My position is that we should acknowledge what we are lacking of, so that we can keep working.

" 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.”

Just give me the seed and I will continue.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

“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.

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.

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

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.

I found my niche, and I have not looked back.

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