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.
Samjhana Khanal
Nepal
University of California Davis
Genomics and biotechnology
I am working on identifying candidates resistant genes against lettuce downy mildew and their functional validation using gene editing tools.
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Silvia Francis Materu
Tanzania
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Applicability of a Biotest Battery Developed for Temperate Regions to Tropical Environments: Implications for Sustainable Wetland Management
This study evaluated the suitability of biotests developed in temperate regions for assessing pesticide contamination in soil, water, and sediment from Tanzania’s Kilombero Valley Ramsar Site...
Taghried Abdel-Magid
Sudan
University of Bath
Use of Agricultural Waste in Construction Material Production for Low-Cost Housing
In this study, the target area was Sudan and could be applicable in African countries with comparable climates. Three agro-wastes were chosen for their abundance in the country: sorghum stalk, grou...
Tina Phiri Chanda
Zambia
Murdoch University
Characterization and extraction of copper and cobalt from smelting slag
My research focused on the characterisation and extraction of copper and cobalt from smelting slag. This research will contribute to the development of a novel technology for extracting copper and ...
Tonthoza Uganja
Malawi
Bangor University
Assessing the Effectiveness of Forest Landscape Restoration Efforts in Malawi: Integrating Global Monitoring Tools and Local Stakeholder Perspectives
My PhD research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) efforts in Malawi. The study integrates global land use/land cover (LULC) monitoring datasets with loca...
Tshephang Iris Kabelo
Botswana
University of Reading
Optimization of Virus-like-Particle Based Vaccines for African Strains of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus
Vaccination is the most effective way of controlling Foot and Mouth disease, but the costs associated with the production and distribution of the current chemically inactivated virus vaccine makes...
Winfred Mueni Mulwa
Kenya
University of the Free State
A combined ab initio and experimental study of Lanthanides and/or transition metal doped oxides
Experimentally, the powders of doped and undoped ZnAl2O4 were effectively synthesized by use of the sol-gel technique. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern for ZnAl2O4 displayed crystalline peaks co...