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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Just give me the seed and I will continue.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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