Dr Menuka Maharjan is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. In her short career, she has got various international research grants from SANDEE/ICIMOD), IFS (Sweden), DFID (UK), DANIDA (Denmark) etc. She has got various international fellowship/scholarship/conference travel grants i.e. 78th UNEP/UNESCO/BMU Fellowship (Germany), American Geophysical Union (USA), Erasmus Mundus PhD fellowship (European Union), ITEC fellowship (India), NUFU Scholarship (NORD, Norway) etc. She has already published research papers in international peer-review journals. And she is an editorial board member for Forestry: Journal of Institute of Forestry including reviewer for various international peer-review journals