Maricianah is a medical practitioner and research specialist with the Kenya Medical Research Institute -Research Care and Training Programme (KEMRI-RCTP). She has spent more than a decade working in the field of sexual reproductive and child health research in Kenya. Her overarching research interest is in developing evidence-based health systems that promote sexual reproductive and […]
Lawrence received his Degree in Microbiology in 1981 and his PhD from Leeds University, UK in 1984. His term as Director-General of the ICGEB commenced on 1 July 2019. Scientific Coordinator of the ICGEB from 2016 – June 2019 he has been Group Leader of the Tumour Virology Laboratory at ICGEB Trieste, Italy since 1990. He is Editor […]
Lucy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Pathology, University of Nairobi´s School of Medicine. She has over 24 articles published. Her research focus is cervical cancer screening and diagnosis, as well as improving cancer diagnosis in Kenya. She earned her MMed(Path) in 1989 and PhD in 2010 from the Department of Human […]
Franca is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor in Applied and Computational Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge (2017). Her thesis, Keller-Segel-Type Models and Kinetic Equations for Interacting Particles: Long-Time Asymptotic Analysis was supervised by Prof. José A. Carrillo and Prof. Clément Mouhot. […]
Samaya is an astrophysicist, and the spokesperson and assistant professor for the GRAPPA Centre for Excellence in Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics at the University of Amsterdam. She is also a joint faculty member at the Anton Pannekoek Institute (astronomy) and the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF) at UvA and a member of Nikhef. She […]
Moustapha was born in Senegal in 1981. He graduated with a Master Degree in Numerical Analysis from the Gaston Berger University of St-Louis in 2004. He was selected for the diploma program in mathematics at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Italy in 2005.While there, he passed the entrance exam for the […]
Prince is an alumnus of the University of Ghana, where he earned his BSc., MPhil and PhD degrees. He is the first person to be awarded a PhD degree in mathematics by the University of Ghana in the 65 years of its existence, which was completed in collaboration with the Department of Mathematics in the […]
Francis is the CEO and Co-founder of AgroCenta. A graduate from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and majored in Materials Engineering, Francis has over 10 years’ experience in software development life cycle, software quality assurance, product development & innovations, business development and marketing. Francis has worked in key software development companies in Ghana notably TXT Ghana, CoreNett […]
Tendekayi is an award-winning leader who founded Deaftronics (Pty) Ltd, is a Biotechnology company established in 2009, that manufactures affordable solar powered hearing aids, made by hearing impaired people for people with a hearing loss; its first solar-powered hearing aid unit was called Solar Ear. Further improvements to the Solar Charger Kit have led to […]
Moussa is Chief Digital Officer at Sonatel (Orange Senegal). He was appointed to this position in December 2017 to lead the digital transformation. Before assuming his current role, he was head of Digital Factory in the Information Systems Department at Sonatel. Before joining Sonatel, he had worked for ten years at Bouygues Télécom in France, […]