Manohar Prasad Bhandari

Manohar joined the Barile lab as a postdoctoral scholar in September 2025. His current
work focuses on the characterization and quantification of bioactive compounds in food
matrices using mass spectrometry and complementary analytical techniques, with the
aim of utilizing those attributes to improve human health. He earned a Ph.D. degree
from the University of Brescia (Italy) in 2019 and then went to Israel and Latvia for his
postdoctoral trainings in metabolomics/analytical chemistry approaches for disease
diagnosis. From 2023 to 2025, he worked as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Davis in the
realm of metabolomics (GC-MS/LC-MS) and chemical sensors.

Education

• 2015-2019: Ph.D. in Information Engineering/Analytical Chemistry, University of
  Brescia, Italy
• 2013: M.Sc. in Biotechnology, South Asian University, India
• 2011: B.Sc. in Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Professional Experience

• 2023-2025: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace
  Engineering, University of California, Davis
• 2020-2023: Leading Researcher/Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Clinical and Preventive
  Medicine, University of Latvia, Latvia
• 2019-2020: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ben-
  Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Publications

Please visit my google scholar page:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yvRINCkAAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manohar-prasad-bhandari-38633974/