Celebrating OWSD's 2024 PhD Graduates
December 09, 2024
Fourteen women scientists from 10 countries in the developing world have graduated with their doctorates.
Every year, we celebrate those OWSD PhD fellows who have recently graduated with their PhDs and are ready to embark on the next phase of their careers. These women leave their home countries to carry out either a full-time PhD programme or research visits at institutes abroad, often leaving behind family, friends, and jobs to pursue their passions. From an entomologist characterizing leishmaniasis-carrying sandflies in Sudan, to a food scientist from Ethiopia working to improve the stability of sesame oil, to an earth scientist studying the environmental impact of gold mining in Cameroon, they are already making big changes to a world that needs their vision, their ideas and their talent.
We congratulate the new Drs., and wish them luck with what comes next!
PhD Graduates
Kamal Ibrahim Ahmed Riham
2014 fellow
PhD awarded from: University of Cape Town, South Africa
Title of PhD: Mathematical modelling of growth factor induced cell migration in 3D engineered matrices
Rabia António Canda Zimba
2019 fellow
PhD awarded from: Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Brazil
Title of PhD: Lipid sources associated with forage palm in the diet of lactating goats
Emilienne Houevo Dai
2020 fellow
PhD awarded from: University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Title of PhD: Potential for the ‘bush banana’ Uvaria chamae P. Beauv. domestication in Benin: biogeography, morphological variability and ethnobotany
Sabine Danala Danga
2019 fellow
PhD awarded from: University of Ngaoundere
Title of PhD: Environmental impact of gold mining in the locality of Kombo-Laka (Adamaoua plateau, Cameroon): contribution of morphology, mineralogy and geochemistry of soils, sediments and mining waste
Juliana Mana Edor
2019 fellow
PhD awarded from: North-West University, South Africa
Title of PhD: Novel pyridyl-formamidine based complexes: Synthesis, coordination behaviour and catalytic applications
Arwa Elaagip
2013 fellow
PhD awarded from: University of Khartoum, Sudan
Title of PhD: Leishmaniasis vectors and their blood meals in Sudan: Molecular characterization and transcriptomic analysis
Nyepudzai Charsline Gatsi
2020 fellow
PhD awarded from: University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Title of PhD: Optimization of gallium oxide (Ga2O3) nanomaterials for gas sensing applications
Abrehet Fisseha Gebremeskel
2018 fellow
PhD awarded from: Egerton University, Kenya
Title of PhD: Hazard analysis critical control points and application of natural antioxidant in crude sesame oil stability: The case of the small - scale processing plants in Western Tigray, Ethiopia
Maureen Gumbo
2019 fellow
PhD awarded from: Midlands State University, Zimbabwe
Title of PhD: Catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to formate using metal-organic frameworks as support materials for molecular complexes
Regina Nakiranda
2021 fellow
PhD awarded from: North-West University, South Africa
Title of PhD: Immune response of 6 to 9-month-old infants receiving an egg daily as complementary food: A randomised controlled trial
Tasabeeh Alabid Osman Jafer
2018 fellow
PhD awarded from: University of Pretoria, South Africa
Title of PhD: Migration and aggregation of ruthenium implanted in glassy carbon
Pascaline Sanga
2021 fellow
PhD awarded from: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)
Title of PhD: Preparation of MXene functionalized nanomaterials and their application for removal of pharmaceutical pollutants from water
Nokuphila Winifred Nompumelelo Simelane
2022 fellow
PhD awarded from: University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Title of PhD: Investigation of photodiagnostic and targeted photodynamic therapy on colorectal tumour spheroids
Joan Talibawo
2019 fellow
PhD awarded from: University of Rwanda, Rwanda
Title of PhD: Synthesis and characterization of hematite-based nanorods for photoelectrochemical water splitting
