" 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.”

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

“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."

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.