Professor Martin Atu Ngozika Anikwe M.Sc, Ph.D. FSSN.
Martin Atu Ngozika Anikwe completed his Master's Degree programme in the then Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources Management, ESUT in 1993. He was subsequently employed as an Assistant Lecturer in the same Department in September 1994. He later obtained a Ph.D. in Soil Physics and Conservation from Department of Soil Science, the University of Nigeria Nsukka in 2000. In 2007, Martin rose through the ranks to the position of a Professor of Soil Science of Enugu State University of Science and Technology.

Professor Anikwe has served meritoriously in many capacities as an energetic and industrious teacher and a researcher. He served as Head of Department of Agronomy and Ecological Management from 2000-2006, Director of Consultancy Services of this University from 2007-2011, Hon. Commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Enugu State from 2011-2013. Executive Director, ESUT TRUST FUND. Financial Secretary, Soil Science Society of Nigeria. He is currently serving as Dean, Faculty of Agriculture, ESUT.

At the Faculty and Senate of this University, he has at various times served as a Member or Chairman of various Committees. Prof. Martin Atu Ngozika Anikwe was the 20th inaugural lecturer of Enugu State University of Science and Technology and is a distinguished soil scientist and professional member of many professional association/bodies both at national and international levels. He is currently the youngest Fellow of Soil Science Society of Nigeria, where he served as National Financial Secretary for many years. He is currently serving the SSSN as the Editor-in-Chief of its flagship journal (The Nigerian Journal of Soil Science). He is also a member of the International Union of Soil Science and International Erosion Control Association.

Prof. Anikwe has won many academic awards, fellowships, and Scholarships. He was the second prize winner, International contest on rural peoples’ biotechnology, organized by Netherlands Ministry of Dev. Co-op., Free University of Amsterdam and Information Exchange for Low External Input Agriculture in 1990. He was also the winner, distinguished individual research presentation award at the 2nd Nigerian Universities Research and Development Fair organized by National Universities Commission of Nigeria Dec., 6-8, 2005 Eagles Square Abuja, Nigeria. He was awarded the fellowship to attend 2007 College on Soil Physics at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics at ICTP Trieste Italy Oct. 22nd to 9th Nov 2007. He was also awarded Fellowship to attend 2016 International workshop on research and development organized and funded by TETFUND from 30th August to 11th September in Dayton, Ohio USA and awarded another fellowship to attend 2018 OKP/NFP-fellowship for the ICRA course on: Learning, action research and outreach – Making higher education boost food security that will be held from 12 March – 30 March 2018 in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Prof. Anikwe was enlisted in Who is Who in Science and Engineering, Eighth Edition, 2005.

Prof. M.A.N. Anikwe is an outstanding member of the academia who has distinguished himself in the field of Soil Science as a teacher and researcher par excellence. He has made contributions that will be useful for agronomists, practicing soil scientists, students, environmentalists, and other professionals working with soils to enable them contribute, using standard procedures, to the development of framework or indexing procedure that can be easily modified for different soils and used to enumerate dynamic soil quality ratings, determine trends in those ratings, and thus be used to quantify the effect of soil and crop management decisions.