Hemu Kharel Kafle, PhD is a Head at Center for Water and Atmospheric Research, Kathmandu Institute of Applied Sciences. She graduated as an enviornemntalist from Ben-Gurion University, Negev, Israel and obtianed her PhD in Remote Sensing from Nagoya University, Japan. Dr. Kafle,s research interest is in extreme climatic condition like drought and desertification and its impact on agriculture production and water resources. Her post doctoral research in Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel focused mostly on afforested forest in arid enviornment. Her research career thus far has resulted in several peer reviewed publications with 10 of them as a lead author in a high impact journals. Felicitated by The World Academy of Science (TWAS) as a young scientist, she was one of the first women to receive Early Career Women Scientist Fellowship in 2018. Currently, she is also working on commercializing her research products, “Low-cost automatic weather station”, build by her research team at KIAS, Nepal and “Nano-Pad”, (Body warming device) developed in Kathmandu University. Dr. Kafle is also passionate about public engagement with science and is serving as an honorable member of Planning commission, Gandaki Province. A mother of two, Dr. Kafle is also a founding president of the Organization of Women Scientist in Developing World- Nepal Chapter (OWSN) working to inspire a stronger female future for Nepalese science while empowering the existing generation of women scientists.