2019-2021 – Page 7 – Next Einstein Forum

July 22, 2019

Ibrahim Cisse

Born in Niamey, Niger, Ibrahim assumed as a child he would work in his father’s law firm. He became interested in science through Hollywood films. In Niamey there were few opportunities to practice science as his school did not have a laboratory. He was keen to move to America to study, and completed high school […]

Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi

Eucharia is a senior lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, with work experience in diverse industries including the Dangote Group, Coca Cola, and Shell Petroleum Development Company. She is an environmental biochemist with interest in environmental assessments, monitoring and remediation, and most recently focusing on finding sustainable and safe sanitation strategies for remediation […]

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July 22, 2019

Daniel Akinyele

Daniel was born in Lagos, southwest Nigeria. He wrote his Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in 1998, and attained distinctions in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry subjects. His strong background in science made him choose a career in engineering. Daniel proceeded to Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Nigeria in 1999 for a National Diploma (ND) programme in […]

Alpha Keita Kabinet

Born in Conakry, Guinea, Alpha grew up in an environment where medical sciences were omnipresent. Imbued with great curiosity very early in life, he began to ask himself questions about the origins of human disease. In high school, he focused on experimental sciences until he obtained his baccalaureate at the “Lycée du Groupe Scolaire Victor […]

Samson Rwahwire

Samson was born in Kampala and attended elementary and high schools in Kampala. His passion for engineering started at a tender age, he was thrilled to know someone who worked with Uganda Airlines, and of all places at the country’s largest airport, Entebbe. It was a thrilling adventure for him: he could gaze up into […]

Marian Asantewah Nkansah

Marian, a senior lecturer at the Department of Chemistry at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, teaches Practical Chemistry, Nuclear/Radiochemistry, Chemistry and Society, and Petroleum Chemistry. She has been a faculty member since January 2007. Born in Ghana in August 1979 to Mary and Joseph Nkansah, both educationists, Marian started her […]

July 22, 2019

Geoffrey H. Siwo

Geoffrey was born and raised in Kenya. His work has been largely inspired by the urgent need for rapid and scalable scientific discovery as a means of solving some of the world’s biggest challenges, while creating opportunities for the society. In 2003 as an undergraduate student at Egerton University in Kenya, he taught himself how […]

Eric Lontchi Yimagou

Eric Lontchi Yimagou was born in the rural Batcham, in Cameroon, and was raised in several regions of the country. From his childhood, he knew his career would be health-related as he was inspired by his father who is a medical doctor and his mother, an elementary school teacher. After high school, Eric applied to […]

Cheikh Sarr

Since his childhood Cheikh had a passion for new technologies, especially computer science. His father initiated him to his first programming language through BASIC when he was in the secondary school. He quickly realized that programming was a great way to create apps that could help change the lives of people. He studied Computer Science […]

Agnes Kiragga

Agnes is currently the head of the statistics unit and a senior research scientist at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Kampala, Uganda. She holds a PhD in Statistics with vast experience in HIV clinical research and use of advanced statistical methods. She is passionate about the use of data science to predict HIV outcomes. Dr. […]