Women@TUOS
Female scientists, engineers and mathematicians at the University of Sheffield are being celebrated today (15 October 2013) as part of Ada Lovelace day - a national celebration aimed at raising the profile of women working in STEM subjects across the globe. Often described as the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace was a leading 19th century mathematician and daughter of the poet Lord Byron. She left a lasting legacy as a role model for women around the world. At the University of Sheffield, eminent female academics are also having a significant impact on the world we live in, using their research expertise to tackle issues with a global reach, from food and energy sustainability, to advanced manufacturing and research into human health and disease. Women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) at the University include: o Professor Elena Rodriguez-Falcon: A founder of University of Sheffield Enterprise and Director of Women in Engineering, Elena helps transform people's lives with her engineering expertise, encouraging her students to create technologies to make people's lives easier - resulting in many groundbreaking inventions from writing aids for people with dexterity problems to walking frames for children with brittle bones. o Professor Elizabeth Winstanley: An academic in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Elizabeth's research explores areas such as black holes and quantum field theory in curved space, as well as black holes at the Large Hadron Collider and what neutrinos can tell us about quantum gravity.
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