Dr. Prakash Chandra Adhikari

Professor

Department of Civil Engineering

EDUCATION

  • PhD in Quarternary geology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 1992
  • M.Sc. in Quarternary geology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 1987
  • M.Sc. in Applied geology,   Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow, Russia (1979)

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Professor at Department of Geology, Tribhuwan University (1979-1990)
  • Consulting Engineering geophysicist, Rapti road project, east consults, Kathmandu, Nepal (1985)
  • Consulting Engineering geophysicist, Taek consults, Kathmandu, Nepal (1983-1984)
  • Engineering geophysicist consultant, Middle Marsyangdi project, Kathmandu, Nepal (1993-1995)
  • Consulting Engineering geophysicist consultant, Thulagi, Glacier lake Ground penetrating RADAR investigation, 1998  
  • Member of LANDMAN project on landslide (1999)
  • Member secretary, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), 2000-2004
  • Coordinator for UNEP, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, National Communication on Greenhouse gas project (2000-2005)
  • Executive member of Manmohan Memorial Polytechnic and Manmohan Technical Unversity, (2000 till present)

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

  • Remote Sensing, National remote Sensing Institute, Deheradoon, India (1983)
  • Quarternary geology, University of Athens, Greece (1990)
  • Applied Geophysics, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India (1992)

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

  • PhD dissertation: Exploration of palaeomonsoonal rhythms in Nepalese Intermontane valleys – HIVs and their relationship to global changes , Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 1992
  • Masters Thesis: Palaeomagnetic and palaeoenvironmental study of Campine Formation in northern Belgiuim
  • Geology and exploration of Levoberezhnoyoe mineral deposit in Sadon polymetalic mineral, province in Northern Osetia. Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow, Russia 1979