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21st-century French women scientists

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Moroccan astronomer and researcher

Françoise Combes

French astrophysicist and President of the French Academy of Sciences

French space geodesist and space oceanographer

Christine Petit

Human geneticist

Claudine Rinner

French astronomer

Marylou Vanina Mayniel (born 23 April 1993), better known by her stage name Oklou (pronounced "Okay Lou"; ), is a French musician from Poitiers. Her debut mixtape Galore was released in 2020, which was followed up by her debut album Choke Enough in 2025.

French and Tunisian mathematician

French ecologist

Brigitte Kieffer

French neurobiologist

Brigitte Boisselier

Athina Coustenis

Greek astrophysicist (1961-)

French computer scientist and artificial intelligence specialist

Françoise Gasse

French paleobiologist, climatologist and hydrologist, first woman to receive the Vega Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

Mireille Bousquet-Mélou

French mathematician

Dominique Langevin

French physicist

Audrey Delsanti

French astronomer

Anne Dejean-Assémat

French biologist

Pascale Braconnot

French climatologist

French archaeologist of middle eastern cultures

Danièle Aron-Rosa

French ophthalmologist and painter

Nicole Capitaine

French astronomer

Katell Berthelot

French religious historian (1972-)

Sophie Body-Gendrot

French sociologist (1942–2018)

Catherine Feuillet

French geneticist

Marie-Agnès Letrouit-Galinou

French botanist, mycologist, and lichenologist

Sihem Amer-Yahia

Algerian computer scientist

Isabelle Chuine

French ecologist and researcher