List of female scientists in the 21st century

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

Albania

 * Mimoza Hafizi (born 1962), Albanian physicist
 * Laura Mersini-Houghton, cosmology and theoretical physicist
 * Afërdita Veveçka Priftaj (1948–2017), Albanian physicist

Algeria

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

Argentina

 * 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

Armenia

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

Australia

 * Anne Astin (graduated 1976), biochemist active in dairy development
 * Katherine Belov (born 1973), Australian geneticist, Tasmanian devil cancer researcher
 * Suzanne Cory (born 1942), Australian molecular biologist
 * Jean Finnegan, Australian scientist, researches flowering processes and epigenetic regulation in plants
 * Camille Goldstone-Henry, Australian businesswoman and wildlife scientist
 * Gisela Kaplan, ornithologist and primatologist noted for her research in animal cognition, communication and vocal behaviour of primates and specifically native Australian birds
 * Naomi McClure-Griffiths (born 1975), American-Australian astrophysicist. Discovered a new arm of the Milky Way galaxy
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Rachel Webster (born 1951), astrophysicist, educator
 * Mary E. White (1926–2018), paleobotanist

Austria

 * 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

Barbados

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

Belgium

 * 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

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

 * 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

Canada

 * 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
 * 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

Chile

 * 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

China

 * 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

Colombia

 * 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

Croatia

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

Cuba

 * Herminia Ibarra, economist

Czech Republic

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

Denmark

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

Dominican Republic

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

Finland

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

France

 * 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

Germany

 * 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

Greece

 * Lydia Kravraki, computer scientist, professor at Rice

Guadeloupe

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

Hungary

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

India

 * 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

Indonesia

 * 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

Iran

 * 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

Iraq

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

Israel

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

Italy

 * 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

Latvia

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

Luxembourg

 * Christiane Linster (born 1962), behavioral neuroscientist

Madagascar

 * Julie Hanta Razafimanahaka, conservation biologist

Morocco

 * 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

Netherlands

 * Corinne Hofman (born 1959), Dutch archaeologist

New Zealand

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

Nigeria

 * 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

Norway

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

Pakistan

 * Sara Gill, Pakistani transgender activist and physician

Peru

 * Virginia Vargas (born 1945), sociologist, writer

Portugal

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

Russia

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

Saudi Arabia

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

Serbia

 * Nataša Pavlović (graduated 1996), mathematician

Singapore

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

South Africa

 * 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

Spain

 * 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

South Korea

 * 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

Switzerland

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

Taiwan

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

Tanzania

 * Agness Gidna, paleontologist

Trinidad and Tobago

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

Turkey

 * Ayşe Erzan (born 1949), theoretical physicist

Ukraine

 * 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

United Kingdom

 * 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

Astronomy

 * 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

Other fields of study

 * 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
 * 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

Venezuela

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

Vietnam

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

Zambia

 * Nsofwa Petronella Sampa, psychological counselor and HIV activist

Zimbabwe

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