Angela Gerald Mkindi
| Phone: | +255 758 422 524 |
| Email: | angela.mkindi@nm-aist.ac.tz |
Home Institution
The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Sciences and Technology, Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management, Assistant Lecturer.
Biosketch
Angela Gerald Mkindi is a researcher with purpose of promoting sustainable crop pest management and growth promotion using agro ecological approaches including use of natural plant products and conservation biological control. She is an Assistant lecturer at NM-AIST in the department of Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management.
Research Interests and societal interests
- Natural pest regulation and ecosystem services in crop fields
- Sustainable agro ecological crops pest management and growth promotion using natural plants extracts
- Farmer-Research-Networks
- Commercialization of local pest management and growth promotion technologies
Expectations as a QES Scholar during the Mobility Period
Angela expects to network with diverse people, to share and exchange knowledge and insights about climate change, societies and research aspects. She aspires to use the networks to initiate future joint learning opportunities, research works and expanding her social networks, making new friends and collaborators.
She also aspires to learn the academic and professional skills development approaches from QES program, colleagues in the third cohorts and the entire Carleton University community. Being a young researcher and academician, Angela expects to participate fully in the program and learn and explore from all experiences to help her professional growth.
The QES Project and Advancement of your Career
Through this program, Angela seeks to establish long lasting collaborations, joint activities and projects between institutions and between individuals. She expect to meet people with similar research interests or different but complementing ideas from which possibilities for collaborative grant writing, learning and continuous exchange may happen during and after the program. She expects this program to instil in her more experience that will eventually manifest in her research, her supervision to scholars and her mentoring to individual that she will meet and work with throughout her career.