Dr Raju Adhikari
Dr Raju Adhikari is working as a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Manufacturing Flagship and holds an Adjunct A/Professor position at RMIT University. Since migrating to Australia in 1995, he has been in the forefront of his professional career and communities work.
He has received CSIRO medal along with several other awards and contributed significantly to technology and development through two spin-off biomedical companies as one of the inventor. Likewise he has held numerous positions on communities like Founder Presidents of Nepali Association of Victoria (NAV) and Help Nepal Network Australia, HeNN-Australia, Founder Chair of NRNA International Coordination Council (ICC) global Skill Knowledge and Innovation (SKI) Committee, Member, Open University Nepal Initiatives (OUNI) Development Board, Ministry of Education (MoE), Chair, NRNA’s ICC Nepal Science Foundation (NSF) Trust and currently as president of South Asian Community Link Group (SACLG)-Australasia. He has received several community awards and is a well-known for his outstanding community works Australia wide. Dr Adhikari is a strong believer and advocate of multiculturalism and believes science needs to be the basis and foundation to drive philanthropy; economic and social prosperity of any country and Victoria is the best place in the world to live and make contributions on all fronts.