About

Dr. Amadi’s career revolves around clean energy, smart materials, flow assurance, sustainable development, energy policy, and pedagogy, which anchor the fast-evolving energy industry. He began professionally at Cortech Oil Services Limited, where he learned reservoir coring and drilling practice from seasoned experts together with the material demands of coring tools. He then interned with Saipem Contracting Nigeria Limited, strengthening his grounding in welding QA/QC, corrosion control, and end-to-end material control. He sharpened fabrication and manufacturing experience at Rima Steel Construction Company and Pure Flour Mills, Nigeria.

His B.Eng. is in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, supported by successive scholarships through postgraduate study. His M.Sc. and first Ph.D. in petroleum engineering were enabled by the TotalEnergies/NNPC Joint Venture via the programme at IPES Uniport, and by the World Bank Africa Centre of Excellence (ACE-CEFOR), respectively, anchored at the University of Port Harcourt. Motivated to broaden his profile in overseas flow assurance, he won an overseas Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) scholarship for another Ph.D. in petroleum engineering at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS UTP. UTP ranks among the world’s strongest petroleum faculties—see QS notes for Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.

To widen public impact, Dr. Amadi helped initiate Energy Lighthouse (policy dialogue), Twee360 (teen guidance content), and the DR AZ YouTube channel covering energy headlines and practice. Across these channels he has published more than 114+ policy and technical articles and fifteen youth-focused stories and guides on social platforms. During national service he led upward of 200+ Corp members in Taraba state. He subsequently captained a mixed-gender six-person cohort to place in the top ten of the Air Selangor Data & Digital Hackathon (2024). The showcased solution addressing water distribution across millions of Malaysian households appears on YouTube.

Through the Switch Energy Alliance programme , he worked with four international collaborators on a strategy tackling energy poverty in Türkiye and Egypt, summarized on ResearchGate. He advanced applied simulation skills with Altair EDEM, underscoring a drive to marry experiments with granular particle–solid modelling. Collaborations archived on Google Scholar span Africa, Asia, and Europe, alongside conference participation and specialist short courses from 2019 through 2026.

Professionally Dr. Amadi is a COREN-certified engineer Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, an Associate Environmental Professional with the National Registry of Environmental Professionals (NREP), a member of NAMMES, a professional member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). At UTP he assisted with academic support—mentoring, laboratory mentorship, examinations, moderating seminar sessions, and co-authoring impactful journal coverage. Skills honed across metallurgy, flow assurance simulation, teamwork, lecturing, and consulting transfer readily to multidisciplinary industrial and academic ecosystems. Communities both inside and beyond conventional campuses benefit from sustained engagement; his competency plus appetite for continual learning underpin a deliberately rounded engineering practice. He draws on NACE, ASME, API, ASTM, and allied inspection references such as API-571, API-580/581, API-570, and API-510 within asset integrity discussions.

Dr Amadi supported a PETRONAS PRF investigation delivered through the UTP–YUTP–FRG pathway (grant 015LC0-428), led by Associate Prof. Mohyaldinn Mysara Eissa. The research targeted standalone sand-screen erosion from shape memory alloys, EDEM interoperability with wire-mesh geometries, and dissemination—yielding five high-impact journal papers on SMA wear behaviour. Traits that surface repeatedly across these programmes include entrepreneurship, facilitation, creativity, openness, and a habit of maintaining trusted professional partnerships.

As a seasoned engineer and researcher Dr. Amadi continues to broaden his trajectory. Experience across metallurgical formulations, autonomous sand-screen deployment, SMA materials science, liquefied petroleum gas reticulation architecture, and modern hydrogen initiatives furnishes transferable leverage suited to multinational expectations. Experts who bridge hydrogen systems, erosion control, production operations, smart alloys, and large-scale project stewardship remain comparatively rare; sustained progress in those intersections can reshape how complex energy portfolios evolve.

Dr. Amadi is married to Mrs. Pwafureino Azubuike H. Amadi and resides in France, continuing cross-border engagements with academia, industry collaborators, and the students he mentors remotely.