Professor of Biological and Social Epidemiology at ISER, Meena Kumari, has ranked 36th of all UK female scientists in 2026 – and 390th in the world – according to Research.com.
Meena is a leading expert in biomarkers and genetics, and has worked to apply insights from these areas to better understand ageing, cardiovascular disease, and health inequalities using the Whitehall II cohort study of British civil servants and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. She remains an Honorary Professor at UCL.
Meena is the topic champion for health and biomarker content and research in Understanding Society and continues to lead research on the social-biological interface and genetic epidemiology as an investigator for the study.
Additionally Professor Kumari leads the Centre for Doctoral Training in Biosocial Research (Soc-B) at Essex University (in collaboration with UCL and University of Manchester).
Announcing the ranking, Research.com said “Our goal with this ranking is to increase the visibility of outstanding female researchers whose work drives global scientific progress.”
You can view the full world ranking here and the ranking for the United Kingdom here.