First chapter meeting

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Just give me the seed and I will continue.

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 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 found my niche, and I have not looked back.

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

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.

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.