Meet the Fellows
Our Fellows are a diverse group of talented, self-driven women scientists from the world’s developing and emerging economies.
By applying scientific rigour to solve specific technical issues in their home countries, Fellows are developing powerful solutions – some offering the potential for scale up beyond their local region.
This advanced research also provides the vital scientific basis needed to generate social awareness and propose better policies.
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Each Fellow’s specialized research builds on their own unique lived experience at ground level – from crop survival to community energy supply – shaped by the challenges they encounter every day resulting from imbalanced systems.
Estefania Quenta Herrera
Bolivia
Imperial College London
Postdoct in Ecohydrology and Water Quality
Glaciers are retreating faster than was predicted, which impacting water security in mountain regions worldwide. My research focuses on the assessment of the potential impacts of glacier retreat on...
Evaldie Dominique Durastanti Rabenga Mombo
Gabon
Université des sciences et techniques de Masuku
Study of the environmental impact of past mining activity dedicated to the exploitation of the Franceville Basin deposit
Gabon is a country in Central Africa, its geology subdivided into four (4) major stratigraphic Tectonic units described in a regional context. The study area is the Mounana region in the Haut-Ogoou...
Evaldie Dominique Durastanti Rabenga Mombo
Gabon
University of Strasbourg
Study of the environmental impact of the past presence of mining activity dedicated to the exploitation of the Franceville basin deposit and the influence of Oklo natural nuclear reactors
The genesis of natural nuclear reactors is widely considered unique to the period 2.4 to 1.9 Ga (one billion years ago). This study aims, on the one hand, to assess the post-mining situation throu...
Fabiana Viscarra Agreda
Bolivia
The University of Oklahoma
PHd. in Civil Engineering
My research focuses on validating current design methods for deep foundations, such as piles and piled rafts, using conventional approaches, numerical modeling, and real data from full-scale tests....
Farida Boube Dobi
Niger
Postdoc: Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement (IGE)
Postdoc: Integrated analysis of water storage dynamics and flooding in west Africa using satellite (GRACE) and in-situ data (hydrogeological and geophysical): Focus on sedimentary aquifers of the Niger Basin.
This project combines satellite (GRACE), in-situ data to investigate long-term water storage changes and flood dynamics in West Africa. It aims to optimize GRACE-derived water storage estimates usi...
Farzana Alam
Bangladesh
Imperial College London
Expression of vaccine targets in a Cell-Free Protein Synthesis system based on Pichia pastoris
Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) has emerged as an alternative to using living cells for producing target proteins. It is particularly effective for synthesizing toxic or hard-to-express proteins...
Getrude Kanyairita
Tanzania
Tuskegee University
Industrial Hemp Extracts a Potential Source of Plant-based Pesticides for Environmental Protection
The use of synthetic pesticides has resulted in pollution of the environment and compromise human health. To replace synthetic pesticides, alternative compounds must be searched and medicinal plant...
Gisele Beatrice Sonfack
Cameroon
University of Dschang
Contribution of designing and FPGA-BASED prototyping of a New Analog-to-Digital converter with the Duty-Cycle Modulation technique
This thesis presents a new technique of analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), based on FPGA-assisted optimal duty cycle modulation (ODCM). The ODCM problem is broken down into two decoupled optimal s...
Grace Ofori-Sarpong Akuffo
Ghana
The Pennsylvania State University
PhD in Energy and Minerals Engineering
In gold extraction from refractory gold ores (RGO), pretreatment methods involving heat, pressure, and strong chemicals are essential for releasing gold from complex materials. However, these metho...
Heremerose Matutes
Philippines
Ghent University
PhD in Bioscience Engineering specialization Aquatic Ecology
My PhD research will investigate and model the combined effects of extreme weather events and land degradation on macroinvertebrate communities, traits and food web structure in tropical peatlands ...
Joannie Marlene Bewa
Benin
University of South Florida
Determinants of Hormonal Contraceptive Use among Adolescent Females in Benin Republic
I assessed the personal, behavioral, and environmental barriers and facilitators to contraceptive use. This research demonstrates that advanced knowledge, positive perceptions, and expectancies abo...
Joycelyn Quansah
Ghana
University of Goergia
Microbiological and chemical quality of leafy green vegetables in Accra, Ghana
Leafy green vegetables are rich sources of nutrients and important components of Ghanaian diets. Pre and post harvest activities can affect the safety of vegetables. The study examined vegetable fa...
Kevine Silihe Kamga
Cameroon
University of Yaounde 1
The effects of Ficus umbellata Vahl on models of breast and ovarian cancers and elucidation of mechanism of action: in vitro and in vivo studies
My PhD research project aimed at investigating the antitumor effect of Ficus umbellata and its bioactive compounds and elucidating their mechanism of action. To accomplish this, we evaluated the ef...
Lavinia Mbongo
Namibia
Loughborough University
Development and use of simulated instruments to teach mass spectrometry to undergraduate students
In many developing countries, access to analytical instruments remains a challenge especially for undergraduate students due to high purchase costs, maintenance costs, shorter time allocation of sc...
Lina Gabriela Terrazas Villarroel
Bolivia
IHE Delft and TU Delft
Implementation of environmental tools to assess ecohydrological relationships in Bolivia
My research topic is focused on the influence of hydrological variability in the ecological integrity in a large river system. Studying ecohydrological relationships helps identify critical flow re...