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.

The OWSD award helped me not only to become the researcher I am today, but also to become a leader in research.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

What fascinated me is that only 5% of microorganisms are harmful, and the rest are beneficiary.

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.

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 owe ‘what’, ‘who’ and ‘where’ I am in my career and professional practice today to OWSD because without the PHD Fellowship, all my achievements today would have been nothing but bleak.

By creating links between food research and industry, she hopes to enhance food security both in Ghana and in Africa as a whole.

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.

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

“Am very proud to say that I am encouraging other Cameroonian female scientists to apply for the OWSD fellowship programme and some of them have obtained the grant."

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.

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

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