Interest in research started at a very young age for Prof. Dennis Umesiobi
“I was standing in my village at the tender age of 5, looking up at the professor and I decided right then and there that one day I want to be one.” said Prof. Dennis Umesiobi with his characteristic humour and storytelling ability.
CUT hosted the Professorial Address of Professor Dennis Onuoha Umesiobi who is the research professor in Agriculture at the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences. His address was titled “Biostimulation: A Frigid Tudra, Issues on Assisted Pig Reproduction”.
Bio-stimulation is a scientific process that explores the stimulatory effect of the female cyclic and reproduction process through genital stimulation, pheromones or other less- defined external cues. Using this investigative process on pig production, Umesiobi discovered that boars (male pigs) have a profound influence on the breeding system, triggering neuroendocrine reflexes that alter reproduction (positively or negatively) in females.
Prior to his appointment at CUT in 2004, he held several senior academic positions at universities in Nigeria, the University of Pretoria and University of KwaZulu-Natal. Umesiobi is an NRF-rated researcher and CUT faculty research chair with a Bachelor of Agriculture (BAgric Hons) in Animal Science from the University of Nigeria (1985), a Master of Science in Animal Production and a Doctor of Philosophy in Animal Reproductive Physiology from the Federal University of Technology in Nigeria (1992 and 1997 respectively), and a Magister Artium in Higher Education Studies from the University of the Free State (2006). He has over 18 years of teaching experience at tertiary level, plus more than 28 years of industry experience.
Having authored two books and over 30 articles in ISI-accredited journals under his belt, he has presented an excess of 35 papers at national and international conferences and is currently in the process of contributing chapters to a book on enzootic geophagia of livestock. He has to date supervised several master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral candidates and often serves as external examiner, referee and moderator. As an associate editor of four scientific journals, he also regularly reviews articles for a number of animal science journals, including the South African Journal of Animal Science and the Iranian Journal of Animal Science.
In 2009 Umesiobi was presented with the Vice Chancellor’s Established Researcher Award during the spring graduation ceremony of CUT. He also holds visiting professorial awards from both the University of Florida and Spellman College in the USA, as well as the University of Manitoba in Canada and the University of New England in Australia, amongst others. He is currently serving as an external moderator for the subject Animal Production of the National Certificate (Vocational), administered by the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training (UMALUSI) in affiliation with the Department of Higher Education and Training. Umesiobi is a loving husband to Fansica Chinwe and together they have four children.
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