Professor Aba A Bentil Andam was born on 1948 and is a Ghanaian particle physicist who was President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences from 2017 to 2019.
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Aba A Bentil Andam was born in Ghana in 1948 in Ajumako Kokoben.
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Aba Andam had her secondary education at Mfantsiman Senior High School.
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Aba Andam sought further education in Britain where she earned a master's degree from the University of Birmingham and a Ph.
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Aba Andam is interested in radiation-based safety measures, such as working out a safety standard for X-ray scans.
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Aba Andam is passionate about sharing her love of science with young women and encouraging them to take up science.
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Aba Andam has been a professor at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology since 1981.
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Aba Andam has headed the physics department since the mid 2000s, and from 2005 has been the WILKADO Chair of Science and Technology.
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Aba Andam conducts research in applied nuclear physics at Kumasi's Nuclear Research Laboratory.
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Aba Andam was a part-time lecturer at the University of Cape Coast.
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Aba Andam has served as the UNESCO chair of the Women in Science and Technology in Africa's West African region between 1996 and 2002.
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Aba Andam has been a member of the National Council for Tertiary Education and has been honored with awards from various entities including Obaa Mbo, a television program, as well as The Women of Excellence Award from the Ministry of Gender.
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Aba Andam has served as a member of the Commission on Physics and Development of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics since 2018.
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Aba Andam is recognized as a Foundation Member of the First IUPAP Working Group on Women in Physics and has led the Ghana Team of the IUPAP Conferences on Women in Physics to date.
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Aba Andam is a fellow of various different scientific organizations namely; The World Innovation Foundation, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Physics.
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Aba Andam was the President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the second woman to hold this position.
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Aba Andam was married to Professor Kwesi Akwansah Andam who was a Civil Engineer, an academician and a former Vice Chancellor.