A highly dedicated, dynamic, and resourceful field ecologist with over 10 years of experience studying threatened birds and mammals in the Himalayas. Galliformes expert, a small mammal researcher, experienced spatial analyst (ArcGIS/online), camera trapping, and bioacoustics. Experiences in community outreach, fundraising, and NGO management.

Received small grant from eight different organizations (Wildlife Acoustics Grant 2023, Davis Projects for Peace 2022, Oriental Bird Club, IWSG Small Project and Wader Quest, European Outdoor Conservation Association, World Pheasant Association and Oriental Bird Club, Rufford Small Grant Conservation Fund)

Principal Investigator in four projects, project coordinator in two project and involved as an ornithologist/ field ecologist/team member in 11 various projects.

Presented research output in six different national and international conferences

Published eleven peer-reviewed journal articles; Ornithological Science, Diversity, Journal of Environmental Management, Nepalese Journal of Zoology, Wader Study, Ecological Informatics, Journal of Asian Ornithology, European Journal of Ecology, Global Ecology and Environment, Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences and nine articles in different newsletter and two books and two booklets.

• IUCN Species Survival Commission– Galliformes Specialist Group, Since March 2017 to present
• Life Member, Small Mammals Conservation and Research Foundation, Bird conservation Nepal and Pokhara Bird Society
• Technical team member:
  1. Pheasant Conservation Action Plan for Nepal (2019-2023),
  2. Checklists of Fauna of the Seti River Corridor,
  3. Site specific Conservation Action plan for bats in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal, Reviewer: Pangolin Monitoring Guidelines for Nepal, 2019 and Supervised two master’s thesis from Tribhuvan University

Macro-ecology, Diversity pattern, Camera trapping, Bioacoustics, and Spatial Analysis focusing birds, small and large mammals.