Dr. Manik Bajracharya
Dr. Manik Bajracharya is a scholar of Buddhism and member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as a researcher in the project Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal.
For NHDP, he supervises translations, specialising in Newari terminology and works as a consultant.
Prof. Dr. Niels Gutschow
Niels Gutschow, born in 1941 in Hamburg as the son of an architect, first came to Nepal in 1962. He studied architecture in Darmstadt and returned to Bhaktapur in 1971 as a member of a team to restore the Pujarimath.
During the 1970s his research focused on Urban Space and Ritual; later he shifted toward architectural surveys which materialised in two major publications (among many others),
'The Nepalese Caitya: 1500 Years of Buddhist Votive Architecture in the Kathmandu Valley' (1997) and 'Architecture of the Newars: A History of Building Typologies and Details in Nepal' (2011).
For three decades, Niels lived between residences in Tahaja (near Bhaktapur) and Abtsteinach (Germany). Since 2003, he has been an Honorary Professor at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University. He supported the project in its formative years as the head of the architectural documentation team.
Dr. Ashish Karmacharya
In 2011, Dr. Ashish Karmacharya received his Ph.D. from the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France in the field of Information Science. His research focused on the integration of semantic frameworks into spatial technology. He has also been associated with i3mainz, a research institute of Mainz University of Applied Sciences as a research scientist, and was involved in research projects on the application of semantic technologies including computer vision, data science, GIS and cultural heritage. Within NHDP, Ashish was responsible for the development of the ARCHES platform and system administration. He continues to support the team as a consultant.
Dr. Monalisa Maharjan
Monalisa Maharjan received her PhD in Art History in 2016 from the University of Évora, Portugal, where she was an Erasmus Mundus Fellow. Her thesis explores the entanglement of Tangible and Intangible Heritage in Kathmandu Valley, providing a case study of the Yenya Punhi festival and the role of ritual Newar associations (guthi) in the process. Since 2016 Monalisa has worked at the UNESCO Chair for Intangible Cultural Heritage and Traditional know-how at CIDEHUS (Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora) as a research fellow. She is also associated with international organizations such as ICOMOS and the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ICH network co-coordinator). Her research interests are Intangible Cultural Heritage, indigenous knowledge, community participation, sustainability and UNESCO Conventions. She has worked on the research and documentation of inscriptions, for NHDP and its associated project ‘Anthropology of inscriptions’. She continues to support the project as a consultant.
Ashesh Rajbansh
Ashesh Rajbansh works as a Brand Executive at Nepa Hima Trade Link P. Ltd and Kathmandu University. He has served as the Brand Manager and technical support person for DLSR users for Canon in Nepal from 2002 till 2010. He is a passionate photographer. His photos were published by Canon Singapore as a table calendar for 2010. Having worked for many multinational brands, major hotels and resort chains in Nepal, he has contributed to and featured in many international publications. As an associate of NHDP, Ashesh conducts workshops on heritage photography for the team and also supports the work with documentation of selected monuments.
Dr. Nutandhar Sharma
Nutandhar Sharma has a PhD in Buddhist Studies and two Master’s degrees in Culture and History respectively. He is an independent researcher, freelance journalist and a lecturer for tourist guides. Since 1980, he has been involved in field research for different projects on Nepalese and Indian culture and is an author of many books and articles. He has won the Regional Talent Award for Cultural Scholars and the Education Medal by the Government of Nepal. As an expert on Newar culture, rituals, and language, Nutan collects social, anthropological and historical data for NHDP.
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