Nepal Development Research Institute

Dr. rer. nat. Pallav Kumar Shrestha

Research Associate

Pallav Kumar Shrestha is a postdoctoral scientist in Computational Hydrology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Germany (https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=43697). He holds a PhD degree in Hydrology (2025) from University of Potsdam. Prior to his PhD, he served as Water Resources Specialist and Developer in AIT, Thailand, up to 2017. He holds MSc degree in Water Resources Engineering (2013) from Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University. Pallav has more than a decade long experience in hydrological modeling, model development, and deployment of systems for monitoring and forecasting hydrological extremes.

At UFZ, Pallav is one of the active developers of the mesoscale hydrological model, mHM. Pallav specializes in improved representation of reservoirs and small catchments in large-scale modeling applications. He particularly focuses on the scalability of hydrologic simulations i.e., achieving consistent model output across 1 km to 100 km grid resolution, which has been largely overlooked by many contemporary hydrological models.