OWSD Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan Women in Science and Engineering: Beyond Pandemics and Disasters

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Just give me the seed and I will continue.

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

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

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.

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.