" 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.”

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

“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."

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.

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

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

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

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 really want to do something for my country. Being part of the Sudan national chapter has given me that chance.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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