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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1851

Rosalie Favell

#170870

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Rosalie Favell is a Métis artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba currently based in Ottawa, Ontario, working with photography and digital collage techniques. Favell creates self-portraits, sometimes featuring her own image and other times featuring imagery that represents her, often making use of archival photos of family members and images from pop culture.

#1852

Grace Nickel

#136777

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Grace Nickel is a Canadian ceramic artist and art instructor in post-secondary education. Early life Grace Nickel was born in 1956 in Altona, Manitoba, Canada. She earned her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Manitoba in 1980; Museology Studies certificate, University of Winnipeg in 1981 and; MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 2008. In the summer of 1999, she was invited to the 9th National Ceramic Conference in Perth, Australia. There she demonstrated her work in paper clay as well as presenting work of Manitoba's ceramic community.

#1853

Betül Kaçar

#57960

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Betül Kacar is a Turkish-American astrobiologist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin. She directs a NASA Astrobiology Research Center exploring the essential attributes of life, its origins and how they should shape our notions of habitability and the search for life on other worlds.

#1854

Catherine Abbo

#58392

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Catherine Abbo is a Ugandan researcher, medical doctor and academic. She is currently serving as a lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences at Makerere University.

#1855

Kim Anderson

#139144

Overall Influence

Kim Anderson was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. Her paternal grandmother, Catherine Anne Sanderson was the granddaughter of the Métis voyageur, Thomas Sanderson. Her paternal grandfather, James E. Anderson , came from a long line of marriages among Indigenous peoples spanning over five generations. Kim Anderson's work in educational tourism, community-based education, and cross cultural education afforded her many travels in her youth. But, when she became a mother in 1995, she began to research and write about motherhood and culture-based understandings of Indigenous womanhood.

#1856

Richa Rathore

#153450

Overall Influence

Richa Rathore is an Indian actress who works in Hindi language TV shows. She is currently playing the role of Gazal Haider Akhtar in Zee TV's serial Rabb Se Hai Dua which has had a successful run of more than 300 episodes already. She is known for her work as Nandini in Aapki Nazron Ne Samjha. She has played the role of Neha Mehra in Kumkum Bhagya. She also appeared in a small role in the movie Tamasha.

#1857

Elenora A. Cawthon

#182329

Overall Influence

1917 - 2016 (99 years)

Elenora Albrecht Cawthon was a professor and university leader at Louisiana Tech. She served as president of the College Placement Council in 1972-1973 and was an officer of the American Association of University Women in the 1950s.

#1858

Norie Neumark

#104064

Overall Influence

Norie Neumark is a sound and media artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She is part of the art group Out-of-Sync, an art collaboration with Maria Miranda. Work Neumark was Professor of Media Art at University of Technology, Sydney, where she was founding Director of the Centre for Media Arts Innovation at UTS.

#1859

Amal Al Khedairy

#92966

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Amal Al Khedairy is an Iraqi academic, lecturer, scholar, art historian and founder and director of the cultural centre "Al Beit Al Iraqi" in Baghdad. The centre would focus mostly on reviving Iraqi crafts and finding new avenues for them, as well as concerts and lectures; being the only institution of its kind in Baghdad to do so during the 90s. It was the only private center in Iraq focusing on Iraqi craft and heritage in Baghdad during the mid eighties until the fall of Baghdad on 9 April 2003.

#1860

Alison Dougall

#148241

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Alison Dougall is Associate Professor and Director of the Special Care Dentistry doctorate programme at Trinity College Dublin, Head of Department of Child and Dental Public Health at Trinity College Dublin and Consultant for medically complex patients at Dublin Dental Hospital.

#1861

Brigitte Kowanz

#67520

Overall Influence

1957 - 2022 (65 years)

Brigitte Kowanz was an Austrian artist. Kowanz studied from 1975 to 1980 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She was Professor of Transmedial Art there from 1997. Works Since the 1980s, Brigitte Kowanz's work focused on the investigation of space and light. At the beginning of this period, between 1979 and 1984, she produced paper and screen images with phosphorescent and fluorescent pigments in collaboration with Franz Graf. From 1984, Kowanz developed her first light objects from bottles, fluorescent lamps and fluorescent paint. Complex spatial images and light-shadow-projections were...

#1862

Agatha Jassem

#87739

Overall Influence

Agatha Jassem is a Canadian clinical microbiologist and the program head of the Virology Lab at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory, and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

#1863

Elizabeth Bradley

#187508

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Elizabeth Bradley is a drama professional and educator appointed Chair of the Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, United States, on 1 June 2008. She chairs the US board of the National Theatre of Scotland.

#1864

Carlotta Guiducci

#184490

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Carlotta Guiducci is an Italian bio-engineer. Her research is invested in bio-molecular analysis based on lab-on-a-chip devices. She is an Associate Professor at EPFL and head of the Laboratory of Life Sciences Electronics located at EPFL's Lausanne campus.

#1865

Lisa Boden

#188566

Overall Influence

Lisa Boden is a professional in the field of veterinary public health and population medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in veterinary epidemiology, complemented by a Masters of Laws degree in medical law and ethics. Recognized as a veterinary specialist by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in the United Kingdom, she also holds European certification.

#1866

Kristin Congdon

#179339

Overall Influence

Kristin G. Congdon is an American artist, writer and a Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Central Florida. In her work she focuses on folk art, art education, art history, and feminism. She is the founding director of the Cultural Heritage Alliance at the University of Central Florida , which supports research into folk arts and folk arts education. She has written or contributed to over a dozen books on folk arts and is on the Editorial Board of the journal Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal. She has toured with her art in Florida.

#1867

Lisa Gralnick

#119545

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Lisa Gralnick is an American contemporary metalsmith, studio jeweler and academic. She works in the field of craft and art jewelry. Gralnick says: "I have chosen to make jewelry, which is traditionally considered 'craft', and I do enjoy the processes and techniques that allow me to execute my work without technical faults. But 'craft' is only a means to an end for me, as it is for many artists. My desire to push the limits of jewelry and expand on them, to comment on its traditions and associations, is more the concern of any artist."

#1868

Julie Ault

#35674

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Julie Ault is an American artist, curator, and editor who was a cofounder of Group Material, a New York-based artists' collaborative that has produced over fifty exhibitions and public projects exploring relationships between politics and aesthetics. She was awarded a MacArthur Fellows Program grant, commonly referred to as a MacArthur Genius Grant, in 2018 in recognition for her achievements "redefining the role of the artwork and the artist by melding artistic, curatorial, archival, editorial, and activist practices into a new form of cultural production."

#1869

Alex Bag

#106624

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Alex Bag is an artist working primarily in video. She currently resides in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Her work is largely influenced by television, which she finds to be "the most awful thing. But I can't stop watching it..." She has performed at The Knitting Factory and lectured at Yale University, Parsons School of Design, Cal Arts, and The Getty Research Institute.

#1870

Maria Goranova

#175897

Overall Influence

Maria Goranova is professor of management at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She conducts research on shareholder empowerment and activism, corporate governance, and corporate strategy. She serves as editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review, and on the editorial board of Journal of Management, and is a member of the Academy of Management, International Association for Business and Society, and Strategic Management Society. Her research has been published in a number of leading journals including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Sc...

#1871

Valentyna Melnyk

#180015

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Valentyna Melnyk is a New Zealand marketing academic. She is currently a full professor at Massey University. Academic career After a 2005 PhD titled 'Creating effective loyalty programs knowing what men want' from Tilburg University, Melnyk moved to Massey University, rising to full professor.

#1872

Kadri Mälk

#101369

Overall Influence

1958 - 2023 (65 years)

Kadri Mälk was an Estonian artist and jewellery designer. Life and career Mälk was born in Tallinn and began her studies at the Tartu Art School in 1977 and graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1986, studying under professor Leili Kuldkepp. Between 1986 and 1993, Mälk worked as a freelance artist. In 1993, she enrolled at the Lahti Design Institute in Finland, studying gemmology under the direction of Esko Timonen and completed her studies at Bernd Munsteiner's lapidary studio in Germany. Mälk was assigned to the Estonian Academy of Arts from 1989 and was also a professor in the jew...

#1873

Judy Brown

#188137

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Judy A. Brown is a New Zealand academic. She is currently a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington. Academic career Brown did a 1995 PhD thesis titled 'Accounting and Industrial Relations: a Critical Theory Perspective' at Victoria University of Wellington, before rising to full professor. Her research interests are the social and political context of accounting, including industrial relations, corporate governance, sustainability assessment, critical theory and social accounting.

#1874

Andrea B. Arcucci

#172989

Overall Influence

#1875

Helen Perlstein Pollard

#99115

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Helen Perlstein Pollard is an American academic ethnohistorian and archaeologist, known for her publications and research on pre-Columbian cultures in the west-central Mexico region. Biography As an undergraduate Pollard studied at Barnard College, a women's liberal arts college in New York City affiliated with Columbia University, graduating in 1967. One of her contemporaries at Barnard, who graduated two years earlier, was Esther Pasztory, another Mesoamerican scholar who became renowned as an art historian and specialist in Teotihuacano art. Pollard obtained her PhD in anthropology in 1972...

#1876

Elizabeth Stephens

#99885

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Elizabeth M. "Beth" Stephens is an American filmmaker, artist, sculptor, photographer, professor and two time Chair of the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz. Stephens, who describes herself as "ecosexual", collaborates with her wife since 2002, ecosexual artist, radical sex educator, and performer Annie Sprinkle.

#1877

Heather MacNeil

#178716

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Heather MacNeil is a professor at the Faculty of Information of the University of Toronto, Canada. She teaches archives and record keeping related topics. She is a former General Editor of Archivaria and helped develop the concept of the Archival bond.

#1878

Farzana Islam

#39601

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Farzana Islam is a Bangladeshi academic. She is a former vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University during 2014-2022. In 2014, she became the first female vice-chancellor of a public university in Bangladesh. She allegedly accused of different irregularities and corruption by both Students and Teachers. They also published a book. The 224-page book features reports on different irregularities and corruptions published in different newspapers.

#1879

Bisa Butler

#94657

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Bisa Butler is an American fiber artist who has created a new genre of quilting that has transformed the medium. Although quilting has long been considered a craft, her interdisciplinary methods -- which create quilts that look like paintings -- have catapulted quilting into the field of fine art. She is known for her vibrant, quilted portraits celebrating Black life, portraying both everyday people and notable historical figures. Her works now count among the permanent collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Art Institute of Chicago, Pérez Art Museum Miami and about a dozen other art museums nationwide.

#1880

Abiola Odejide

#170395

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Abiola Odejide is an Emeritus Professor of Communication and Language Arts at University of Ibadan. She was previously the Deputy Vice Chancellor at the university and was the first woman to attain such position at the 58 years old university.

#1881

Ilona Bell

#186320

Overall Influence

Ilona Isaacson Bell is an American academic. She taught at Williams College as Samuel Fessenden Clarke Professor of English and is married to Robert Huntley Bell.

#1882

Michele Grimm

#184674

Overall Influence

Michele J. Grimm is a British-American biomechanical engineer. She took on the role of Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Albany in 2022. She was previously the Wielenga Creative Engineering Endowed Professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering at Michigan State University. Her research concerns the biomechanics of injury, particularly injuries in newborn children to the brachial plexus, a part of the nervous system connecting it to the upper body.

#1883

Laura Waters

#124077

Overall Influence

Laura Jane Waters is a British physician, genitourinary consultant at the National Health Service Mortimer Market Centre in London. She is chair of the British HIV Association and advises the NHS on HIV treatment. Waters is a regular contributor to Boyz magazine, and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic provided regular advice to HIV-positive people.

#1884

Alexandra Grant

#20405

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Alexandra Grant is an American visual artist who examines language and written texts through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and other media. She uses language and exchanges with writers as a source for much of that work. Grant examines the process of writing and ideas based in linguistic theory as it connects to art and creates visual images inspired by text and collaborative group installations based on that process. She is based in Los Angeles.

#1885

Rosario González-Férez

#182334

Overall Influence

Rosario González-Férez is a professor in the Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics at the University of Granada. In 2013 she was awarded the Mildred Dresselhaus Award, and in 2018 she as appointed to the IUPAP commission on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics.

#1886

Eileen Mayo

#74709

Overall Influence

1906 - 1994 (88 years)

Dame Eileen Rosemary Mayo was an English artist and designer who worked in England, Australia and New Zealand in almost every available medium – drawings, woodcuts, lithographs on stone and tempera, tapestry and silk screening. In addition to being a printmaker, illustrator, calligrapher and muralist, she designed coins, stamps, tapestry and posters, and wrote and illustrated eight books on natural science.

#1887

Bronwyn Wake

#173741

Overall Influence

Bronwyn Wake is an Australian scientist and the editor in chief of Nature Climate Change. Education Wake has a first class honors degree in Antarctic studies and a PhD in trace element biogeochemistry. She undertook postgraduate research at the University of Tasmania.

#1888

Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir

Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir

#180502

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Guðfinna 'Tollý' Aðalgeirsdóttir is professor in Geophysics at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland. Professional career Guðfinna was born in Akureyri, on the north coast of Iceland, 20 March 1972. She completed grammar school with a matriculation exam from the physics line of Menntaskólinn á Akureyri in spring 1991. She then studied geophysics at the University of Iceland and graduated with a B.Sc. degree in spring 1994. During the summers of 1993 and 1994 and winter 1994–1995, she worked at the Science Institute, University of Iceland, with Helgi Björnsson and the glaciology...

#1889

Patricia J. Garcia

Patricia J. Garcia

#144049

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Patricia Jannet García Funegra is a Peruvian professor of public and global health at Cayetano Heredia University. She originally trained as a clinician before focusing on research and public health. Her work also focuses on reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, and medical informatics. In 2016-17 García was the Minister of Health of Peru. She was the first Peruvian to be elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

#1890

Samantha Womack

Samantha Womack

#170836

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Samantha Zoe Womack is an English actress, singer, model and director who has worked in film, television and stage. Womack initially planned a career in singing and she represented the United Kingdom in the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest. Her song for the contest, "A Message to Your Heart", was released as her first single in April 1991 and reached number 30 in the UK Singles Chart.

#1891

Millie Chen

#168865

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Millie Chen is Taiwanese-born Canadian artist, educator, and writer. Based in Buffalo, New York, Chen is a professor in the Department of Art at the University at Buffalo. Early life and education She was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and raised in Toronto, Ontario. Chen received an MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in 1994 and her BFA Honours from York University in 1986. She studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

#1892

Mariana Castillo Deball

#111714

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Mariana Castillo Deball is a Mexican visual artist currently based in Berlin. She works primarily in installation, sculpture, photography and drawing. Early life and education Castillo Deball studied in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City and the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.

#1893

Joan Backes

#176817

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Joan Backes is an American artist. Backes is known for her paintings which record different species of tree bark and for her installations, most recently her house series. Her work addresses issues of nature in contemporary society.

#1894

Concha Jerez

#138034

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Concha Jerez is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist known as a pioneer in conceptual art. One of the central axes of her work is the critical analysis of the media. Artistic career Concha Jerez studied piano at the Madrid Royal Conservatory, and in 1958–1959 she obtained a scholarship to Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia, where she became interested in political and social affairs. This led her to study for her licentiate in political science at the Complutense University of Madrid.

#1895

Vatsala Thirumalai

#171492

Overall Influence

Vatsala Thirumalai is a scientist at Neural Circuits and Development Laboratory, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru. She secured B Tech degree in biotechnology from Anna University, Chennai and PhD degree in neuroscience from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY and the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

#1896

Eftyhia Vardas

#169435

Overall Influence

Eftyhia Vardas FC Path is an honorary extraordinary professor in medical virology at the Department of Medical Virology, University of Stellenbosch, and head of virology at Lancet Laboratories in Johannesburg. She is a member of the COVID-19 Ministerial Advisory Committee to the South African minister of health.

#1897

Alexandra Silber

#186927

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Alexandra Silber is an American actress, singer, writer and educator. She has performed roles on Broadway, in London's West End, on television and film, and concert stages. Among other stage roles, in London, she created the role of Laura Fairlie in The Woman in White , played Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof and Julie Jordan in Carousel . In New York, she appeared in Hello Again , Master Class , created the role of Sara Jane in Arlington and as Tzeitel in the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof .

#1898

Tori Foster

#189095

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Tori Foster is a Canadian artist and filmmaker, known for her new media works. She is most noted for her documentary film 533 Statements, which was cowinner with Denis Langlois' film Amnesia: The James Brighton Enigma of the award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2006 Inside Out Film and Video Festival.

#1899

Lia Cook

#118392

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Lia Cook is an American fiber artist noted for her work combining weaving with photography, painting, and digital technology. She lives and works in Berkeley, California, and is known for her weavings which expanded the traditional boundaries of textile arts. She has been a professor at California College of the Arts since 1976.

#1900

Mavis Pusey

#117771

Overall Influence

1928 - 2019 (91 years)

Mavis Iona Pusey was a Jamaican-born American abstract artist. She was a printmaker and painter who was well known for her hard-edge, nonrepresentational images. Pusey drew inspirations from urban construction. She was a leading abstractionist and made works inspired by the constantly changing landscape.

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