist and mycologist; major contributor to knowledge of the flora of her native Armenia
* Ninet Sinaii, epidemiologist

## 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

* Elisabeth Binder (graduated 1995), Austrian neuroscientist specializing in anxiety disorders
* Claire F. Gmachl (born 1967), Austrian-born American electrical engineer, educator
* Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Austrian researcher specializing in ecosystem ecology
* 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 (born 1976), 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

* 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

* Ligia Gargallo, chemist, educator
* Paula Jofré (born 1982), astronomer and astrophysicist
* María Teresa Ruiz, (born 1946) astronomer
* Veronica Vallejos, marine biologist and Antarctic researcher
* Ana Vásquez-Bronfman (1931–2009), Chilean-French sociologist

## 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

* Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez (born 1981), marine biologist studying flat worms and stem cell regeneration
* Ana Maria Rey (born 1976/1977), theoretical physicist
* María del Pilar Jiménez Alzate, medical biological researcher

## Croatia

* Snježana Kordić (born 1964), linguist
* Nina Marković, physicist and professor

## Cuba

* Herminia Ibarra, economist

## Czech Republic

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

## Denmark

* Anja Cetti Andersen (born 1965), astronomer, astrophysicist
* Lene Hau (born 1959), physicist
* Signe Normand (born 1979), biologist, ecologist, educator

## Dominican Republic

* Idelisa Bonnelly (1931–2022), 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

* Aurore Avarguès-Weber (born 1983), cognitive neuroscientist
* Hélène Bergès (born 1966), director of the Plant Genomic Resources Center (CNRGV), plant geneticist
* Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 1967), mathematician
* Rut Carballido Lopez, Spanish-born microbiologist and research director in Paris
* Merieme Chadid (born 1969), Astronomer, Explorer and Astrophysicist
* Françoise Combes (born 1952), astrophysicist
* Anne Dejean-Assémat (born 1957), biologist researching liver cancer
* 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

## 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

* Dany Bébel-Gisler (1935–2003), Guadeloupean sociolinguist and ethnographer

## Hungary

* Katalin Balázsi (born 1978), material scientist researching nanomaterials and ceramics

## 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

* Rachel Mamlok-Naaman, Israeli chemist
* Osnat Penn (born 1981), 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 (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
* Elisa Molinari, Italian physicist working on computational materials science and nanotechnologies, recognized "Fellow" of the American Physical Society.

## Latvia

* Emīlija Gudriniece (1920–2004), Latvian chemist and academic

## Luxembourg

* Christiane Linster (born 1962), behavioral neuroscientist

## Madagascar

* Julie Hanta Razafimanahaka, conservation biologist

## Morocco

* Merieme Chadid (born 1969), astronomer, explorer, and astrophysicist
* Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli (born 1954), known for her contribution to the proof of existence for the Higgs Boson

## Netherlands

* Corinne Hofman (born 1959), Dutch archaeologist

## New Zealand

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

## 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

* Virginia Vargas (born 1945), sociologist, writer

## Portugal

* Mónica Bettencourt-Dias (born 1974), biochemist and microbiologist
* Maria Manuel Mota (born 1971), 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 (graduated 1975), chemist
* Samira Islam (active since 1971), pharmacologist, educator

## Serbia

* Nataša Pavlović (graduated 1996), mathematician

## 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

* 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

* Silvia Arber (born 1968), neuroscientist
* Anita Studer (born 1957), ornithologist and environmentalist

## Taiwan

* Yu-Ju Chen, proteogenomics researcher
* Chung-Pei Ma (born 1966), astrophysicist, now in the United States

## Tanzania

* Agness Gidna, paleontologist

## Trinidad and Tobago

* Michelle Antoine, neuroscientist
* Jo-Anne Sewlal (1979–2020), arachnologist

## Turkey

* Ayşe Erzan (born 1949), theoretical physicist

## Ukraine

* Svitlana Mayboroda (born 1981), mathematician, educator, researching harmonic analysis and partial differential equations
* Maryna Viazovska (born 1984), Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing

## 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
* Catherine Colello Walker, glaciologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
* 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

* Phạm Thị Trân Châu (born 1938), biochemist
* Hoang Thi Than (born 1944), Vietnamese geological engineer and archaeologist

## Zambia

* Nsofwa Petronella Sampa, psychological counselor and HIV activist

## Zimbabwe

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