Due to the war in Yemen, I had stopped studying for two years. This opportunity gave me the chance to complete my postgraduate studies.

My dear girls in science: be strong, inquisitive, curious, assertive, resilient, and focused. Go for gold!

When you are following your passion, people will always see what you are doing. People will see that you are doing something different, and they will help you.

I have to think of something that can help us, that we can use based on resources that we have. The lack of things is the biggest inspiration in my life. I want to help my country.

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.

OWSD's guidance and support allowed me to uncover hidden courage and realize aspects of myself that I never thought I possessed.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I wanted to do applied physics, not theoretical physics… I really wanted to use all of the knowledge that I acquired at university to explain our environment.

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

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 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.