University of the West Indies, St Augustine, lecturer Dr Indra Haraksingh has been honoured with one of six international awards at the Tenth World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC X).

Haraksingh delivered a lecture on renewable energy in the Caribbean and was presented with the International Pioneer Award for Solar Energy at the WREC X held in Glasgow, Scotland, recently.

She has distinguished herself as one of the premier women in the field of renewable energy in the Caribbean, having topped more than 90 other participating countries to cop the award.

As a lecturer within the department of Physics at UWI, her main focus is on pure physics, solar energy, geophysics and earth sciences.

No stranger to accolades, she was also awarded with the Outstanding Scientist Award-The First Oliver Headley Award in Cologne, Germany, in July 2002 and serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Caribbean Renewable Energy Development Programme (CREDP), Caricom.

She also heads the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee of the pilot project of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.

Haraksingh is one of the major organisers of the Caribbean Solar Energy Society Sustainable Applications for Tropical Islands States (SATIS) series of conferences, which was started in Barbados in 1994. She is also a driving force behind the success of the Trinidad and Tobago Mathematics Olympiad, which she has been involved in since 2004.