Tuanku Zara Salim
Tuanku Zara Salim is married to the reigning Sultan of Perak in Malaysia. Before her marriage to the Sultan she was heading an oil and gas consultancy firm based in Kuala Lumpur.
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Temenuzhka Krumova Budinova-Petrova
Bulgarian professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, researching the processing of fossil fuels, biomass and methods for synthesizing high-tech carbon materials.
Suzanne Mathieu
French chemical engineer and advocate for girls in STEM
Sofia Zarafidou
One of Greece’s earliest women to graduate from the National Technical University of Athens in engineering
Vera Vladimirova Mircheva-Tabakova
Vera Vladimirova Mircheva-Tabakova (b. 1939) specialised in the synthesis and application of multiblock copolymers and coatings, holding many patents.
Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno
When Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno (1891-1974) was granted a Diploma as Chemical Engineer, Assayer, Metallurgist and Metallographer in 1917at the Jalisco Free School of Engineering, it was the first engineering degree awarded to any woman in Mexico.
Dr Adesina Aramide Adenike
Nigerian petrochemical academic
Dr Adisa Azapagić
Chemical engineer and academic from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who has worked mainly in the UK
Amparo Barbra Cisneros
Amparo Barba Cisneros was part of the first generation of chemical engineers from Mexico’s National School of Chemical Sciences, and completed her professional exams in 1943.
Dr Anna Ivanovna Glushenkova
Anna Ivanovna Glushenkova (1926-2017), worked most of her chemical engineering career in Uzbekistan, working mainly on extraction of lipids and oils from plants.