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

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

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

I have to think of something that can help us, that we can use based on resources that we have. The lack of things is the biggest inspiration in my life. I want to help my country.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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