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.

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.

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

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.

The fellowship has really impacted my career. I was working in a university as an Assistant Lecturer, but with the OWSD fellowship I am undertaking a PhD that will allow me to reach the grade of Senior Lecturer.

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

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.

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

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.

All this has broadened my knowledge for this domain of science, gave me an open mind and also allowed me to learn many things.

Just give me the seed and I will continue.

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

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

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.

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.

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