Chidozie Charles Nnaji is a professor of Civil Engineering. He obtained his first degree in Department of Civil Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 2005. He also obtained his M.Eng and Ph.D in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering from the same institution in 2007 and 2011 respectively. He joined the services of the University in 2007 and rose to the rank of Professor in 2019. He was Head of Department from 2020 to 2021. Before his appointment as Head of Department, he had served as the departmental postgraduate coordinator for over six years. He was appointed a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Johannesburg in 2018 and also served as the Monitoring/Evaluation Officer of the World Bank Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Power and Energy Development (ACE-SPED) from 2018 to 2020. In 2023, he was appointed as a Short Course Lecturer at the Pan-African Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (Including Climate Change) in Tlemcen, Algeria. He has been serving as an International Business Plan Judge for Conrad Foundation, Texas. He has serves as an External Examiner for several universities. He has served as a resource person for several conferences, public lectures and workshops organized by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka as well as other universities. He is an editorial board member of two national and four international journals. He has supervised several postgraduate students in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering and has authored over eighty scholarly publications most of which were published in journals ranked by Scimago and Clarivate Analytics. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious Nigerian Journal of Technology (Scopus-indexed). He serves as a Consultant Hydrologist to some state governments in the southern part of the country. He is also a Group Pastor of the Deeper Life Bible Church in Nsukka. He is married to Mrs Favour Nnenna Nnaji and they are blessed with two girls and two boys.

Some key achievements

1. As Head of Department, I conceived and successfully organised the first internationalconference hosted by the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka in its over fifty years of existence. It was organized in collaboration with the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
2. As Head of Department for one year, I successfully executed the following projects for the Department through consultancy and alumni interventions
   1. Installation of 5kVA solar unit
   2. Installation of 16 channels CCTV unit for classrooms and examination halls.
   3. Provision of internet access to staff and students
   4. Complete renovation of 5 toilet units, with booster pump, overhead tank, hand dryer and urinary bowl
   5. Establishment of computer centre
   6. Payment of tuition fee for four undergraduate students
   7. Produced the first e-newsletter of the Department since inception
3. Successfully supervised over fifty undergraduate project students, nine master’s students, and currently supervising over ten masters’ and five Ph.D students.
4. Organized over fifty postgraduate proposal and defence seminars while serving as Postgraduate Coordinator.
5. Has organized and presided over thirty Ph.D oral examinations both as Postgraduate Coordinator and later as Head of Department
6. Successfully computed and compiled the cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of over two hundred final year students for three consecutive years as Examination Officer, while delivering undergraduate course lectures and undertaking my Ph.D research concurrently.
7. Published over eighty research articles many of which are in ISI-indexed journals
8. Mentored several young researchers who are now excelling in research. A few are listed below.
   1. PraiseGod Emenike (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h5iIF2EAAAAJ&hl=en)
   2. Emmanuel Ugwu (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tZV-cLQAAAAJ&hl=en)
   3. Robert Ekwule (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dwS0xSgAAAAJ&hl=en)
   4. Chinedum Eluwa (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5qPw_eQAAAAJ&hl=en)