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About Aquatic Ecology Centre - Researchers

sdsds    Mr. Rajendra Bhandari
  • Project Coordinator
  • Ph.D. Scholar, Kathmandu University, Nepal and Linköping University, Sweden
  • Email Address: rajendra.bhandari@ku.edu.np
  • Education: M.Sc. Environment and Natural Resources, KU.
  • Current Research: Fate of organic carbon in small mountain rivers in Nepal: implications for soil erosion and climate change
  • Interest: Biogeochemistry, Paleolimnology, and Environment Pollution
Moti Poudel    Mr. Moti Poudel
  • Project Coordinator
  • Ph.D. Scholar, Kathmandu University, Nepal
  • Email Address: swk207@gmail.com
  • Education: M.Sc. Environment and Natural Resources, KU
  • Current Research: Developing indicators to measure the resilience of water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to climate change in Nepal
  • Interest: Climate change, Drinking water quality, Indigenous approach to cope with climate change, waste management

Prativa Paudel    Mrs. Prativa Poudel
  • Ph.D. Scholar Kathmandu University, Nepal
  • Email Address: Prativapoudel1@gmail.com
  • Education: M.Sc. Environment and Natural Resources, Kathmandu University
  • Current Research: Sanitation and climate: Assessing resilience and emissions (SCARE)
  • Research Interests: WASH and Climate change, Climate resilience, GHGs emissions

Sheila Dangol    Ms. Sheila Dangol
  • Research Associate
  • Email Address: Sheila.dangol@gmail.com
  • Education: MSc. In Water resource and environmental management, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
  • Roles and Responsibilities: Field planning, data collection, coordination and management, reporting and dissemination
  • Research Interests: Sanitation, Climate change, Modeling, Renewable energy

Prayon Joshi    Mr. Prayon Joshi
  • Research Assistant
  • Email Address: prayonjoshi@gmail.com
  • Education: B.Sc. Environmental Science, Kathmandu University
  • Roles and Responsibilities: Field planning and sampling, sample processing, data analysis and report writing
  • Research Interests: Hydrogeochemistry, Environmental Modeling, Data Science and Analytics, Geospatial Science

Suman Prakash Pradhan
   Mr. Suman Prakash Pradhan
  • Research Assistant
  • Email Address: suman.pradhan2053@gmail.com
  • Education: M. Sc. Environmental Science (2020-2022), Kathmandu University
  • Roles and Responsibilities: Field works, lab works, analytical works, data analysis, reports preparation, and manuscript preparation
  • Current Research: Assessment of Lichens as a bio-indicator of pollution; alternation in physiochemical response, gene expression, metabolomics and biochemical activities of Lichens
  • Research Interests: Plant ecology, Medicinal plants, Analytical techniques, Aquatic ecology, Geospatial science, Soil ecology, Microbial ecology, and Natural product chemistry
Junu Maharjan
   Ms. Junu Maharjan
  • Research Assistant
  • Email Address: Junumjn@gmail.com
  • Education: B. Sc. honors in Environmental Science (2017-2020), University of Northampton, NAMI College
  • Roles and Responsibilities: Field works, data analysis, reports preparation.
  • Research Interests: Fresh water ecology (macroinvertebrates, fish, and phytoplankton)