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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1401

Nalini Ravishanker

#116539

Overall Influence

Nalini Ravishanker is an Indian statistician interested in time series analysis and in applications of statistics to actuarial science, business, and transportation. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Connecticut, co-editor-in-chief of International Statistical Review, and president of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics for 2015–2017.

#1402

Delores Conway

#74954

Overall Influence

Delores Ann Conway is an American statistician and economist known for her work on the statistics of real estate markets. She is Professor of Real Estate Economics and Statistics in the Simon Business School of the University of Rochester.

#1403

Rebecca Waldecker

#118199

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Rebecca Anne Hedwig Waldecker is a German mathematician specializing in group theory. She is professor for algebra at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Education and career Waldecker is originally from Aachen. She earned her doctorate at the University of Kiel in 2007, under the supervision of , and in 2014 completed her habilitation at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

#1404

Trachette Jackson

#106947

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Trachette Levon Jackson is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan and is known for work in mathematical oncology. She uses many different approaches, including continuous and discrete mathematical models, numerical simulations, and experiments to study tumor growth and treatment. Specifically, her lab is interested in "molecular pathways associated with intratumoral angiogenesis," "cell-tissue interactions associated with tumor-induced angiogenesis," and "tumor heterogeneity and cancer stem cells."

#1405

Mona Hatoum

#11666

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Mona Hatoum is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London. Biography Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Palestinian parents. Although born in Lebanon, Hatoum was ineligible for a Lebanese identity card and does not identify as Lebanese. As she grew up, her family did not support her desire to pursue art. She continued to draw throughout her childhood, though, illustrating her work from poetry and science classes.

#1406

Frédérique Oggier

#119393

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Frédérique Elise Oggier is a Swiss mathematician and coding theorist who works as an associate professor of physical and mathematical sciences at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Education After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from the University of Geneva, Oggier completed her doctorate at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, in 2005, under the supervision of Eva Bayer-Fluckiger.

#1407

Ingrid Van Keilegom

#111477

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Ingrid Van Keilegom is a Belgian statistician. She is a professor of operations research and business statistics at KU Leuven, and an extraordinary professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. Her research interests include survival analysis, observational error, econometrics, and nonparametric statistics.

#1408

Amy H. Herring

#86719

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Amy Helen Herring is an American biostatistician interested in longitudinal data and reproductive health. Formerly the Carol Remmer Angle Distinguished Professor of Children's Environmental Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she is now Sara & Charles Ayres Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistical Science, Global Health Institute, and Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics of Duke University.

#1409

Christine Böckmann

#118618

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Christine Böckmann is a German applied mathematician, numerical analyst, and expert on atmospheric lidar. She is an außerplanmäßiger Professor of mathematics at the University of Potsdam, and one of the Principal Investigators of EARLINET, the European Aerosol Research Lidar Network.

#1410

Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein

#116663

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Gisèle Ruiz Goldstein is an American mathematician known for her research in partial differential equations, operator theory, and applications of mathematics to physics and finance. Goldstein has won multiple awards; in particular, one of her papers was given the Editors' Choice Award from the editors of Mathematische Nachrichten in 2010, and she was the University of Memphis Faudree Chair from 2011-2014. In December 2020, Discrete and Dynamical Systems - Series S created a special issue in honor of Goldstein's 60th birthday.

#1411

Joan R. Rosenblatt

#101837

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

Joan Raup Rosenblatt was an American statistician who became Director of the Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1976.

#1412

Fiona Steele

#108710

Overall Influence

Fiona Alison Steele, is a British statistician. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics . After graduating with a degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1992, Steele completed her master's degree and doctorate in statistics at the University of Southampton. She then joined the LSE as a lecturer in statistics and research methodology. She was appointed to a research lectureship at the Institute of Education in 2001. In 2005 moved to the University of Bristol to be a reader in social statistics; she was promoted to professor three years later.

#1413

Julia R. Greer

#88970

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Julia Rosolovsky Greer is a materials scientist and is the Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics and Medical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology . As of 2019, Greer is also the director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech.

#1414

Radhika Kulkarni

#117924

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Radhika Vidyadhar Kulkarni is a retired Indian and American operations researcher, and the 2022 president of INFORMS. The Bechhofer–Kulkarni selection procedure or Bechhofer–Kulkarni stopping rule, a stopping rule for maximization in Bernoulli processes, is named after her work with her doctoral advisor, Robert E. Bechhofer.

#1415

Dionne Price

#80034

Overall Influence

Dionne L. Price is an American statistician who works as a division director in the Office of Biostatistics of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in the US Food and Drug Administration. Her division provides statistical advice "used in the regulation of anti-infective, anti-viral, ophthalmology, and transplant drug products".

#1416

Gail Letzter

#119675

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Gail Letzter is an American mathematician specializing in the representation theory of quantum groups. Letzter is technical director of the mathematics research group of the National Security Agency.

#1417

C. J. Cherryh

#10754

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Carolyn Janice Cherry , better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award–winning novels Downbelow Station and Cyteen , both set in her Alliance–Union universe, and her Foreigner series. She is known for worldbuilding, depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology.

#1418

Jennifer Scott

#117416

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Jennifer Ann Scott is a British mathematician specialising in numerical analysis, sparse matrix computations, and parallel computing. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Reading, where she directs the Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth, and a Group Leader and Individual Merit Research Fellow for the Science and Technology Facilities Council at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

#1419

Annie Qu

#86080

Overall Influence

Peiyong "Annie" Qu is a Chinese-American statistician known for her work on estimating equations and semiparametric models. Her research interests also include longitudinal analysis, nonparametric statistics and robust statistics, missing data, and biostatistics.

#1420

Carol Schumacher

#79179

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Carol Smith Schumacher is a Bolivian-born American mathematician specializing in real analysis, a mathematics educator, and a textbook author. She is a professor of mathematics at Kenyon College, and vice president of the Mathematical Association of America.

#1421

Sylvie Roelly

#118266

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Sylvie Roelly is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory, including the study of particle systems, Gibbs measure, diffusion, and branching processes. She is a professor of mathematics in the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Potsdam in Germany.

#1422

Christine Graffigne

#118452

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Christine Graffigne is a French applied mathematician. She is known for her pioneering research on Markov random fields for image analysis, the topic of her 1986 invited address to the International Congress of Mathematicians.

#1423

Christine Anderson-Cook

#114231

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Christine Michaela Anderson-Cook is a U.S. and Canadian statistician known for her work on the design of experiments, response surface methodology, reliability analysis in quality engineering, multiple objective optimization and decision-making, and the applications of statistics in nuclear forensics. She has published over 200 research articles in statistical, engineering and interdisciplinary journals. She also written on misunderstandings caused by "hidden jargon": technical terms in statistics that are difficult to distinguish from colloquial English.

#1424

Ann Zauber

#117899

Overall Influence

Ann Graham Zauber is an epidemiologist and biostatistician at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, primarily interested in colorectal cancer. Her research has demonstrated the effectiveness of colonoscopy and polyp removal at reducing the incidence of this kind of cancer.

#1425

Mary D. Sammel

#115983

Overall Influence

Mary Dupuis Sammel is a biostatistician, who works as a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. As well as doing research on theoretical statistics and reproductive health, she also raises guide dogs and has published research on their upbringing.

#1426

Karin Schnass

#110630

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Karin Schnass is an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on sparse dictionary learning. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Innsbruck. Education and career Schnass was born in Klosterneuburg. She earned a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Vienna in 2004, with a thesis surveying Gabor multipliers supervised by Hans Georg Feichtinger. She completed her Ph.D. in communication and information sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2009. Her dissertation was Sparsity & Dictionaries – Algorithms & Design, and ...

#1427

Diane Lynn Fairclough

#135731

Overall Influence

#1428

Mary E. Thompson

#127213

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Mary Elinore Thompson is a Canadian statistician. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo, the former president of the Statistical Society of Canada, and the founding scientific director of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute. Her research interests include survey methodology and statistical sampling; she is also known for her work applying statistics to guide tobacco control policy.

#1429

Inga Berre

#86640

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Inga Berre is a Norwegian applied mathematician who studies numerical methods for the partial differential equations used to model fractured geothermal systems and porous media more generally. She is a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Bergen, a scientific advisor to the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, and a leading researcher on geothermal energy in Norway.

#1430

Anne M. Thompson

Anne M. Thompson

#92538

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Anne Mee Thompson is an American scientist, who specializes in atmospheric chemistry and climate change. Her work focuses on how human activities have changed the chemistry of the atmosphere, climate forcing, and the Earth's oxidizing capacity. Thompson is an elected fellow of the American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, and AAAS.

#1431

Shandelle Henson

#115534

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Shandelle Marie Henson is an American mathematician and mathematical biologist known for her work in population dynamics. She is a professor of mathematics and ecology at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Natural Resource Modeling.

#1432

Susan Hilsenbeck

#136501

Overall Influence

Susan Galloway Hilsenbeck is an American biostatistician whose research interests include biomarkers and the applications of biostatistics in cancer research. She is a professor in the Baylor College of Medicine, where she directs the Quantitative Sciences Share Resource in the Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

#1433

Beatrice Meini

#120612

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Beatrice Meini is an Italian computational mathematician and numerical analyst specializing in numerical linear algebra and its applications to Markov chains, matrix equations, and queueing theory. She is Professor of Numerical Analysis in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pisa.

#1434

Leslie M. Smith

#105850

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Leslie Morgan Smith is an American applied mathematician, mechanical engineer, and engineering physicist whose research focuses on fluid dynamics and turbulence. She is a professor of mathematics and of engineering physics at the University of Wisconsin.

#1435

Krista Fischer

#108744

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Krista Fischer is an Estonian biostatistician whose research concerns body mass, genetic variability, and their association with diseases. She is a professor of mathematical statistics in the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Tartu, where she is also an associate professor in the Institute of Genomics.

#1436

Catherine Hobbs

#109838

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Catherine Ann Hobbs is a British mathematician and educator working as a professor and Academic Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing at Coventry University. Her research focuses on applications of singularity theory to the physical sciences. She has a strong interest in science policy, particularly relating to encouraging and supporting women in STEM fields.

#1437

Janis Oldham

#119934

Overall Influence

1956 - 2021 (65 years)

Janis Marie Oldham was an American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and mathematics education and known for her efforts in mentoring mathematics students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

#1438

Lydia Bieri

#88526

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Lydia Rosina Bieri is a Swiss-American applied mathematician, geometric analyst, mathematical physicist, cosmologist, and historian of science whose research concerns general relativity, gravity waves, and gravitational memory effects. She is a professor of mathematics and director of the Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics at the University of Michigan.

#1439

Maria Deijfen

#124407

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Maria Deijfen is a Swedish mathematician known for her research on random graphs and stochastic processes on graphs, including the Reed–Frost model of epidemics. She is a professor of mathematics at Stockholm University.

#1440

Joanna Masingila

#120851

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Joanna Osborne Masingila is an American mathematics educator. She served as the dean of the School of Education at Syracuse University from 2015 to 2021, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, and a professor of mathematics and mathematics education at Syracuse.

#1441

Ruth I. Michler

#132980

Overall Influence

1967 - 2000 (33 years)

Ruth I. Michler was an American-born mathematician of German descent who lived and worked in the United States. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and she was a tenured associate professor at the University of North Texas. She died at the age of 33 while visiting Northeastern University, after which at least three memorial conferences were held in her honor, and the Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize was established in her memory.

#1442

Johanna G. Nešlehová

#113529

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Johanna G. Nešlehová is a Czech mathematical statistician who works in Canada at McGill University as a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics. Her research interests include copulas, extreme value theory, multivariate statistics, and operational risk.

#1443

Dorina Mitrea

#116349

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Dorina Irena-Rita Mitrea is a Romanian-American mathematician known for her work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and the theory of distributions, and in mathematics education. She is a professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department at Baylor University.

#1444

Limin Peng

#73197

Overall Influence

Liming Peng is a Chinese biostatistician who works as a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, where she is also affiliated with the Winship Cancer Institute. The topics of her statistical research include survival analysis, quantile regression, and nonparametric statistics; she applies these methods to the study of chronic diseases including diabetes and cystic fibrosis.

#1445

Lisa Lix

#126508

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Lisa Marie Lix is a Canadian health scientist and biostatistician at the University of Manitoba, where she holds a Canada Research Chair. Topics in her research have included cohort studies and the analysis of variance as well as bowel disease and disease-related bone fracture risk.

#1446

Cathérine Jami

#117006

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Catherine Jami is a French historian of mathematics specializing in Chinese mathematics. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , affiliated with the Centre for Studies on Modern and Contemporary China at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. She is the former president of the Association française d’études chinoises and of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine.

#1447

Katrin Leschke

#124103

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Katrin Leschke is a German mathematician specialising in differential geometry and known for her work on quaternionic analysis and Willmore surfaces. She works in England as a reader in mathematics at the University of Leicester, where she also heads the "Maths Meets Arts Tiger Team", an interdisciplinary group for the popularisation of mathematics, and led the "m:iv" project of international collaboration on minimal surfaces.

#1448

Jaqueline Mesquita

#109690

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (39 years)

Jaqueline Godoy Mesquita is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in differential equations and functional differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Brasília. Education and career Mesquita was born on 20 September 1985. After graduating from the University of Brasília in 2007, she earned a Ph.D. at the University of São Paulo in 2012, with the dissertation Measure functional differential equations and impulsive functional dynamic equations on time scales, jointly supervised by Marcia Cristina Anderson Braz Federson and Antonín Slavík, based in part on wor...

#1449

Frauke Kreuter

#108840

Overall Influence

Frauke Kreuter is a German sociologist and statistician. She is a professor of the Joint Program in Survey Methodology of the University of Maryland, College Park and a professor in statistics and data science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Her research in survey methodology includes work on sampling error and observational error.

#1450

Johanna Wanka

#80555

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Johanna Wanka is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union who served as Federal Minister for Education and Research in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2013 until 2018. From 2000 to 2009, she served as Minister for Science, Research and Culture of the state of Brandenburg, then from 2010 to 2013 she served as Minister of Science and Culture of the state of Lower Saxony, in the Cabinet McAllister.

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