OWSD Zimbabwe National Chapter Presents: "Personal Branding as Women in Science" Whatsapp Event

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 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.

Just give me the seed and I will continue.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

OWSD fellowship represents a real empowering difference in my life and career

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.