A natural response to my curious mind and quest to know. - Marian Asantewah Nkansah

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A natural response to my curious mind and quest to know.

Marian Asantewah Nkansah

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About Marian Asantewah Nkansah

Marian Asantewah Nkansah is a Ghanaian environmental chemist. Her research work focuses on finding solutions to environmental problems associated with levels and fate of toxic substances such as heavy/trace metals, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in food, water, soil, rocks, sediments and other environmental samples. She also researches on the interaction of these pollutants with each other in the environment. In 2016, she became the first scientist to win the Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi Prize, an annual award that recognises exceptional women scientists from scientifically and technologically lagging countries.

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Alternative Names: Marian Nkansah • Marian A Nkansah • MAN • Marian Asantewaa Nkansah

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi Elsie Effah Kaufmann Oluwatoyin A. Asojo Francisca Oboh Ikuenobe

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I am striving to improve public knowledge on the dangers associated with pollution by toxic substances (heavy metals, aromatic hydrocarbon, and so on) by determining them in environmental samples and evaluating the exposure and risk associated with them.

I wanted to experience new people and culture, and in Bergen I was in an environment where I had access to state-of-the-art equipment for my research. The other key benefits were that the programme was in English – and was fully funded. It was a great experience.

Don’t allow negative thoughts from yourself or others, your ethnicity, location, environment or gender be a limitation on what you can achieve.