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List of the most influential female people in Chemistry,

#701

Elizabeth Sattely

#134152

Overall Influence

Elizabeth S. Sattely is an American scientist and biotechnology engineer. She is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering, an HHMI investigator, and a ChEM-H Faculty Fellow at Stanford University.

#702

Serena Corr

#124797

Overall Influence

Serena Corr is a chair in Functional Materials and Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield. She works on next-generation battery materials and advanced characterisation techniques for nanomaterials.

#703

Shaden Kamhawi

#173443

Overall Influence

Shaden Kamhawi a Jordanian scientist and the co-Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases academic journal. She is a specialist in vector-borne diseases. Personal life Kamhawi was born in Jordan.

#704

Yang Dan

#172330

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Yang Dan is a Hong Kong-Chinese chemist and chemical biologist. She is the chair professor in both School of Life Sciences and School of Science in the Westlake University. She was awarded the TWAS Prize for Chemistry in 2010 and the Young Woman Scientist Prize of China in 2011.

#705

Nazira Karodia

#133577

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Nazira Karodia is a chemist, Professor of Science Education and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Regional Development at the University of Wolverhampton. She works on organic synthesis, green chemistry, heterocyclic compounds and science education.

#706

Selin Kara

#71080

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Selin Kara is a Turkish-born chemist and biotechnologist. She is currently a full professor and head of Industrial Biotechnology section at Aarhus University. She studies biocatalysis and has been recognized for her work about deep eutectic solvents and her research regarding cofactor regeneration in biotransformations.

#707

Lara Estroff

#168463

Overall Influence

Lara Ann Estroff is an American materials scientist who is a professor at Cornell University. Her research considers the study and design of biomaterials. Early life and education Estroff was an undergraduate student at Swarthmore College, where she majored in chemistry and anthropology. As a college student, she played soccer. Estroff then worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science, alongside Lia Addadi, where she started investigating biomineralization and how chemical approaches could be used to solve challenges in archaeology. Estroff returned to the United States for doctoral research, joining the laboratory of Andrew D.

#708

Judy Raper

#127002

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Judy Agnes Raper is an Australian chemical engineer and was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Wollongong. She has served as a National Science Foundation Director and led the Atomic Energy Research Establishment. She has been Dean & CEO of TEDI-London, a new engineering higher education provider since its incorporation in June, 2019.

#709

Amanda Sainsbury-Salis

#95660

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Amanda Sainsbury-Salis is an Australian medical researcher, educator and author. Her research interests are hypothalamic control of body weight, famine reaction, metabolism, body composition, anorexia, obesity, eating disorders.

#710

Laura Kaufman

#169528

Overall Influence

Laura Jill Kaufman is an American chemist who is a professor of chemistry at Columbia University. Her research considers the dynamics of crowded systems, including biopolymer gels, supercooled liquids and conjugated polymers.

#711

Anna Slater

#174172

Overall Influence

Anna Slater is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the Materials Innovation Factory at the University of Liverpool. Education Anna Slater studied chemistry at the University of Nottingham, where she graduated in 2006. Slater completed a Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Professor Neil Champness in 2011.

#712

Ljiljana Paša-Tolić

#176826

Overall Influence

Ljiljana Paša-Tolić is a Croatian research scientist who is a research fellow in Functional and Systems Biology at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She is responsible for developing capability in mass spectrometry at the PNNL Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. Her research looks to develop analytical techniques to modify protein abundance.

#713

Leslie Schoop

#137816

Overall Influence

Leslie Mareike Schoop is a German materials chemist who is an associate professor at Princeton University. Her research considers the realization of new materials for quantum technologies. She has identified several new topological materials, including the non-toxic, air-stable topological semi-metal ZrSiS.

#714

Sylvie Roke

#166606

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Sylvie Roke is a Dutch chemist and physicist specialized in photonics and aqueous systems. As a full professor she holds Julia Jacobi Chair of Photomedicine at EPFL and is the director of the Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics.

#715

Christine Hrenya

#73908

Overall Influence

Christine M. Hrenya is an American chemical engineer and applied mathematician whose research involves computational fluid dynamics, especially of aerosols, multiphase flow, and fluidization of granular materials. She is a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado.

#716

Sue Fletcher

#133935

Overall Influence

Sue Fletcher is a professor and lecturer at the University of Western Australia and a Senior Principal Research Fellow at Murdoch University. She studies the field of molecular and cell biology and holds the position of chief scientific officer at PYC therapeutics. Currently her research is focused on inherited retinal disease, the central nervous system and neurodegeneration. Alongside Professor Steve Winton she developed novel treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, including eteplirsen, which was the first of its kind to be approved by the FDA in 2016. In 2021 she was appointed an Offi...

#717

Shari Forbes

#43977

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Professor Shari L. Forbes is an Australian and Canadian forensic scientist and researcher. She is a thanatology expert on the decomposition of human bodies. She created a body farm in Australia and between 2019 and 2022 established a similar facility in Canada, connected to the Forensic Science department at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières . As of January 2023, she is a full professor in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Windsor, and is hoping to start the first body farm in Ontario in the coming years.

#718

Nancy E. Levinger

#104664

Overall Influence

Nancy E Levinger is a chemistry professor at Colorado State University. She has a variety of research interests including "Ultrafast laser spectroscopy for dynamics of molecules and assemblies in the condensed phase" In addition to her research, she has received many awards for her exemplary teaching and mentorship.

#719

Debbie Silvester

#117392

Overall Influence

Debbie Silvester is a British-Australian chemist who is a professor at Curtin University. Her research considers electrochemical processes and sensing. She has explored room-temperature ionic liquids. In 2021, she was awarded the Australian Academy of Science Le Fèvre Medal.

#720

Alison Davenport

#128303

Overall Influence

Alison Jean Davenport is the Professor of Corrosion Science at the School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham. Education Davenport studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge where she was a member of King's College, Cambridge. She remained there for her graduate studies, earning her PhD in 1987. Her PhD was in metallurgy, investigating the oxide layers that form on top of metals.

#721

Katrina Miranda

#123456

Overall Influence

Katrina Miranda is an associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Arizona. She works on nitric oxide and their role in diseases like breast cancer, stroke and chronic pain. Early life and education Miranda studied chemistry at Northern Arizona University. She moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, and earned her PhD in 1996. Miranda was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

#722

Antoinette Rodez Schiesler

#88221

Overall Influence

1934 - 1996 (62 years)

Mary Antoinette "Toni" Rodez Schiesler was an American chemist and director of research at Villanova University. She was also a former Roman Catholic nun and Episcopal deaconess. Early life Carole Virginia was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother, Gladyce Cunningham Rodez, was a singer from New Haven, Connecticut, who had moved to Chicago to search for work with the big bands. There, at the age of 26, she was raped by a "Cuban man named Rodriguez", and became pregnant. Gladyce raised her daughter as a single mother, choosing to move back to familiar New Haven rather than raise her daughter...

#723

Aoife Gowen

#86338

Overall Influence

Aoife Gowen is currently a professor in the University College Dublin School of Biosystems and Food Engineering. Her area of research covers topics such as applications of hyperspectral imaging and chemometrics to biological systems.

#724

Vanessa Peterson

#173983

Overall Influence

Vanessa K. Peterson is a Neutron Instrument Scientist, at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation . She established an independent research program at ANSTO which specialised on improving understanding of energy systems and how they work. She manages the Echidna program, a high-resolution powder diffractometer, as well as Wombat - a high-intensity powder diffractometer. Peterson's expertise includes synchtron and laboratory x-ray techniques, as well as neutron powder diffraction, as well as single crystal x-ray diffraction.

#725

Joan B. Broderick

#174415

Overall Influence

Joan Blanchette Broderick is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Montana State University known for her work on bioinorganic chemistry, especially the chemistry of iron-sulfur interactions. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

#726

Mehtap Oezaslan

#175583

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Mehtap Oezaslan is a full professor for technical electrocatalysis at TU Braunschweig. Education and professional life Oezaslan studied Chemistry at TU Berlin and finished her diploma in the group of R. Schomäcker. From January 2008 to February 2012, she did her PhD in the group of P. Strasser at TU Berlin. From November 2012 to July 2014, she was a scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute. In August 2014, she became a junior professor for Electrochemistry at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Since June 2019, she is a full professor at TU Braunschweig.

#727

Deborah Swackhamer

#165074

Overall Influence

1954 - 2021 (67 years)

Deborah Liebl Swackhamer was an environmental chemist and professor emerita at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Swackhamer applied her expertise in studying the effects of exposure to toxic chemicals, as well as the processes that spread those chemicals, to developing policies that address exposure risks.

#728

Rufina Alamo

#175328

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Rufina G. Álamo Matesanz is a Spanish-American polymer scientist known particularly for her research on polyethylene and polypropylene and on sustainable polymers such as polyoxymethylene made from biomass. She is Simon Ostrach Professor of Engineering and distinguished research professor of chemical and biomedical engineering in the Florida A&M University – Florida State University College of Engineering.

#729

Katrina A. Jolliffe

#175807

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Katrina Anne Jolliffe is an Australian supramolecular and organic chemist and professor at the University of Sydney. In 2002 Jolliffe was awarded an ARC fellowship at the University of Sydney. She was made a senior lecturer in 2007, promoted associate professor in 2008 and full professor in 2009. From 2013 to 2016 she was head of the school of chemistry.

#730

Sarah E. Reisman

#172697

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Sarah Elizabeth Reisman is a Chemistry Professor at the California Institute of Technology. She received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis. Her research focuses on the total synthesis of complex natural products.

#731

Jan B. Talbot

#171830

Overall Influence

Jan B. Talbot is an American chemical engineer. She is a professor emerita at the Jacobs School of Engineering. She completed a bachelor and master of science in chemical engineering at Pennsylvania State University. From 1975 to 1981, Talbot was as a development engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She completed a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and materials science in 1986 from University of Minnesota. She joined the faculty at University of California, San Diego in 1986. She was the president of the Electrochemical Society from 2001 to 2002. In 2004, she became a fellow of the Electroc...

#732

Nilufar Mamadalieva

#95382

Overall Influence

Nilufar Mamadalieva is a biochemist from Uzbekistan. Biography Mamadalieva completed a Master's in science at Fergana State University and a PhD at the Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances in Tashkent. She is a scientific researcher at the institute. Her work focuses on the phytochemical and biological investigation of active compounds in the local medicinal plants of Central Asia.

#733

Assunta Cuyegkeng

#96209

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (124 years)

Ma. Assunta Caoile-Cuyegkeng is a Professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University. She was former Vice President for the Loyola Schools of the university. In 2006, she succeeded Professor Anna Miren Gonzales-Intal of the Department of Psychology to become the second person to hold the highest position in the Loyola Schools. She also served as the Acting Dean of the then School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Science and Engineering. In September 2009, she decided to step down from her position as the Loyola Schools Vice President.

#734

Nicola Pohl

#168780

Overall Influence

Nicola Lucia B. Pohl is an American chemist who is the Joan & Marvin Carmack Chair at Indiana University Bloomington. She also serves as Associate Dean of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Her research considers new approaches to make and analyse sugars. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#735

Karen Hudson-Edwards

#178254

Overall Influence

Karen A. Hudson-Edwards is a Canadian mineralogist and geochemist. She is Professor for Sustainable Mining jointly between the Camborne School of Mines and Environment & Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter.

#736

Laura J. Crossey

#177595

Overall Influence

Laura J. Crossey is an American hydrologist and geochemist and Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico . Crossey is part of UNM's Sustainable Water Resources Grand Challenge team, which studies water and climate in New Mexico and other arid regions. She has studied springs and groundwater in areas including the Western Desert of Egypt, Australia's Great Artesian Basin, Tibet, the Middle Rio Grande Basin and the Grand Canyon.

#737

Lindsay Cahill

#88002

Overall Influence

Lindsay Cahill is a Canadian chemist who uses Magnetic Resonance Imaging to study metabolic abnormalities in pregnancy. She has published more than 70 articles on her research related to nuclear magnetic resonance in studying electrochemical materials and for imaging animal fetuses and placenta. She has published widely-used protocols for the imaging of mouse brains.

#738

Katherine Seley-Radtke

#73548

Overall Influence

Katherine Seley-Radtke is an American medicinal chemist who specializes in the discovery and design of novel nucleoside or nucleotide based enzyme inhibitors that may be used to treat infections or cancer. She has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications,is an inventor of five issued US patents, and is a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her international impact includes scientific collaborations, policy advising and diplomatic appointments in biosecurity efforts.

#739

Anna Stec

#85680

Overall Influence

Anna Agnieszka Stec is Professor in Fire Chemistry and Toxicology at the University of Central Lancashire. Her interests include the assessment of toxic and irritant hazards in fires, and the factors affecting fire gas toxicity.

#740

Surita Bhatia

#123422

Overall Influence

Surita Bhatia is an American chemist who is professor and vice provost of faculty affairs at Stony Brook University. Her work considers the structure of soft materials, including polymeric hydrogels and colloidal glasses. She was elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the Society of Rheology in 2020.

#741

Angela Violi

#132758

Overall Influence

Angela Violi is an Italian and American combustion engineer whose research topics include chemical kinetics, aerosols, the creation of nanoparticles from combustion, and nanoscale self-assembly. She is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Biophysics, Applied Physics, and Chemical Engineering.

#742

Silvia Giordani

#173439

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Silvia Giordani is an Italian chemist who is Professor of Nanomaterials at Dublin City University. Her research considers carbon-based functional materials for biotechnology. She was awarded a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science fellowship in 2012.

#743

Regina Murphy

#175356

Overall Influence

Regina Mary Murphy is an American chemical engineer. She is the Robert Byron Bird Department Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2010, Murphy was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for "pioneering discoveries on protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease."

#744

Margaret Wooldridge

#117518

Overall Influence

Margaret Stacey Wooldridge is an American engineer known for her research on combustion of fuel-air mixtures and its byproducts, including the operation of gas turbines and diesel engines. She is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Walter J. Weber, Jr. Professor of Sustainable Energy, Environmental and Earth Systems Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Wooldridge Combustion Laboratory.

#745

Jeanne Crassous

#173291

Overall Influence

Jeanne Crassous is a French chemist who is a Professor and Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research . She leads the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions International Training Network HEL4CHIROLED.

#746

Penelope L. King

#170353

Overall Influence

Penelope King uses geochemistry and cosmochemistry to study planetary processes to better understand past and future planetary environments, and what this information may tells us about climate change. She is a professor at the Australian National University in the Research School of Earth Sciences . King holds many awards, including Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Mineralogical Society of America in 2019, and winning the AGU Joanne Simpson Medal for Mid-Career Scientists the same year. She currently leads a research group examining surface and interior processes on planetary...

#747

Laurie Butler

#112287

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Laurie Jeanne Butler is an American physical chemist known for her experimental work testing the Born–Oppenheimer approximation on separability of nuclear and electron motions. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Chicago.

#748

Moon J. Park

#173397

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Moon Jeong Park is a Korean chemical engineer who is a Professor of Chemistry at Pohang University of Science and Technology. She is interested in polymers for energy storage and transport. She studies the transport in charge-containing polymeric materials. She is the second non-American recipient to be awarded the American Physical Society John D. Dillion Medal and the 2016 Hanwha Total IUPAC Young Scientist Award.

#749

Kerri Pratt

#171678

Overall Influence

Kerri Pratt is an American chemist who is associate professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan. Her research considers atmospheric chemistry and how it impacts human health. She studies the interactions of atmospheric gases using mass spectrometry based techniques.

#750

Tina van de Flierdt

#168595

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Tina van de Flierdt is a Professor of Isotope Geochemistry at Imperial College London. Education Van de Flierdt grew up in rural western Germany. In 2000 van de Flierdt completed a diploma in Geology at the University of Bonn. She earned a PhD at ETH Zurich in 2003, working with Alexander Halliday.

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