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.
Search by area of research, UN sustainable development goal or location to find out more about their amazing achievements.
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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.
Aalia Nazir
Pakistan
University of Dundee
Volumetric Assessment of Breast Density Using MRI: A Feasibility Study
I developed a gel phantom designed to mimic the properties of breast tissue and used it to measure breast density, a crucial parameter in assessing the risk of breast cancer. Elevated breast densit...
Abigail Akua Abankwa
Ghana
Cambridge University
Biotechnology
The focus of my research is global health. My study focuses on developing diagnostic tools for emerging and re-emerging diseases to improve and ease people’s lives. My objective is to create ...
Aissata Ousmane Kane
Senegal
Institute of physics of são carlos
Lignocellulosic biomass valorization: study of plant biomass structure, composition, and enzymatic digestibility after being submitted to different pretreatment steps
The transformation of lignocellulosic biomass (e.g., agricultural waste) as a renewable feedstock for producing biofuels and biomaterials offers a promising solution to meet global energy demands w...
Angela Tabiri
Ghana
University of Glasgow
Mathematics
Consider an ant walking on a football, it will not notice any special points since all points on the football look the same which is referred to as a homogeneous space. However, if this ant walks o...
Ansam Al-karawi
Iraq
University of Nottingham
Title of project: Scour Protection Effect on The Behaviour of Group Pile-Supported Bridge
My PhD is focusing on Structure Health Monitoring. The bridge is subject to Scour after years of construction due to water moving. The monitoring technique will help to discover the problem before ...
Aya Samir Fahmy Badawy
Egypt
University of Manchester
Simulating the Behaviours of Urban Negotiators Using Agent-based Modelling
Providing affordable housing is a crucial issue worldwide. In many countries such as the UK, planning systems enforce private land developers to provide affordable housing in exchange for approval ...
Banafsheh Zahraie
Iran
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
A Decision Support System (DSS) for Operating Multipurpose Hydropower Reservoirs
A decision support system (DSS) was developed for optimal operation of multi-reservoir systems. The key components of the system were four main modules: database management, inflow modeling and for...
Banchiamlak Getnet Admasu
Ethiopia
Wageningen University
Chemical stress Ecology
My PhD research explores chemical stress ecology by assessing the ecological impacts of pesticides on freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem functions. It combines controlled microcosm and mesocosm ...
Basant Otawi
Egypt
Johns Hopkins University
Association between maternal exposure to IPV and childhood illness
The research project investigated the complex relationship between maternal exposure to IPV and illness among under 5 children
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Bayan Abusalameh
Jordan
National University of Singapore
Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics using Machine Learning
Traditional engineering has tended to assume that aerospace materials vibrate in linear fashion—probably because the mathematics that ‘prove’ this idea are seductively simple and elegant. How...
Bayan Y. Ghanem
Jordan
University of Nottingham
Investigation of Targeted siRNA-Nrf2 Therapy Against Cancer Chemoresistance
Nucleic acid therapeutics offer a promising avenue for precise disease treatment. Although the development of small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapeutics faces challenges, the market is poised for g...
Betty Edem Nugba
Ghana
University of Miami
The role of cohesin and chromosome architecture in promoting breast cancer progression
Metastatic dissemination is a hallmark of breast cancer malignancy, making the disease. A critical step in enabling dissemination to distal tissues is epithelial-mesenchymal transition, EMT), which...
Bezalem Eshetu Yirdaw
Ethiopia
University of South Africa
Multilevel Bayesian Networks for Hierarchical Data with Hybrid Outcomes; a case of child morbidity in Ethiopia
My PhD research focuses on developing a statistical model called the Multilevel Bayesian Network, which helps understand how different childhood diseases are related while accounting for variations...
Blessing Obinaju Effiong
Nigeria
Lancaster University
PhD Biological Sciences
My research used Fourier transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy in combination with multivariate data analytical tools, to track and monitor the effects of real-time exposure to mutagens in biologi...
Bridget Owusu
Ghana
Colorado State University
Examining the Functional Contributions of the Histone Chaperone Spn1 Structure to Yeast Lifespan Extension
My research investigates the structural and functional contributions of the histone chaperone Spn1 in regulating yeast lifespan extension, a novel approach to understanding chromatin dynamics in ag...