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

I found my niche, and I have not looked back.

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

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.

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

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

Just give me the seed and I will continue.

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

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.

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

In the challenging socio-economic context of developing countries, knowledge should serve to solve the varied problems faced by our societies.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Dr. Shammi's research will help to fill a crucial gap in the the global understanding of carbon dynamics and greenhouse gas emissions by providing data on one of the world’s largest river systems.

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.

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.