上海女性科学家出现在前沿无人机研究领域 - 2018年07月06日

A Shanghai inventor of unmanned vessels is not only distinguished for her work but also distinctive because she is a woman in a male-dominated scientific community.

Peng Yan, 36, is director of Shanghai University’s Research Institute of Unmanned Surface Vehicles Engineering. Her work has led to inventions used to monitor safety conditions in the Huangpu River, detect water quality after oil spills in the East China Sea and explore what’s above and under the ice in Antarctica.

The British scientific journal “Nature,” on its website on May 2, published an article entitled “Close the Gender Gap in Chinese Science.” It noted that only about one-quarter of China’s scientific workforce last year and just 6 percent of the members of the Chinese Academy of Science were women.