10 Current scientists who broke stereotypes that many people have about what female researchers are like

Beauty attracts attention, but at the same time gives rise to many stereotypes. For example, a survey by the British universities of Essex and Cambridge revealed that scientific discoveries made by researchers who are more physically attractive arouse interest and distrust at the same time: the more beautiful the scientist, the lower the expected quality of his work.

However, beyond common sense, the fact is that there is ample evidence that beauty and intelligence go hand in hand. In this post you will find more information about it.

O awesome.club is convinced that there is a false dilemma in the relationship between physical appearance and intellect. And that a researcher capable of great scientific discoveries does not necessarily need to be a guy with bottle-necked glasses, disheveled hair and a wrinkled lab coat — the caricature that most people unfortunately still have of this career.

Suzannah Lipscomb is a British teacher, historian, radio and television presenter and author of six books. In March 2018, Suzanne released a series of multimedia files (podcast), in which she told the story of England and, in May of the same year, she received an award for best content of this genre.

In addition, over the past six years, the historian has produced 13 historical documentaries, which have aired on popular British channels.

Lera Boroditsky, born in Belarus, is a professor, psycholinguist, cognitive science specialist, and researcher in the field of language and cognition. The magazine Utne Reader even included Lera in the list of 25 people whose ideas changed the world. The researcher’s reports and lectures show another perspective on a controversial issue: the discussion about whether the language we speak influences our thinking and our behavior.

Lera leads an active lifestyle: she lectures popular science to the general public, plays sports and loves fishing.

Mary-Ann Ochota is a British anthropologist and author of several documentaries that raise important social issues. One of the most difficult issues she tackled was the study of the life and psychology of “wild” children, defined as those who were raised by or with animals or who survived for a significant period away from contact with society.

Mary-Ann is always willing to travel to give talks or discuss with other experts and is an extremely active professional who is committed to her work. She has a blog on the newspaper’s website The Independent, writes regularly to The Daily Telegraphhas published two books, is committed to charities, has professional first aid skills, is an orienteer, is a keen diver, horseback rider and sailor.

Liz Bonnin is French, author of scientific series, biochemist and biologist and scholar of wild animals. Liz started her professional career in an Irish pop music group, but she liked the profession of television presenter more. After shooting a documentary about tigers in one of India’s national parks, she put her work on entertainment programs on hold and decided to focus on science.

Liz has produced more than 40 programs about animals and their rescue, but has recently expanded her field of activity and now also looks at issues related to other environmental problems: she showed petrels (seabirds) with plastic in their stomachs, visited illegal landfills in Malaysia, where other countries send their garbage, and met with Indonesian fishermen, forced to collect garbage for a living.

Suzie Sheehy is an Australian physicist and researcher at the University of Oxford. She received an award for her work studying particle dynamics at the Large Hadron Collider and developed an educational program for children and young people aged 11 to 18, demonstrating that science can be fun.

Parisa Tabriz is an American computer engineer specializing in cybersecurity and director of software development for Google. She is simply responsible for the security of Google Chrome — perhaps the browser you are reading this post with.

In 2007, Parisa found her job title described on her business card, “information security engineer”, to be boring. Therefore, she decided to change it to “princess of security”, considering her long and successful experience against piracy. In addition, Parisa became the prototype of the main character of the children’s book Ara the Star Engineer 🇧🇷Ara, the star engineer🇧🇷

Rachel Armstrong is a British professor of experimental architecture and a pioneer in the development of sustainable materials. Rachel studies an innovative approach to the construction industry, which she calls “living architecture”. This approach assumes that some properties of living systems can be exploited in the construction of buildings: a bioreactor that extracts valuable resources from sunlight, wastewater and air and transforms them into oxygen, proteins and biomass, from which materials are developed of construction.

Deborah Berebichez is a Mexican physicist specializing in Analytical Physics, television presenter, teacher and businesswoman. She is often invited to participate in television programs as an expert, as she can easily explain Physics with examples from everyday life.

Debbie Sterling is an American engineer, entrepreneur and founder of GoldieBlox, an interactive toy company for girls that, in 2014, was ranked one of the most innovative in the world. Debbie got the idea to create products for girls after she realized at a children’s fair that technical toys were aimed primarily at boys.

Anousheh Ansari is an Iranian-American electrical engineering scientist and founder and president of Internet systems company Prodea Systems. Anousheh speaks English and French fluently, and in order to perform the spaceflight, she learned to speak Russian. Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), she performed a series of experiments and became the first female tourist to pay to travel into space.

What do you think of these women? Do you also believe that there are many stereotypes associated with appearance in the world of science?