Menattallah Elserafy is an Assistant Professor at 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 PhD […]
Jessica is a Namibian ecologist with a background in human geography, holding a “Climate Research 4 Development” and “African Women in Climate Change” Fellowships at the African Climate and Development Initiative of the University of Cape Town. She is also a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of York in the Department of Environment and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2010 at the same institution. His PhD thesis focused on treating mining […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ebele aims to transform societal systems to produce health and wellbeing through evidence informed and collaborative investments across sectors. She has a keen interest in the urban transition and the rise of non-communicable diseases, critical and inter-related phenomena taking place on a global scale which need to be better managed to produce health and wellbeing. She […]