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.
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...
Tsiriandrimanana Rakotondraibe
Madagascar
Goeth University
Investigating the origins of clustered earthquake swarms in Madagascar and the East African rift: Magmatic versus tectonic drivers
The central region of Madagascar and the adjacent sectors of the East African Rift is characterized by frequent clustered earthquake swarms, indicating elevated seismic hazard and complex underlyin...
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...
Zeinab Ghannam
Syria
Imperial College London
Development of AI Models for Early Detection and Risk Assessment of Alzheimer's Disease in Individuals with Mental Health Conditions
My research will provide an innovative, data-driven tool for the early prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease, focusing on mental health data and other modifiable factors. By identifying high-risk ind...