Stories.

Tabitha Rajashekar

I realized that studying mathematics made me logical, precise and optimistic in life. The subject helped me gain the confidence and skills to achieve much more than I ever aspired to… →

Looking back, my path has not been linear, and I changed direction more than once; however, what has stayed constant is curiosity, even when the topics and the places were changing. This is also what I like most about mathematics: there is room for many different trajectories, as long as you keep following questions that genuinely interest you… →

Christina Runkel

Becoming part of a mentoring scheme is also some of the advice I would give to my 18-year-old self too — to look out for networking opportunities and mentorship programmes; to find people who have chosen a similar path. .. →

Nishu Kumari

As an Indian woman in mathematics, the environment I trained in featured very few women. It was discouraging sometimes. I feel it would have helped me, if there had been more women doing what I was doing at the time… →

Lisa Hefendehl-Hebeker

After a long career, I am convinced that at every level of learning, it is possible to create an authentic picture of mathematics and convey an impression of how mathematics forms its own world of well-ordered structures with a striking internal consistency, and how this is precisely what makes it so effective in applications… →

Surya Mathialagan

Representation shapes what seems possible, even when no one says it out loud. I feel so incredibly lucky to have crossed paths with (…) incredible women… →

Ilse Fischer

I hope that we will get to a point in the future where a woman can be an excellent mathematician without it being remarked upon as something out of the ordinary… →

Anna Breger

Many little twists and turns have brought me to where I am now and I am absolutely thrilled about my interdisciplinary research project working on image analysis and historical music manuscripts… →

Mihyun Kang

Although mathematics may appear too abstract and detached from real life to most people, everybody has been exposed to hot topics such as digital security or artificial intelligence, which, in fact, rely heavily on progress in mathematics. I therefore strongly believe that maths is invaluable to our society and a field worth pursuing a career in… →

Laura Lewis

It was also at this point in my education where I started to notice the gender imbalance in math and quantum science, where I was the only female pure math major in my year in undergrad. This was not at all specific to Caltech but representative of the field as a whole… →

Alexandra Edletzberger

And I found a new way to use many of the skills I gained during my PhD. As an innovation manager (…) my fundamental knowledge about mathematical modelling is a key asset… →

Kateryna Marynets

Of course, at the end of the day it’s all about hard work, determination and family support —but sometimes, it’s also about that one email that changes everything in your life… →

JoAnne Growney

Perhaps my farm experience helped me to be good at math (…) as my classmates and I moved through high school, my female math ability seemed to make people turn away from me. (…) My teacher (…) was a (…) supportive example of “girls can do math.”.. →

Bindi Brook

(…) My focus has been in trying to understand how diseases like Asthma and other respiratory diseases originate and then progress (…), using approaches from different areas of applied maths… →

Catherine Micek

(…) the most important lesson I learned was that there is no single “correct” way to be a mathematician… →

Anna Ma

The realization that mathematical concepts and theory could directly impact and improve real-world problems…fueled my passion for pursuing further research and applications that bridge theory with practice… →

Michelle Snider

I love being able to apply mathematical thinking to problems perhaps not thought of as classical mathematical problems…I could not have predicted the path that I’ve been on, and certainly would never say that I had a plan all along. I am happy to do lots of different things, but it matters a lot to me who I spend my time with… →