Yemeni nutritional scientist Ghanya al-Naqeb tells her story as a displaced scientist at #ESOF2020. After the crisis began, salaries stopped being paid and researchers had to start exploring new options.

She began looking for a way to continue her research outside if Yemen, and her life has been uprooted and unstable ever since, having managed to find work for a few years in Germany, and currently at the University of Trento in Italy. She has been in Italy since August.

"The The Elsevier Foundation award, the support by Org. for Women in Science for the Developing World, and a TWAS - The World Academy of Sciences research grant allowed me not only to continue my research, but also to have a critical support network," says Ghanya Al-Naqeb, a displaced scientist from Yemen, at #ESOF2020

First speaker, dr. Ghanya al Naqeb, who worked as an assistant professor in food science and human nutrition at the Sana'a university in Yemen. In 2011, the situation in Yemen started to worsen. She received no salary for 4 years, had no access to water and electricity. #ESOF2020

TWAS was an instrumental connection for her continuing her research, but she still worries about her master's students in Yemen. She had 6. "For the students, they could not finalize their masters. I'm trying to find any opportunity for them to finalize their lab work."

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