Aurélie Jean, scientific and entrepreneur
Aurélie Jean is a computational scientist with a mind-blowing list of accomplishments. But pursuing her dream has taken courage as well as smarts. While her career has taken off—and taken her around the globe—making it wasn’t always easy in a field where men still outnumber women.
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