Cohort : 2019-2021

novembre 21, 2019

Josephine Ndeze Uwase

Josephine Ndeze Uwase, a winner of Miss Geek 2019, is a creative student in computer science in Goma, DRC, and ambitions to become a first-class engineer in artificial intelligence. She emerged as the winner of Miss Geek Africa 2019 thanks to her project to reduce maternal mortality rate, in the rural Congo, using cell-phone technologies. […]

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novembre 12, 2019

Mario Lopes

Mario Lopes is co-founder of Tela Digital Media Group and editor of STP Digital, a news platform that shares news from citizen media around Sao Tome and Principe with the goal of combatting fake news in the country. He uses his talent to advocate for youth and women empowerment and to build the next generation […]

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juillet 22, 2019

Vidushi Neergheen

Vidushi has been an associate professor since April 2019 and is currently the Head of the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Mauritius. She is also affiliated with the Centre for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research at the Faculty of Science of the University of Mauritius. She has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students […]

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juillet 22, 2019

Ouma Cecil

Cecil holds a PhD degree in Physics from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow with Hydrogen South Africa (HySA-Infrastructure) Center of Competence (CoC), having completed a previous fellowship at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria. He has a strong background in material science modeling and […]

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juillet 22, 2019

Jesse Gitaka

The desire to contribute to new knowledge, solve problems and help others drove Jesse to embark on a career in medical research. His passion in research started at elementary school where he began participating in science congress and clubs, and later developed at high school and university. A year after a medical internship, he joined […]

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juillet 22, 2019

Obidimma Ezezika

Obidi’s career journey has taken him from engineering genes in a genetics lab to working with communities in African villages. Growing up as a child in Lagos, Nigeria, Obidi had a huge fascination for science, particularly the life sciences, which he studied at the University of Lagos. He went on to do his PhD at […]

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juillet 22, 2019

Dyllon Garth Randall

Born in East London, South Africa, Dyllon always had a love for chemistry and mathematics, which resulted in him deciding to study Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town in 2003. He went on to obtain his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2010 at the same institution. His Ph.D. thesis focused on treating mining […]

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juillet 22, 2019

Badre Abdselam

Badre is an associate professor of social sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, and a former NEF ambassador for Morocco, 2016-2018. His research focuses mainly on public policies of higher education and social economy addressing three social groups: women, migrants and the youth, particularly in the Africa Region. As a former GYA member […]

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juillet 22, 2019

Sara Suliman

Sara is a postdoctoral research fellow based at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Her broad research aim is to dissect biological mechanisms underlying risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease, in order to inform better interventions to prevent TB progression. Her research interests span immunology, epidemiology and systems biology to identify individuals at […]

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juillet 22, 2019

Menattallah Elserafy

Menattallah Elserafy is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Genomics, Zewail City of Science and Technology (ZC). She utilizes budding yeast as a model organism to identify novel gene functions in DNA repair and genome maintenance pathways. She is also a lecturer of undergraduate and postgraduate students of ZC. Menattallah did her MSc and […]

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