If you love math—really love math—like Mina Teicher, it invites you into an elegant universe where rationality and reason rule. As a teen, Mina wanted other girls to appreciate and understand math as she did; it was discouraging when she saw them dumbing down their talents so boys wouldn’t be intimidated. It was the beginning of a lifelong journey for Mina that took her to the top of the mathematics world, doing research, teaching, contributing to our understanding of the human nervous system, and serving as chief scientist at Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology as well as Vice President for Research at Bar-Ilan University. Along the way, Mina worked to help pass new rules requiring Israeli universities to give women greater latitude to meet certain academic requirements if they are also new mothers.

Today, Mina is a Research Professor of Mathematics at the University of Miami and running a multilevel program to Advance Women in Mathematics Across the Americas (WIMSA). She’s also director of the Emmy Noether Institute for Mathematics, named for a woman mathematician so brilliant that Albert Einstein consulted her as he developed his Theory of Relativity (while her own university refused to grant her a professorship or even pay her for teaching). Learn more about Mina and her mission to support more women to rise and thrive in the worlds of academia and technology.