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
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...
Flora Kalaba Chitalu
Zambia
University of Leeds
Improved combustion characteristics of faecal sludge derived char as a sustainable alternative to wood charcoal.
My work investigates methods to improve the combustion properties of faecal sludge-derived char as a sustainable alternative to traditional wood charcoal. By converting and systematically analysing...
Francesca F.Dem
Papua New Guinea
Griffith University
Community parameters of Auchenorrynhca (Hemiptera: Insect) along altitudinal gradients in subtropical and tropical rainforests in Australia.
My PhD research projects aimed to investigate distribution of Auchenorrhyncha communities along altitudinal gradients in tropical and subtropical rainforest gradients in Australia, and how the comm...
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...
Ghaida Faisal Saad Mustafa
Sudan
University of Bradford
Novel sustainable nano-based antileishmanial formulations
Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease threatening millions worldwide, with current treatment limitations and significant global health consequences. My research focuses on novel, nano-based...
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...
Gofran Faisal Merghany Ahmed
Sudan
IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education
Disinfection By-Products in North-eastern African Drinking Water: Occurrence, Prediction, and Control of Precursors
When chlorine reacts with organic and inorganic precursors in water during drinking water treatment, it leads to the formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs), some of which are carcinogenic and...
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...
Gugulethu Tarakini
Zimbabwe
University of Kwazulu-Natal
The impact of human and environmental factors on bee communities in natural and agro ecosystems in Zvimba district of Zimbabwe.
Insect pollinators contribute tremendously to food security, with about 35% of global food production coming from pollination-dependent crops. Despite their importance, very little is understood ab...
Hala Alnasif Alhadi
Sudan
King's College London
Discovery, design and delivery of peptide antimicrobials via in vitro and in vivo mRNA transfection
Resistance to antibiotics in bacterial infections is a pressing, global health concern and new antimicrobials to which bacteria are, and may remain, sensitive are required. Using designed pH respon...
Hanan Abukmail
Palestine
University of Cambridge
Designing a resilient health system for delivering maternal and neonatal healthcare in complex humanitarian settings
The research aims to apply a systems engineering approach to design conflict-resilient maternal health systems. Using a mixed-methods methodology, it will first identify the key system functions ne...