Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Memphis
McMinnville, Tennessee
Kripa Dhakal, PhD
Dr. Kripa Dhakal is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Memphis, TN working in collaboration with research partners at the University of Tennessee West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center, Jackson, TN. She is working on row crop focusing on physiological aspects and water management of crop production. Previously, Dr. Dhakal worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Tennessee State University. During this time her research centered on insect behavior and chemical ecology, including the development of behavioral bioassays, and conducting soil chemical analysis. She completed her bachelor’s degree from the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Nepal in 2009 and M.Sc. Agriculture from the same university major in soil science in 2011. In 2017, she joined Ph.D. in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tennessee State University in the organic agriculture program and completed her Ph.D. degree in 2021.