DAAD climapAfrica Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Port Harcourt
Nigeria
Dr. Ihuoma Anyanwu is an Environmental Scientist and have worked on soil and aquatic environment for over 8-years with interest in pollution monitoring, contaminant-biota-interactions, risk assessment, contaminant bioavailability, bioremediation, waste-management, microplastics, and currently climate change.
She is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Science, AE-Federal University Ndufu-Alike. Prior coming to AE-FUNAI, she worked at Lancaster University as a Demonstrator. She was a Visiting Scientist at Technische Universität München, and a receipient of TWAS-DFG.
In climapAfrica, her research will seek to understand how climate change affects aquatic ecosystems (especially Nigeria ecosystems) and the impacts on socio-cultural-behaviours, psychology and health of the people.
Climate change expertise and interests
- Marine science
- Pollution monitoring
- Risk assessment
- Socio-cultural-behaviour
- Psychology and health
Publications (most recent)
Anyanwu I. N., Nwajiuba C.A. (2021). Climatic impacts on socio-cultural behavior, health and psychology of rural communities in South East Nigeria. Environmental Challenges Volume 4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100102.
Bartonitz, A. Anyanwu, I.N. Geist, J. Imhof, H. Reichel, J. Graßmann, J. Drewes, J.E. Beggel, S. (2020) Modulation of PAH toxicity on the freshwater organisms G. roeseli by microparticles. Environmental Pollution 260, 113999.
Anyanwu, I.N. Semple, K.T. (2018). Impact of single and binary mixtures of phenanthrene and N-PAHs on microbial utilisation of 14C-glucose in soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 120, 222–229.
I participate at climapAfrica because...
It offers unique opportunities for me and other African researchers to contribute to knowledge, the climate change discourse from African perspective, develop network among Africans and collaborations with German experts, thereby serving as a gateway to gaining expertise, as well as propagation and internationalisation of African climate change research.
