Rate My Professor Lotanna Micah Nneji

Nneji has garnered major awards including the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University, Chinese Government Scholarship for his PhD, and recognitions as best graduating student at the University of Ibadan, University of Abuja, and Federal Polytechnic Oko. He has secured extensive funding from organizations such as National Geographic, Rufford Foundation, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, Conservation Leadership Programme, and PADI Foundation for projects conserving threatened Nigerian species like the Niger stingray, Ondo Forest gecko, and montane herpetofauna. Key publications include 'First Chromosome-level Genome Assembly and Annotation of the Smooth Stingray (Fontitrygon garouaensis)' (2026, Scientific Data), 'Cryptic diversity of Nigerian Agama within West African Radiation' (2017, Russian Journal of Herpetology), 'DNA barcoding of economically important fish species of North-Central Nigeria uncovers cryptic lineages' (2018, Ecology and Evolution), 'Assessing the effectiveness of molecular data for species identification and diversity studies of Nigerian herpetofauna' (2019, Mitochondrial DNA Part B), and 'Earthworm-assisted bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soils' (2016, Bioremediation Journal). At Howard, his students have received the Ecological Society of America's 2026 Graduate Student Policy Award.