| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Dr Amina Yonis |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | May 30, 1991. As of 2024, he is around 33 years old. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Spouse / Partner | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | Two |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | African (Ethiopian) |
| Nationality | British |
Wiki Bio / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Dr. Amina Yonis is a British scientist, lecturer, teacher, educational content creator and YouTuber.
- Now a popular face, Dr. Yonis creates useful YouTube videos and other resources to help students graduate and to diversify the face of academia. She also shares tips on productivity, habit formation and optimal thinking.
Early Life and Education :
- Dr. Amina Yonis was born on May 30th 1991 to parents who were originally from Harar, a city in Ethiopia. The city is on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Her father is a graduat of the University of London with a Master’s degree in social sciences.
- Amina comes from a large family of five siblings, four sisters and one brother. Her brother has also joined her on podcasts before.
- The young Amina was educated at a low participation school in London where the large majority of pupils received free meals, a strong indicator of economic disadvantage.
- At Amina’s school, the pass rate of the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), was well below the national average. But her parents were a solid support and dedicated to ensuring that Amina and her siblings excelled at school.
- As a young teen, Amina hesitated to apply to top universities even though she had excelled at school. Her teachers did not encourage her to apply to universities like Oxford or Cambridge, as they thought of her as foreign and these colleges were out of reach.
- Eventually, Amina was accepted into King’s College London and earned her Bachelor’s of Science there in BioChemistry.
- She followed that up with a Master’s of Research degree in Biomedical Science at Imperial College London.
- Post that, she pursued her PhD at the London Center of Nanotechnology and completed it at the young age of 26.
Career, Salary and Net Worth :
- Apart from researching Cell and Development Biology when pursuing her PhD, Dr. Yonis has also worked and experienced multiple different roles.
- She’s worked as tutor at The Brilliant Club, which places Ph.D. students and postdocs into schools to deliver university-style tutorials to talented pupils between the ages of 10 and 18.
- In 2016, Dr. Amina started her YouTube channel which has quickly gained over 250,000 subscribers.
- Her personal venture, The Page Doctor is a platform that aims to simplify the process of academic writing and to support students through their educational journey, by mobilizing the PhD community. The business is valued at under 1 million when it was last evaluated in December 2022.
Married Life and Children :
- Amina married her husband, an Eritrean, during the last two weeks of her PhD when she was 26 after knowing him for 5 months. She spoke about getting her and his parents to agree to the wedding was a little challenging considering they originated from different countries.
- In 2020, Amina had her first child and her second one in 2022. She has a home birth video on her channel where she talks about going the planned home birth route for her second child.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Dr. Amina founded an academic platform called The Page Doctor, where she connects PhD researchers to university students to support them with all their academic needs, from university application to essay proofreading.
- The Page Doctor has been recognised by King’s College London and was awarded the David Walsh Award for outstanding entrepreneurship. The Page Doctor saw rapid growth on social media platforms, amassing over 30,000 followers in just 6 months.
- Amina’s YouTube and social media accounts are also based around the same theme along with bits and pieces of her lifestyle and family life.
- In her free time, Dr. Yonis enjoys traveling and experiencing different cultures. She has a diverse palate, enjoying Mediterranean, Japanese, Thai, and Mexican food.
- Amina’s mother tongue is an extinct spoken language from a tribe in Ethiopia.