Supervisor
Professor Rabia Salihu Sa’id is a trained Atmospheric Physicist who had always had a strong motivation for community service and the good that can be done to uplift the vulnerable in our communities. She has a strong motivation for the wellbeing of young girls and women but has been a strong mentor of boys and men as well. She states that In her academic education and research, she discovered that there is a need for balance between males and females in pursuit of science and related fields.
Prof. Rabia Salihu Sa’id has worked as a lecturer in Physics at Bayero University, Kano in Nigeria since 1999. She is currently a Full Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the same university. In the two decades between her employment as graduate assistant and becoming a full professor, she had supervised more than 100 undrrgraduate research projects, 15 masters students to completion with 3 ongoing. She also supervised one PhD to completion with three ongoing.
Prof. Sa’id obtained her P.hD in Physics from Bayero University. She holds a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Physics from the same university. She also holds a M.Sc. in Environment and Development from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. She holds a certificate in Democratic Leadership from the Africa Leadership Forum in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria and certificate of Social Justice from the International Leadership Institute of the Netherlands. She also has a certificate in Renewable Energy, Resource Assessment, Data processing, Feasibility Studies, Policy management, Design and Applications from the Renewable Energy Research and Development Centre (RERDEC), Istanbul, Turkey.
In 2010, She spent four months at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP), University of Bern, Switzerland as a visiting research scientist, working with the renowned scientist in terrestrial and atmospheric remote sensing; Prof (Dr.) C. Matzler.
Prof. Rabia Sa’id is one of the winners of the Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World in 2015. She was featured in Nature (The international Weekly Journal of Science) and in the BBC Radio Program: Discovery Science. She is also listed on the BBC 100 inspirational women of 2015. She was featured as one of 100 Women in Tech in Nigeria on the occasion of the International Womens Day 2020 (@100WomenInTechNigeria).
Prof. Rabia is very passionate about Girl-child education, girls’ and women’s access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. She also has a great interest in the environment and environmental security including, recently; advocacy in nuclear non-proliferation, safety and safeguards.
Other details of Professor Sa’id’s teaching and research experiences are detailed below:
Teaching
She has taught courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, graded scripts and conducted examinations in 100 Level: Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Behavior of Matter and Practical Physics. 200Level: Renewable Energy, Thermal Physics, Space Physics, Waves and Optics and Introduction to Meteorology. 300Level: Energy and Environment, Introduction to Acoustics, Vectors and Tensors. 400Level: Oceans, Atmospheres, Ionosphere, Astrophysics, Electromagnetism and Analytical mechanics. She has also taught postgraduate level courses: Advanced Electromagnetism, Instrumentation, Upper atmosphere Dynamics, Ionospheric Physics and Atmospheric Physics.
Conference Organization
She has been a member of Bayero university’s conference local organizing committee at different times since the year 2000 and has served as chair of conference organizing committees at various times. She is a member of the standing committee on conference organization of my faculty. She serves as a co-chair of the annual conference of Raising Girls’Ambition (RAGA). She has been a keynote speaker and panelist at several national and international forum.
Facilitation
She has trained peer educators and young girls in reproductive rights.
She is a trained facilitator for the British Council Active Citizens’ Program; run by the British Council with civil society organizations and universities all over the world to empower youths to engage peacefully and effectively with others for sustainable development of their communities. I have co-trained approximately 300 students and members of community based organization in the Active Citizens program from 2014 – 2018.
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Professor Rabia Salihu Sa’id is a trained Atmospheric Physicist who had always had a strong motivation for community service and the good that can be done to uplift the vulnerable in our communities. She has a strong motivation for the wellbeing of young girls and women but has been a strong mentor of boys and men as well. She states that In her academic education and research, she discovered that there is a need for balance between males and females in pursuit of science and related fields.
Prof. Rabia Salihu Sa’id has worked as a lecturer in Physics at Bayero University, Kano in Nigeria since 1999. She is currently a Full Professor of Atmospheric Physics at the same university. In the two decades between her employment as graduate assistant and becoming a full professor, she had supervised more than 100 undergraduate research projects, 15 masters students to completion with 3 ongoing. She also supervised one PhD to completion with three ongoing.
Prof. Sa’id obtained her P.hD in Physics from Bayero University. She holds a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Physics from the same university. She also holds a M.Sc. in Environment and Development from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. She holds a certificate in Democratic Leadership from the Africa Leadership Forum in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria and certificate of Social Justice from the International Leadership Institute of the Netherlands. She also has a certificate in Renewable Energy, Resource Assessment, Data processing, Feasibility Studies, Policy management, Design and Applications from the Renewable Energy Research and Development Centre (RERDEC), Istanbul, Turkey.
In 2010, She spent four months at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP), University of Bern, Switzerland as a visiting research scientist, working with the renowned scientist in terrestrial and atmospheric remote sensing; Prof (Dr.) C. Matzler.
Prof. Rabia Sa’id is one of the winners of the Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early Career Women Scientists in the Developing World in 2015. She was featured in Nature (The international Weekly Journal of Science) and in the BBC Radio Program: Discovery Science. She is also listed on the BBC 100 inspirational women of 2015. She was featured as one of 100 Women in Tech in Nigeria on the occasion of the International Womens Day 2020 (@100WomenInTechNigeria).
Prof. Rabia is very passionate about Girl-child education, girls’ and women’s access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. She also has a great interest in the environment and environmental security including, recently; advocacy in nuclear non-proliferation, safety and safeguards.
She has trained peer educators and young girls in reproductive rights. She is a trained facilitator for the British Council Active Citizens’ Program; run by the British Council with civil society organizations and universities all over the world to empower youths to engage peacefully and effectively with others for sustainable development of their communities. She had co-trained approximately 300 students and members of community based organization in the Active Citizens program from 2014 – 2018. Prof. Sa’id was a visiting fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Monterey under the Middlebury institute for international studies from Feb -May 2020.