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Diversity in Science: Vote for your most inspiring Scientist

Below are nominations from NTU students this year and some popular ones nominated previously. You can vote for any of them using the link below:

Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

Voting closes at midnight on October 31st 2024 with the scientist receiving the most votes announced on November 3rd 2024.

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Ijeoma Florence Uchegbu

Ijeoma Uchegbu is a Nigerian-British Professor of Pharmacy at University College London where she chairs the Africa and Middle East regional network building partnerships and starting collaborative teams, welcoming international visitors and supporting student recruitment.

She is the Chief Scientific Officer of a nanotechnology company specialising in drug delivery solutions which is her area of expertise and is also works in science public engagement and equality and diversity in STEM.

Vote for Ijeoma Uchegbu Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Joy Buolamwini

Joy Buolamwini is best known for pioneering techniques at MIT to reduce harmful bias from artificial intelligence algorithms in areas of facial recognition having discovered huge disparities in their accuracy.  She has also worked in producing mobile applications to record personal health information and increase responsiveness to warning signs of health challenges from autism to infectious trachoma.

She founded the Algorithmic Justice League which combines art and research to promote public awareness of potential societal implications and harms of AI, as well as promote further research in the area.

Vote for Joy here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Kimberly Bryant

Kimberly Bryant is an African American electrical engineer who worked in the biotechnology field at Genentech, Novartis Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Merck. In 2011, Bryant founded Black Girls Code, a training course that teaches basic programming concepts to black girls who are underrepresented in technology careers.

Vote for Kimberly here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Mark e Dean

Mark Dean joined IBM in 1980 as an engineer while he worked to receive his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He holds three of the company’s nine original patents and worked on the team that developed the original home computer. He also worked to develop the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) systems bus which allowed other devices to connect to a PC.

Dean then went on to get his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He’s also responsible for developing the colour PC monitor and first gigahertz chip.

Vote for Mark here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Tejinder Virdee

Tejinder Virdee is a physicist who in 1990, was one of the founding fathers of the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which in 2012 shared the credit for discovering the elusive Higgs boson.

Vote for Tejinder here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Mazlan Othman

Datuk Mazlan Binti Othman is a Malaysian astrophysicist whose work has pioneered Malaysia’s participation in space exploration. She was her country’s first astrophysicist who helped to create a curriculum in astrophysics at the national university, as well as building public awareness and understanding of astronomy and space issues.

Vote for Datuk here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Ben Carrington

Ben Carrington is a leading scholar on the sociology of race and culture, who works with a particular emphasis on popular culture and sport.

Vote for Ben here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Alvin Holder

Alvin Holder is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Old Dominion University, and his research involves bioinorganic chemistry.  Since the start of his career, he has supported and supervised more than 100 undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral trainees both in Barbados and the U.S.A., many of whom are from underrepresented groups.

Vote for Alvin here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Jason Gill

As a Professor in Cardiometabolic Health, his multi-disciplinary team investigates why certain population groups appear to be particularly susceptible to the adverse effects of a ‘Westernised’ lifestyle and how lifestyle interventions can modulate this excess risk particularly concerning lipid metabolism and insulin sensitivity.

Vote for Jason here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/icams/staff/jasongill/

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Diane Ashiru-Oredope

Leads the national antimicrobial stewardship initiative for secondary care (Start Smart then Focus) and she developed and leads the Antibiotic Guardian campaign which raises awareness about the problem of AMR and the importance of antibiotic stewardship.

In 2015 she was awarded Public Health Pharmacist of the year and in 2016 Outstanding Woman in the Public Sector at the 10th PRECIOUS awards.

Vote for Diane here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist best known for her roles in communicating science (including presenting “The Sky at Night”) and her work on satellites monitoring climate change.

When diagnosed with dyslexia as a child she was told that she should not consider a career in science, but she ended up with 4 A levels and went on to gain a BSc in Physics and a PhD in mechanical engineering.

She continues to inspire new scientists and its estimated she has spoken to over 25,000 children smashing outdated views of science careers, class, ethnicity, and gender.

Vote for Maggie here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Nira Chamberlain

He has used mathematical modelling to investigate a range of real-world problems from modelling running costs of aircraft carriers to calculating risks associated with gas pipelines. He gained his PhD in part to provide his son with a role model in mathematics and was named in 2014 as one of the UK’s top 100 scientists.

When discussing earlier setbacks to his career, he remembered his parents’ words of encouragement “You don't need anybody's permission to be a great mathematician!” He works in outreach a great deal including his popular lecture "The black heroes of mathematics".

Vote for Nira here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Ada Yonath

Ada Yonath is a crystallographer who developed techniques in, cryo bio-crystallography, which are now standard in investigating biological targets.

While being brought up under very poor conditions, working as a Maths tutor to support her studies, in 1970 she created the first and for a decade, the only, protein crystallography lab in Israel and she is now one of only 4 women to win the Nobel prize in Chemistry.

She won the award in 2009 for her work on the structure and function of the ribosome, which helped make clear the action of over 20 antibiotics on this target, leading to breakthroughs in understanding in antibiotic resistance. 

She was the first Israeli women to ever win this award and at the time, the first women to win in 45 years. She continues to lead research in this area.

Vote for Ada here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Mae C Jemison

While most famous as the first African American woman in space, Mae Jemison gained a BSc in Chemical engineering, a BA in African and African American studies, and then went on to gain a medical degree as a physician during which she worked in a refugee camp.

While working as a GP she successfully competed against 2000 other candidates to join NASA, during her space mission as Science Mission Specialist in 1992 she logged over 190hrs of space flight including 127 orbits of the earth during which time she performed a number of key experiments.

Her post NASA career has involved her working tirelessly in promoting science, encouraging minority students’ interest in science, in addition to holding a number of Professorships at leading US universities.

Vote for Mae here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson was one of the mathematicians depicted in the 2006 book and film “Hidden figures”.  For 3 decades she calculated launch windows, trajectories and other flight calculations that put the first American into space, put the first human on the moon and helped develop the space shuttle program.

Her work was held in such regard that astronaut John Glenn would not fly until the computer-based data had been checked by her and her work was instrumental in getting the astronauts of the aborted Apollo 13 mission to be able to navigate a safe return.

She also changed the practice of women not being permitted to have their names on reports they had contributed to, and broke other barriers associated with gender and ethnicity.

Vote for Katherine here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)

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Marie Maynard Daly

Marie M Daly was the first African American woman to receive a PhD in Chemistry in the United States and becoming a Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  She pioneered research in areas such as linking high cholesterol to clogged arteries and the damaging effect of cigarette smoke on lungs.

Her work noting that cells nuclei had high levels of the DNA bases was cited by James Watson as being important in the discovery of DNA. In teaching she was passionate about increasing recruitment of minority students, leading to her creating a Scholarship supporting this aim. 

Vote for Marie here Vote for your favourite Scientist who identifies as minority heritage. Poll ends 31/10/24 (office.com)