Professor Ogwu initiated and led the only materials and metallurgy submission from Scotland in the December 2008 results of the U.K. research assessment exercise as coordinator. He has well over a hundred publications in the field of materials science a nd Engineering/applied physics. Professor Ogwu's biomaterials research was featured in Scotland's Life Sciences news forum, N exxus News Scotland's spring 2008 edition He was an invited contributor of book chapters to two scientific monographs in 2007, namely Surface Engineered Surgical Devices published by Springer, New York, USA and Nano-composite films and coatings publis hed by Imperial College press, London, U.K.

He serves on the editorial board of a number of international journals in Nanotechnology/Materials Science and Engineering and is on the international advisory board of a number of international conference series including the NanoSmat conference serie s and a Bio-nanotechnology book series. Professor Ogwu and a research collaborator on invitation by the former U.K. institute of Materials, now institute of materials, minerals and mining prepared a summary of all the presentations at the European Po wder Metallurgy Congress, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996, published in the Powder Metallurgy journal of the institute in 1996.

Professor Ogwu has been co-investigator, principal investigator or consultant on major international research and development projects for organizations that include Sandvik Coromat, Sweden, Seagate Technology, Ireland, Thales Optronics, U.K, Vascutek Terumo, U.K, Sub-one Inc of California, USA, amongst others for a period spanning about 15 years.

He was an invited distinguished speaker at the 7th Scientific board meeting of the EU funded NANODIAM centre of excellence at the Technical University of Lodz, Poland in 2005 and at the launch of the EU funded NANODIAM international network of excellen ce at the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic in 2005. He was a visiting Professor in the Mechanical Engineering D epartment (Surface Engineering group) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal in Feb 2003 and a visiting scientist in the resear ch group of Professor Tom Coyle (materials science and engineering) at the University of Toronto, Canada in the summer of 1998 .

Professor Ogwu has regularly supervised doctoral research students and post-doctoral researchers in the field of materials scie nce and engineering in U.K. universities. He is also a regular external examiner for doctoral thesis (viva) both in the U.K. and at the international level. The most recent viva conducted by Professor Ogwu includes the examination of an advanced materials doctoral thesis in the Mechanical Engineering Division at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland and a doctoral thesis on spintronic materials in a leading national university in Asia. He also acts as an external assessor for Readership and Professorial appoint ments in U.K. universities.
Professor Abraham Ogwu holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Engineering physics from the university of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo univers ity), Nigeria in 1982. He holds an MSc in Metallic and Ceramic Materials (March 1986) and a PhD in Materials Science and Enginee ring (May 1994) from Manchester University, England. He also holds a post-graduate Diploma in Marketing (1999) from the Universit y of Ulster, Northern Ireland, U.K.

Professor Ogwu has attended several higher education governance and management training courses, including the Universities UK org anized management development course for University Administrators at New College, Oxford University, England in Sept 2005, the Higher Education Futures, A strategic approach to Dynamic markets two day seminar at Selwyn College and Law Faculty, Cambridge University, England in April 2006 and the Introduction to Finance, Audit, Risk and Estates in Universities training seminar organized by the Leadership foundation for higher education, U.K in London in March 2006.

Professor Ogwu was a nominated representative and spokesperson from the governing board (January 2007) from Paisley University during the merger discussions with the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) on the merger with Bell College, Hamilton to form the University of the West of Scotland. The merger process involved £20M of funding, mainly from SFC. Professor Ogwu was involved with all the deliberations on the financial due diligence report (prepared by Ernst and Young, chartered accountants) and the Legal due diligence report (prepared by Maclay, Murray and Spens, Glasgow based solicitors) of the Merger Business plan. He was also a nominated representative of the governing board on the Scottish Funding council strategic dialogue visit to the University o f the West of Scotland in February 2008 and took part in the funding deliberation at Court for the full business plan for re-deve lopment of the Ayr campus of the University of the West of Scotland involving an estimated total of £80M..

He was an EPSRC post-doctoral research associate at the Manchester Materials Science Centre, Manchester University, England, between 1994 and 1998.He was a Warden of student residences (Dean of Students in the U.S) at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland and an Academic Staff in the school of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in the same institution. He was a Principal researcher in thin film devices at the Northern Ireland Nanotechnology Institute, of the same institution between 1998 and 2002. He had earlier worked as a lecturer in Materials Science and Engineering in two universities in Nigeria and is a registered professional engineer (metallurgical engineer) with the council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria (COREN). He was appointed Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (specializing in Thin Film Devices and Biomaterials) at the University of the West of Scotland (former Paisley University, Scotland) in August 2002.