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Dr. Anish Ghimire

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Assistant Professor
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Environmental Engineering and Management
Faculty of Infrastructure
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Dr. Anish Ghimire is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering and Management at the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). He received a Doctoral Degree in Environmental Technology, from an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Program, Environmental Technologies for Solids, Soil, and Sediments (ETeCoS3) jointly awarded by the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy), University of Paris-Est (France), and UN-IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (the Netherlands) in 2015. He has M.E. in Environmental Engineering and Management from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (2012) and B. Tech. in Environmental Engineering from Kathmandu University, Nepal (2009). Before joining AIT, Dr. Ghimire worked as an Assistant Professor at Kathmandu University (four and half years) and Nepal Engineering College (two years) in Nepal. His interests include water and waste(water) treatment and resource recovery, anaerobic fermentation processes, modelling greenhouse gas emissions, and life cycle assessments.

  1. Ph.D. in Environmental Technology, from an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Program, Environmental Technologies for Solids, Soil, and Sediments (ETeCoS3) awarded by the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy, University of Paris-Est, France, and UN-IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands (2015).
  2. Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering and Management from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (2012),
  3. Bachelor of Technology in Environmental Engineering from Kathmandu University, Nepal (2009).
  1. Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes;
  2. Centralized and Decentralized Sanitation;
  3. Resource Recovery using Anaerobic Digestion, Dark Fermentation, and Photo Fermentation;
  4. Life Cycle Assessment;
  5. Climate Resilience Assessment of WASH systems.
  1. ED78.36 Drinking Water Treatment, 3(3-0)
  2. ED78.40 Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Energy Recovery from Waste, 2(2-0)
  3. ED78.9401 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment, 2(2-0)

Below are some of the latest selected journal articles by Dr. Ghimire:

  1. Poudel, M., Sharma, S., Ghimire, A., Howard, G., Flint, A., Baidya, M., & Nijhawan, A. (2024). Effectiveness of climate resilient water safety plans in Nepal. AQUA—Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society, jws2024309.
  2. Shrestha, S., Vaidya, B. and Ghimire, A. Water of Footprint of Food Systems. In Lopes, E. J., Zepka, L. Q., Deprá, M. C. Smart Food Industry: The Blockchain for Sustainable Engineering: Volume II – Current Status, Future Foods, and Global Issues. Boca Raton. CRC Press. (Book Chapter)
  3. Poudel, P., Joshi, P., Tuladhar, S., Ghimire, A., Baidya, M., Howard, G., & Sharma, S. (2024). Groundwater implications on methane emission from non-sewered sanitation systems in Nepal. Environmental Pollution, 124248.
  4. KC, A. K., Ghimire, A., Adhikari, B., Pant, H. R., Thapa, B., & Baral, B. (2024). Life cycle energy use and carbon emission of a modern single-family residential building in Nepal. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 7, 100245.
  5. Poudel, P., Ghimire, A., Howard, G., Evans, B., Camargo-Valero, M. A., Mills, F., … & Dangol, S. (2023). Field-based methods for measuring greenhouse gases emissions from on-site sanitation systems: A systematic review of published literature. Heliyon.
  6. Shrestha, P. P., Ghimire, A., Dangi, M. B., & Urynowicz, M. A. (2023). Development of a Municipal Solid Waste Management Life Cycle Assessment Tool for Banepa Municipality, Nepal. Sustainability, 15(13), 9954.
  7. Swar, S.S., Boonnorat, J., Ghimire, A. (2023). Algae-Based Treatment of a Landfill Leachate pretreated by Coagulation-Flocculation. Journal of Environmental Management. 342: 118223
  8. Parajuli A, Khadka A, Sapkota L, Ghimire A. (2022) Effect of Hydraulic Retention Time and Organic-Loading Rate on Two-Staged, Semi-Continuous Mesophilic Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste during Start-Up. Fermentation (MDPI). 8(11):620.
  9. Dangol, S., Ghimire, A., Tuladhar, S., Khadka, A., Thapa, B. and Sapkota, L. (2022). Biohythane and organic acid production from food waste by two-stage anaerobic digestion: a review within biorefinery framework. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, pp.1-34.
  10. Khadka, A., Parajuli, A., Dangol, S., Thapa, B., Sapkota, L., Carmona-Martínez, A.A.& Ghimire, A. (2022). Effect of the Substrate to Inoculum Ratios on the Kinetics of Biogas Production during the Mesophilic Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste. Energies, 15, 834.
  11. Ghimire, Gyawali R., Lens P. N. L., Lohani S. P. (2021) Technologies for Removal of Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) from Biogas. In: Aryal, N., Ottosen, L. M. and Kofoed, M. W. and Pant, D. (Eds.) Emerging Technologies and Biological Systems for Biogas Upgrading. Elsevier.
  12. Howard, G., Nijhawan, A., Flint, A. G., Baidya, M., Pregnolato, M., Ghimire, A., … & Wondim, T. (2021). How tough is WASH? Developing an indicator framework for assessing climate resilience for water and sanitation services in low-and middle-income countries. npj Clean Water.
  13. Sekoai, P. T., Ghimire, A., Ezeokoli, O. T., Rao, S., Ngan, W. Y., Habimana, O., … & Hung, C. H. (2021). Valorization of volatile fatty acids from the dark fermentation waste Streams-A promising pathway for a biorefinery concept. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 143, 110971.
  14. Vaidya, B., Shrestha, S., & Ghimire, A. (2021). Water footprint assessment of food-water-energy systems at Kathmandu University, Nepal. Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 3, 100044.
  15. Ghimire, A., Luongo, V., Frunzo, L., Pirozzi, F., Lens, P.N.L., Esposito, G., (2021). Biohythane Production from food waste in a two-stage process- Assessing the energy recovery potential. Environmental Technology,43(14), pp. 1-7.
  16. Capson-Tojo, G., Batstone, D. J., Grassino, M., Vlaeminck, S. E., Puyol, D., Verstraete, W., Kleerebezem, R., Oehmen, A., Ghimire, A., Pikaar, I., Lema, J. M., Hülsen. T. (2020). Purple phototrophic bacteria for resource recovery: Challenges and opportunities. Biotechnology Advances, 43(1) 107567.
  17. Ghimire, A., Trably, E., Frunzo, L. Pirozzi, F., Lens, P.N.L., Esposito, G. Cazier, E.A., Escudié, R. (2018). Effect of moisture content on biohydrogen and lactic acid production during dark fermentation of organic waste biomass. Bioresource Tecnology 248, Part A: 180-186.
  18. Ghimire, A., Kumar, G., Periyasamy, S., Shobana, S., Saratale, G. D., Kim, H.W., Luongo, V. Esposito, G. Munoz, R. (2017). Bio-hythane production from microalgae biomass: key challenges and potential opportunities for algal bio-refineries. Bioresource Technology 241:525-536.
  19. Ghimire, A., Luongo, V., Frunzo, L., Pirozzi, F., Lens, P.N.L., Esposito, G. (2016). Engineering strategies for enhancing photofermentative biohydrogen production by purple non-sulfur bacteria using dark fermentation effluents. In Microbial Fuels: Technologies and Applications. Taylor and Francis Group, CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL, USA. (Book Chapter)
  20. Ghimire, A., Frunzo, L., Pirozzi, F., Trably, E., Escudie, R., Lens, P.N.L., Esposito, G. (2015). A review on dark fermentative biohydrogen production from organic biomass: Process parameters and use of by-products. Applied Energy 144, 73–95

See latest information below on on-going and completed projects by Dr. Ghimire. For more information, please download his Full CV.

  1. Biochar Integration for Optimal Methane Recovery and Nutrient Assimilation in Anaerobic Digestion of Food Waste (BIOCHAR). Funded by Research Initiation Grant, AIT Internal Funding, May 2024 – June 2025. Principal Investigator.
  2. Climate Change and Sanitation: Accessing Resilience and Emission (SCARE) project, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, (October 2020 – 31 August 2024), Co-investigator and Project Coordinator for Kathmandu University, (co-PI Prof. Dr. Subodh Sharma, led by Prof. Guy Howard from University of Bristol, UK.
  3. Establishing the Circular Economy-based livestock sector through collaborative Educational and Research activities (CEER) funded by international cooperation and quality enhancement in higher education (HK-dir) under (NORPART) and Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (2023 – 2027). Project Team Member https://site.nord.no/ceer/participants/
  4. Optimization of Resources Recovery from Waste Biomass via Dark, Photofermentation and Anaerobic Digestion: An Integrated Circular Biorefinery (ORWIC). Funded by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through EnergizeNepal. (Total Budget: around 51,000 US Dollars), Jul 2021 – Jan, 2024, Principal Investigator.
  5. Assessment of gaps and challenges of Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) system: A case study from Dhulikhel, Banepa and Panauti Municipalities. Funded by Research, Development and Innovation (RDI), Kathmandu University. Sept, 2021 – Apr, 2023. Principal Investigator.
  6. Chemical-Biological Treatment of Landfill Leachate from Sisdole Landfill Site. Funded by Research, Development and Innovation (RDI), Kathmandu University. Mar, 2020 – Sept, 2021. Principal Investigator
  7. Waste Based Sustainable Biorefinery for the Production of Bio-hythane and Bio-chemical. Project implemented through private industrial partner. Funded by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs through EnergizeNepal. Oct, 2019 – Oct, 2021. Co-Investigator.
  8. How Tough is WASH. Kathmandu University (PI Prof. Dr. Subodh Sharma, funded by the University of Bristol, UK. Jan 2021 – Jul 2021, Project Manager/Co-Investigator.
  9. A Pilot Study to Produce Bioenergy and Fertilizer from Kathmandu University’s Food Waste”, Bioenergy Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kathmandu University, Funded by Energize Nepal, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal. Nov, 2018 – Nov, 2020 Activity Leader.
  10. High Elevation Biogas Project in Jumla in partnership with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Institute for Ecopreneurship, Switzerland. Jun, 2017 – Aug, 2018. Project Team Member.
  1. 2017, Chinese Academy of Science, President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) (awarded but not pursued)
  2. 2017, Nepal Bidhya Bhusan KA (For highest academic achievement, awarded from the President of Nepal)
  3. 2017, Young Researcher Fellowship (YRF) for short-term research (6 months), Center of Research for Environment, Energy and Water (CREEW), NepaL,
  4. 2016, Best PhD Thesis 2016 awarded by the Environmental and Sanitary Engineering Association of Italy (GITISA),
  5. 2012 – 2015, Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Fellow (Italy, France and the Netherlands)
  6. 2012, Professor Chongrak Polprasert Award for Outstanding candidate in Environmental Engineering and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand,
  7. 2010 – 2012, HM Queen (Thailand) Scholarship for Masters Study in Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

1. Registered Engineer (Registration No.: 24 “A”), Nepal Engineering Council (NEC)
2. Member (1602196), International Water Association
3. Life Member (10889), Nepal Engineering Association (NEA)
4. Life Member (374), Society of Public Health Engineers – Nepal (SOPHEN)
5. Life Member, Society of Environmental Engineers Nepal (SEEN)
6. Country Chair (2022-2023), IWA Young Water Professionals Nepal Country Chapter

  1. Water and Wastewater Treatment
  2. Solid Waste Management
  3. Anaerobic Digestion
  4. Life Cycle Assessment
  5. Greenhouse Gas Emission Modelling