List of female scientists in the 21st century

This is a list of notable women scientists active in the 21st century.

• Mimoza Hafizi (born 1962), Albanian physicist
• Laura Mersini-Houghton, cosmology and theoretical physicist
• Afërdita Veveçka Priftaj (1948–2017), Albanian physicist^[1]

• Yasmine Amhis (born 1982), French-Algerian physicist

• Sonia Álvarez Leguizamón (born 1954), urban anthropologist studying poverty
• Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini (born 1944), Argentine paleontologist and zoologist
• Constanza Ceruti (born 1973), Argentine archaeologist and anthropologist
• Rachel Chan (graduated 1988), led group of research scientists to create more drought resistant seed in Argentina
• Perla Fuscaldo (born 1941), Argentine egyptologist

• Vandika Ervandovna Avetisyan (born 1928), botanist and mycologist; major contributor to knowledge of the flora of her native Armenia
• Ninet Sinaii, epidemiologist

• Carol Armour (fl. 2006), medical researcher specializing in asthma
• Anne Astin (graduated 1976), biochemist active in dairy development
• Katherine Belov (born 1973), Australian geneticist, Tasmanian devil cancer researcher
• Phyllis Butow (fl. 2010s), medical researcher specializing in psycho.oncolocgy
• Clara Chow (fl. 2020), medical researcher specializing in cardiovascular disease
• Suzanne Cory (born 1942), Australian molecular biologist
• Donna Cross (fl. 2011), medical researcher specializing in child heath
• Hannah Dahlen (fl. 2008), medical researcher specializing in midwifery
• Jean Finnegan, Australian scientist, researches flowering processes and epigenetic regulation in plants
• Jane Hall (fl. 2016). health economist
• Carolyn Geczy (fl. 2005), medical researcher in immunology
• Bronwyn Hemsley (fl. 2008), medical researcher specializing in speech pathology
• Camille Goldstone-Henry, Australian businesswoman and wildlife scientist
• Felice Jacka (fl. 2017), medical researcher specializing in nutritional psychiatry
• Cheryl Jones (fl 1994), medical researcher specializing in peaediatroc infectious diseases
• Gisela Kaplan, ornithologist and primatologist noted for her research in animal cognition, communication and vocal behaviour of primates and specifically native Australian birds
• Kate Leslie (born 1962), medical researcher specializing in anaesthesia
• Lyn March (fl. 2004), medical researcher specializing in inflammatory arthritis
• Naomi McClure-Griffiths (born 1975), American-Australian astrophysicist. Discovered a new arm of the Milky Way galaxy
• Michelle Lincoln (fl. 1997), medical researcher specializing in health service delivery in rural communities
• Jessica Melbourne-Thomas (born 1981), marine ecologist and ecosystem modeller with the Australian Antarctic Division
• Sue O'Connor Australian archaeologist, discovered the world's oldest fish hooks which were found in an adult female's grave
• Vanessa Pirotta (fl. 2020s), wildlife scientist employing innovative technologies
• Carol Pollock (fl. 2021), medical researcher specializing in kidney health
• Annamma Dorai Raj (1959–2024), rheumatologist
• Helen Reddel (fl. 2000), researcher specializing in respiratory medicine
• Lesley J Rogers (born 1943), Australian ethologist and neuroscientist, expert in brain laterality
• Moninya Roughan (born 1974), physical oceanographer, expert in the dynamics and warming of the East Australian Current
• Una M. Ryan (born 1966), patented DNA test identifying protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium
• Cathie Sherrington (fl. 2010), geriatrician specializing in fall prevention
• Justine R. Smith (fl. 2015), ophthalmic surgeon specializing in vision research
• Helen Alma Newton Turner (1908–1995), geneticist and statistician, expert on sheep genetics
• Carden Wallace (fl. 1970–), marine biologist and museum director, expert on corals
• Leonie Walsh, first Lead Scientist of Victoria
• Stephanie Watson (fl. 2021), medical researcher specializing in ophthalmology
• Sarah Wayland (fl. 2005), social worker and health researcher
• Rachel Webster (born 1951), astrophysicist, educator
• Mary E. White (1926–2018), paleobotanist

• Elisabeth Binder (graduated 1995), Austrian neuroscientist specializing in anxiety disorders
• Claire F. Gmachl (born 1967), Austrian-born American electrical engineer, educator
• Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Austrian researcher specializing in ecosystem ecology
• Lisa Kaltenegger (born 1977), Austrian astronomer, educator
• Christine Mannhalter (born 1948), molecular biologist
• Elisabeth Ruttkay (1926–2009), Austrian Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeologist
• Eva Schönbeck-Temesy (1930–2011), Hungarian-born Austrian botanist

• Velma Scantlebury (born 1955), first woman of African descent to become a transplant surgeon in the U.S.

• Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician
• Véronique Dehant (born 1959), geodesist and geophysicist
• Véronique Gouverneur (born 1964), chemist, educator, specializing in organic fluorine compounds
• Yaël Nazé (born 1976), Belgian astrophysicist specializing in massive stars

• Sonia Alconini (born 1965), Bolivian archaeologist of the Formative Period of the Lake Titicaca basin
• Kathrin Barboza Marquez (born 1983), Bolivian biologist specializing in bat research

• Mariza Corrêa (1945–2016), anthropologist, sociologist
• Livia Eberlin analytical chemist, co-inventor of the MassSpec pen
• Fátima Ferreira (born 1959), biologist, physician, educator, now vice-rector at the University of Salzburg specializing in molecular allergology
• Dorath Pinto Uchôa (1947–2014), archaeologist
• Lúcia Mendonça Previato (born 1949), biologist
• Alba Zaluar (1942–2019), anthropologist specializing in urban anthropology
• Mayana Zatz (born 1947), molecular biologist and geneticist

• Karen Bailey, plant pathology
• Karen Beauchemin (born 1956), ruminant nutrition research
• Roberta Bondar (born 1945), neurologist, astronaut, educator
• Kirsten Bos, physical anthropologist, molecular paleopathologist
• Lindsay Cahill, chemist
• Juliet Daniel (fl. from 2001), focus on cancer biology
• Martine Dorais, plant physiology, organic horticulture
• Laura Ferrarese, astronomer
• Roberta Gilchrist (born 1965), Canadian archaeologist specializing in medieval Britain
• Sheena Josselyn, Canadian neuroscientist
• Francesca M. Kerton, chemist
• Julia Levy (born 1934), microbiologist, immunologist, entrepreneur
• Mary MacArthur (1904–1959), botanist, cytologist
• Deborah Martin-Downs, aquatic biologist, ecologist
• Diane Massam, linguist
• Natalie Panek, mechanical engineer and space scientist
• Elizabeth Pattey, agricultural meteorologist
• Heather Pringle, writer on archaeology
• Kathleen I. Pritchard, oncologist, breast cancer researcher and noted as one of Reuter's most cited scientists
• Line Rochefort, Canadian ecologist
• Francine Saillant (born 1953), anthropologist, writer
• Sandra Schmid (born 1958), cell biologist
• Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein, animal ethologist
• Sara Seager (born 1971), Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist
• Felicitas Svejda (1920–2016), horticulturalist
• Sandra Witelson, neuroscientist
• Rachel Zimmerman (born 1972), Canadian-born space scientist

• Ligia Gargallo, chemist, educator
• Paula Jofré (born 1982), astronomer and astrophysicist
• María Teresa Ruiz, (born 1946) astronomer
• Veronica Vallejos, marine biologist and Antarctic researcher
• Ana Vásquez-Bronfman (1931–2009), Chilean-French sociologist

• Margaret Chan (born 1947), Chinese (Hong Kong), health specialist, director-general of the World Health Organization
• Zeng Rong, biochemist specializing in proteins
• Jian Xu, CTO at IBM, software engineer
• Zhao Yufen (born 1948), chemical engineer
• Qian Zhengying (1923–2022), Chinese hydrologist and politician
• Lü Zhi (born 1965), giant panda expert and conservationist
• Tu Youyou (born 1930), Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist

• Diana Marcela Bolaños Rodriguez (born 1981), marine biologist studying flat worms and stem cell regeneration
• Ana Maria Rey (born 1976/1977), theoretical physicist
• María del Pilar Jiménez Alzate, medical biological researcher

• Snježana Kordić (born 1964), linguist
• Nina Marković, physicist and professor

• Herminia Ibarra, economist

• Eva Syková (born 1944), neuroscientist researching spinal cord injury

• Anja Cetti Andersen (born 1965), astronomer, astrophysicist
• Lene Hau (born 1959), physicist
• Signe Normand (born 1979), biologist, ecologist, educator

• Idelisa Bonnelly (1931–2022), marine biologist who created first sanctuary in the North Atlantic for humpback whales
• Aída Mencía Ripley, clinical psychologist

• Tuija I. Pulkkinen (born 1962), Finnish space scientist

• Anne Dejean-Assémat (born 1957), biologist researching liver cancer
• Hélène Bergès (born 1966), director of the Plant Genomic Resources Center (CNRGV), plant geneticist
• Rut Carballido Lopez, Spanish-born microbiologist and research director in Paris
• Merieme Chadid (born 1969), Astronomer, Explorer and Astrophysicist
• Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (born 1967), mathematician
• Catherine Feuillet (born 1965), French molecular biologist who was the first scientist to map the wheat chromosome 3B
• Françoise Gasse (1942–2014), paleobiologist specializing in lacustrine sediments
• Laurence Lanfumey (born 1954), French neuroscientist
• Dominique Langevin (born 1947), physical chemist
• Claudine Rinner (born 1965), amateur astronomer
• Martine Tabeaud (born in 1951) French geographer, specialist in climatology
• Fabiola Terzi (born 1961), physician-scientist
• Aurore Avarguès-Weber (born 1983), cognitive neuroscientist

• Andrea Ablasser (born 1983), German immunologist working in Switzerland
• Katrin Amunts (born 1962), prominent neuroscientist involved in brain mapping
• Ulrike Beisiegel (born 1952), German biochemist, researcher of liver fats and first female president of the University of Göttingen
• Sibylle Günter (born 1964), theoretical physicist researching tokamak plasmas
• Hanna von Hoerner (1942–2014), astrophysicist
• Eva-Maria Neher (born 1950), German biochemist, microbiologist
• Nina Papavasiliou, immunologist
• Elisabeth Piirainen (1943–2017), philologist
• Ilme Schlichting (born 1960), biophysicist
• Brigitte Voit (born 1963), chemist

• Lydia Kravraki, computer scientist, professor at Rice

• Dany Bébel-Gisler (1935–2003), Guadeloupean sociolinguist and ethnographer

• Katalin Balázsi (born 1978), material scientist researching nanomaterials and ceramics

• Joyanti Chutia (born 1948), work spans both centuries, focusing on physics
• Seetha Coleman-Kammula (born 1950), Indian chemist and plastics designer, turned environmentalist
• Paramjit Khurana (born 1956), Indian biologist specializing in plant biotechnology
• Shobhana Narasimhan (graduated 1983), Indian physicist, professor of theoretical sciences in Bangalore
• Priyamvada Natarajan (graduated 1993), Indian-born American astronomer, educator
• Manju Ray (1947–2021), Indian biochemist developing anticancer drugs
• Seema Bhatnagar (born 1971), Indian scientist, working in the field of anticancer drug discovery

• Adi Utarini (born 1965), Indonesian public health researcher who works on disease control of dengue fever
• Elizabeth A. Widjaja (born 1951), Indonesian researcher of bamboo taxonomy
• Karlina Leksono Supelli (born 1958), Indonesian philosopher and astronomer
• Pratiwi Sudarmono (born 1952), Indonesian professor of microbiology at the University of Indonesia
• Rose Amal (born 1965), Indonesian-Australian chemical engineer
• Soejatmi Dransfield (born 1939), Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos
• Tri Mumpuni (born 1964), Indonesian independent researcher, social entrepreneur, philanthropist, social activist, and micro-hydropower inventor

• Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017), Iranian-American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University
• Saba Valadkhan (born 1974), Tehran Education:Columbia University an Iranian American biomedical scientist, and an Assistant Professor and RNA researcher at Case Western Reserve University
• Ālenush Teriān (1920–2011), Iranian-Armenian astronomer and physicist and is called 'Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy'
• Mina J. Bissell, Iranian-American biologist known for her research on breast cancer
• Pardis C. Sabeti (born 1975), Iranian-American computational biologist, medical geneticist and evolutionary geneticist
• Roxana Moslehi, genetic epidemiologist, researching cancer and cancer precursors
• Anousheh Ansari (born 1966), Iranian-American engineer and co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems
• Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, AITF Strategic Chair in Information Security at the University of Calgary, Canada

• Lihadh Al-Gazali (born 1950), geneticist, established a registry for congenital disorders in the United Arab Emirates

• Rachel Mamlok-Naaman, Israeli chemist
• Osnat Penn (born 1981), Israeli computational biologist
• Ada Yonath (born 1939), Israeli crystallographer
• Idit Zehavi (born 1969), Israeli astrophysicist

• Maria Abbracchio (born 1956), Italian pharmacologist who works with purinergic receptors and identified GPR17; on Reuter's most cited list since 2006
• Daria Guidetti (born 1978), astrophysicist with the INAF
• Chiara Nappi (born 1951), Italian particle physicist active in the US
• Elisa Oricchio (born 1979), discovered that the protein EphA7 activates the tumor suppressor gene for patients with follicular lymphoma

• Emīlija Gudriniece (1920–2004), Latvian chemist and academic

• Christiane Linster (born 1962), behavioral neuroscientist

• Julie Hanta Razafimanahaka, conservation biologist

• Merieme Chadid (born 1969), astronomer, explorer, and astrophysicist
• Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli (born 1954), known for her contribution to the proof of existence for the Higgs Boson

• Corinne Hofman (born 1959), Dutch archaeologist

• Margaret Brimble (born 1961), chemist, researching shellfish toxins
• Gillian Wratt (born 1954), botanist and Antarctic researcher

• Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye, pharmacologist
• Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe (born 1962), geologist specializing in palynology and sedimentology
• Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi, environmental biochemist, Oréal-Unesco award in 2013
• Grace Oladunni Taylor (born 1937), Nigerian chemist, 2nd woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science
• Omowunmi Sadik (born 1964), chemist, educator
• Margaret Adebisi Sowunmi (born 1939), botanist and environmental archaeologist
• Felicity Okpete Ovai (born 1961), engineer, civil servant, politician

• Tine Jensen (born 1957), psychologist specializing in psychological trauma

• Sara Gill, Pakistani transgender activist and physician

• Virginia Vargas (born 1945), sociologist, writer

• Mónica Bettencourt-Dias (born 1974), biochemist and microbiologist
• Maria Manuel Mota (born 1971), malariologist and executive director of the Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon

• Eugenia Kumacheva, Russian-born chemist, since 1995 teaching in Canada

• Suhad Bahajri (graduated 1975), chemist
• Samira Islam (active since 1971), pharmacologist, educator

• Nataša Pavlović (graduated 1996), mathematician

• Gloria Lim (born 1930), Singaporean mycologist, first woman Dean of the University of Singapore
• Lisa Ng, virologist

• Renée Hložek (born 1983), cosmologist and professor of physics
• Valerie Mizrahi (born 1958), molecular biologist
• Tebello Nyokong (born 1951), South African chemist and cancer researcher
• Jennifer Thomson (born 1947), microbiologist

• Margarita Salas (1938–2019), biochemist, author
• Cari Borrás, medical physicist
• Mercedes Fernández-Martorell (born 1948), anthropologist, educator
• María José García Borge (born 1956), nuclear physicist
• Carme Torras (born 1956), computer scientist specialising in robotics
• Carmen Vela (born 1955), microbiologist, ministerial official, writer

• Ahn In-Young, Antarctic researcher and benthic ecologist
• Chang Kyongae, (born 1946), astrophysicist
• Cho Yoon-kyoung, interdisciplinary researcher
• Choi Sookyung, particle physicist
• Chung Kwang Hwa (born 1948), physicist and president of the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Korea Basic Science Institute, and Korean Vacuum Society
• Jun Mikyoung, statistician
• Kim Eun-Ah (born 1975), condensed matter physicist
• Kim Ju-Lee (born 1969), mathematician, educator, now in the United States
• Kim V. Narry (born 1969), biochemist and microbiologist
• Lee Hong Kum, Antarctic researcher
• Lee Jung-Min, medical oncologist and physician-scientist
• Lim Hyesook (born 1963), electronics engineer, served as Minister of Science and ICT
• Oh Hee, (born 1969), mathematician
• Paik Hanhee, experimental quantum computing researcher
• Park So-Jung (born 1972), chemist
• Park Sukyung (born 1973), mechanical engineer, served as Science and Technology Advisor to President Moon Jae-in from 2020 to 2022
• Pi So-Young (born 1946), physicist
• Seo Eun-Suk (born 1971), astrophysicist
• Soh Chunghee Sarah, sociocultural anthropologist
• Yu Myeong-Hee (born 1954), South Korean microbiologist

• Silvia Arber (born 1968), neuroscientist
• Anita Studer (born 1957), ornithologist and environmentalist

• Yu-Ju Chen, proteogenomics researcher
• Chung-Pei Ma (born 1966), astrophysicist, now in the United States

• Agness Gidna, paleontologist

• Michelle Antoine, neuroscientist
• Jo-Anne Sewlal (1979–2020), arachnologist

• Ayşe Erzan (born 1949), theoretical physicist

• Svitlana Mayboroda (born 1981), mathematician, educator, researching harmonic analysis and partial differential equations
• Maryna Viazovska (born 1984), Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing

• Denise P. Barlow (1950–2017), British geneticist
• Gillian Bates (born 1956), British botanist, educator, Fellow of the Royal Society (2007)
• Alex Bayliss, British archaeologist
• Sue Black (born 1962), British computer scientist
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943), astrophysicist who discovered radio pulsars
• A. Catrina Coleman (born 1956), Scottish electrical engineer, educator
• Mandy Chessell (born c.1965), British computer scientist with IBM
• Jenny Clack (1947–2020), paleontologist, expert on the "fish to tetrapod" evolutionary transition
• Bryony Coles (born 1946), British prehistoric archaeologist
• Janet Darbyshire, British epidemiologist, CBE (2010)
• Annette Dolphin (born 1951), British pharmacologist
• Shahina Farid, British archaeologist, best known for her work as Field Director and Project Coordinator at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey
• Maria Fitzgerald (born 1953), British neuroscientist
• Jane Goodall (born 1934), British primatologist and anthropologist
• Monica Grady (born 1958), British space scientist
• Emily Grossman (born 1978), British cancer researcher and science popularist
• Helena Hamerow (born 1961), British archeologist and specialist in medieval archaeology
• Joanne Johnson (born 1977), geologist, Antarctic scientist
• Tara Keck (born 1978), American-British neuroscientist
• Rachel McKendry (born 1973), chemist and digital public health pioneer
• Linda McDowell (born 1949), British geographer, writer
• Jane E. Parker (born 1960), British botanist who researches the immune responses of plants
• Emma Parmee, British chemist who was one of the leads in the discovery and development of sitagliptin
• Sarah Pett, British medical researcher, immunopathologist, and COVID-19 researcher
• Tracey Reynolds (born 1970s), British sociologist
• Margaret Stanley, British virologist, OBE (2004)
• Jean Thomas (born 1942), Welsh biochemist, educator
• Miriam Tildesley (1883–1979), English anthropologist
• Karen Vousden (born 1957), British medical researcher
• Christine Williams (graduated 1973), British nutritionist, educator

• Carolyn Porco (born 1953), American planetary scientist
• Debra Elmegreen (born 1952), astronomer, educator
• Jill Tarter (born 1944), American astronomer, educator
• Joy Crisp (graduated 1979), American planetary scientist
• Linda Spilker (born 1955), American planetary scientist
• Lucy-Ann McFadden (born 1952), astronomer
• Maria Zuber (born 1958), American planetary scientist
• Martha P. Haynes (born 1951), American astronomer specializing in radio astronomy
• Pamela Gay (born 1973), American astronomer
• Rachel Zimmerman (born 1972), Canadian-born space scientist
• Sandra Faber (born 1944), American professor of astronomy
• Amanda Bosh (fl 1990s), American observational astronomer
• Luisa Rebull (fl 2010s), American astrophysicist

• Athena Aktipis (born c.1981), American professor of evolutionary biology and psychology
• Alice Alldredge (born 1949), American oceanographer and researcher of marine snow, discover of Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) and demersal zooplankton
• Ilkay Altintas (born 1977), Turkish-American supercomputing and high performance computing research scientist
• Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976), Belarusian-American cognitive scientist
• Stephanie Burns (born 1955), organosilicon chemist, business executive
• L. Jean Camp (graduated 1988), computer security expert, professor
• Lu Chen (born 1972), Chinese-born American neuroscientist
• Anne Churchland, American neuroscientist
• Sylvia Earle (born 1935), marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer
• Deborah Estrin (born 1959), American computer scientist, educator
• Katherine Freese (born 1957), theoretical astrophysicist, American professor of physics
• Elizabeth Gershoff, American professor of human development and family sciences
• Candace S. Greene (graduated 1976), American anthropologist, National Museum of Natural History
• Jane Grimwood, microbiologist, from 2000 worked on the Human Genome Project at Stanford
• Lisa Gunaydin, neuroscientist and professor
• Gail Hanson (born 1947), American experimental particle physicist, educator
• Gabriele C. Hegerl (born 1962), climatologist researching natural variability and attribution of climate change
• Patricia Hersh (born 1973), mathematician, educator, researching algebraic and topological combinatorics
• Valerie Horsley, American biologist
• Aletha C. Huston, American professor of child development
• Shirley Ann Jackson (born 1946), American nuclear physicist
• Alice K. Jacobs, American cardiologist, president of the American Heart Association (2004)
• Deborah Jacobvitz, American ecologist
• Karen C. Johnson (born 1955), American physician and clinical trials specialist who is one of Reuter's most cited scientists
• Rosemary Joyce (born 1956), American archaeologist who uncovered chocolate's archaeological record and studies Honduran pre-history
• Renata Kallosh (born 1943), Russian-born American theoretical physicist, educator
• Dina Katabi (born 1970), professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
• Cynthia Keppel, nuclear physicist
• Ann Kiessling (born 1942), American reproductive biologist, educator
• Maria Kovacs, psychologist, educator
• Cynthia Larive, American bioanalytical chemist
• Emily Levesque (born 1984), American astrophysicist
• J. Virginia Lincoln (1915–2003), physicist
• Mariangela Lisanti (born 1983), American theoretical physicist
• Anna Suk-Fong Lok, Chinese/American hepatologist, wrote WHO and AASLD guidelines for liver disease in emerging countries
• Catherine A. Lozupone (born 1975), American microbiologist, working on the gut microbiome, who developed the UniFrac algorithm
• Annie Luetkemeyer (born 1972), American physician and medical COVID-19 researcher
• Silvia Maciá (born 1972), marine biologist
• Carolyn M. Mazure (born 1949), medical researcher
• Sally McBrearty, American palaeoanthropologist and Palaeolithic archaeologist
• Lauren Meyers, American professor of integrative biology
• Jill Mikucki (graduated 1996), microbiologist, Antarctic researcher
• Barbara Haviland Minor, chemical engineer
• Marianne V. Moore (graduated 1975), aquatic ecologist
• Yolanda T. Moses (born 1946), anthropologist, educator
• Catherine J. Murphy (born 1964), American chemist
• Alison Murray (scientist) (graduated 1989), biochemist, Antarctic researcher
• Elizabeth Nance, American chemical engineer
• Anna Nagurney (active since 1996), Ukrainian-American mathematician specializing in operations management
• Ann Nardulli (1948–2018), American endocrinologist
• Elly Nedivi, American neuroscientist
• Ann Nelson (1958–2019), American particle physicist
• Anne B. Newman (born 1955), US geriatrics and gerontology expert
• Lina Nilsson, biomedical engineering
• Karen Oberhauser (born 1956), conservation biologist working with monarch butterflies
• Nataša Pavlović, psychologist
• E. Gail de Planque (1944–2010), nuclear physicist specializing in environmental radiation
• Eva J. Pell (born 1948), American biologist, plant pathologist
• Helen Quinn (born 1943), Australian-born American particle physicist
• Lisa Randall (born 1962), American particle physicist, educator
• Rebecca Richards-Kortum (born 1964), American bioengineer, professor at Rice
• Geraldine L. Richmond (born 1953), American physical chemist, professor at University of Oregon, previous president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Karin Rodland (born 1949), cancer cell biologist; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Laboratory Fellow of the U.S. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Una Ryan, (born 1941), Malaysian born-American, heart disease researcher, biotech vaccine and diagnostics maker/marketer
• Omowunmi Sadik (born 1964), Nigerian-born chemist, Bioanalytical chemistry
• Linda Saif (graduated 1969), American microbial scientist, researching virology and immunology
• Sandra Saouaf, American immunologist researching autoimmune disease
• Velma Scantlebury - see Barbados
• Hazel Schmoll (1890–1990), American botanist
• Christine Siddoway (born 1961), Antarctic geologist
• Caroline M. Solomon, deaf oceanographer and winner of the 2017 Ramón Margalef Award for Excellence in Education
• Carsen Stringer, American computational neuroscientist
• Sharon Stocker, known for discovery of Griffin Warrior Tomb
• Elizabeth C. Theil (graduated 1962), research into iron deficiency anemia
• Sabrina Thompson (born 1985), American aerospace engineer and founder of fashion brand Girl in Space Club
• Krystal Tsosie, geneticist and bioethicist known for promoting Indigenous data sovereignty and studying genetics within Indigenous communities
• Kay Tye (born c. 1981), American neuroscientist
• Gina G. Turrigiano, American neuroscientist
• Lydia Villa-Komaroff (born 1947), American molecular biologist
• Elisabeth Vrba (born 1942), American paleontologist
• Nora Volkow (born 1956), Mexican-American psychiatrist
• Catherine Colello Walker, glaciologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
• Elizabeth M. Ward, American epidemiologist and head of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Research Department of the American Cancer Society
• Rachel Ward, American mathematician
• Christina Warinner, American anthropologist best known for her research on ancient microbiomes
• Petra Wilder-Smith (born 1958), American dentistry and cancer researcher
• Phyllis Wise (graduated 1967), American biologist, educator
• Catherine G. Wolf (1947–2018), American psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction
• Kakani Katija Young (born 1983), American bioengineer
• Hua Eleanor Yu, cancer researcher
• Amy Proal (fl 2010x), American microbiologist

• Mayly Sánchez (born 1972), astrophysicist studying neutrinos, awarded the US PECASE Prize in 2011

• Phạm Thị Trân Châu (born 1938), biochemist
• Hoang Thi Than (born 1944), Vietnamese geological engineer and archaeologist

• Nsofwa Petronella Sampa, psychological counselor and HIV activist

• Idah Sithole-Niang (born 1957), biochemist focusing on cowpea production and disease

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