Gladys Chepkirui Ngetich (born c.1991) is a Kenyan engineer, and a

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, pursuing a

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at the

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, in the United Kingdom. She is the recipient of the Tanenbaum Fellowship and the Babaroa Excellence Award.

Background and education

Ngetich was born in Amalo Village,

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. She attended Lelaibei Primary School in Olenguruone. She studied at Mercy Girls' Secondary School in Kericho. She was admitted to the

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, graduating with a

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degree in

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, in 2013. In 2015, Ngetich joined the

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on a

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to pursue a doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering. In 2016, she earned a Tanenbaum Fellowship, an annual fellowship awarded to Rhodes scholars for a multifaceted program in

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. In 2018, Ngetich was named a Skoll World Forum Fellow for the work she is doing in Kenya to empower girls and women. She also tutors engineering undergraduate students at Oriel College.

Achievements/Awards

In 2018, Ngetich was credited with a

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in collaboration with Rolls-Royce Plc. Her research work has been in ''

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'' and the Oxford Science Blog and Medium. She received the ASME IGTI Young Engineer Turbo Expo Participation Award, for her paper at the 2018 Annual American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) conference. Ngetich is the co-founder of the ILUU, a

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-based non-profit that aims to inspire girls and women. In September 2018, ''

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'' named Ngitech among its "Top 40 Under 40 Women in Kenya in 2018". In 2019 she started investigating sustainable space science using a Schmidt Science Fellowship.

Personal life

As profiled in ''Nature'', Ngetich enjoys running, Bongo dance music and Swahili hip-hop, and keeping a clutter-free work space.

References

External links

Brief Video Presentation by Gladys Ngetich, PhD. Published on 14 November 2019.
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Background and education

Achievements/Awards

Personal life

See also

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