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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

When I am seeing an impact, that’s what makes me as a scientist feel an achievement

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

Just give me the seed and I will continue.

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.

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.