OWSD Sri Lanka: A workshop on ‘Empowering scientists for career success’

" 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.”

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

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

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.

“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."

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 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.

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 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.

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

OWSD's guidance and support allowed me to uncover hidden courage and realize aspects of myself that I never thought I possessed.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 show women that it was possible that when you do agricultural sciences, you can go on and do more for your career development.