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List of the most influential female people in Engineering,

#901

Nitza Metzger-Szmuk

Nitza Metzger-Szmuk

#151255

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Nitza Metzger-Szmuk is an Israeli architect, and Emet Prize laureate in architecture for her work on documentation and preservation of Tel Aviv's White City. She also received the Rokach Prize in 2001.

#902

Hong Chen

#174580

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Hong Chen is a Chinese engineer specializing in control theory and its application to automotive control systems and automated driving. She is a distinguished professor of control science and engineering at Tongji University in Shanghai,, dean of the Tongji University College of Electronic and Information Engineering, and holder of the Porsche Chair at Tongji University.

#903

Alice Mary Stoll

Alice Mary Stoll

#105829

Overall Influence

1917 - 2014 (97 years)

Alice Mary Stoll was an American biophysicist who developed fire-resistant fabric. She was a pioneer in aerospace medicine. She received the Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers in 1969.

#904

Sanjukta Deb

#172072

Overall Influence

Sanjukta Deb is a British professor of biomaterials science at the Centre for Oral, Clinical & Translational Sciences at King's College London , United Kingdom. She joined KCL in 1996. Biography Deb earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Delhi University in 1986. According to Scopus, she has published more than 162 scientific documents with 2487 citations, and an h-index of 26. She has presented her work at various national and international conferences. Sanjukta has also authored many book chapters. She is an editor and a reviewer to various international scientific journals in the field of biomaterials science.

#905

Kim Pickering

#175383

Overall Influence

Kim Louise Pickering is a New Zealand composite materials engineer. She is currently a full professor at the University of Waikato. Academic career After a BSc at Imperial College London, three years at Plessey Research Caswell and a PhD at the University of Surrey, Pickering started working at the University of Waikato in 1994 and rose to full professor in 2014.

#906

Fiona M. Doyle

#172770

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Fiona Mary Doyle is an American materials scientist who is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Donald H. McLaughlin Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 and a Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society in 2021.

#907

Kirsten Morris

#95375

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Kirsten Anna Morris is a Canadian applied mathematician specializing in control theory, including work on flexible structures, smart materials, hysteresis, and infinite-dimensional optimization. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo, the former chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Control and Systems, the author of two books on control theory, and an IEEE Fellow.

#908

Roshini Kempadoo

#78014

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Roshini Kempadoo is a British photographer, media artist, and academic. For more than 20 years she has been a lecturer and researcher in photography, digital media production, and cultural studies in a variety of educational institutions, and is currently a professor in Photography and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster.

#909

Sandi Sissel

#93028

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Sandra "Sandi" Sue Sissel is an American cinematographer, director and producer. Her interest in photography was apparent as early as high school, where she was a photojournalist for her school paper. She is best known for documentaries such as Chicken Ranch, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition , and Mother Teresa as well as TV shows like 60 Minutes, and feature films like Salaam Bombay!, Master and Commander Far Side of the World and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. She has been a member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 1994, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts a...

#910

Twinkle Khanna

#6692

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Twinkle Khanna , also known as Tina Jatin Khanna, is an Indian author, columnist, interior designer, film producer, and former actress. In 2015, Khanna released her first non-fiction book, Mrs Funnybones which was declared a bestseller, making Khanna India's highest-selling woman writer that year. Khanna's second book The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad, a collection of short stories, one of which was based on social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham, was later made into National Award winning feature film, Pad Man with the focus on dispelling taboos around menstruation. It was produced under Khanna's production house Mrs.

#911

Simone Hochgreb

#175459

Overall Influence

Simone Hochgreb is a Brazilian mechanical engineer whose research has concerned efficiency and pollution in internal combustion engines, and the structure of premixed flames. She is Professor of Experimental Combustion at the University of Cambridge, head of the reacting flows group at Cambridge, and a Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge, where she is Director of Studies for Engineering.

#912

Elizabeth Nance

Elizabeth Nance

#103120

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Nance is an American chemical engineer. She has held the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professorship at the University of Washington since September 2015. Her primary research interests are "disease-directed engineering, nanomedicine-based and nanometabolic-based platform development, systems thinking to assess and model therapeutic barriers in treating disease, and biological transport phenomena".

#913

Signe Nielsen

#71349

Overall Influence

Signe Nielsen is a landscape architect and a founding principal at Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects in New York City, US. She is also a professor of urban design and landscape architecture at Pratt Institute and an active participant in New York City design policy and approvals. Her work focuses on the areas of green design, sustainability, and public space design.

#914

Ruth Lingford

#87637

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Ruth Lingford is an independent animator. Since 2005, she has taught at the Harvard University. She now holds a position as faculty member in the visual and environmental studies, where she is senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies. She previously taught at the Royal College of Art and the National Film and Television School, UK. Before investing herself in animation, she was an occupational therapist working with the elders and people suffering from mental disorders. Lingford completed a BA in fine arts and art history at the Middlesex Polytechnic from 1987 to 1990 and a MA at the Royal College of Art until 1992.

#915

Eileen McLaughlin

#70124

Overall Influence

Eileen Anne McLaughlin is a Scottish molecular biology academic working in Australia. As of 2021 she is a professor at the University of Wollongong. Academic career After a 1993 PhD titled 'The effect of cryopreservation on human spermatozoa' at the University of Bristol, McLaughlin moved to Australia for a postdoctoral position at the CSIRO working on virally vectored immunocontraceptives in wildlife feral animal control. McLaughlin was recruited to University of Newcastle in 2002, where she remains an honorary professor. In 2017, McLaughlin became Director of the School of Biological Sciences at University of Auckland.

#916

Stephanie Pincetl

#141212

Overall Influence

Stephanie Pincetl is an American academic specializing in the intersection of urban policy and the environment, particularly in California. She is the Director of the UCLA Center for Sustainable Urban Systems in Los Angeles.

#917

Nadine Isaacs

#168755

Overall Influence

1942 - 2004 (62 years)

Nadine Isaacs was a Jamaican architect. She was the first female vice chair of the Architects Registration Board and the first female president of the Jamaican Institute of Architects. She headed the Caribbean School of Architecture, as its first female leader, as well as leading the faculty of the Built Environment at the University of Technology in Kingston.

#918

Jean Hillier

#104747

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Jean Hillier is Professor Emerita in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Research interests Research interests include poststructural planning theory and methodology for strategic practice in conditions of uncertainty, more-than-human planning theory and practice, and problematisation of cultural heritage practices in spatial planning, particularly in China.

#919

Joanne Etheridge

#94371

Overall Influence

Joanne Etheridge is an Australian physicist. She is Director of the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy and Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University. Academic career Etheridge graduated with a BSc from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in physics from RMIT University in 1993. In 1994 she moved to the University of Cambridge as Rosalind Franklin Research Fellow, Newnham College and in 1997 became a senior research associate in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy there. From 1999 to 2003 she was Royal Society University Research Fellow in the same department.

#920

Maryam Shanechi

#115055

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (39 years)

Maryam M. Shanechi is an Iran-born American neuroengineer. She studies ways of decoding the brain's activity to control brain-machine interfaces. She was honored as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators under 35 in 2014 and one of the Science News 10 scientists to watch in 2019. She is Professor and Viterbi Early Career Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering, and a member of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Southern California.

#921

Amy Herr

#149814

Overall Influence

Amy Elizabeth Herr is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is attached to the Department of Bioengineering. At Berkeley she was also the founding executive director of the Bakar Bioenginuity Hub. Herr is a Chan Zuckerberg BioHub Investigator and the Chief Technology Officer of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network, a fellow of both the National Academy of Inventors and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, as well as a co-founder of Zephyrus Biosciences, a biotechnology company that was acquired by Bio-Tech...

#922

Helen Tippett

#109138

Overall Influence

1933 - 2004 (71 years)

Helen Margaret Tippett was a professor of architecture in Australasia. Her career in academia began in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1969, where she taught 'Design and Practice and Management'. She moved to New Zealand, where she was Dean of Architecture at Victoria University from 1980 to 1983, and later moved into professional practice, co-founding The Architects Collaborative. She was the first woman professor of architecdure in Australasia.

#923

Jennifer L Martin

#176250

Overall Influence

#924

Karen Lozano

#174296

Overall Influence

Karen Lozano is a Mexican American researcher who is the Julia Beecherl Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Nanotechnology Center at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She studies carbon nanofiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites. She was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2020 and the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

#925

Hope Michelsen

#174967

Overall Influence

Hope A. Michelsen is an American physical chemist and combustion scientist whose research involves the byproducts of combustion including soot, black carbon, greenhouse gases, the contribution of these substances to global warming, and the use of laser-induced incandescence to measure combustion products. She is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering.

#926

Lise Lyngsnes Randeberg

#176295

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Lise Lyngsnes Randeberg is a Norwegian engineer and trade unionist. She is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and has been president of both Tekna and the Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations.

#927

N'Goné Fall

#106627

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

N'Goné Fall is a Senegalese curator, editor, and cultural policies consultant. Biography N'Goné Fall was born in 1967 in Dakar Senegal where she grew up. She graduated with honors from the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris and received the prize of the best 1993 graduation project under the supervision of her professor Paul Virilio, a French theoretician.

#928

Márta Rencz

#169570

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Dr. Márta Rencz is an Electrical Engineer. She is a faculty member and former Head of Department at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

#929

Claire E. Eyers

#93967

Overall Influence

Claire Eyers is a British biological mass spectrometrist who is professor of biological mass spectrometry at the University of Liverpool, where she heads up the Centre for Proteome Research. Her research publications list her either as Claire E Haydon or Claire E Eyers .

#930

Valerie M. Thomas

#151801

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Valerie Margaret Thomas is an American physicist and environmental engineer, with broad research interests in environmental technology including aspects of the subject relating to materials science, energy systems, transportation and transportation energy use, and economics. She is the Anderson Interface Professor of Natural Systems at Georgia Tech, appointed jointly to the schools of industrial and systems engineering and public policy.

#931

Ethel Finck

#77387

Overall Influence

1932 - 2003 (71 years)

Ethel Jean Finck, M.D. , was an American interventional radiologist, credited as one of three women founders of the Society of Interventional Radiology in 1973. She was also the inventor of the Finck cardiac catheter.

#932

Wendy Hiller

#48050

Overall Influence

1912 - 2003 (91 years)

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller, was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film". Despite many notable film performances, Hiller chose to remain primarily a stage actress.

#933

Ann Tenno

#103753

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Ann Tenno is an Estonian photographer and photo artist. Lonely Planet states that "some of the most spectacular and sensitive photographs of Estonia have been taken by Ann Tenno and published in books which best capture the spirit of Estonian nature." She is noted in particular for her town landscapes, especially photographs of the Estonian capital of Tallinn, and the churches and manor houses of Estonia.

#934

Jacky Bowring

#144947

Overall Influence

Jacky Bowring is a New Zealand landscape architecture academic specialising in memories and memorials. She is currently a full professor at Lincoln University. Academic career After a BSc at the University of Canterbury, Bowring completed a diploma and then a PhD in landscape architecture at Lincoln University. Joining the staff, Bowring rose to full professor.

#935

Kyle J. Myers

#142958

Overall Influence

Kyle J. Myers is the Director of Imaging and Applied Mathematics at the Food and Drug Administration Centre for Devices and Radiological Health. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society and SPIE. Early life and education Myers was inspired to study physics by her father, who was an engineer. Myers studied physics and mathematics at Occidental College and graduated in 1980. She moved to University of Arizona for her graduate studies, and earned a PhD in optical science in 1985. She was supervised by Harrison H. Barrett. She stayed at the University of Arizona for a postdoctoral fellowship until 1...

#936

Nancy Pollard

#96862

Overall Influence

Nancy S. Pollard is an American computer scientist, roboticist, and computer graphics researcher. She is a professor in the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, where she heads the Foam Robotics Lab.

#937

Ning Lu

#175862

Overall Influence

Ning Lu is an electrical engineer whose research specializes in electric power systems, and in modeling, scheduling, and controlling the load profile in smart grids, including the demand response of grid friendly household appliances, energy storage, and the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid. Educated in China and the US, she is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University.

#938

Rizia Bardhan

#173144

Overall Influence

Rizia Bardhan is an Indian origin American biomolecular engineer who is an Associate Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Iowa State University. She is Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

#939

Gail Davey

#103311

Overall Influence

Gail Davey OBE is a professor of epidemiology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, UK. Her work focuses on Neglected Tropical Diseases, particular podoconiosis. Career Davey specialises in neglected tropical diseases, especially ones that involve the skin. After taking an MBBChir degree in medicine, she trained in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gaining Masters and MD degrees. She then worked at the School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia for almost a decade, developing training programmes in public health to doctora...

#940

Rae Zimmerman

#176598

Overall Influence

Rae Zimmerman is an American engineer, currently at New York University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Education B.A. in chemistry from the University of California, BerkeleyMaster of City Planning from the University of PennsylvaniaPh.D. in planning from Columbia University

#941

Caterina Scoglio

#171305

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Caterina M. Scoglio is an Italian network scientist and computer engineer, the LeRoy and Aileen Paslay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University, the director of the Network Science and Engineering Group in the department, and the former chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Medical and Health Care Systems.

#942

Glenda Kapstein Lomboy

Glenda Kapstein Lomboy

#175811

Overall Influence

1939 - 2008 (69 years)

Glenda Inés Kapstein Lomboy is a Chilean architect who won the 2003 PLEA Lifetime Achievement Awards for "sustainable architecture and urban design." Life Glenda Inés Kapstein was born in Chile in 1939 and grew up in El Quisco in the Valparaíso Region and was inspired at an early age by the project of . She entered the University of Valparaíso in 1959 to study architecture. In 1961 and 1962, she traveled with a group of students to study in Europe and then in 1963 participated in the Seventh Congress of the International Union of Architects held in Havana. She returned to Chile and was highl...

#943

Sheila Kennedy

#116209

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Sheila Kennedy is an American architect and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is known for including green technology, such as flexible solar cells, into her designs. She is interested in using technology in new ways and in re-examining traditional ways of building and designing structures.

#944

Tong Sun

#154611

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Tong Sun is a Professor of Sensor Engineering and Director of the Research Centre for Photonics and Instrumentation at City, University of London. She was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal in 2016 and awarded an Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Birthday Honours. In 2020 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

#945

Rufina Alamo

#175328

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 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.

#946

Arezoo Ardekani

#175968

Overall Influence

Arezoo M. Ardekani is an Iranian-American physicist who is a professor at Purdue University. Her research considers the flow of complex fluids. She was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2020 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022.

#947

Sharmila M. Mukhopadhyay

#130823

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Sharmila Mitra Mukhopadhyay is a professor of materials science and Director of the Center for Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials at Wright State University. In 2016 she was elected as a Jefferson Science Fellow, working as a science advisor to the United States Department of State.

#948

Nicole Metje

#171204

Overall Influence

Nicole Metje PhD, MCInstCES, MASCE, FHEA is professor of infrastructure monitoring, head of the Power and Infrastructure Research Group, and deputy director for sensors of the UKCRIC National Buried Infrastructure Facility at the University of Birmingham. She plays a significant role in the development and application of sensors for buried infrastructure assessment and monitoring.

#949

Robyn Clay-Williams

#89354

Overall Influence

Robyn Clay-Williams is an Australian academic and one of the first two women to serve as pilots in the Royal Australian Air Force . She joined the RAAF in 1979 and initially served in maintenance roles as women were not permitted to be pilots. After this restriction was lifted she completed pilot training in June 1988 and became a test pilot in 1993. Clay-Williams reached the rank of Wing Commander and led No. 85 Wing. After leaving the RAAF in 2003, she completed a doctorate. As of 2021, Clay-Williams was an Associate Professor at Macquarie University.

#950

Sally McArthur

#176348

Overall Influence

Sally L. McArthur is an Australian materials scientist who is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology and Research Scientist at CSIRO. Her research considers the development of novel biomaterials for biomedical, nutritional and environmental applications. She was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2021.

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