DUNIYA, Didam Gwazah Adams



Department of Physics
University of the Western Cape
7535 Belliville
Western Cape Province
Cape Town
South Africa
    Cell: +27 (0)786 479 810
E-mail: adams@aims.ac.za

  
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Adams hails from Kaduna State in Nigeria; and celebrates his birth day on the 10th day of May.


He had his primary education at Headstart Academy, Ungwan Wakili Zango Kataf, Kaduna State, Nigeria where he obtained his Primary Leaving Certificate in 1996. Adams had a good secondary education at Saint Francis' College Zonkwa, Kaduna State, Nigeria where he obtained the Senior School Certificate in 2002.


After leaving Saint Francis' College, he secured admission into the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to study pure physics. He graduated in the year 2009 with B. Sc. (Hons.) in Physics with a Second Class Upper Division.

Before graduation,  he  obtained the Certificate of Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) in Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology in  June, 2007 from the National Institute of Radiation Protection and Research (NIRPR), Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA).


He was a member of the National Association of Physics Students (NAPS), National Association of Science Students (NASS), among many others.


After his undergraduate studies, he enrolled in the Nigerian National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), 2009: served as a School Physics Teacher from July, 2009 to July, 2010 at Ossah Community Senior Secondary School, Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria.
In the year 2010, Adams won a full scholarship to study for a Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa while being registered at the Unversity of Cape Town (UCT), from August 2010 to June 2011.


Currently, he is an M. Sc. student of Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Unversity of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa.


His most engaging hobbies include creative writing, reading, playing volley ball, swimming and listening to music.