Women in Science

As a little girl, Linda Kidder would visit her grandmother’s farm in rural Pennsylvania. One with barns, machinery, and an assortment of animals.

By day, Mandy Campbell is a scientist. She’s a biomedical scientist in fact, who helps diagnose and find cures for diseases.

But by night, she’s a biker chick.

“This experience made me interested in regeneration. It continuously occurs in our body,” Sakiko said. “This is my motivation for my job.”

As a young child growing up in Kyoto, Japan, Atsuko Yano would watch a television series called the NHK Special. 

When she was younger, Johnstone liked taking things apart to see how they worked. She was always helping her dad fix things.

Logic and rainbows. That’s what got Nikki Kuhar, also known as Nikki K., started down the path of science.

HORIBA applications scientist Sofia Gaiaschi grew up in a small village in the east suburbs of Milan, Italy. The kind of village where everyone knows everyone else.

Michelle Sestak always liked to tinker with things. Even if it was just assembling a piece of furniture, she had a constant curiosity about the way things worked.

It is an old Chinese saying.  If there is a paradise in the heavens, you will find it on earth in Hangzhou.

She is HORIBA Scientific’s Applications Specialist for the company’s Optical Spectroscopy Division.

Linxi Chen grew up in the river-rich city of Wuhan in Central China. It features the country’s longest waterway, the Yangtze, which translates to “long river.”

Kurt Lehovec had a background in physics and material science. European-born, he passed his passion for the sciences onto his daughter Susan.

A small girl from the Middle East learns her love of science, passion for biomedical engineering and a way to help others see interactions on an elemental scale.

Growing up in Philadelphia, Fran Adar liked to read and play the piano. But it wasn’t until high school chemistry, when she first saw the Periodic Table of Elements, that Adar found her true passion.