Suffrage Science award

The Suffrage Science award is a prize for women in science, engineering and computing founded in 2011, on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day by the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS).^[2][3][4] There are three categories of award:

1. life sciences
2. engineering and physical sciences
3. mathematics and computing.

Suffrage Science Award
Awarded for	"celebrating and inspiring women in science"^[1]
Sponsored by	Medical Research Council
Date	2011 (2011)
Location	London
Country	United Kingdom
Reward(s)	Heirloom jewellery
Website	www.suffragescience.org

The life sciences award was founded in 2011.^[5] Every year there are 10 laureates from research backgrounds and one laureate for communication. The engineering and physical sciences award was founded in 2013.^[6] Every year there are 12 laureates from areas spanning physics, chemistry and more. The math and computing award was launched on Ada Lovelace Day, 2016.^[7] Every year there are five laureates from mathematics, five laureates from computing and one laureate for science communication and the public awareness of science.

Laureates

Laureates have included:

2021

Engineering and Physical Sciences winners are:^[8]

 

Hayaatun Sillem won the award in 2021

• Gaitee Hussain [Wikidata], European Space Agency, The Netherlands
• Syma Khalid, University of Southampton, UK
• Natalie Stingelin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• Ina van Berckelaer-Onnes [Wikidata], Leiden University, The Netherlands
• Hayaatun Sillem, CBE, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK
• Ruth Cameron, University of Cambridge, UK
• Elin Röös [Wikidata], Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
• Maria Dolores Martín Bermudo [Wikidata], Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Spain
• Samaya Nissanke, University of Amsterdam and Nikhef, The Netherlands
• Gerjo van Osch, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
• Valérie Orsat, McGill University, Canada
• Mary Anti Chama, University of Ghana, Ghana

2020

 

Samantha Joye won the award in 2020

Life Sciences award^[9][10] winners are:

• Kelly Nguyen (scientist) [Wikidata], MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology^[11]
• Naomi Matsuura [Wikidata], University of Toronto, Canada
• Elspeth Garman, University of Oxford, UK^[12]
• Veronique Miron, University of Edinburgh, UK^[13]
• Cécile Martinat [Wikidata], I-STEM, France^[14]
• Zena Werb, University of California, San Francisco, USA^[15]
• Samantha Joye, University of Georgia, USA^[16]
• Gisou van der Goot, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
• Karalyn Patterson, University of Cambridge, UK
• Laura Colgin [Wikidata], University of Texas Austin, USA
• Claudia Mazzà, University of Sheffield, UK

 

Wendy Mackay won the award in 2020.

Maths and Computing award winners are:

• Rhian Daniel [Wikidata], Cardiff University
• Juhyun Park [Wikidata], Lancaster University, UK, and ENSIIE, France
• Apala Majumdar, University of Strathclyde
• Bianca de Stavola [Wikidata], University College London
• Sara Lombardo, Loughborough University
• Wendy Mackay, Inria, Paris-Saclay, France
• Yvonne Rogers, University College London
• Alexandra Silva, University College London^[17]
• Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London
• Sue Sentance,^[18] King’s College London Raspberry Pi Foundation
• Anne-Marie Imafidon, STEMettes

2019

 

Karen Holford won the award in 2019.

Engineering and Physical Sciences^[19]

• Moira Jardine^[20]
• Sarah Harris
• Róisín Owens^[21]
• Tiny de Keuster Universiteit Gent^[22]
• Karen Holford CBE FREng
• Serena Best^[23]
• Tara Garnett
• Isabel Palacios
• Amina Helmi^[24]
• Sue Kimber
• Marzieh Moosavi-Nasab
• Melinda Duer

2018

 

Nina Snaith won the award in 2018.

Life sciences:

• Cathy Price
• Rebecca Voorhees [Wikidata]
• Claire Rougeulle
• Denise Head
• Jenny Martin
• Anna Wu
• Mikala Egeblad
• Irene Miguel-Aliaga
• Anat Mirelman
• Elizabeth Bradbury^[25][26]
• Susan M. Gaines

Maths and Computing^[27]

• Ruth Keogh [Wikidata]
• Tereza Neocleous
• Nina Snaith^[28]
• Daniela De Angelis
• Eugenie Hunsicker
• Sally Fincher
• Julie McCann
• Jane Hillston
• Ursula Martin
• Hannah Dee
• Vicky Neale

2017

 

Sheila Rowan won the award in 2017.

Engineering

• Lyndsay Fletcher^[29]
• Sarah Staniland [Wikidata]^[29]
• Rylie Green^[29]
• Kerstin Meints [Wikidata]^[29]
• Sheila Rowan^[30]
• Cathy Holt^[29]
• Sabine Gabrysch [Wikidata]^[29]
• Marta Vicente-Crespo^[29]
• Marileen Dogterom^[29]
• Sheila MacNeil^[29]
• Zohreh Azimifar^[29]
• Sharon Ashbrook^[29]

2016

 

Lori Passmore won the award in 2016.

Life sciences:

• Kia Nobre
• Lori Passmore
• Déborah Bourc'his
• Uraina Clark
• Michelle James
• Marja Jäätelä  [Wikidata]
• Corinne Houart
• Sally John
• Catherina Becker
• Pippa Goldschmidt^[31]

Maths and computing:

 

Christl Donnelly won the award in 2016.

• Christl Donnelly ^[32]
• Jane Hutton^[32]
• Frances Kirwan^[32]
• Sylvia Richardson^[32]
• Gwyneth Stallard^[32]
• Ann Blandford^[32]
• Muffy Calder^[32]
• Leslie Ann Goldberg^[32]
• Wendy Hall^[32]
• Carron Shankland [Wikidata]^[32]
• Celia Hoyles^[32] DBE FAcSS FIMA
• Shafi Goldwasser^[32]
• Marta Kwiatkowska^[32] FRS MAE
• Emma McCoy^[32]

2015

 

Polly Arnold won the award in 2015.

• Lucie Green^[33]
• Lorna Dougan [Wikidata]^[33]
• Anne Vanhoestenberghe [Wikidata]^[33]
• Susan Condor , Loughborough^[33]
• Anne Neville^[34] OBE FRS FRSE FREng FIMechE
• Ruth Wilcox, Leeds^[33]
• Anna Goodman (scientist) [Wikidata] London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)^[33]
• Silvia Muñoz-Descalzo [Wikidata] University of Bath^[33]
• Patricia Bassereau [Wikidata], Curie institute^[33]
• Alicia El Haj^[33]
• Tamsin Edwards^[33]
• Polly Arnold^[33] OBE FRS FRSE FRSC

2014

 

Anne Ferguson-Smith won the award in 2014.

• Irene Tracey
• Shannon Au
• Anne Ferguson-Smith^[31]
• Xiaomeng Xu
• Jane Endicott
• Sarah Bohndiek^[35]
• Anja Groth [Wikidata]
• Kate Storey
• Eleftheria Zeggini
• Lynda Erskine [Wikidata]
• Jennifer Rohn^[36]

2013

 

Kathy Sykes won the award in 2013.

• Julia Higgins^[37]
• Molly Stevens^[37]
• Lesley Yellowlees^[37]
• Eileen Ingham^[37]
• Jennifer Nichols ^[37]
• Sally Macintyre^[37]
• Susan Gathercole^[37]
• Clare Elwell^[37]
• Petra Schwille^[37]
• Maggie Aderin-Pocock^[37]
• Kathy Sykes^[37]

2012

 

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi won the award in 2012.

• Emily Holmes
• Tracey Barett^[31]
• Nicole Soranzo^[31]
• Bianca Acevedo^[31]
• Francoise Barre-Sinoussi^[31]
• Elizabeth Murchison^[31]
• Edith Heard^[31]
• Marysia Placzek^[31]
• Sarah Teichmann^[31]
• Christiana Ruhrberg^[31]
• Georgina Ferry [Wikidata]^[31]

2011

 

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore won the award in 2011.

• Sarah-Jayne Blakemore^[31]
• Mary Collins^[31]
• Sally Davies^[31]
• Helen Fisher^[31]
• Vivienne Parry^[31]
• Sohaila Rastan^[38]
• Elizabeth Robertson^[31]
• Janet Thornton^[31]
• Fiona Watt^[31]
• Brenda Maddox^[31]

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