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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#651

Ngamta Thamwattana

#68634

Overall Influence

Ngamta "Natalie" Thamwattana is a Thai mathematician who works in Australia as a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Newcastle . In 2014 she won the J. H. Michell Medal of ANZIAM for her "pioneering contributions in the areas of granular materials and nanotechnology".

#652

Maria-Carme Calderer

#74342

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Maria-Carme T. Calderer is a professor of mathematics at University of Minnesota. Her research concerns applied mathematics. Career Calderer received her Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University in 1980. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications from 1984 to 1987, first as a postdoctoral researcher, and then as a visiting professor. She worked at Penn State from 1989 until 2001, when she joined the faculty of University of Minnesota.

#653

Khalida Inayat Noor

Khalida Inayat Noor

#66936

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Khalida Inayat Noor is a Pakistani mathematician who was awarded with Pride of Performance award by the President of Pakistan in 2011. Her research topics include mathematical analysis, variational inequalities, and integral operators.

#654

Márta Svéd

#68941

Overall Influence

1909 - 2005 (96 years)

Márta Svéd was a Hungarian mathematician who moved to Australia in the 1930s and became a teacher of mathematics at the University of Adelaide. She was 75 years old when she completed her PhD in 1985. She wrote the textbook Journey into Geometries , and won the BH Neumann Award in 1994 for her contributions to mathematics learning in Australia.

#655

Ágnes Szendrei

#43429

Overall Influence

Ágnes Szendrei is a Hungarian-American mathematician whose research concerns clones, the congruence lattice problem, and other topics in universal algebra. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the author of the well-cited book Clones in Universal Algebra . In May 2022, Dr. Szendrei was elected as an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; such external memberships are for Hungarian scientists who live outside of Hungary and who have made exceptional contributions to scientific research.

#656

Tanya Christiansen

#57807

Overall Influence

Tanya Julie Christiansen is an American mathematician who works in scattering theory and the theory of partial differential equations. She is Luther Marion Defoe Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri.

#657

Stephanie van Willigenburg

#70872

Overall Influence

Stephanie van Willigenburg is a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia whose research is in the field of algebraic combinatorics and concerns quasisymmetric functions. Together with James Haglund, Kurt Luoto and Sarah Mason, she introduced the quasisymmetric Schur functions, which form a basis for quasisymmetric functions.

#658

Eleanor Jones

#64192

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

Eleanor Green Dawley Jones was an American mathematician. She was one of the first African-American women to achieve a Ph.D. in mathematics. Jones worked as a consultant for the development of college mathematics curriculums, and as a speaker at events to encourage women and minorities to pursue careers in science and mathematics.

#659

Brigitte Servatius

#72722

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Brigitte Irma Servatius is a mathematician specializing in matroids and structural rigidity. She is a professor of mathematics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and has been the editor-in-chief of the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal since 1999.

#660

Chantal David

#72862

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Chantal David is a French Canadian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Concordia University. Her interests include analytic number theory, arithmetic statistics, and random matrix theory, and she has shown interest in elliptic curves and Drinfeld modules. She is the 2013 winner of the Krieger–Nelson Prize, given annually by the Canadian Mathematical Society to an outstanding female researcher in mathematics.

#661

Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn

#73820

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Lê Thị Thanh Nhàn is a Vietnamese mathematician who is a professor of mathematics and vice rector for the College of Science at Thái Nguyên University. Her research concerns commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.

#662

Darinka Dentcheva

Darinka Dentcheva

#53130

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Darinka Dentcheva is a Bulgarian-American mathematician, noted for her contributions to convex analysis, stochastic programming, and risk-averse optimization. Schooling and positions Dentcheva was born in Bulgaria. She received her MsC and PhD degrees in mathematics from Humboldt University of Berlin in 1981 and 1989, respectively. In 2006 she was granted Habilitation from Humboldt University of Berlin, for a dissertation on set-valued analysis.

#663

Mihaela Ignatova

#70809

Overall Influence

Mihaela Ignatova is a Bulgarian mathematician who won the 2020 Sadosky Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics for her research in mathematical analysis, and in particular in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics.

#664

Talitha Washington

#52536

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Talitha Washington is an American mathematician and academic who specializes in applied mathematics and STEM education policy. She was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2018 Honoree. Washington became the 26th president of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2023.

#665

Irene Moroz

#71303

Overall Influence

Irene Margaret Moroz is a British applied mathematician whose research interests include differential equations including the Schrödinger–Newton equation, attractors, synchronization of chaos, and applications to geophysical fluid dynamics, voice analysis, the population dynamics of plankton, and dynamo theory. She is Professor of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Senior Mathematics Fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

#666

Marie Charpentier

Marie Charpentier

#61270

Overall Influence

1903 - 1994 (91 years)

Jeanne Radegonde Marie Charpentier was a French mathematician. She was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France, and the second woman, after Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, to obtain a faculty position in mathematics at a university in France.

#667

Margit Voigt

#71162

Overall Influence

Margit Voigt is a German mathematician specializing in graph theory and graph coloring. She is a professor of operations research at the University of Applied Sciences Dresden. Voigt completed her Ph.D. in 1992 at the Technische Universität Ilmenau. Her dissertation, Über die chromatische Zahl einer speziellen Klasse unendlicher Graphen [On the chromatic number of a special class of infinite graphs] was jointly supervised by Rainer Bodendiek and Hansjoachim Walther.

#668

Ruriko Yoshida

#69062

Overall Influence

Ruriko Yoshida is a Japanese-American mathematician and statistician whose research topics have ranged from abstract mathematical problems in algebraic combinatorics to optimized camera placement in sensor networks and the phylogenomics of fungi. She works at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California as a professor of operations research. She was promoted as a rank of professor on July 1st 2023.

#669

Andrea Bertozzi

#65686

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Andrea Louise Bertozzi is an American mathematician. Her research interests are in non-linear partial differential equations and applied mathematics. Education and career She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Princeton University, followed by her PhD from Princeton in 1991; her dissertation was titled Existence, Uniqueness, and a Characterization of Solutions to the Contour Dynamics Equation. Prior to joining UCLA in 2003, Bertozzi was an L. E. Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago, and then Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Duke University. She spent one year a...

#670

Mary Beisiegel

#69019

Overall Influence

Mary D. Beisiegel is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Oregon State University. She is a Whiteley Faculty scholar for Teaching Excellence. Her research is in math education. Education and career Beisiegel received her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Alberta in 2009. Her dissertation, Being a Mathematician: Teacher Identity Formation in Post-Secondary Mathematics, was supervised by Elaine Simmt, David Pimm, and Terrance Ronald Carson.

#671

Karen Rhea

#62266

Overall Influence

Karen Rhea is an American mathematics educator, a Collegiate Lecturer Emerita in the mathematics department of the University of Michigan. Before joining the University of Michigan faculty, she was on the faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi.

#672

Minerva Cordero

#68626

Overall Influence

Minerva Cordero Braña is a Puerto Rican mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is also the university's Senior Associate Dean for the College of Science, where she is responsible for the advancement of the research mission of the college. President Biden awarded her the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring on February 8, 2022.

#673

Marie-Claude Arnaud

#54749

Overall Influence

Marie-Claude Arnaud-Delabrière is a French mathematician, specializing in dynamical systems. She is University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Avignon and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

#674

Florence Merlevède

#38219

Overall Influence

Florence Merlevède is a French probability theorist whose research interests focus on dependent and weakly dependent random variables, including Bernstein inequalities and central limit theorems for these variables. She is a professor in the laboratory for analysis and applied mathematics at Gustave Eiffel University, associated with the research group on probability and statistics there.

#675

Eugénie Hunsicker

#53788

Overall Influence

Eugénie Lee Hunsicker is an American mathematician who works at Loughborough University in England as a senior lecturer in pure mathematics and as director of equality and diversity for the school of science. Her research in pure mathematics has concerned topics "at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology"; she has also worked on more applied topics in data science and image classification.

#676

Margaret M. Robinson

#62925

Overall Influence

Margaret Maher Robinson is an American mathematician specializing in number theory and the theory of zeta functions. She is the Julia and Sarah Ann Adams Professor of Mathematics at Mount Holyoke College.

#677

Alina Bucur

#66372

Overall Influence

Alina Ioana Bucur is a Romanian-born mathematician and an associate professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. Bucur's research is in analytic number theory with an emphasis on arithmetic statistics.

#678

Cristina Manolache

#71343

Overall Influence

Cristina Manolache is a mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield. Education and career Manolache received her PhD in Mathematics from SISSA in 2009. Her dissertation, Virtual Intersections, was supervised by Barbara Fantechi. Manolache specializes in algebraic geometry and has expertise in birational geometry and wall crossings. She has contributed to publications of the American Mathematical Society and Cambridge University Press. Notable publications include Reduced invariants from cuspidal maps , co-authored with Luca Batti...

#679

Daniela Calvetti

#55386

Overall Influence

Daniela Calvetti is an Italian-American applied mathematician whose work concerns scientific computing, and connects Bayesian statistics to numerical analysis. She is the James Wood Williamson Professor of Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University.

#680

Shirley Pledger

#69426

Overall Influence

Shirley Pledger is a New Zealand mathematician and statistician known for her work on mark and recapture methods for estimating wildlife populations. She is an emeritus professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics of Victoria University of Wellington.

#681

Eileen Poiani

#63152

Overall Influence

Eileen Louise Poiani is an American mathematician. She was the first female mathematics instructor at Saint Peter's University in New Jersey, where she is a professor of mathematics, former vice president, and special assistant to the president of the university. She was the first female president of Pi Mu Epsilon.

#682

Ewa Kubicka

#66631

Overall Influence

Ewa Maria Kubicka is a Polish mathematician interested in graph theory and actuarial science. She is known for introducing the concept of the chromatic sum of a graph, the minimum possible sum when the vertices are labeled by natural numbers with no two adjacent vertices having equal labels.

#683

Beatrice Pelloni

#69551

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Beatrice Pelloni is an Italian mathematician specialising in applied mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, the editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section A: Mathematics, and the chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures.

#684

Rosa Orellana

#52696

Overall Influence

Rosa C. Orellana is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. Early life and education Orellana's excitement for mathematics was recognized early, by one of her elementary school teachers. She is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles, and was the first in her family to earn a college degree. Her undergraduate education also included summer research with Kenneth Millett at the University of California, Santa Barbara on knot theory and its applications to biomolecules.

#685

Kathleen Madden

#49012

Overall Influence

Kathleen Marie Madden is an American mathematician who works in dynamical systems. She was the dean of the School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering at California State University, Bakersfield. She won the George Pólya Award and is the co-author of the book Discovering Discrete Dynamical Systems.

#686

Annie Selden

#69595

Overall Influence

Annie Laurer Alexander Selden is an expert in mathematics education. She is a professor emeritus at Tennessee Technological University, and an adjunct professor at New Mexico State University. She was one of the original founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1971.

#687

Patricia Fauring

#71942

Overall Influence

Ana María Patricia Fauring is an Argentine mathematician who won the Paul Erdős Award for being "the principal mathematician involved in training Argentine teams for the IMO and other international events, where they have done respectably".

#688

Xiaoying Han

#71570

Overall Influence

Xiaoying Han is a Chinese mathematician whose research concerns random dynamical systems, stochastic differential equations, and actuarial science. She is Marguerite Scharnagle Endowed Professor in Mathematics at Auburn University.

#689

Heidi Thornquist

#71749

Overall Influence

Heidi Krista Thornquist is an American applied mathematician at Sandia National Laboratories known for her work on the Trilinos system of software for scientific computing. Her research interests include numerical linear algebra and electronic circuit simulation.

#690

Marta Sanz-Solé

#54223

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Marta Sanz-Solé is a Catalan mathematician specializing in probability theory. She obtained her PhD in 1978 from the University of Barcelona under the supervision of David Nualart. Career Sanz-Solé is professor at the University of Barcelona, and head of the research group on stochastic processes. Prior to taking up her post at the UB, she was associate professor at the University Autònoma of Barcelona. She was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics UB from 1993-1996, and Vice-president of the Division of Experimental Sciences and Mathematics from 2000-2003. In May 2015 she was appointed chair of the scientific Committee of the Graduate School of Mathematics .

#691

Sigal Gottlieb

#69245

Overall Influence

Sigal Gottlieb is an applied mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics and the director of the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

#692

Elham Kazemi

#58130

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Elham Kazemi is a mathematics educator and educational psychologist, the Geda and Phil Condit Professor in Math and Science Education in the College of Education of the University of Washington. Education and career Kazemi is originally from Iran, and moved to the US at age 11. She graduated from Duke University in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in psychology, and became an elementary school teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. Returning to graduate study in educational psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, she earned a master's degree in 1997 and completed her Ph.D. in 1999. Her di...

#693

Sue Whitesides

#65561

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Sue Hays Whitesides is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer science and the chair of the computer science department at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Her research specializations include computational geometry and graph drawing.

#694

Kanta Gupta

#76777

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Chander Kanta Gupta was a Canadian distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Manitoba, known for her research in abstract algebra and group theory. Much of her research concerns the automorphisms in different varieties of groups.

#695

Wei Ho

#71292

Overall Influence

Wei Ho is an American mathematician specializing in number theory, algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, and representation theory. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

#696

Rebecca Shipley

#56416

Overall Influence

Rebecca Julia Shipley is a British mathematician and professor of healthcare engineering at University College London . She is director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering, co-director of the UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering and Vice Dean for the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. She is also co-director of the UCL CHIMERA Research Hub with Prof Christina Pagel and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

#697

Antoinette Tordesillas

#67358

Overall Influence

Antoinette A. Tordesillas is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Australia who has helped build a foundational understanding of the dynamics of granular materials. She received the J H Michell Medal in 2000 and her major contributions include research predicting the response of extraterrestrial soil to attempts to build, mine, or drill and a model that can identify the location and time of future landslides or earthquakes by analyzing slope stability changes.

#698

Jeanne N. Clelland

#80889

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Jeanne A. Nielsen Clelland is an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and its applications to differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the author of a textbook on moving frames, From Frenet to Cartan: The Method of Moving Frames .

#699

Yvonne Stokes

#53463

Overall Influence

Yvonne Marie Stokes is an Australian mathematician whose research involves fluid mechanics, mathematical biology, and industrial applications of mathematics. She is a professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Adelaide.

#700

Marian P. Roque

#64597

Overall Influence

Marian P. Roque is a Filipina mathematician. She was the president of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines, a professor in the Institute of Mathematics of the University of the Philippines Diliman, and former Director of the Institute of Mathematics. Her mathematical specialty is the theory of partial differential equations.

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