# Keynote talk - Changing the World through Science by Taking Science to the Community.

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Alumni collisions
- Taught by: Senamile Masango, Ana Godinho
- Year: 2024
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3002649)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Speaker: Senamile Masango - Nuclear Scientist, Founder at Senamile Masango Foundation

Moderator: Ana Godinho

About the speaker: Senamile Masango is the world's celebrated Nuclear Scientist, World Energy Leader, Entrepreneur, Executive Chairman & Founder at Mphathisithele consulting PTY - Energy Consulting Firm, Founder at Senamile Masango Foundation, UN SDG Goals advocate , she serve on various boards in South Africa and Internationally and she is the first African woman to form part of an African-led team conducting experiments at CERN, The European Organisation for Nuclear Research. CERN is a world-renowned centre for scientific research where the Higgs-Boson was discovered.

Senamile holds the international Women in Science award for 2022, honouring her important contributions to the progress of science and was selected by a jury of internationally renowned experts.

Hailing from a Zulu royal lineage, she was a PhD candidate in Nuclear physics, has been a beacon of light for African women in STEM and blazed a trail through the scientific roadmap - notably attending university at the tender age of 16.

Achieving remarkable career milestones, Senamile is a founder of the Senamile Masango Foundation, which was formed to contribute in building the Africa we want and leaving no one behind and empower women in the engineering and science field . She's currently a non-executive Director at the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation Ltd known as NECSA where she also serves as the Chairperson of the Research, Development, and Technology Subcommittee, Non- executive Director at Moses Kotane and Council Member at The University of the Western Cape. She was also South Africa's Research Leader at BRICS youth energy outlook and Senamile Masango Foundation was the winning team from South Africa at the BRICS youth energy outlook 2020

Among her many accolades, Senamile was recognised as one of the 50 Global Inspirational Women of 2020 and Being a Women in tech global…

## Lectures

1. [Keynote talk - Changing the World through Science by Taking Science to the Community.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3002649/46f55fe4b176), 41 min (CERN's player)