International Workshop on Cold Plasma and Pulse Power Technologies for Food, Health, and Agriculture (COFHA-2025)

December 22-23, 2025

Kathmandu, Nepal

About the Workshop:

We are pleased to announce the International Workshop on Cold Plasma and Pulse Power Technologies for Food, Health, and Agriculture (COFHA-2025), to be held on December 22 and 23, 2025 in Kathmandu, Nepal. This event follows the success of the COFHA-2024 Workshop held at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India. The goal of COFHA-2025 is to bring together scientists, engineers, and young researchers from around the world who are working in the exciting and rapidly growing field of cold plasma and pulse power technologies, with a focus on applications in food, health, and agriculture.

The two-day program will feature:

• Keynote addresses

• Plenary and invited talks by international experts

• Oral and poster presentations by participants

International Advisory Committee

• Prof. Arun Kumar Sarma

• Prof. Eric Robert

• Prof. Eun Ha Choi

• Prof. Hiromasa Tanaka

• Prof. Jeevan Jyoti Nakarmi

• Prof. Joanna Pawłat

• Prof. Kazunori Koga

• Prof. Koichi Takaki

• Prof. Lok Narayan Jha

• Prof. Matteo Gherardi

• Prof. Michael Keidar

• Prof. Miran Mozetič

• Prof. Nagendra Kaushik

• Prof. Nevena Puac

• Prof. Nozomi Takeuchi

• Prof. P. I. John

• Prof. Rajdeep Singh Rawat

• Prof. Ram Prakash

• Prof. Subroto Mukherjee

• Prof. Toshiyuki Kawasaki

• Prof. Vandana Miller

• Dr. Archana Sharma

• Dr. Georgi Trenchev

• Dr. Katsuyuki Takahashi

• Dr. Pankaj Attri

Local Organizing Committee

• Prof. Raju Khanal (Convener)

• Prof. Deepak Prasad Subedi

• Prof. Raju Bhai Tyata

• Prof. Ujwal Man Joshi

• Dr. Anita Mishra

• Dr. Bhesha Raj Adhikari

• Dr. Ganashyam Thakur

• Dr. Gobinda Prasad Panta

• Dr. Hom Bahadur Baniya

• Dr. Lekha Nath Mishra

• Dr. Rajendra Shrestha

• Dr. Rajesh Prakash Guragain

• Dr. Roshan Chalise

• Dr. Suresh Basnet

• Mr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh

• Mr. Arun Kumar Sah

• Ms. Asmita Shrestha

• Mr. Bablu Kant Thakur

• Mr. Bal Vikram Khatri

• Mr. Devendra Raj Upadhyay

• Mr. Ganesh Kuwar Chhetri

• Mr. Keshav Raj Sigdel

• Mr. Num Prasad Acharya

• Mr. Ram Lal Sah

• Mr. Ram Sharan Karki

• Mr. Santosh Dhungana

Important Dates:

Last date for Abstract submission: October 10, 2025

Intimation of Abstracts acceptance: October 17, 2025

Last date for online Registration: December 01, 2025

Program dates: December 22 and 23, 2025

For any further information, contact:

Raju Khanal,

Convener, COFHA-2025

Central Department of Physics,

Tribhuvan University

Kirtipur, Kathmandu 44613, Nepal

Emails: cofha2025@gmail.com

raju.khanal at cdp.tu.edu.np

Registration Link: http://bit.ly/4okPEds

Website: https://cdp.tu.edu.np/