Taller: Mujeres en la Ciencia (UNA)

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

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

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

I intend to disperse my achieved knowledge as one of the leading researchers in my country in the domain of microbial biotechnology, to support sustainable and prosperous agriculture.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

In today’s scientific environment, in which most PhD scientists concentrate on a single specific discipline, I might shift toward a more systemic view to approach the challenge in infectious diseases.

I’ve been working on reptile and amphibian biodiversity for 10 years, and I know that there are still new species that need to be described.

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.

The main problem in radiotherapy is that most cancer cells are resistant to radiation.

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 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.

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

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