Women in STEM
Looking for role models, mentors, speakers and generally amazing people working in science, technology, engineering and maths ?
We’re proud to have profiled more than 75 women in STEM and look forward to bringing you many more stories of people combining STEM with their ‘X’ – their passion, interest or another field.
Muireann Irish
Cognitive neuroscientist
Encyclopedias, Alzheimer’s and a drive to help others. That’s what kicked off the career of cognitive neuroscientist and Superstar of STEM, Muireann Irish.
Ally Watson
Code Like A Girl
Developer Ally Watson co-founded Code Like A Girl to combat gender stereotypes and help young women find their passion in coding.
Fatemeh Salehi
Fluid flow expert
Dr Fatemeh Salehi's fluid flow models are advancing cleaner combustion engines and drug delivery systems.
Maddison Miller
Indigenous archaeologist
Can a career in archaeology bring you closer to your own culture? Darug woman, Maddison uses Indigenous knowledge to inform smarter futures.
Jessica Ong
BiG aspirations
Jessica Ong is an IT student at UTS using her smarts to educate kids in groundbreaking tech at the ACS Foundation BiG Day In Jnr events.
Olivia Hutchinson
Systems Eng Grad
Systems Engineering Defence graduate Olivia Hutchinson ensures systems meet human needs.
Merritt Moore
Dancing with Physics
Merritt shows us how to become a professional dancer... and a physicist too!
Helena Kertesz
Expert ‘bot builder
Meet Helena Kertesz, the UNSW student building robotic insects and Mars rovers as president of student space society, BlueSat.
Amanda McGilchrist
100% coder
Amanda scored an impressive 100% on her Grok Learning Web.Comp website. She shows us what it takes to become a 100% coder.
Sarah Tan
Google ‘fiver’
Sarah Tan is one of Google's Creative Lab 2018 'Fivers'.