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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We’re waiting to get new opportunities for our future…We stay in our country, we try our best.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

" 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.”

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.