Elsevier Foundation Award

2016 award winners

The Elsevier Foundation Award is awarded annually to young women scientists in the developing countries of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. In collaboration with the World Academy of Sciences and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, Elsevier has celebrated evolving women scientists since the award was launched in 2012 as Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World.[1] It is open to female scientists who live and work in one of the 81 countries with low scientific output. Nominations should be submitted within ten years of their earning a PhD.[2][3]

Winners

Announced by Elsevier, winners have included:[2]

2013

  • Adediwura Fred-Jaiyesimi, pharmacologist, Nigeria
  • Nasima Akhter, medical scientist, Bangladesh
  • Dionicia Gamboa, molecular biologist, Peru
  • Namjil Erdenechimeg, biochemist, Mongolia
  • Huda Omer Basaleem, community health researcher, Yemen

2014

  • Nilufar Mamadalieva, biorganic chemist, Uzbekistan[4]
  • Leni Ritmaleni, pharmaceutical chemist, Indonesia
  • Simone Ann Marie Badal McCreath, biochemistry researcher, Jamaica
  • Eqbal Mohammed Abdu Dauqan, biotechnologist, Yemen
  • Taiwo Olayemi Elufioye, pharmacologist, Nigeria

2015

  • Nashwa Eassa, nano-particle physicist, Sudan
  • Dang Thi Oanh, computational mathematician, Thailand
  • Mojisola Oluwyemisi Adeniyi, atmospheric physicist, Nigeria
  • Mojisola Usikalu, radiation physicist, Nigeria
  • Rabia Salihu Sa'id, environomental physicist, Nigeria

2016

  • Sri Fatmawati, pharmacologist, Indonesia[5]
  • Sushila Maharjan, biochemistry researcher, Nepal
  • Magaly Blas, public health specialist, Peru
  • Etheldrera Nakimuli‐Mpungu, psychiatric epidemiologist, Uganda
  • Ghanya Naji Mohammed Al-Naqeb, nutritional researcher, Yemen

2017

  • Tanzima Hashem, computer scientist, Bangladesh[6]
  • María Fernanda Rivera Velásquez, environmentalist, Ecuador
  • Felycia Edi Soetaredjo, environmental energy specialist, Indonesia
  • Grace Ofori-Sarpong, environmental resource management, Ghana
  • Rania Mokhtar, scientific project coordinator, Sudan

2018

  • Hasibun Naher, applied mathematician, Bangladesh
  • Germaine Djuidje Kenmoe, physicist, Cameroon
  • Silvia González Pérez, computational chemist, Ecuador
  • Dawn Iona Fox, environmental chemist, Guyana
  • Witri Wahyu Lestari, organometallic chemist, Indonesia

References

  1. ↑ "Elsevier Foundation Awards 2012 Grants to Champion Libraries in Developing Countries and Women in Science". Elsevier. 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Elsevier Foundation award". Elsevier.
  3. ↑ "The Elsevier Foundation, OWSD and TWAS call for nominations for 2014 Awards". TWAS. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Schemm, Ylann; Bert, Alison (18 February 2014). "Women chemists from developing countries honored for research of natural medicinal compounds". Elsevier. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Bert, Alison (10 March 2016). "Translating life into science – 5 women tell their stories". Elsevier. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  6. ↑ Schmitz, Laura (16 February 2017). "Women engineers to receive awards for innovative research in developing countries". Elsevier. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
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