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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1351

Laurie Heyer

#87317

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Laurie J. Heyer is an American mathematician specializing in genomics and bioinformatics. She is Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics at Davidson College, director of Davidson's Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and former chair of Davidson's Mathematics and Computer Science Department.

#1352

Karren More

#106034

Overall Influence

Karren L. More is an American materials scientist who is the Director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her research considers advanced electron microscopy as a probe to understand the structure and chemistry of emerging materials. More is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and Microscopy Society of America.

#1353

Annie Cuyt

#108004

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Annie A. M. Cuyt is a Belgian computational mathematician known for her work on continued fractions, numerical analysis, Padé approximants, and related topics. She is a professor at the University of Antwerp, and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.

#1354

Olena Vaneeva

#82046

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Olena Oleksandrivna Vaneeva is a Ukrainian mathematician and researcher and vice head of the Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her interests include group analysis of differential equations and integrable systems, and partial differential equations.

#1355

Joyeeta Gupta

#120343

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Joyeeta Gupta is an Dutch environmental scientist who is professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam, professor of Law and Policy in Water Resources and Environment at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, and co-chair of the Earth Commission, set up by Future Earth and supported by the Global Challenges Foundation. She was co-chair of UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook-6 , published by Cambridge University Press, which was presented to governments participating in the United Nations Environment Assembly in 2019. She is a member of the Amsterdam Global Change Institute.

#1356

Susanne Dierolf

#112129

Overall Influence

1942 - 2009 (67 years)

Susanne Dierolf was a German mathematician specializing in the theory of topological vector spaces. She was a professor for many years at the University of Trier. Life Dierolf was born on 16 July 1942 in Bratislava, at the time under German occupation and administered as part of Lower Austria.

#1357

Peregrina Quintela Estévez

#112385

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Peregrina Quintela Estévez is a Spanish applied mathematician. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela, the founding director of the Spanish Network for Mathematics and Industry, and the winner of the 2016 María Josefa Wonenburger Planells prize of the Galician government.

#1358

Nataša Jonoska

#102333

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Nataša Jonoska is a Macedonian mathematician and professor at the University of South Florida known for her work in DNA computing. Her research is about how biology performs computation, "in particular using formal models such as cellular or other finite types of automata, formal language theory symbolic dynamics, and topological graph theory to describe molecular computation."

#1359

Gizem Karaali

#100864

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Gizem Karaali is a Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. Background and education Mathematician Gizem Karaali is originally from Istanbul, Turkey. Her father was an electrical engineer and her mother was a professor of nutrition science. She graduated from UAA and then went on to Boğaziçi University where she graduated in 1997 with undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics. Karaali earned her PhD in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. Her dissertation was "r-Matrices on Lie Superalgebras" and her advisors were Nikolai Jurieviç Reshetikhin and Vera V.

#1360

Arlene Ash

#107610

Overall Influence

Arlene Sandra Ash is an American statistician who works on risk adjustment in health services. She is a professor of Quantitative Health Sciences in the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and chief of the Biostatistics and Health Services Research division there.

#1361

Ann R. Cannon

#60831

Overall Influence

Ann C. Russey Cannon is an American statistics educator, the Watson M. Davis Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Cornell College in Iowa. , she was the only statistician at Cornell College. Cannon is a graduate of Grinnell College, and completed a doctorate in statistics at Iowa State University in 1994. Her dissertation, Signal Detection Using Categorical Temporal Data, was jointly supervised by William Q. Meeker Jr. and Noel Cressie.

#1362

Caren Diefenderfer

#112758

Overall Influence

1952 - 2017 (65 years)

Caren Lea Diefenderfer was an American mathematician known for her efforts to promote numeracy. Education and career Diefenderfer was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She started her undergraduate education at Smith College, but transferred to Dartmouth College among the first women to be admitted as undergraduates to Dartmouth. She graduated with summa cum laude honors in mathematics from Dartmouth in 1973. She went on to graduate study at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her 1980 dissertation, Approximation of Functions of Several Variables concerned function approximation for m...

#1363

Jun Zhu

#72930

Overall Influence

Jun Zhu is a statistician and entomologist who works as a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Entomology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research interests involve the analysis of spatial data and spatio-temporal data, and the applications of this analysis in environmental statistics.

#1364

Jessica Sklar

#94375

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Jessica Katherine Sklar is a mathematician interested in abstract algebra, recreational mathematics, mathematics and art, and mathematics and popular culture. She is a professor of mathematics at Pacific Lutheran University, and former head of the mathematics department at Pacific Lutheran.

#1365

Sofiya Ostrovska

#108184

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Sofiya Ostrovska is a Ukrainian mathematician interested in probability theory and approximation theory, and known for her research on q-Bernstein polynomials, the q-analogs of the Bernstein polynomials. She has also published works in computer science concerning software engineering. She is a professor of mathematics at Atılım University in Turkey.

#1366

Catherine Doléans-Dade

#120784

Overall Influence

1942 - 2004 (62 years)

Catherine Doléans-Dade was a French American mathematician. She made significant contributions to the calculus of martingaless, including a general change of variables formula, a theorem on stochastic differential equations, and exponential processes of semimartingales.

#1367

Barbara R. Holland

Barbara R. Holland

#96895

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Barbara Ruth Holland is a New Zealand born Australian scientist. She is a Professor of mathematics and member of the Theoretical Phylogenetics Group at the School of Mathematics & Physics at the University of Tasmania. Barbara is also a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture. She has made substantial contributions to the methods for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA and protein sequence data. Holland has published over 50 journal articles, presented over 30 invited or keynote lectures, refereed five conference proceedings, 2 book chapters and 1 book review.

#1368

Ann Trenk

#97966

Overall Influence

Ann Natalie Trenk is an American mathematician interested in graph theory and the theory of partially ordered sets, and known for her research on proper distinguishing colorings of graphs and on tolerance graphs. She is the Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Mathematics at Wellesley College.

#1369

Xiaoyu Luo

#112149

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Xiaoyu Luo is a Chinese and British applied mathematician who studies biomechanics, fluid dynamics, and the interactions of fluid flows with soft biological tissues. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Glasgow.

#1370

Rebecca DerSimonian

#116540

Overall Influence

Rebecca R. DerSimonian is an American statistician, known for her work with Nan Laird introducing the random-effects model for meta-analysis and, in their 1986 paper "Meta-analysis in clinical trials" applying meta-analysis to clinical trials. She is a biostatistician in the National Institutes of Health.

#1371

Judith Q. Longyear

#113349

Overall Influence

1938 - 1995 (57 years)

Judith Querida Longyear was an American mathematician and professor whose research interests included graph theory and combinatorics. Longyear was the second woman to ever earn a mathematics Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, where she studied under the supervision of Sarvadaman Chowla and wrote a thesis entitled Tactical Configurations. Longyear taught mathematics at several universities including California Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College and Wayne State University. She worked on nested block designs and Hadamard matrices.

#1372

Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn

#90257

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn is a Spanish-German mathematician. From 2000 till 2018, she was a full-time professor at the University of Girona, Spain in the Department of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics. Since 2018 she is emeritus professor at the same university. She was previously an associate professor at Technology University in Barcelona from 1986 to 2000. Her main areas of research interest include statistical analysis of compositional data, algebraic-geometric approach to statistical inference, and spatial cluster analysis. She was the president of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences during 2008–2012.

#1373

Kathy Horadam

#112263

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Kathryn Jennifer Horadam is an Australian mathematician known for her work on Hadamard matrices and related topics in mathematics and information security. She is an Emeritus Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology .

#1374

Anna Zdunik

#109451

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Anna Maria Zdunik is a Polish mathematician. She specializes in dynamical systems, and is a professor at the University of Warsaw. Education Zdunik earned her habilitation in 2002, on the basis of an evaluation of her achievements and her dissertation.

#1375

Grace Y. Yi

#99767

Overall Influence

Grace Yun Yi is a professor of the University of Western Ontario where she currently holds a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Data Science. She was a professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where she holds a University Research Chair in Statistical and Actuarial Science. Her research concerns event history analysis with missing data and its applications in medicine, engineering, and social science.

#1376

Natalia Komarova

#72675

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Natalia L. Komarova is a Russian-American applied mathematician whose research concerns the mathematical modeling of cancer, the evolution of language, gun control, pop music, and other complex systems. She is a Chancellor's Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine.

#1377

Diane Lambert

#54791

Overall Influence

Diane Marie Lambert is an American statistician known for her work on zero-inflated models, a method for extending Poisson regression to applications such as the statistics of manufacturing defects in which one can expect to observe a large number of zeros. A former Bell Labs Fellow, she is a research scientist for Google, where she lists her current research areas as "algorithms and theory, data mining and modeling, and economics and electronic commerce".

#1378

Helga Königsdorf

Helga Königsdorf

#60407

Overall Influence

1938 - 2014 (76 years)

Helga Königsdorf was an East German author and physicist. Life She was born in Gera, a farmer's daughter. She went into academia and was appointed to the East Berlin Academy of Sciences of the GDR from 1961 to 1990. Since 1974, she headed the Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics. At age 40, she published her first short-story collection Meine ungehörigen Träume .

#1379

Franziska Michor

#65865

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Franziska Michor is an Austrian-American computational biologist who is a Professor in the Department of Data Science at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. She serves as Director of the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center and the Center for Cancer Evolution.

#1380

Fernanda Botelho

#116075

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Fernanda Maria Botelho is an American mathematician, a professor and the director of graduate studies and coordinator of mathematics at the University of Memphis. Botelho earned her Ph.D. in 1988 at the University of California at Berkeley, where Jenny Harrison was her doctoral advisor. Earlier she did her M.Sc. in 1985 and B.Sc. in 1981 in mathematics at the Universidade do Porto. Her research interests include functional analysis, operator theory and dynamical systems. From 2013 through 2016, she held the Dunavant Professorship at the University of Memphis.

#1381

Nancy Flournoy

#100880

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Nancy Flournoy is an American statistician. Her research in statistics concerns the design of experiments, and particularly the design of adaptive clinical trials; she is also known for her work on applications of statistics to bone marrow transplantation, and in particular on the graft-versus-tumor effect. She is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Missouri.

#1382

Ann Katharine Mitchell

#73682

Overall Influence

1922 - 2020 (98 years)

Ann Katharine Mitchell was a British cryptanalyst and psychologist who worked on decrypting messages encoded in the German Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. After the war she became a marriage guidance counsellor, then studied for a Master of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. She worked at the university's Department of Social Administration and wrote several academic books about the psychological effects of divorce on children, including Someone to Turn to: Experiences of Help Before Divorce and Children in the Middle: Living Through Divorce .

#1383

Elena Celledoni

#105836

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Elena Celledoni is an Italian mathematician who works in Norway as a professor of mathematical sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology . Her research involves the numerical analysis of numerical algorithms for partial differential equations and for Lie group computations, including the study of structure preserving algorithms.

#1384

Helen Wilson

#80865

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Helen Jane Wilson, , is a British mathematician and the first female Head of Mathematics at University College London . Her research focuses on the theoretical and numerical modelling of the flow of non-Newtonian fluids such as polymeric materials and particle suspensions.

#1385

Andrea Walther

#118277

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Andrea Walther is a German applied mathematician whose research interests include nonlinear optimization, non-smooth optimization, and scientific computing, and who is known in particular for her work on automatic differentiation. She is professor of mathematical optimization in the institute for mathematics of Humboldt University of Berlin.

#1386

Donatella Danielli

#118816

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Donatella Danielli is a professor of mathematics at Arizona State University and is known for her contributions to partial differential equations, calculus of variations and geometric measure theory, with specific emphasis on free boundary problems.

#1387

Tetiana Taran

#90790

Overall Influence

1946 - 2007 (61 years)

Tetiana Arkhipivna Taran was a Soviet and Ukrainian computer scientist who worked in artificial intelligence, published the first Russian-language textbook in artificial intelligence, and founded the series of International Conferences on Data Science and Intelligent Analysis of Information.

#1388

Sheryl F. Kelsey

#124655

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Sheryl F. Kelsey is an American biostatistician and epidemiologist who became the first woman to earn a doctorate in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. She made significant contributions to how heart disease is treated by studying the outcomes of coronary angioplasty.

#1389

Shelly M. Jones

#101669

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Shelly Monica Jones is an American mathematics educator. She is an associate professor of mathematics education at Central Connecticut State University. Early life and education Jones is African-American; she was raised in Bridgeport, Connecticut and went on to study computer science at Spelman College, graduating in 1986. Jones received a master's degree in mathematics education from the University of Bridgeport and a Ph.D. in mathematics education from Illinois State University.

#1390

Carme Torras

#74618

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Carme Torras Genís is a Spanish computer scientist who has contributed to research on robotics and artificial intelligence. A member of Academia Europaea since 2010, she writes technical works in English and fiction in Catalan.

#1391

Martha M. Gardner

#76540

Overall Influence

Martha M. Gardner is an American statistician associated with GE Global Research, and the former chair of the Quality & Productivity Section of the American Statistical Association. As an undergraduate at the University of Alabama, Gardner majored in both mathematics and classical languages. She liked classics better than mathematics, but was advised by a classics professor that her job prospects would be much better in mathematics, and that she should look harder for a branch of mathematics that she enjoyed. After earning a master's degree in statistics at Alabama, focused on actuarial science, she moved to North Carolina State University for her doctoral studies.

#1392

Nicky Best

#52056

Overall Influence

Nicola G. "Nicky" Best is a statistician known for her work on the deviance information criterion in Bayesian inference and as a developer of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling. She is a former professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at Imperial College London and is currently a biostatistician for GlaxoSmithKline.

#1393

E. Jacquelin Dietz

#89411

Overall Influence

E. Jacquelin Dietz was an American statistician, interested in nonparametric and multivariate statistics and in statistics education. She was a professor at North Carolina State University until 2004, when she moved to Meredith College. At Meredith, she was head of the mathematics and computer science department for five years, from approximately 2007 to 2012, and taught statistics for 10 years. Dietz was the founding editor-in-chief of Journal of Statistics Education.

#1394

Clare Parnell

#93149

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Clare Elizabeth Parnell is a British astrophysicist and applied mathematician who studies the mathematics of the Sun and of magnetic fields, including the Solar corona and the Sun's magnetic carpet, magnetic reconnection in plasma, and the null points of magnetic fields. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and the former head of the Division of Applied Mathematics at St Andrews.

#1395

Maria Assumpció Català i Poch

#67356

Overall Influence

1925 - 2009 (84 years)

María Assumpció Català i Poch was a Spanish professor, mathematician, and astronomer. She taught from 1952 to 1991. She started as an assistant in the Astronomy Section of the Seminar on Mathematics in Barcelona, related to the Spanish National Research Council . Later, she worked in the Henri Poincaré Institute and she also cooperated in some projects with the special chair of Technology in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

#1396

Andre Norton

#4207

Overall Influence

1912 - 2005 (93 years)

Andre Alice Norton was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, to be SFWA Grand Master, and to be inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

#1397

Irina Shevtsova

Irina Shevtsova

#113763

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Irina Shevtsova is a Russian mathematician, Dr.Sc., Professor of Moscow State University. She graduated from the faculty MSU CMC . She has been working at the Moscow State University since 2006. She defended the thesis "Optimization of the structure of moment estimates of the accuracy of normal approximation for distributions of sums of independent random variables" for the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 2013.

#1398

Dorothee Haroske

Dorothee Haroske

#116146

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Dorothee D. Haroske is a German mathematician who holds the chair for function spaces in the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Jena. Education and career Haroske completed her doctorate at the University of Jena in 1995, and her habilitation at Jena in 2002. Her doctoral dissertation, , Eigenvalue Distributions of Some Degenerate Pseudodifferential Operators, was supervised by .

#1399

Dorothy P. Rice

#95505

Overall Influence

1922 - 2017 (95 years)

Dorothy P. Rice was an American health statistician whose work contributed to the creation of Medicare in the United States. Rice graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and began working with the US government soon after, but left the workforce to begin raising a child. Just over a decade later, she returned to government work with a position at the Social Security Administration, where she was one of the first scientists to study the economic cost of illness and exposed a lack of health insurance among the elderly.

#1400

Laurel Beckett

#78245

Overall Influence

Laurel Alison Beckett is an American biostatistician specializing in Alzheimer's disease and other age-related causes of cognitive impairment. Beyond biostatistics, she has also worked as an activist for women in medicine, including the advocacy of flexible career options allowing women to balance medical careers with childrearing. She is retired as distinguished professor emerita from the UC Davis School of Medicine, where she was chief of biostatistics and directed the biostatistics core of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

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