Winning this award opened many doors for me. It has led to success in acquiring local funding.

I desire to see my country, Nigeria, become a leading destination for impactful clinical studies.

I wanted to show women that it was possible that when you do agricultural sciences, you can go on and do more for your career development.

When I am seeing an impact, that’s what makes me as a scientist feel an achievement

OWSD fellowship represents a real empowering difference in my life and career

If we do research, in addition to establishing connections with other researchers, we must also communicate and do a lot of outreach in order to share our science with the community.

In today’s scientific environment, in which most PhD scientists concentrate on a single specific discipline, I might shift toward a more systemic view to approach the challenge in infectious diseases.

When I got my OWSD fellowship, it was an amazing feeling. Before getting the letter, my academic career was a dream, the letter made it possible.

The main problem in radiotherapy is that most cancer cells are resistant to radiation.

I intend to disperse my achieved knowledge as one of the leading researchers in my country in the domain of microbial biotechnology, to support sustainable and prosperous agriculture.

My position is that we should acknowledge what we are lacking of, so that we can keep working.

I want to be in the boardroom. I want to be part of the policy mechanism. I want my influence to go higher than the classroom.

All this has broadened my knowledge for this domain of science, gave me an open mind and also allowed me to learn many things.

The fellowship has really impacted my career. I was working in a university as an Assistant Lecturer, but with the OWSD fellowship I am undertaking a PhD that will allow me to reach the grade of Senior Lecturer.

“Ten to fifteen years from now, people, not only in Kenya but in the African continent, will switch to magnetic refrigeration”

I’ve been working on reptile and amphibian biodiversity for 10 years, and I know that there are still new species that need to be described.

After my postdoc, I will return to Syria and work to achieve my big dream, which is to establish a research center.

You must first be safe to be able to think about the environment.

I really want to do something for my country. Being part of the Sudan national chapter has given me that chance.

What has surprised me is the way technology is emerging and affecting the current state of research. We are encountering a fourth industrial revolution that entails advances in computing power, quantum computing and artificial intelligence, which has already been shown to alter the way we conduct research.