List of female scientists in the 21st century

This is a list of notable women scientists who have been active in the 21st century. Those whose activities were primarily in the 20th century or before should be added to the List of female scientists before the 21st century

Argentina

• 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

Australia

• Suzanne Cory (born 1942), Australian molecular biologist
• Jean Finnegan, Australian scientist, researches flowering processes and epigenetic regulation in plants

Austria

• Elisabeth Binder (graduated 1995), Austrian neuroscientist specializing in anxiety disorders
• Claire F. Gmachl (born 1967), Austrian-born American electrical engineer, educator
• Lisa Kaltenegger (graduated 1999), Austian astronomer, educator

Belgium

• Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954), Belgian physicist and mathematician

Bolivia

• 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

Brazil

• Fátima Ferreira (born 1959), biologist, physician, educator, now vice-rector at the University of Salzburg specializing in molecular allergology

Canada

• Roberta Bondar (born 1945), neurologist, astronaut, educator
• Sylvia Edlund (1945–2014), botanist
• Julia Levy (born 1934), microbiologist, immunologist, entrepreneur
• Deborah Martin-Downs, aquatic biologist, ecologist
• Diane Massam, linguist
• Heather Pringle, writer on archaeology
• Kathleen I. Pritchard (born 1956), oncologist, breast cancer researcher and noted as one of Reuter's most cited scientists
• Francine Saillant (born 1953), anthropologist, writer

China

• Margaret Chan (born 1947), Chinese (Hong Kong) health specialist, director-general of the World Health Organization

France

• Catherine Feuillet (1965-), French molecular biologist who was the first scientist to map the wheat chromosome 3B
• Laurence Lanfumey (born 1945), French neuroscientist
• Claudine Rinner (born 1965), amateur astronomer

Germany

• Andrea Ablasser (born 1983), German immunologist working in Switzerland
• 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
• Eva-Maria Neher (born 1950), German biochemist, microbiologist
• Ilme Schlichting (born 1960), biophysicist

Greece

• Eleni Antoniadou (born 1988), nanotechnologist working in artificial organ transplantation

India

• 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 (graduated 1969), Indian biochemist developing anticancer drugs

Italy

• Maria Abbracchio (born 1956), Italian pharmacologist who works with purinergic receptors and identified GPR17. On Reuter's most cited list since 2006.
• Chiara Nappi (graduated 1976), Italian particle physicist active in the US

Nigeria

• Grace Oladunni Taylor, Nigerian chemist 2nd woman inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Science

Singapore

• Gloria Lim (1930-), Singaporean mycologist, first woman Dean of the University of Singapore

Spain

• Carmen Vela (born 1955), Spanish microbiologist, ministerial official, writer
• Carme Torras (born 1956), computer scientist specialising in robotics

South Korea

• Myeong-Hee Yu (born 1954), South Korean microbiologist

Switzerland

• Anita Studer, ornithologist and environmentalist

United Kingdom

• Gillian Bates, British botanist, educator, Fellow of the Royal Society (2007)
• Sue Black (born 1962), British computer scientist
• A. Catrina Bryce (born 1956), Scottish electrical engineer, educator
• Mandy Chessell (born c.1965), British computer scientist with IBM
• Janet Darbyshire, British epidemiologist, CBE (2010)
• Linda McDowell (born 1949), British geographer, writer
• Jane E. Parker (born 1960), British botanist who researches the immune responses of plants
• Margaret Stanley, British virologist, OBE (2004)
• Jean Thomas (born 1942), Welsh biochemist, educator
• Karen Vousden (born 1957), British medical researcher

United States

• Alice Alldredge, (born 1949) American oceanographer and researcher of marine snow, discover of Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) and demersal zooplankton
• Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976), Belarusian-American cognitive scientist
• Elzada Clover (1897–1980), American botanist
• Joy Crisp (graduated 1979), American planetary scientist
• Candace S. Greene (graduated 1976), American athropologist, National Museum of Natural History
• Deborah Estrin (born 1959), American computer scientist, educator
• Sandra Faber (born 1944), American professor of astronomy
• Pamela Gay (born 1973), American astronomer
• Jane Grimwood, microbiologist, from 2000 worked on the Human Genome Project at Stanford
• Martha P. Haynes (born 1951), American astronomer specializing in radio astronomy
• Gail Hanson (born 1947), American experimental particle physicist, educator
• Mary Emilie Holmes (1850–1906), American geologist and educator
• Lena B. Smithers Hughes (1905–1987), American botanist
• Shirley Ann Jackson (born 1946), American nuclear physicist
• Alice K. Jacobs, American cardiologist, president of the American Heart Association (2004)
• Rosemary Joyce (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 1971), professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
• Ann Kiessling (born 1942), American reproductive biologist, educator
• 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 emergine countries and liver disease
• Catherine A. Lozupone (born 1975), American microbiologist, working on the gut microbiome, who developed the UniFrac algorithm
• Silvia Maciá (active since 1999), marine biologist
• Anna Nagurney (active since 1996), Ukrainian-American mathematician specializing in operations management
• Ann Nelson (born 1958), American particle physicist
• Anne B. Newman (born 1955), US Geriatrics & Gerontology expert
• Karen Oberhauser (born ca 1956), conservation biologist working with monarch butterflies
• Eva J. Pell (born 1948), American biologist, plant pathologist
• Carolyn Porco (born 1953), American planetary scientist
• Helen Quinn (born 1943), Australian-born American particle physicist
• Lisa Randall (born 1962), American particle physicist, educator
• Linda Saif (graduated 1969), American microbial scientist, researching virology and immunology
• Hazel Schmoll (1890–1990), American botanist
• Jill Tarter (born 1944), American astronomer, educator
• Lydia Villa-Komaroff (born 1947), American molecular biologist
• Elisabeth Vrba (born 1942), American paleontologist
• Nora Volkow (born 1956), Mexican-American psychiatrist
• Catherine G. Wolf (born 1947), American psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction
• Ada Yonath (born 1939), Israeli crystallographer
• Kakani Katija Young (born 1983), American bioengineer
• Rachel Zimmerman, Canadian-born space scientist
• Maria Zuber (born 1958), American planetary scientist

Vietnam

• Phạm Thị Trân Châu (born 1938), biochemist