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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1251

Maxine Pfannkuch

#97602

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Maxine Jeanette Pfannkuch is a New Zealand statistics educator, known for her work reforming the New Zealand national statistics curriculum. She is an associate professor in the department of statistics of the University of Auckland, and the former editor-in-chief of the Statistics Education Research Journal.

#1252

Alessandra Iozzi

#108009

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Alessandra Iozzi is an Italian-born mathematician known for her research in geometric group theory. Originally from Rome, she holds Italian, Swiss, and American citizenships, and works as an adjunct professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich.

#1253

Agata Ciabattoni

#44686

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Agata Ciabattoni is an Italian mathematical logician specializing in non-classical logic. She is a full professor at the Institute of Logic and Computation of the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology , and a co-chair of the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien .

#1254

Janny Leung

#79878

Overall Influence

Janny May-yee Leung is a Chinese operations researcher and academic administrator, the master of Choi Kai Yau College at the University of Macau and courtesy professor in the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City of the University of Macau. Topics in her research have included transportation scheduling, logistics, facility location, and polyhedral combinatorics.

#1255

Dora Musielak

#84072

Overall Influence

Dora Elia Musielak is an aerospace engineer, historian of mathematics, and book author. She is an expert on high-speed airbreathing jet engines, and an adjunct professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington.

#1256

Claudia Malvenuto

#100126

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Claudia Malvenuto is an Italian mathematician, one of the namesakes of the Malvenuto–Poirier–Reutenauer Hopf algebra of permutations. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Sapienza University of Rome.

#1257

Margit Rösler

#110608

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Margit Rösler is a German mathematician known for her research in harmonic analysis, special functions, and Dunkl operators. She is a professor of mathematics at Paderborn University. Rösler earned a diploma in mathematics with distinction from the Technical University of Munich in 1988. She completed her PhD at the same university in 1992. Her dissertation, , was jointly supervised by Rupert Lasser and Elmar Thoma.

#1258

Verdiana Masanja

#80538

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Verdiana Grace Masanja is a Tanzanian mathematician specializing in fluid dynamics. She is the first Tanzanian woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics. Education Masanja was born in Bukoba, at the time part of the United Nations trust territory of Tanganyika. She was a student at the Jangwani Girls Secondary School in Dar es Salaam and then at the University of Dar es Salaam, completing a degree in mathematics and physics in 1976 and a master's degree in 1981. Her master's thesis was Effect of Injection on Developing Laminar Flow of Reiner–Philippoff Fluids in a Circular Pipe.

#1259

Rosedith Sitgreaves

#98680

Overall Influence

1915 - 1992 (77 years)

Rosedith Sitgreaves Bowker was an American statistician who taught at Columbia University and Stanford University. Her publications included research on random matrices and Kendall's W. Rosedith Sitgreaves was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. She did her undergraduate studies at Wilson College, a women's college in Pennsylvania. She earned a master's degree from George Washington University and a doctorate from Columbia University, both in statistical mathematics. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled Contributions to the Problem of Classification. When she completed it, in 1953, she became the...

#1260

Maria Colombo

#113671

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (35 years)

Maria Colombo is an Italian mathematician specializing in mathematical analysis. She is a professor at the EPFL in Switzerland, where she holds the chair for mathematical analysis, calculus of variations and partial differential equations.

#1261

Mari Palta

#110147

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Mari Soekõrv Palta is a Swedish-Estonian biostatistician, known for her research on model specification in longitudinal studies, especially in epidemiologic studies of diabetes, sequelae of prematurity and sleep. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She served as vice-chair of Population Health Sciences, and director of graduate studies 2016-2018. She is the author of Quantitative Methods in Population Health: Extensions of Ordinary Regression .

#1262

Virginia Warfield

#104401

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Virginia "Ginger" Patricia McShane Warfield is an American mathematician and mathematical educator. She received the Louise Hay Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2007. Education Warfield's father was mathematician Edward J. McShane. She received her Ph.D. in mathematics from Brown University in 1971. Her doctoral advisor was Wendell Fleming and the title of her dissertation was A Stochastic Maximum Principle.

#1263

Friedrich Grimminger

#118829

Overall Influence

#1264

Aissa Wade

#101961

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Aissa Wade is a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. She was the President of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences centre in Senegal . Early life and education Wade was born in Dakar, Senegal. She studied mathematics at Cheikh Anta Diop University and graduated in 1993. She had to leave Senegal to earn a Ph.D. as there were no opportunities in Africa. Wade earned her Ph.D. at the University of Montpellier in 1996. Her thesis, "Normalisation formelle de structures de Poisson", considered symplectic geometry. Her doctoral advisor was Jean Paul Dufour.

#1265

Dominique Picard

#103604

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Dominique Brigitte Picard is a French mathematician who works as a professor in the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires of Paris Diderot University. Her research concerns the statistical applications of wavelets.

#1266

Beth Chance

#87854

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Beth L. Chance is an American statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at the California Polytechnic State University. Education and career Chance is originally from San Diego, California. She graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1990, majoring in mathematics with a minor in psychology. She completed a Ph.D. in operations research, concentrating in statistics, at Cornell University in 1994. Her dissertation, Behavior Characterization and Estimation for General Hierarchical Multivariate Linear Regression Models, was supervised by Martin Wells.

#1267

Evelyn Silvia

#97612

Overall Influence

1948 - 2006 (58 years)

Evelyn Marie Silvia was an American mathematician specializing in functional analysis and particularly in starlike functions. She was a professor at the University of California, Davis, and as well as teaching mathematics at the undergraduate and graduate levels there, was active in the improvement of secondary-school mathematics education.

#1268

Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann

Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann

#89697

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Birge Katharina Huisgen-Zimmermann is a mathematician at University of California, Santa Barbara specializing in representation theory and ring theory. Life and career Huisgen-Zimmerman was born in Germany. Her father was the chemistry professor Rolf Huisgen. She received her Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1974 under the supervision of Friedrich Kasch. Huisgen-Zimmerman received her habilitation from Technical University of Munich in 1979, and stayed on the faculty at the Technical University of Munich until 1981. She became a researcher at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeins...

#1269

Theoni Pappas

#105984

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Theoni Pappas is an American mathematics teacher known for her books and calendars concerning popular mathematics. Pappas is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a master's degree at Stanford University. She became a high school mathematics teacher in 1967.

#1270

Lynne Butler

#87579

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Lynne Marie Butler is an American mathematician whose research interests include algebraic combinatorics, group theory, and mathematical statistics. She is a professor of mathematics at Haverford College.

#1271

Gilah Leder

#93240

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Gilah Chaja Leder is an adjunct professor at Monash University and a professor emerita at La Trobe University. Her research interests are in mathematics education, gender, affect, and exceptionality. Leder was the 2009 recipient of the Felix Klein Medal.

#1272

Jana Rodriguez Hertz

Jana Rodriguez Hertz

#57172

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Jana Rodriguez Hertz born February 1977 is an Argentine and Uruguayan mathematician, professor, and researcher. Biography María Alejandra Rodriguez Hertz Frugoni was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, February 11, 1977. She is the daughter of Mariana Frugoni and Adolfo Rodriguez Hertz. Jana is the oldest of five siblings, one of whom, Federico is also a mathematician.

#1273

Bianca Falcidieno

#106970

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Bianca Falcidieno is an Italian applied mathematician whose research interests include computer graphics, geometric modeling, shape analysis, and mesh generation; she has been called a pioneer of semantics-driven shape representation. She is retired as a research director for the Italian National Research Council , where she led the Shape Modeling Group of the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies .

#1274

Annie Raoult

#50639

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Annie Raoult is a French applied mathematician specializing in the mathematical modeling of cell membranes, graphene sheets, and other thin nanostructures. She is vice president of the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées and professor emerita at Paris Descartes University, where she directed the laboratory for applied mathematics.

#1275

Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Joan Ferrini-Mundy

#36405

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Joan Ferrini-Mundy is a mathematics educator. Her research interests include calculus teaching and learning, mathematics teacher learning, and STEM education policy. She is currently the president of the University of Maine.

#1276

Cathryn Lewis

#102651

Overall Influence

Cathryn Lewis is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Statistics at King's College London. She is Head of Department at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.

#1277

Christine Riedtmann

#108765

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Christine Riedtmann is a Swiss mathematician specializing in abstract algebra. She earned her PhD in 1978 from the University of Zurich under the supervision of Pierre Gabriel, and is a professor emeritus at the University of Bern.

#1278

Sylvia de Neymet

#106456

Overall Influence

1938 - 2002 (64 years)

Sylvia de Neymet Urbina was a Mexican mathematician, the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in Mexico, and the first female professor in the faculty of sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico .

#1279

Colette Moeglin

#102176

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Colette Moeglin is a French mathematician, working in the field of automorphic forms, a topic at the intersection of number theory and representation theory. Career and distinctions Moeglin is a Directeur de recherche at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and is currently working at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu. She was a speaker at the 1990 International Congress of Mathematicians, on decomposition into distinguished subspaces of certain spaces of square-integral automorphic forms.

#1280

Jane Kister

#102469

Overall Influence

1942 - 2019 (77 years)

Jane Elizabeth Kister was a British and American mathematical logician and mathematics editor who served for many years as an editor of Mathematical Reviews. Early life and education Jane Bridge was originally from Weybridge, England, where she was born on 18 October 1944; her father was a lawyer and later a judge. Her family moved to London when she was four, and she studied at St Paul's Girls' School in London. She matriculated at Somerville College, Oxford in 1963, but her studies were interrupted by a diagnosis of lupus; she resumed reading mathematics there in 1964, tutored by Anne Cobbe.

#1281

Omayra Ortega

#102502

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Omayra Ortega is an American mathematician, specializing in mathematical epidemiology. Ortega is an associate professor of mathematics & statistics at Sonoma State University in Sonoma County, California, and the president of the National Association of Mathematicians .

#1282

Janet L. Norwood

Janet L. Norwood

#53467

Overall Influence

1923 - 2015 (92 years)

Janet Lippe Norwood was an American statistician and the first female Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics when she was appointed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. She was reappointed twice by President Reagan. She left the Bureau in 1991 and joined the Urban Institute as a Senior Fellow, a position she held until 1999. She was also appointed as the Chair of the Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation, first by President George H. W. Bush in 1993 and then re-elected by President Bill Clinton. She stepped down from that position in 1996. She received numerous awards inc...

#1283

Tanja Stadler

#91201

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

Tanja Stadler is a mathematician and professor of computational evolution at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology . She’s the current president of the Swiss Scientific Advisory Panel COVID-19.

#1284

Mingyao Li

#110317

Overall Influence

Mingyao Li is a Chinese-American biostatistician and statistical geneticist known for her research on genetic factors related to heart disease, and as one of the creators of the ANNOVAR bioinformatics software tool. She is a professor of biostatistics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

#1285

Montserrat Fuentes

#70614

Overall Influence

Montserrat Fuentes is a Spanish statistician and academic administrator, the president of St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. She is also the Coordinating Editor and Applications and Case Studies Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association. In her research, she applies spatial analysis to atmospheric science.

#1286

Linda B. Hayden

#56671

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Linda Bailey Hayden is an American mathematician. She specializes in mathematics education and applications of mathematics in geoscience, and is known for her mentorship of minorities and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. She is a professor and associate dean of mathematics and computer science at Elizabeth City State University.

#1287

Sara Del Valle

#44614

Overall Influence

Sara Yemimah Del Valle is a senior scientist and mathematical epidemiologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory . At the LANL, Del Valle leads the Fusion Team, where she combines internet data with satellite imagery to forecast disease outbreaks. During the COVID-19 pandemic Del Valle created a computational model that could predict the spread of COVID-19 around the United States.

#1288

Antonella Cupillari

#106899

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Antonella Cupillari is an Italian-American mathematician interested in the history of mathematics and mathematics education. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.

#1289

Erin Blankenship

#109317

Overall Influence

Erin E. Blankenship is an American statistician interested in nonlinear models and environmental statistics, and known for her work in statistics education. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

#1290

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

#40913

Overall Influence

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is a Turkish-American statistician and professor of the practice at Duke University, and a professional educator at RStudio. She is the author of several open source statistics textbooks and is an instructor for Coursera. She is the chair-elect of the Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association. Previously, she was a senior lecturer at University of Edinburgh.

#1291

Naomi Altman

#76523

Overall Influence

Naomi Altman is a statistician known for her work on kernel smoothing and kernel regression, and interested in applications of statistics to gene expression and genomics. She is a professor of statistics at Pennsylvania State University, and a regular columnist for the "Points of Significance" column in Nature Methods.

#1292

Ana Justel

#101372

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Ana María Justel Eusebio is a Spanish statistician and Antarctic scientist specializing in nonparametric statistics, including work on multivariate versions of the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test and on mixture models, and applications to the limnology and meteorology of Antarctica. She is a professor of statistics at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

#1293

Joy Morris

#100259

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Joy Morris is a Canadian mathematician whose research involves group theory, graph theory, and the connections between the two through Cayley graphs. She is also interested in mathematics education, is the author of two open-access undergraduate mathematics textbooks, and oversees a program in which university mathematics education students provide a drop-in mathematics tutoring service for parents of middle school students. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Lethbridge.

#1294

Emma McCoy

#90566

Overall Influence

Emma Joan McCoy is the Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education and a Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has acted as a mathematics subject expert for discussions on reform of the National Curriculum, and is a member of the Royal Statistical Society council.

#1295

Anita Hansbo

#89199

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Anita Hansbo is a Swedish mathematician and academic administrator, the former rector or president of Jönköping University. Education and early career Hansbo earned her Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of Gothenburg. Her dissertation, Some Results Related to Smoothing in Discetized Linear Parabolic Equations, was supervised by Vidar Thomée.

#1296

Beatrice Rivière

#92577

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Beatrice Marie Riviere is a computational and applied mathematician. She is the Noah Harding Chair and Professor in the department of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University. Her research involves developing efficient numerical methods for modeling fluids flowing through porous media.

#1297

Christine De Mol

#105437

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Christine De Mol is a Belgian applied mathematician and mathematical physicist interested in inverse problems, regularization, wavelets, and machine learning, and known for her work on proximal gradient methods and the application of proximal gradient methods for learning. She is a professor of mathematics at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and the former chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Imaging Science.

#1298

Janet Wittes

#89257

Overall Influence

Janet Turk Wittes is an American statistician known for her work on clinical trials. Education Wittes is the daughter of a chemist and a psychologist. She began her studies at Radcliffe College in the biochemistry program, choosing it over chemistry because of its added opportunities for mentorship. Her faculty mentor, John Tileston Edsall, noting her preference for inference over experiment, guided her to aim for a career in statistics. Towards this goal, she switched her major to mathematics, graduating in 1964.

#1299

Katrin Tent

#91725

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Katrin Tent is a German mathematician specializing in group theory, the symmetries of groups, algebraic model theory, and finite geometry. She is a professor of mathematics and mathematical logic at the University of Münster.

#1300

Fatiha Alabau

#105814

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira is a French applied mathematician specializing in the control theory of partial differential equations. She is affiliated with the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions of Sorbonne University as an external member, a professor at the University of Lorraine in the mathematics department of its Metz campus, and a former president of the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, a French society for applied mathematics.

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