From reimagining materials to formulating more efficient fuels, women innovators are helping Aramco to drive technological advances across our operations. Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, by highlighting our ongoing efforts to champion science, engineering, technology and mathematics to equip students with the skills needed to become the innovators of tomorrow.
Innovation
Women innovators at Aramco are also breaking new ground across a range of disciplines from helping to formulate fuels technologies, to chemical research and mechanical development.
Indeed, our female researchers have been named as inventors on more than 500 granted U.S. patents.
Among our trailblazers is Dr. Nadrah Alawani, who holds a PhD in analytical chemistry and specializes in petroleomics, which is about understanding the molecular characteristics of oil.
“Studying oil at this level is extraordinarily powerful across the value chain, for solving flow assurance issues, for feed selection and blending, and for catalyst development. It helps our researchers to optimize Aramco’s products,” Dr. Alawani told Elements magazine.
Elsewhere Dr. Anaam Al-ShaikhAli is helping to increase our understanding of different materials while mapping the surface and sub-surface structure of any soil material.
#GirlsWill
Through its global citizenship program, Aramco works with partners to encourage more women into historically male-dominated disciplines such as motorsport.
Aramco Europe, in partnership with the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team, recently hosted 100 students at Silverstone Museum as part of the annual #GirlsWill campaign to inspire girls and young women by showcasing motorsport career opportunities.
They heard from Jessica Hawkins, head of F1 Academy, who shared her own journey in the sport.
“Seeing women contribute to motorsport at such a high level has been really inspiring and made me feel confident enough to pursue my dream career in the industry,” said one of the participants.
Women of Science
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will today celebrate the 10th anniversary of International Day of Women and Girls in Science by exploring the critical role of women in scientific innovation at the day-long Her Voice in Science event at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. It is open to the public to attend virtually and in-person.
The event will include the screening of the documentary Women of Science , which charts the journeys of six women scientists from across Europe and the challenges they have encountered along the way.
While pioneers such as Marie Curie have long shown how women can lead scientific discovery, today less than two in every five STEM graduates are women, while just one in three scientists worldwide is a woman, UNESCO estimates.
