Binil Aryal

Dr. Binil Aryal is the Professor and newly appointed Head of the Department at Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He was Born in 1969-09-28 in Saptari District of Eastern Nepal. At present he is a senator of Tribhuvan University (TU) assembly, member of Academic Council of TU and standing committee member of the Faculty Board, IoST, TU. Dr Aryal served as the chairperson of a working committee which drafted the 'structure of B.Sc. four year system' of Tribhuvan University, Nepal. In this system, single major with computational and interdisciplinary courses have been introduced. He was actively involved in the process of implementation of semester system at the masters' level in science, at the central campus, Kirtipur. He has been teaching quantum mechanics, nuclear & particle physics and astrophysics to the M.Sc.(Physics) students.

He is one of the actively working astrophysicist of Nepal. He has been working in the field of Galaxy orientation and Evolution. His research interest includes the origin of angular momentum or spin vectors of galaxies in the large scale structure and the structure shaping mechanism in the interstellar medium. He is supervising five Ph.D. projects. He has supervised more than 120 M.Sc. (Physics) students for their dissertation. He has published more than forty papers in the international referred Journals.

He did his PhD and the post Doctorate from Institute of Astrophysics, Innsbruck University, Austria in 2002 and 2005 respectively. Prof. Dr. Walter Saurer was his Ph.D. supervisor. Dr. Aryal visited various Universities of USA, UK, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Spain, Belgium, France, the Netherland, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, China, Vietnam and South Korea. He has served as a judge of International Astronomy Olympiad. He is the country representative of BCVSPIN school.

He was awarded by 'Mahendra Bidhya Bhushan ka' by the late king Birendra Shah for securing highest score in the M.Sc. Examination. He received 'Third World Academy Award (TWAS)' for his Ph.D. work.