Speakers
Dominic Bunnett is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University in Berlin.
After receiving his Ph.D at the Free University Berlin, he has worked at the MPI Leipzig, Oxford and Makerere University Kampala.
He is working on a number of research and research development projects with collaborators across Africa.
David Ssevviiri is an Associate Professor of Algebra at the Department of Mathematics, Makerere University. He obtained a PhD from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. He was Head of the Mathematics Department at Makerere for four years and Overall Coordinator of the Eastern Africa Universities Mathematics Programme (EAUMP) for three years. He is the leader of the Eastern Africa Algebra Research Group (EAALG).
Balázs Szendrői is an algebraic geometer. Having studied in Cambridge, and worked in Warwick, Utrecht and Oxford, he is currently University Professor at the University of Vienna. He is involved in a number of research development projects across Africa; he is also Vice-Chair of the Committee for Developing Countries of the EMS, and a trustee of the charity Supporting African Maths Initiatives.
Annelies Verdoolaege (b. Ghent, 1975) holds MA degrees in Languages & Literatures (UGent), African Languages & Cultures (UGent) and Africana Studies (State University of New York at Albany), and a PhD in African Languages & Cultures (UGent).
Over the last twenty years she has been coordinating projects on research capacity development at UGent partner universities in Africa, in particular in South Africa and Tanzania.
She currently coordinates the Africa Platform of Ghent University Association. In this function she facilitates and enhances academic collaboration between African universities and Ghent University Association, and she makes the academic Africa expertise available to non-academic stakeholders. She has also been appointed as extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town.
Frehiwot Gutema is an assistant professor of Dermatovenereology, studied in Gondar University and Addis Ababa University Ethiopia. Currently she is working as a head of Dermatology and Venereology department of St. Paul’s Hospital millennium medical college. She is also currently involved in numberous research projects in collaboration with both local and international institutions.
Jacomijn Verbruggen-Zoutewelle is a policy officer at NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development, which is a division of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) that funds and monitors innovative research on global issues, with a focus on sustainable development and poverty reduction. She coordinates the bilateral research programme with the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa (www.nwo.nl/mfsouthafrica). The thematic focus of this partnership is on the Water-Energy-Food nexus.
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Tiago Matos Dermatovenerologist and scientist with 2 distinct Ph.D.s (both cum laude), leading multiple translational studies on immunology, oncology, and dermatology (Amsterdam University Medical Centers and Director of Clinical Research at Sanofi). Apart from his scientific and teaching contributions, he thrives to have a positive social impact, through programs to increase Global Health in Skin Sciences.
Diletta Martinelli is an assistant professor in Algebraic Geometry at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD at Imperial College London in 2016 and since then she has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh and at MSRI Berkeley. She is involved in numerous educational projects in the Global South, especially in Africa. She is the recipient of the Recognition and Reward Award of the Amsterdam Young Academy 2022.