Abdulrahman Maina Zubairu was born in the city of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. He went through formal education starting from nursery and primary to secondary school in the city of Maiduguri. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Agriculture (Hons) Soil Science and master's degee in Soil Science (Soil Chemistry and Fertility) in the years 2016 and 2021 at the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. During his bachelor’s degree journey, under the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) of Nigeria, he underwent training at the University of Maiduguri Research and Demonstration Farm. He served as Farm Assistant at Majalam Integrated Farms, Dambam Jalam, Bauchi State, and also served as an Assistant Lecturer in the Agricultural Education Department, Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, Maiduguri, during the mandatory one-year National Youth Service (NYSC) scheme of Nigeria. He is a member of the Soil Science Society of Nigeria (SSSN). He started his career in academics as an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Soil Science, University of Maiduguri, in the year 2018. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Soil Sciences, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, MATE, Gödöllő, as a Stipendium Hungaricum Fellowship student with research interests in agro-chemistry and soil science, and he is working on biochar supervised by Associate Professor Miklos Gulyas.
University of Maiduguri
Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria
Soil Science
Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Budapest, Hungary
Soil Science and Agrochemistry