Women in Imaging

The EPFL Center for Imaging highlights the careers of fifteen scientists who have contributed or are contributing significantly to imaging science, but whose contributions sometimes go unnoticed by a large part of the scientific community and/or society.

The exhibit is divided into three parts:

  1. The portraits of three women researchers who have had a major impact on the history of imaging;
  2. The portraits of six EPFL women professors;
  3. The portraits of six scientists currently active worldwide.

We present a non-exhaustive list of the major contributions made by these pioneering and inspiring women, but their impact goes far beyond that!

We therefore encourage you to take a closer look at the profiles of those who have caught your curiosity!

We also hope that this exhibition will inspire you, whoever you are, to pursue your passion for science, and to recognize the importance of diversity and equity in scientific fields.


In history

Marie Curie

Pioneer in mobile radiology

Rosalind Franklin

Key player in the discovery of DNA structure

Virginia Norwood

Pioneer in satellite imaging

At EPFL

Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk and Prof. Mackenzie Mathis

School of Computer and Communication Sciences and School of Life Sciences

Prof. Suliana Manley and Prof. Aleksandra Radenovic

School of Basic Sciences and School of Engineering

Prof. Sarah Kenderdine and Prof. Katrin Beyer

College of Humanities and School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Worldwide

Donna Strickland and Ingrid Daubechies

Canadian physicist and Belgian mathematician

Rabab K. Ward et Avideh Zakhor

Lebanese engineer and Iranian-American computer scientist

Katie Bouman et Jelena Kovačević

American engineer and Serbian engineer