Dr. Justine Germo NZWEUNDJI is a Researcher and Plant Biotechnologist, she is the Deputy Director of Research, Valorization, and Innovation at the Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plants Studies (IMPM) in Cameroon. She served as the Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Botany and Traditional Medicine. She received the prestigious fellowship UNESCO-l’Oréal for her PhD research in the US at the Tropical Research and Educational Center, University of Florida, and at Alabama A&M University. She is a TWAS-DFG postdoctoral research fellow at Geisenheim Hoschule University in Germany. She is a fellow of the African Science Leadership Programme of Future Africa at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
In 2022, she received a UMAPS fellowship for research on Science Policy at the University of Michigan. Dr. Justine has been awarded numerous grants and received the 2015 award for the best junior researcher of IMPM. Since 2017, she has been a member of the INGSA-Africa steering committee. She is currently the President of the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists, and a member of the Global Young Academy where she co-ed the Working Group Science Advice as well as the working group Women In Science. Additionally, Dr. Justine Germo NZWEUNDJI is a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Young Academy and a fellow of the Female Science Talent Intensive Track fellow 2023 of the Falling Walls Foundation.