Biography
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night of the Order of Academic Palms
Dr. Wanja Nyingi-Moseti is a Kenyan Ichthyologist and a co-founder of KENWEB. She worked at the National Museums of Kenya for 25 years, carrying out extensive ecological research on freshwater and marine fish biodiversity in Kenya, and was the Head of Ichthyology for 15 years. She continues her work as an Associate of NMK and of University of Western Australia Sea Around Us – Indian Ocean.
Wanja has earned her place in the timeline of women in science, a list spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century. She is mentioned in it as the “Kenyan ichthyologist Dorothy Wanja Nyingi who published the first guide to freshwater fish species of Kenya:”
Wanja served as a member of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of the UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) from 2018-2026, and is currently a Lead Author of the Second Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
She was, awarded the Knighthood of the Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques) by the Republic of France in 2016, an order of knighthood for distinguished academics and figures of culture and education.
In 2023 a freshwater monogenean species was named in her honour: Gyrodactylus nyingiae n. sp., parasite of cyprinid fishes of Morocco.
Qualification
Master of Science in Conservation Biology from the University of Eastern Africa Baraton, and a Bachelor of Science in Conservation Biology from the same university.
Bachelor of Science in Conservation Biology.
Master of Science in Conservation Biology
Environment and conservation and this has led her to venture in projects and community works.
I developed my passion for animals behaviour
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