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

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.

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

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

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.

" I can boldly declare that OWSD rewarded my brilliance thus giving me recognition and confidence in my professional arena and placed me in national and international scientific communities.”

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.

OWSD has provided tremendous support in shaping my career as a researcher, science ambassador, role model for women scientists and a "think high" human being.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

“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."

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

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