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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1751

Shari Wiseman

#168260

Overall Influence

Shari Wiseman is an American neuroscientist and the editor in chief of Nature Neuroscience. Education Wiseman has two PhDs from Yale University and undertook postdoctoral research at the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center where she worked on animal models of autism spectrum disorders. After that, she undertook postdoctoral training at Tufts University where she focused on the regulation of GABAB receptors by excitotoxic stimuli.

#1752

Alison Hanlon

#185602

Overall Influence

Alison Jane Hanlon is a veterinary research scientist who advocates for animal welfare, including that of companion animals, horses and farm animals. She is a professor at University College Dublin and has worked on a number of government advisory groups.

#1753

Amber Cowan

#172049

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Amber Cowan is an American artist and educator living and working in Philadelphia. Cowan creates fused and flameworked glass sculptures from cullet and recycled industrial glass. Career Cowan received her BFA in 3-Dimensional Design with an emphasis in Hot Glass from Salisbury University in 2004. She was the first woman to graduate from Salisbury University with this specific degree. She received her MFA in Glass/Ceramics from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2011.

#1754

Annette Barbier

#178061

Overall Influence

1950 - 2017 (67 years)

Annette Louise Barbier was an American artist and educator. She worked with video art, net art, installation art, interactive performance, and emerging and experimental technologies since the 1970s. Themes in her work address "issues of home, defined locally as domesticity and more broadly as the ways in which we relate to our environment." An early work, "Home Invasion [1995]," incorporating critical dialogue and audio, is accessible from Leonardo. "Domestic space—formerly inviolable—is increasingly disrupted by electronic communication of all sorts, including radio, TV, email and the teleph...

#1755

Laura K. Schaefer

#186326

Overall Influence

Laura K. Schaefer is an American planetary scientist whose research concerns the atmospheres and atmosphere formation of exoplanets, and the effect of asteroid impacts on the formation of the Earth's atmosphere. She is an assistant professor of geological sciences at Stanford University.

#1756

Kitty Emery

#189319

Overall Influence

#1757

Wendy Ewart

#118629

Overall Influence

Wendy Ewart is a British scientist who worked for the Medical Research Council from 2008 to 2014. Education Ewart earned a BSc in physiology and biochemistry from the University of Southampton, and a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Bristol. She was later awarded an additional honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol after her retirement.

#1758

Allison Kirkman

#134365

Overall Influence

Allison Margaret Kirkman is a New Zealand sociology academic with interests in 'death and dying; gender, sexuality, ageing and health; health care work and workers.' In 2014 she was appointed the Vice Provost at Victoria University of Wellington before moving to become Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Division of Arts, Law, Psychology and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato. She was made an Emeritus Professor at the University of Waikato in 2022 in recognition of her work to set up a nursing programme at the university.

#1759

Janet C. Richards

#189375

Overall Influence

Janet C. Richards is a professor in the College of Education at the University of South Florida, Tampa, where she teaches courses in literacy theory and methods, writing, and qualitative research. Richards is the Senior Editor of Literacy Practice and Research; she has worked with classroom teachers and higher education faculty in Thailand, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Pakistan and Romania. A former elementary school classroom teacher, she writes extensively on preservice and inservice teachers’ communication skills.

#1760

Thuy Tran

#168364

Overall Influence

Thuy Tran is an American politician and optometrist serving as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives for the 45th district. Elected in November 2022, she assumed office in January 2023. Early life and education Tran was born in South Vietnam and immigrated to the United States with her family as a child. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Doctor of Optometry from Pacific University, and a Master of Business Administration from George Fox University.

#1761

MK Guth

#119248

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

MK Guth is an installation artist from Portland, Oregon, United States, whose work engages ritual and site of social interaction. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at museums, galleries, and festivals including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Swiss Institute, White Columns, and the Melbourne International Arts Festival among others. She is the recipient of the Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award and the Ford Family Foundation Fellowship.

#1762

Borbala Biro

#105022

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Borbala Biro is a Hungarian soil biologist and lecturer at the Szent-István-University in Gödöllö. She participates in research into the use of biofectors with the University of Hohenheim. Biro attended vocational college in Kisvárda; the Natural Science Faculty of the University of Kossuth Lajos specialising in terrestrial ecology; obtained habilitation for Plant Cultivation and Horticulture at the West Hungarian University in Mosonmagyaróvár, and a doctorate of the Hungarian Academy of Science.

#1763

Keren Cytter

#96093

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Keren Cytter is an Israeli visual artist and writer. Biography Cytter, born 22 August 1977, spent her childhood in Israel and went on to study visual arts at the Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv. After finding success in various galleries in her home country, she moved to Amsterdam on a scholarship from De Ateliers where she studied with Willem de Rooij and Marlene Dumas. Her scope of work includes film, video installations, performance, drawings and photography. She is also a writer of novels, theatre plays and poetry.

#1764

Helen Johnson

#123508

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Helen Johnson is an Australian artist producing large-scale paintings who also works as a lecturer, researcher and curator. Her artworks and practice reflect her views on colonialism, consumerism, the environment and personal accountability.

#1765

Angela Dufresne

#111169

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Angela Dufresne is a Brooklyn based American artist known for paintings that explore narrative in a variety of ways. Dufresne holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, MO and an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. She is currently faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design.

#1766

Kui-juan Jin

#184534

Overall Influence

Kui-juan Jin is a Chinese physicist. Jin studied optics at Shandong University. After completing her bachelor's degree, Jin pursued a doctorate at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Jin engaged in postdoctoral research under the direction of Gerald Mahan at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then moved to Lund University, where she was advised by Koung-An Chao. Jin subsequently returned to China and IOPCAS, becoming a full professor in 2004. In 2012, Jin was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society, "[f]or her significant contribution i...

#1767

Harriete Estel Berman

#125640

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Harriete Estel Berman is an American artist known for her sculptures and jewelry made from post-consumer, recycled household goods, and her satirical explorations of women's roles in society. Early life and education Berman was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She attended Syracuse University, and was granted a BFA in 1974. In 1980, she earned an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

#1768

Noriko Mizuta

#39677

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

is a scholar of comparative literature and a poet. She is the trustee of Jōsai University Educational Corporation in Japan. She was awarded the Pro Cultura Hungarica prize in 2011 and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary in 2013.

#1769

Ya-Jun Pan

#182540

Overall Influence

Ya-Jun Pan is a Chinese and Canadian mechanical engineer whose research involves robust and nonlinear control for teleoperation and multi-agent systems. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Dalhousie University, where she directs the Advanced Control and Mechatronics Laboratory.

#1770

Michelle Coombs

#108993

Overall Influence

Michelle Lynn Coombs is a geologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory . She was the Scientist-in-Charge from 2016 to 2023. Coombs is a fellow of the Geological Society of America. Education 1994: B.A. Geology 2001: Ph.D. Geology

#1771

Tiffany Schmidt

#91483

Overall Influence

Tiffany M. Schmidt is an American researcher and chronobiologist, currently working as an associate professor of Neurobiology at Northwestern University. Schmidt, who works in Evanston, Illinois, studies the role of retinal ganglion cells to determine how light can affect behavior, hormonal changes, vision, sleep, and circadian entrainment.

#1772

Laura Roa

#168705

Overall Influence

Laura María Roa Romero is a Spanish biomedical engineer, and a University Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Group at the University of Seville, which she founded in 1986. She has a doctorate from the University of Seville, earned in 1980.

#1773

Marjan van den Akker

#186540

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Janna Magrietje van den Akker is a Dutch computer scientist and operations researcher specializing in scheduling algorithms with applications including transportation and software engineering. She is an associate professor in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, where she directs the Utrecht AI & Mobility Lab and Robust Rail Lab. She also holds a research affiliation with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

#1774

Farida Fassi

#142726

Overall Influence

Farida Fassi FAAS is a Moroccan professor of physics at Mohammed V University in Rabat. She is the co-founder of the African Strategy for Fundamental Applied Physics and a member of African Academy of Sciences.

#1775

Marika Vicziany

#33686

Overall Influence

Marika Vicziany is a professor of Asian Political Economy at Political and Social Inquiry , Monash University. She is a Former Director of the Monash Asia Institute at Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. A PhD from SOAS, University of London, she is an expert in South Asian studies. Her current research interests include regional and human security, rise of India and China and the cultural and religious issues particularly related to Hinduism and Islam.

#1776

Siti Aisyah Alias

#89358

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Siti Aisah Binti Hj Alias is a Malaysian marine polar researcher and lecturer. As of August 2016, she is Associate Professor and Director of the National Antarctic Research Centre in the Malaysian Antarctic Research Programme , at the University of Malaya. Her work focuses on the physiology of marine and polar microbes and fungi.

#1777

Jessica Abel

#108845

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Jessica Abel is an American comic book writer and artist, known as the creator of such works as Life Sucks, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures, Soundtrack, La Perdida, Mirror, Window, Radio: An Illustrated Guide , and the omnibus series Artbabe.

#1778

Sue de Beer

#129831

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Sue de Beer is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. De Beer's work is located at the intersection of film, installation, sculpture, and photography, and she is primarily known for her large-scale film-installations.

#1779

Lára Jóhannsdóttir

Lára Jóhannsdóttir

#186924

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Lára Jóhannsdóttir is a professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Iceland. She is also a member of the faculty in the Environment and Natural Resources Graduate Programme, an interdisciplinary program with ties to all five Schools of the University, but administratively part of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences. Lára was the academic director of the ENR Programme in 2019, and is the first female professor in the faculty of Business Administration.

#1780

Birgit Skrotzki

#168066

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Birgit Skrotzki is the head of the division Experimental and Model Based Mechanical Behaviour of Materials at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing and an extraordinary professor at the Technical University of Berlin.

#1781

Juliane Nguyen

#177987

Overall Influence

Juliane Nguyen is a professor at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She received her PharmD and PhD from Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany, completing her PhD in Thomas Kissel's group. After receiving her degrees, she completed a Post doc with Francis Szoka at University of California, San Francisco. Her research is focused on exosomes and lipid based drug delivery systems. She was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2018 for her work as well as over $13M from the NIH and other funding sources. Nguyen’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the CMBE You...

#1782

Johanna R. Rochester

#189613

Overall Influence

#1783

Amy Mullin

#177325

Overall Influence

Amy S. Mullin is an American chemist and professor at the University of Maryland. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Optical Society of America. Her research focuses on molecular dynamics.

#1784

Jane Golden

#115114

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Jane Golden is an American artist who has been an active mural painter since the 1970s. Background and education Following graduation from Stanford University, Golden moved to Los Angeles and created a number of large, well received murals in the Los Angeles beach areas, particularly in Santa Monica, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was co-founder and director of the Los Angeles Public Art Foundation.

#1785

Carrie Ann Baade

#109960

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Carrie Ann Baade is an American painter whose work has been described by Curator of Contemporary Art Margaret Winslow as "autobiographical parables combin fragments of Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings, resulting in surreal landscapes inhabited by exotic flora, fauna, and figures." The context and the compositional building blocks of her work are fragments of historical masterpieces, which Baade reinterprets using her original feminist and autobiographical perspective. She currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a professor in the Department of Art at Florida State Uni...

#1786

Andrea Volkamer

#189246

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Andrea Volkamer is a German bioinformatician and professor of “Data-Driven Drug Design” at Saarland University and an associated researcher at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland . Her research focuses on data-driven drug design, with an emphasis on method development and application.

#1787

Karen Boyle

#98922

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Karen Elizabeth Boyle , is Professor of Feminist Media Studies at the University of Strathclyde, previously she was professor of Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling, and before that was a lecturer in film and television studies at the University of Glasgow. She has published a number of articles on feminism, violence and pornography.

#1788

Marija Zdravković

#186211

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Marija Zdravković is a Serbian medical doctor, administrator, and politician. She has been the director of the hospital Bežanijska Kosa in Belgrade since 2014. Zdravković briefly served in the National Assembly of Serbia and the City Assembly of Belgrade in 2022. She is a member of the Serbian Progressive Party .

#1789

Pamela Manzi

#180114

Overall Influence

Pamela Manzi is an Italian biologist, who is active in the fields of analytical chemistry and food science; she is a researcher of the "Istituto nazionale di ricerca per gli alimenti e la nutrizione" since 1996.

#1790

Dianne Hansford

#177131

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Dianne Carol Hansford is an American computer scientist known for her research on Coons patches in computer graphics and for her textbooks on computer-aided geometric design, linear algebra, and the mathematics behind scientific visualization. She is a lecturer at Arizona State University in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, and the cofounder of a startup based on her research, 3D Compression Technologies.

#1791

Arline Fisch

#111840

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Arline Fisch is an American artist and educator. She is known for her work as a metalsmith and jeweler, pioneering the use of textile processes from crochet, knitting, plaiting, and weaving in her work in metal. She developed groundbreaking techniques for incorporating metal wire and other materials into her jewelry.

#1792

Jean Grossholtz

#116458

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Thelma Jean Grossholtz was an American professor emeritus of politics and women's studies at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Beyond her academic work she was also known as an activist for peace and against forced prostitution, and as a senior bodybuilder.

#1793

Hunter Cole

#78044

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Hunter Cole is an artist and geneticist. She reinterprets science as art through the creation of living artworks, abstractions, digital art and installations confronting issues related to biotechnology in our culture.

#1794

Conceição Bettencourt

#187473

Overall Influence

Conceição Bettencourt works in the field of neuro-epigenetics. She studies the involvement of disrupted molecular pathways and DNA methylation in neurodegenerative diseases using human post-mortem brain tissue. She is research fellow of the Alzheimer's Research UK and co-leads the Genetics and Omics Working Group of the international Deep Dementia Phenotyping network.

#1795

Elicia Maine

#174579

Overall Influence

Elicia Maine is a Canadian academic. She is the W.J. VanDusen Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship within Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business. She was the founding educational coordinator for New Ventures BC, and the founding Academic Director of Invention to Innovation , an award-winning graduate program in science & technology commercialization offered in traditional and online formats. Within Simon Fraser University, she serves as Associate Vice President, Knowledge Mobilization & Innovation, providing oversight of SFU Innovates.

#1796

Wendy R. Childs

#138471

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Wendy R. Childs is Emeritus Professor of Later Medieval History at the University of Leeds. Early life and education Childs was educated at Girton College, Cambridge where she completed the degrees of BA and PhD.

#1797

Hisayo Momose

#178381

Overall Influence

Hisayo Sasaki Momose is a Japanese electrical engineer specializing in semiconductor devices, including MOSFETs and CMOS image sensors. She is a researcher at the Toshiba Center for Semiconductor Research and Development in Kawasaki.

#1798

Kara Lynch

#184220

Overall Influence

Kara Lynch is an American artist who teaches at Hampshire College. Biography Kara Lynch has an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Work Lynch works in video and time-based media. Her projects include Black Russians, Mouhawala Oula, The Outing, and Xing Over. Lynch recorded her time working in Moscow through video and in "a series of handwritten books" during her artist's residency in 1994.

#1799

E. J. Westlake

#128850

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

E.J. Westlake is a playwright and performance studies scholar. She won an Oregon Book Award in 1991. Biography Early life E.J. Westlake was born Jane Elizabeth Westlake in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of Curtis Edison Westlake, a factory worker at Delco Products, and Joy Louise Hauser, a political activist and printer. After graduating from Colonel White Performing Arts School in Dayton, Ohio in 1982, Westlake attended the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis where she majored in Theatre Arts and Business .

#1800

Denise Welch

#74042

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Jacqueline Denise Welch is an English actress, television personality, writer and broadcaster. Her roles include Natalie Barnes in Coronation Street , Steph Haydock in Waterloo Road , and Trish Minniver in Hollyoaks . Welch also appears as a regular panellist on the ITV chat show Loose Women .

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