Affiliateship: 2020-2024
Cohort 5
Country (Nationality)
Uganda
Discipline
Agricultural & Nutritional Sciences
Bio
Dr Stella Kabiri-Marial, a senior research officer and program Leader at the National Agricultural Research Organization in Uganda, is one of the 40 candidates selected for the fifth cohort of the African Academy of Sciences Affiliates Mentorship scheme, who will receive substantial support to develop into outstanding research leaders in their professional fields.
Stella, who is based at the Mukono Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute, is a trained Scientist in Production Ecology and Resource Conservation, with a PhD from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Her study focused on preparing African rice farmers against parasitic weeds in a changing environment. She has a Msc. in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation from the University of Twente, the Netherlands and her field work focused on genetic remote sensing crop models of rice systems of the Mekong Delta, of Vietnam. Stella has a BSc. in Agriculture from Makerere University, Uganda.
Stella is currently a grantee and a Post Doc. of the Climate Research for Development (CR4D) grant for Climate research, at the African Academy of Sciences. Her research revolves around the development of a Zero carbon process of fertilizer production using air as a raw material, to illustrate a way out of the current fertilizer production process that consumes a lot of energy and in the process emits alarmingly enormous greenhouse gases, responsible for global warming.